Author Topic: LIVE: Proton-M launch with ViaSat-1 satellite - October 19, 2011 (Read 55973 times)

Lewis007 · « **Reply #20 on:** 10/18/2011 06:54 am »

Video of the roll-out

Satori · « **Reply #21 on:** 10/19/2011 09:03 am »

Moved for live coverage later.

Webcast will be available at:

Tsenki - http://www.tsenki.com/broadcast/broadcast/

Khrunichev - http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=427

ILS - http://viasat1.imgondemand.com/

anik · « **Reply #22 on:** 10/19/2011 02:01 pm »

Information about launch from Khrunichev website:
in Russian - go to http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/main.php?lang=ru and then http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=556
on English - go to http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/main.php?lang=en and then http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=546

ChrisC · « **Reply #23 on:** 10/19/2011 03:55 pm »

KILLER graphics, thanks anik!

Quote from: Targeteer on 10/16/2011 01:35 pm

More capacity than ALL the satellites over North America? That can't possibly be true--can it?

Sure, considering that ViaSat-1 is all about Ka-band spot beams, 72 of them in this case. That right there blows away 95% of the satellites on orbit. Then, as it shows on the ViaSat website, it's just a matter of evolutionary growth over the few existing Ka-band spot sats.

http://www.viasat.com/broadband-satellite-networks/viasat-1
http://www.viasat.com/files/assets/Art%20diagrams/sat_capacity_002b_0.png

Satori · « **Reply #24 on:** 10/19/2011 03:58 pm »

Live from Baykonur pad's PU-39...

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ChileVerde · « **Reply #27 on:** 10/19/2011 05:08 pm »

Quote from: ChrisC on 10/19/2011 03:55 pm

...ViaSat-1 is all about Ka-band spot beams, 72 of them in this case.

I guess I could research this, but it's so much easier just to ask: Are the 72 beams fixed, individually steerable, or something in between?

Satori · « **Reply #28 on:** 10/19/2011 05:22 pm »

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Satori · « **Reply #30 on:** 10/19/2011 05:36 pm »

Service tower retraction...

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Satori · « **Reply #36 on:** 10/19/2011 05:48 pm »

T-1h...

Phillip Clark · « **Reply #37 on:** 10/19/2011 05:54 pm »

Anyomne having a problem reaching the ILS website to watch the webcast when it starts?

I've been trying for around 20 minutes and I just get the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" message.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #38 on:** 10/19/2011 05:57 pm »

Launch preview:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/10/ils-proton-m-launch-highest-throughput-satellite-viasat-1/

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #39 on:** 10/19/2011 06:02 pm »

Quote from: Phillip Clark on 10/19/2011 05:54 pm

Anyomne having a problem reaching the ILS website to watch the webcast when it starts?

I've been trying for around 20 minutes and I just get the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" message.

Just checked and not working for me either (finds it, but seems to be under DNS issues as it's not loading). A lot of sites seem to be down today, so probably a major net backbone issue, or hackers at work again.

Our servers are OK, and Rui's got the Roscosmos webcast up, so we'll get to see the launch, but without ILS we won't get much else.