https://www.roscosmos.ru/38565/Proton-M" launch vehicle was delivered to Baikonur CosmodromeA train with a rocket carrier rocket "Proton-M" arrived from the Moscow Rocket and Space Plant of the Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Center (included in the State Corporation "Roscosmos") at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.The blocks of the launch vehicle were transported to the technical complex of the cosmodrome.Soon the assembly and testing facility is scheduled to begin preparing Proton-M for the launch campaign.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)For Olimp ?
Quote from: Alter Sachse on 12/03/2022 11:51 amhttps://www.roscosmos.ru/38565/Proton-M" launch vehicle was delivered to Baikonur CosmodromeA train with a rocket carrier rocket "Proton-M" arrived from the Moscow Rocket and Space Plant of the Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Center (included in the State Corporation "Roscosmos") at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.The blocks of the launch vehicle were transported to the technical complex of the cosmodrome.Soon the assembly and testing facility is scheduled to begin preparing Proton-M for the launch campaign.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)For Olimp ?If they change launchers as its current assignment has been sitting in Baikonur. The following options for this Proton-M are as follows:2023January 31 (031:xx:xx:xx.xxx) - Olymp-K №12L (Luch-4, Luch-5X №2) - Proton-M/Briz-M (x/x) - Baikonur, 200/39TBD (xxx:xx:xx:xx.xxx) - Ekspress-AMU4 - Proton-M/Briz-M (93706/99575) - Baikonur, 200/39TBD (xxx:xx:xx:xx.xxx) - Elektro-L №4 - Proton-M/DM-03 (93568/7Л) - Baikonur, 81/24
Translated to English via the owner/staff at Russian Space Web:QuoteOn January 30, the head of RKTs Progress Dmitry Baranov was quoted by the official TASS news agency as promising "around 20" launches of Soyuz rockets during 2023. With two or three Proton launches and couple of Angara missions, Russia could make more than two dozen orbital launch attempts during the year.
On January 30, the head of RKTs Progress Dmitry Baranov was quoted by the official TASS news agency as promising "around 20" launches of Soyuz rockets during 2023. With two or three Proton launches and couple of Angara missions, Russia could make more than two dozen orbital launch attempts during the year.
Cross post:Quote from: russianhalo117 on 01/31/2023 04:29 pmTranslated to English via the owner/staff at Russian Space Web:QuoteOn January 30, the head of RKTs Progress Dmitry Baranov was quoted by the official TASS news agency as promising "around 20" launches of Soyuz rockets during 2023. With two or three Proton launches and couple of Angara missions, Russia could make more than two dozen orbital launch attempts during the year.
Sunday’s launch is the first of up to three Proton launches planned for 2023, with the next being Olymp-K 2 scheduled for March. The Proton-M launcher is nearing retirement, with a limited number of vehicles left available to launch over the next few years.
Quote from: russianhalo117 on 01/31/2023 04:34 pmCross post:Quote from: russianhalo117 on 01/31/2023 04:29 pmTranslated to English via the owner/staff at Russian Space Web:QuoteOn January 30, the head of RKTs Progress Dmitry Baranov was quoted by the official TASS news agency as promising "around 20" launches of Soyuz rockets during 2023. With two or three Proton launches and couple of Angara missions, Russia could make more than two dozen orbital launch attempts during the year.From the NASA Spaceflight website:QuoteSunday’s launch is the first of up to three Proton launches planned for 2023, with the next being Olymp-K 2 scheduled for March. The Proton-M launcher is nearing retirement, with a limited number of vehicles left available to launch over the next few years.With the Elektro-L No.4 just launched and the Olimp-K 2 scheduled for launch next month, it is unclear if the third Proton-M launch for 2023 will be one of the completed Proton-Ms that does not yet have a payload assigned to it.
Quote from: Vahe231991 on 02/05/2023 04:49 pmQuote from: russianhalo117 on 01/31/2023 04:34 pmCross post:Quote from: russianhalo117 on 01/31/2023 04:29 pmTranslated to English via the owner/staff at Russian Space Web:QuoteOn January 30, the head of RKTs Progress Dmitry Baranov was quoted by the official TASS news agency as promising "around 20" launches of Soyuz rockets during 2023. With two or three Proton launches and couple of Angara missions, Russia could make more than two dozen orbital launch attempts during the year.From the NASA Spaceflight website:QuoteSunday’s launch is the first of up to three Proton launches planned for 2023, with the next being Olymp-K 2 scheduled for March. The Proton-M launcher is nearing retirement, with a limited number of vehicles left available to launch over the next few years.With the Elektro-L No.4 just launched and the Olimp-K 2 scheduled for launch next month, it is unclear if the third Proton-M launch for 2023 will be one of the completed Proton-Ms that does not yet have a payload assigned to it.The next and final Elektro-L is the identified likely payload moving to End 2023/early 2024 to give way and make a timely launch slot for the Q1 2024 Ekvator Proton-M launch which might use the Proton-M/DM-03 previously assigned to Spektr-UV which was bumped from 2025 to NET TBD 2028 due to western Smsanctions and western agencies providing instruments and the payload ground segment freezing their involvement over Ukraine.The reasoning is the Elektro-L operations plan of 3 primary and 1 on orbit spare in the reserve slot which copies Western and Eastern geostationary weather satellite system networks.
The Russian operator GPKS ordered the Ekspress-AMU4 communications satellite from ISS Reshetnev for the deployment in the geostationary orbit at a position 11 degrees West longitude over the Equator. According to early plans, it would share a ride to orbit as early as 2017 with the Ekspress-MD3 satellite which had never been funded. In the meantime, the launch of Ekspress-AMU4 moved to 2021 and continued slipping. In 2022, the mission was promised to launch in 2026.In May 2023, ISS Reshetnev announced that it had completed the design of Ekspress-EMU4 and began work on the production documentation for the spacecraft. The company stressed that although the satellite would be based on its standard Ekspress-1000 platform, it would undergo changes associated with the replacement of imported components.In the past, the satellites in the AMU series carried transponder payloads provided by foreign contractors, however such a cooperation became impossible after escalation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. As a result, the Ekspress-AMU4 project likely faced significant technical obstacles and years-long delays.
Ekspress-AMU4, Proton or Angara payload?https://russianspaceweb.com/express.html#amu4QuoteThe Russian operator GPKS ordered the Ekspress-AMU4 communications satellite from ISS Reshetnev for the deployment in the geostationary orbit at a position 11 degrees West longitude over the Equator. According to early plans, it would share a ride to orbit as early as 2017 with the Ekspress-MD3 satellite which had never been funded. In the meantime, the launch of Ekspress-AMU4 moved to 2021 and continued slipping. In 2022, the mission was promised to launch in 2026.In May 2023, ISS Reshetnev announced that it had completed the design of Ekspress-EMU4 and began work on the production documentation for the spacecraft. The company stressed that although the satellite would be based on its standard Ekspress-1000 platform, it would undergo changes associated with the replacement of imported components.In the past, the satellites in the AMU series carried transponder payloads provided by foreign contractors, however such a cooperation became impossible after escalation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. As a result, the Ekspress-AMU4 project likely faced significant technical obstacles and years-long delays.
Quote from: zubenelgenubi on 06/01/2023 12:25 amEkspress-AMU4, Proton or Angara payload?https://russianspaceweb.com/express.html#amu4QuoteThe Russian operator GPKS ordered the Ekspress-AMU4 communications satellite from ISS Reshetnev for the deployment in the geostationary orbit at a position 11 degrees West longitude over the Equator. According to early plans, it would share a ride to orbit as early as 2017 with the Ekspress-MD3 satellite which had never been funded. In the meantime, the launch of Ekspress-AMU4 moved to 2021 and continued slipping. In 2022, the mission was promised to launch in 2026.In May 2023, ISS Reshetnev announced that it had completed the design of Ekspress-EMU4 and began work on the production documentation for the spacecraft. The company stressed that although the satellite would be based on its standard Ekspress-1000 platform, it would undergo changes associated with the replacement of imported components.In the past, the satellites in the AMU series carried transponder payloads provided by foreign contractors, however such a cooperation became impossible after escalation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. As a result, the Ekspress-AMU4 project likely faced significant technical obstacles and years-long delays.Ekspress AMU-4 is assigned to the 935 production batch of the Proton-M as noted elsewhere on this thread.
Quote from: Vahe231991 on 06/02/2023 07:10 pmQuote from: zubenelgenubi on 06/01/2023 12:25 amEkspress-AMU4, Proton or Angara payload?https://russianspaceweb.com/express.html#amu4QuoteThe Russian operator GPKS ordered the Ekspress-AMU4 communications satellite from ISS Reshetnev for the deployment in the geostationary orbit at a position 11 degrees West longitude over the Equator. According to early plans, it would share a ride to orbit as early as 2017 with the Ekspress-MD3 satellite which had never been funded. In the meantime, the launch of Ekspress-AMU4 moved to 2021 and continued slipping. In 2022, the mission was promised to launch in 2026.In May 2023, ISS Reshetnev announced that it had completed the design of Ekspress-EMU4 and began work on the production documentation for the spacecraft. The company stressed that although the satellite would be based on its standard Ekspress-1000 platform, it would undergo changes associated with the replacement of imported components.In the past, the satellites in the AMU series carried transponder payloads provided by foreign contractors, however such a cooperation became impossible after escalation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. As a result, the Ekspress-AMU4 project likely faced significant technical obstacles and years-long delays.Ekspress AMU-4 is assigned to the 935 production batch of the Proton-M as noted elsewhere on this thread.He is asking if it is staying with Proton-M or being kicked over to Angara-A5M due to the long term production delay triggered by Western Sanctions for the 2022 Ukraine(/EU) versus Union State of Russia and Belorussia and select CIS member states geopolitical military conflict.
Quote from: russianhalo117 on 06/02/2023 10:10 pmQuote from: Vahe231991 on 06/02/2023 07:10 pmQuote from: zubenelgenubi on 06/01/2023 12:25 amEkspress-AMU4, Proton or Angara payload?https://russianspaceweb.com/express.html#amu4QuoteThe Russian operator GPKS ordered the Ekspress-AMU4 communications satellite from ISS Reshetnev for the deployment in the geostationary orbit at a position 11 degrees West longitude over the Equator. According to early plans, it would share a ride to orbit as early as 2017 with the Ekspress-MD3 satellite which had never been funded. In the meantime, the launch of Ekspress-AMU4 moved to 2021 and continued slipping. In 2022, the mission was promised to launch in 2026.In May 2023, ISS Reshetnev announced that it had completed the design of Ekspress-EMU4 and began work on the production documentation for the spacecraft. The company stressed that although the satellite would be based on its standard Ekspress-1000 platform, it would undergo changes associated with the replacement of imported components.In the past, the satellites in the AMU series carried transponder payloads provided by foreign contractors, however such a cooperation became impossible after escalation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. As a result, the Ekspress-AMU4 project likely faced significant technical obstacles and years-long delays.Ekspress AMU-4 is assigned to the 935 production batch of the Proton-M as noted elsewhere on this thread.He is asking if it is staying with Proton-M or being kicked over to Angara-A5M due to the long term production delay triggered by Western Sanctions for the 2022 Ukraine(/EU) versus Union State of Russia and Belorussia and select CIS member states geopolitical military conflict.Back in January 2020, Roscosmos decided that the Proton-M rather than the Angara-A5M would be used for launch of the Ekspress-AMU4 satellite. I haven't found any Russian-language news report hinting at the Ekspress-AMU4 being kicked over to the Angara-A5M.
Quote from: Vahe231991 on 06/03/2023 02:18 amQuote from: russianhalo117 on 06/02/2023 10:10 pmQuote from: Vahe231991 on 06/02/2023 07:10 pmQuote from: zubenelgenubi on 06/01/2023 12:25 amEkspress-AMU4, Proton or Angara payload?https://russianspaceweb.com/express.html#amu4QuoteThe Russian operator GPKS ordered the Ekspress-AMU4 communications satellite from ISS Reshetnev for the deployment in the geostationary orbit at a position 11 degrees West longitude over the Equator. According to early plans, it would share a ride to orbit as early as 2017 with the Ekspress-MD3 satellite which had never been funded. In the meantime, the launch of Ekspress-AMU4 moved to 2021 and continued slipping. In 2022, the mission was promised to launch in 2026.In May 2023, ISS Reshetnev announced that it had completed the design of Ekspress-EMU4 and began work on the production documentation for the spacecraft. The company stressed that although the satellite would be based on its standard Ekspress-1000 platform, it would undergo changes associated with the replacement of imported components.In the past, the satellites in the AMU series carried transponder payloads provided by foreign contractors, however such a cooperation became impossible after escalation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. As a result, the Ekspress-AMU4 project likely faced significant technical obstacles and years-long delays.Ekspress AMU-4 is assigned to the 935 production batch of the Proton-M as noted elsewhere on this thread.He is asking if it is staying with Proton-M or being kicked over to Angara-A5M due to the long term production delay triggered by Western Sanctions for the 2022 Ukraine(/EU) versus Union State of Russia and Belorussia and select CIS member states geopolitical military conflict.Back in January 2020, Roscosmos decided that the Proton-M rather than the Angara-A5M would be used for launch of the Ekspress-AMU4 satellite. I haven't found any Russian-language news report hinting at the Ekspress-AMU4 being kicked over to the Angara-A5M.2020 would be out of date with the satellites present development woes. This is something that you won't find mentioned in the mainstream Russian media now but rather much closer to launch.
