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Satellites built, but not launched
« on: 05/12/2011 09:30 am »
As there is currently some movement, to launch the DSCOVR (Triana) satellite, which has been in storage for many years, i am looking for other satellites, which have been built, (mostly) completed and have not been launched.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #1 on: 05/12/2011 11:03 am »
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #2 on: 05/12/2011 11:37 am »
See my article about the two Iraqi satellites built in the late 1980s and never launched.

There are a few stories of satellites that got built and then ended up in storage for a very long time.  A few you could look up:

-Polar Bear--I seem to remember that this was a Transit satellite that was donated to the Smithsonian and was on display for many years.  Eventually the Navy asked for it back and converted it to the Polar Bear research satellite.

-there was a DSCS III satellite that apparently sat in a loading dock at the manufacturer facility for a decade or more.

-the HIGHER BOY converted KH-8 spysat, which was modified around 1970 or so and not launched until the early 1980s.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #3 on: 05/12/2011 01:46 pm »
Mariner 5 ?

Started life as a mars probe, rebuilt and sent to Venus instead...
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #4 on: 05/12/2011 02:34 pm »
-Polar Bear--I seem to remember that this was a Transit satellite that was donated to the Smithsonian and was on display for many years.  Eventually the Navy asked for it back and converted it to the Polar Bear research satellite.

And all the later Transit satellites. Production was ended in the 60's. Last one was launched in 1988.
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #5 on: 05/12/2011 03:07 pm »
I realize that I'm being less help than you want, but there are a bunch of small spacecraft hanging in one section of the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy museum that are high-fidelity and probably include several flight models.  You might want to look into that.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #6 on: 05/12/2011 03:19 pm »
Not to throw us off course, but besides Triana, the left over Apollo Hardware, and Centuar G, have any NASA missions ever been canceled after construction of the spacecraft began?

What about the Spares from the LEO com constellations back in the 1990's.
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #7 on: 05/12/2011 03:31 pm »
What about the Spares from the LEO com constellations back in the 1990's.

The TACSAT 1 satellite was partly built based on unlaunched Orbcomm satellites

Probably several ICO satellites from the MEO constellation were more or less completed, but never launched.

« Last Edit: 05/12/2011 03:33 pm by Skyrocket »

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #8 on: 05/12/2011 03:55 pm »
On the long-term storage front, Phoenix is rather public example, as it was the flight spare for MPL and spent several years on ice at LM before finally being launched. Also, Galileo and HST were on storage for quite a while after the Challenger Accident; in the process, the lubricant on Galileo's deployable HGA seized, and so the mission had to be radically scaled back to only include observations that could be returned with the LGA.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #9 on: 05/12/2011 05:29 pm »
As there is currently some movement, to launch the DSCOVR (Triana) satellite, which has been in storage for many years, i am looking for other satellites, which have been built, (mostly) completed and have not been launched.

An obvious one is the extra Mercury spacecraft that was not flown and currently resides at the Udvar-Hazy center.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #10 on: 05/12/2011 06:48 pm »
Going this way, there was also a Viking 3, a Voyager 3, and a Pioneer H (not Pioneer 12!). Oh, and a Lunar Orbiter 6, and a third Lunokhod (Luna 25).
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #11 on: 05/12/2011 06:51 pm »
Going this way, there was also a Viking 3, a Voyager 3, and a Pioneer H (not Pioneer 12!).

Were these actual flight hardware backups?  Or were they ground engineering test models?  By Viking I assumed that the spacecraft had become so expensive that they no longer built backups like they had earlier.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #12 on: 05/12/2011 07:57 pm »
Don't know exactly where the limit is - mentionned these things because advanced missions were drawn around them. Viking 3 and a 1979 rover, Voyager 3 to Uranus, Pioneer H out of the ecliptic...
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #14 on: 05/12/2011 08:36 pm »
Going this way, there was also a Viking 3, a Voyager 3, and a Pioneer H (not Pioneer 12!). Oh, and a Lunar Orbiter 6, and a third Lunokhod (Luna 25).


 As well as Luna E-8 and Lunokhod 8EL number 205 was there a sample return Luna E-8-5 number 409 or a Luna E-8-5M number 411?

http://www.astronaut.ru/luna/ussr_a3.htm
Luna 22 was E-8LS number 206?

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luna_e8-5.htm

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #15 on: 05/12/2011 09:04 pm »
Geizer 11F663 number 21L?*

http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3011&start=300

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #17 on: 05/13/2011 12:07 pm »
The first Dutch satellite (Astronomical Netherlands Satellite - ANS) had an exact duplicate: ANS -2. It never flew and hangs around in a Dutch museum.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #18 on: 05/13/2011 08:28 pm »
Going this way, there was also a Viking 3, a Voyager 3, and a Pioneer H (not Pioneer 12!).

Were these actual flight hardware backups?  Or were they ground engineering test models?  By Viking I assumed that the spacecraft had become so expensive that they no longer built backups like they had earlier.

Re Pioneer H, I recall reading that four of the Pioneer F-type (later Pioneer 10) craft were built and tested.  All of the best-performing components were then re-assembled as Pioneer F and the second-best-performing ones as Pioneer G.  Was Pioneer H built from the third-best performing components?

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #20 on: 05/15/2011 09:25 am »
there was also a couple of Zond that were not launched - plus, of course, a batch of LK lunar landers.
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #21 on: 05/15/2011 08:48 pm »
Re Pioneer H, I recall reading that four of the Pioneer F-type (later Pioneer 10) craft were built and tested.  All of the best-performing components were then re-assembled as Pioneer F and the second-best-performing ones as Pioneer G.  Was Pioneer H built from the third-best performing components?

Presumably; Atlas-Centaurs didn't exactly have perfect success rate at the time, and Pioneer 11/12 were the only launches to use a third stage, so it would seem logical that H was meant as a flight spare.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #22 on: 06/18/2011 05:50 pm »
Orbital
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Product
 
Configuration
Serial
Number
 
 11F6157K-OK (П)1Prepared for launch as target for Kosmos 133. Following the failure of Kosmos 133 prepared for a solo flight but involved in an accident at the launch platform with the abort system.
Kosmos 13311F6157K-OK (A)2 
Kosmos 14011F6157K-OK (П)3 
Soyuz 111F6157K-OK (A)4 
Kosmos 18811F6157K-OK (П)5Prepared for launch as target for Soyuz 1, then as target for Kosmos 186.
Kosmos 18611F6157K-OK (A)6 
Kosmos 21311F6157K-OK (П)7 
Kosmos 21211F6157K-OK (A)8 
Kosmos 23811F6157K-OK (П)9 
Soyuz 311F6157K-OK (A)10 
Soyuz 211F6157K-OK (П)11 
Soyuz 411F6157K-OK (A)12 
Soyuz 511F6157K-OK (П)13 
Soyuz 611F6157K-OK14Vulkan experiment.
Soyuz 711F6157K-OK (П)15 
Soyuz 811F6157K-OK (A)16 
Soyuz 911F6157K-OK17Long duration without docking system.
 11F615 18Completed with kontakt docking system. Dismantled.
 11F615 19Completed with kontakt docking system. Dismantled.
 11F615 20Incomplete, to be fitted with kontakt docking system. Dismantled.
 11F615 21Incomplete, to be fitted with kontakt docking system. Dismantled.
     
Soyuz 1011F615A87K-T31 
Soyuz 1111F615A87K-T32 
Kosmos 49611F615A87K-T33 ‑> 33A 
Kosmos 61311F615A87K-T34 ‑> 34A 
 11F615A87K-T35 ‑> 35AUsed for 7K-TМ type SAS abort system test.
Kosmos 57311F615A87K-T36 
Soyuz 1211F615A87K-T37 
Soyuz 1711F615A87K-T38 
 11F615A87K-T39Rocket failed during launch.
Soyuz 1811F615A87K-T40 
Soyuz 2111F615A87K-T41Modified for Almaz.
Soyuz 2511F615A87K-T42 
Soyuz 2611F615A87K-T43 
Soyuz 2711F615A87K-T44 
Soyuz 2811F615A87K-T45 
Soyuz 2911F615A87K-T46 
Soyuz 3111F615A87K-T47Descent module from 11F615A12 7K-TM 76.
Soyuz 3211F615A87K-T48 
Soyuz 3311F615A87K-T49 
Soyuz 3411F615A87K-T50 
Soyuz 3511F615A87K-T51 
Soyuz 3611F615A87K-T52 
Soyuz 3711F615A87K-T53 
Soyuz 3811F615A87K-T54 
Soyuz 3911F615A87K-T55 
Soyuz 4011F615A87K-T56 
     
Soyuz 1311F615A87K-T33Orion-2 experiment.
     
Kosmos 63811F615A127K-TМ71 
Kosmos 67211F615A127K-TМ72 
Soyuz 1611F615A127K-TМ73 
Soyuz 2211F615A127K-TМ74Docking system replaced with MKF-6 cameras.
Soyuz 1911F615A127K-TМ75 
 11F615A127K-TМ76Prepared for launch as Soyuz 19 backup. Dismantled.
     
Kosmos 65611F615A97K-T61 
Soyuz 1411F615A97K-T62 
Soyuz 1511F615A97K-T63 
Soyuz 2011F615A97K-T64 
Soyuz 2311F615A97K-T65 
Soyuz 2411F615A97K-T66 
Soyuz 3011F615A97K-T67 

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #23 on: 06/20/2011 08:28 pm »
The fourth Almaz, the second Skylab, and Enterprise! ;)

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #24 on: 06/22/2011 03:17 pm »
 DOS were ordered in pairs. 121 (Salyut) and 122, 123 (Kosmos 557) and 124 (Salyut 4), but then following 125 (Salyut 6) was 125-2 (Salyut 7). 127 (Mir) and 128, which was modified to Zvezda.

 So did 125 have a sibling, 126?

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #25 on: 06/22/2011 03:30 pm »
"   11F615A12   7K-TМ   76   Prepared for launch as Soyuz 19 backup. Dismantled."

There have been many reports that this was flown as Soyuz 22.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #26 on: 06/22/2011 03:31 pm »
DOS were ordered in pairs. 121 (Salyut) and 122, 123 (Kosmos 557) and 124 (Salyut 4), but then following 125 (Salyut 6) was 125-2 (Salyut 7). 127 (Mir) and 128, which was modified to Zvezda.

 So did 125 have a sibling, 126?



The reports were that Salyut 7 was the backup for Salyut 6, and was virtually identical. Why there is a missing 126 is a mystery.  Perhaps 125-2 was the same as 126.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #27 on: 06/22/2011 06:33 pm »
DOS were ordered in pairs. 121 (Salyut) and 122, 123 (Kosmos 557) and 124 (Salyut 4), but then following 125 (Salyut 6) was 125-2 (Salyut 7). 127 (Mir) and 128, which was modified to Zvezda.

 So did 125 have a sibling, 126?



The reports were that Salyut 7 was the backup for Salyut 6, and was virtually identical. Why there is a missing 126 is a mystery.  Perhaps 125-2 was the same as 126.



 But not the same?

Bert Dubbelaar
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- installation of electric stoves for heating food;
- installation of a refrigerator;
- hot water was made available at all times;
- the chairs at the central command post were replaced by portable seats;
- the BST-1M telescope was replaced by a group of X-Ray telescopes similar to the Salyut-4 group;
- two of the portholes would now let in ultraviolet rays (one was in the work compartment and the other in the transfer section);
- portholes could now be closed by removable transparent covers;
- a large porthole for making astronomic and visual observations was made especially for the transfer compartment;
- the docking system was improved so that heavier vehicles could be accommodated.

And the solar arrays could be augmented.
And the propellant tanks were different?

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #29 on: 06/26/2011 06:26 pm »
There was a fair amount of Apollo hardware that was built but never launched.
The skylab rescue vehicle CSM 119 was built but never launched it was used as a backup during ATSP.

Later it was studied during the design of Orion.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #30 on: 06/26/2011 06:35 pm »
I know several Iridium were not launched before the original company went under, along with several other bits they were working on.  I don't know if the reborn Iridium launched them or not.
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #31 on: 06/26/2011 07:17 pm »
I know several Iridium were not launched before the original company went under, along with several other bits they were working on.  I don't know if the reborn Iridium launched them or not.

They'd probably have to update the electronics to support higher data rates for it to be worth while.

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« Reply #32 on: 06/26/2011 07:22 pm »
I know several Iridium were not launched before the original company went under, along with several other bits they were working on.  I don't know if the reborn Iridium launched them or not.

They'd probably have to update the electronics to support higher data rates for it to be worth while.
I figured such, they were not exactly high-rate machines to begin with.
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #34 on: 08/13/2011 04:47 pm »
LM-2 was never flown unmanned as planned after Apollo 5 and resides on the mall at NASM, and LM-9 (an H series LM from before the J-missions got bumped up after the original A15 and A19 were cancelled) hangs in the Saturn V building at KSC, both fully complete LMs.

Somewhat more unique than the well documented equipment for Apollos 18-20

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #35 on: 08/16/2011 04:49 am »
Whatever happened to the DSCS III comsat that was irradiated as part of the Huron King test? It was placed in a vacuum chamber above a nuclear blast, and then pulled out of the way before the ground sank into a crater:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Huron_King_test_chamber.jpg


http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Nts.html

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #36 on: 08/16/2011 06:41 am »
Whatever happened to the DSCS III comsat that was irradiated as part of the Huron King test? It was placed in a vacuum chamber above a nuclear blast, and then pulled out of the way before the ground sank into a crater:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Huron_King_test_chamber.jpg

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Nts.html


This test object, called STARSAT, was not a complete DSCS III. It featured the structure and some subsystems of DSCS III and was never intended to be launched into space.

http://www.futurescience.com/emp/DTRA-IR-10-22.pdf

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #38 on: 11/13/2011 09:01 pm »
There was a fair amount of Apollo hardware that was built but never launched.
The skylab rescue vehicle CSM 119 was built but never launched it was used as a backup during ATSP.

Later it was studied during the design of Orion.

CSM-119!  My favorite! How to make do with what you have to get what you need.  Five seats in an Apollo.  Check out the image at left.

And how could anyone forget Skylab 2?
What kind of wastrels would dump a perfectly good booster in the ocean after just one use?

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #39 on: 11/19/2011 03:19 pm »
Prognoz
http://www.laspace.ru/rus/prognoz.php

1st generation SO 501-503 Prognoz 1 to 3
2nd generation SO-M 504-510 Prognoz 4 to 9 and Interkosmos 23
3rd generation SO-M2 512-513 Interbol 1 and 2

So what happened to 511?

Perhaps this one?
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_018/pages/IMG_1326.html

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #40 on: 11/22/2011 05:22 pm »
What happened to GLONASS 11F654 Uragan number 55?

http://www.planet4589.org/space/log/satcat.txt

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #41 on: 01/14/2012 07:57 pm »
Bion 12

The previous Bion was 12KS Н15000-11, and the Н indicates it was released in 1993. It flew at the end of 1996.

Bion 12 was planned for the summer of 1998. NASA dropped it's participation after the recovery of Bion 11.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1996/96-79.txt
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1996/96-149.txt
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/numbers/124/41.shtml
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/numbers/140/06.shtml

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #42 on: 01/14/2012 11:31 pm »
There was a fair amount of Apollo hardware that was built but never launched.
The skylab rescue vehicle CSM 119 was built but never launched it was used as a backup during ATSP.

Later it was studied during the design of Orion.

CSM-119!  My favorite! How to make do with what you have to get what you need.  Five seats in an Apollo.  Check out the image at left.

And how could anyone forget Skylab 2?

User "Skylab" mentioned it in the previous page of this thread.

But if you're referring to the backup Skylab, it was designated Skylab-B, not Skylab 2. Depending on which numbering convention you use, Skylab 2 was either the first or second manned mission to the first Skylab.
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #43 on: 01/15/2012 03:01 pm »
Dumb question, I have only seen the second manned Skylab mission referred to as Skylab 3, what sources refer to it as Skylab 2?
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #44 on: 01/15/2012 06:29 pm »
Dumb question, I have only seen the second manned Skylab mission referred to as Skylab 3, what sources refer to it as Skylab 2?

http://www.williampogue.com/skylab-numbering-mixup.html

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #45 on: 08/19/2012 05:43 am »
http://www.chast-26360.narod.ru/vospominaniya/vospominanija_npo_pm.htm

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #46 on: 12/10/2012 07:40 am »
Quote from: Vladimir
 Телескоп 17В317 был создан ЛОМО исключительно для "Аракса-Н" (он же "Аркон-1"  . Он имел одинаковый с "Сапфировским" 17В321 диаметр главного зеркала (1,5 метра), но несколько отличался по конструкции и фокусному расстоянию (28 метров против 20). Масса самого КА - 7,5 тонн.
 Насколько я помню, было изготовлено 3 телескопа. Два из них побывали в космосе в 1997 (11Ф664 №6420) и 2002 (11Ф664 №6421) годах, а запуску третьего (11Ф664 №6422) помешала "Персона".
 Что касается стенаний по поводу того, что в 90-х на Лавке никого не осталось, то они напрасны. К началу 90-х аппарат, включая математику, был уже разработан. Дальше остались вопросы с производством и испытаниями. Так что для запуска и даже для модернизации "Араксов" силы еще оставались.
 И еще. Если вы пытаетесь сравнить разрешение у "Араксов, и КН-11, то сравните высоту перицентров их орбит. Для тех, кому лень заглянуть хотя бы в Википедию, сообщаю, что высота Пц у КН никогда не превышала 400 км, а у "Араксов" не опускалась ниже 1500 км.
 Логично спросить, почему же "Аракс" не летал ниже? Да потому что ниже была заповедная территория, принадлежавшая Дмитрию Ильичу Козлову.
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #47 on: 12/10/2012 09:39 am »
CATSAT (Cooperative Astrophysics & Technology Satellite), the third mission of the Explorer program's Student Explorer Demonstration Initiative (STEDI) initiative was nearly completed, but never launched.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060901141549/http://www.catsat.sr.unh.edu/index.html
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #48 on: 12/13/2012 03:20 pm »


Probably several ICO satellites from the MEO constellation were more or less completed, but never launched.



IIRC, ICO contracted for some 10 satellites, and only launched 1. There was a big law suit over this, but there were probably half a dozen of these built. What happened to them is mystery to me.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #49 on: 12/13/2012 03:40 pm »
I'm too lazy right now to look this up, but the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Museum, part of the Smithsonian, near Dulles International Airport, recently got a Sirius/XM communications satellite. I saw this mentioned somewhere. Apparently it's a complete satellite that the company decided not to launch because they changed their constellation (probably because of the merger). That's a rather expensive piece of equipment to not use.

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #50 on: 12/13/2012 08:14 pm »
I'm too lazy right now to look this up, but the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Museum, part of the Smithsonian, near Dulles International Airport, recently got a Sirius/XM communications satellite. I saw this mentioned somewhere. Apparently it's a complete satellite that the company decided not to launch because they changed their constellation (probably because of the merger). That's a rather expensive piece of equipment to not use.

 FM4 was a spare for the first three. FM6 was to have replaced FM1 and FM2 but one hurdle was the end of life disposal.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/237763-sirius-seeking-move-to-xm
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-08-1156A1.pdf
http://www.orbitcast.com/archives/fcc-dismisses-sirius-fm6-satellite-application.html
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #51 on: 01/07/2013 02:30 pm »
If you had plans to build a moon base.   Could any of these Sats be refocused for use in Lunar orbit, or very advanced Mars orbit?

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #52 on: 01/07/2013 09:59 pm »
Any craft ever built and stored away for Gemini-B or MOL?

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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #53 on: 01/07/2013 11:40 pm »
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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #54 on: 01/08/2013 02:25 am »
I think that there was a fair amount of MOL hardware that was in the advanced stages of construction. I don't know how much of that was actually integrated. But I have photos of major flight hardware structures built in 1967, and the program was canceled in 1969, so that's two years that they had to put pieces together.


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Re: Satellites built, but not launched
« Reply #55 on: 01/08/2013 08:28 pm »
11Ф617
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http://88.210.62.157/content/photogallery/gallery_054/pages/IMG_9008.html

 If it was ordered along with the rocket having the same serial number then it is probably from the 2nd half of 1975?

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