Author Topic: LIVE: Proton-M launch with Nimiq 4 satellite - September 19, 2008  (Read 32498 times)

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T+3 minutes.
"Now you may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place..."

Offline Chris Bergin

Bit of a pause on staging confirmation, but nominal.

170 seconds. Vehicle on a nominal flight.

Additional lift off image:
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The Proton is not painted white!

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Stage 2 sep!

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T+6 minutes. 2-3 sep and fairing sep confirmed.
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3-4 sep coming up very soon.
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3-4 sep confirmed.
« Last Edit: 09/19/2008 09:59 pm by Nick L. »
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Briz-M ignition confirmed.
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Thanks to Andrew for recording the launch video:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=14377.0
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Confirmation of stage 4 shutdown. A bit late, but everything looks good so far.
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the satellite lunch sucess ?


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the satellite lunch sucess ?

Not yet - there will be four more burns over the next hours before separation will occur.

« Last Edit: 09/19/2008 10:20 pm by Skyrocket »

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The first and second burns of the Briz-M have occurred without any problems. Let me remind that the Briz-M has a 9 hour mission before Nimiq-4 separation.

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3rd and 4th burns and APT jettison have occurred.
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Mission Successful!
http://www.ilslaunch.com/mission-successful-2/

"We have had a successful mission with the Proton M Breeze M rocket, carrying the Nimiq 4 satellite built by EADS Astrium for Telesat. We have had confirmation that the satellite separated from the vehicle on schedule at 3:00 am Eastern time, or 7:00 am GMT, 9 hours and 11 minutes after liftoff.

Everything occurred as planned with ignition, shutdown and separation of the Proton’s first three stages. Then the Breeze M upper stage with the satellite continued the mission, igniting five times, then releasing the satellite into transfer orbit"

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what the next launch ?


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what the next launch ?



Astra 1M in late october.

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what the next launch ?
Astra 1M in late october.
There will be a Proton-M / Glonass launch at the end of this month, but not an ILS launch.
« Last Edit: 09/20/2008 11:43 am by Stephan »
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Launch&running commentary(English) from T-10 sec to T+330sec w/o PR
http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/video/nimiq4.avi

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