Proton-M/DM-03 – Spektr-RG – Baikonur 81/24 - July 13, 2019 (12:31 UTC)

[Stan Black]

Payload: Spektr-RG

 - Spektr-RG was originally scheduled to go up on a Soyuz-2-1B Fregat combination; with Spektr-UF on a Zenit-M Fregat-SB. Both Spektr-RG and Spektr-UF are now to go up on Proton-M.

Rocket: Zenit-2SB80
Upper stage: Fregat-SB № 2006

Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant named after A. Makarov
Виробниче об'єднання Південний машинобудівний завод ім. О.М. Макарова

Zenit-2SB

РН «Зенит-М» («Зенит-2SБ») для запуска КА «Спектр-УФ» (ТУ 00.2601.0050.0000.80.0)

1 147 000 000 Russian ruble
Contract date: 16th April 2010
Contract number: 156-1086/10
Contractual period: 2010 to 2011
[source] [source]

Lavochkin Research and Production Association
Научно-производственное объединение имени С.А. Лавочкина

Spektr-RG

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32782.msg1093746#msg1093746

1 000 000 Russian ruble
Contract date: 2nd June 2007
Contract number: 361-7524/07
Contractual period: to December 2007
[source]

750 000 000 Russian ruble
Contract date: 23rd April 2010
Contract number: 361-7524/10
Contractual period: to March 2011
[source]

575 198 800 Russian ruble
Contract date: 6th November 2013
Contract number: 361-7524/13/340
[source]

Корректировка РКД, доработка приборов и СПО, проведение пусконаладочных работ, проведение АИ, корректировка РКД по результатам АИ: НРТК «Фобос» с АС П-2500 (Уссурийск), НРТК «Кобальт-М-ФГ» с АС ТНА-1500 и приемопередающим оборудованием НС «Спектр-Х» с АС ТНА-57 (Медвежьи Озера).
Дооснащение, подготовка и автономные испытания баллистического центра ЦНИИМаш.
Дооснащение, подготовка и автономные испытания средств связи и передачи данных (ССПД) между составными частями НКУ и ННК.
Проведение работ по продлению гарантийных сроков на СЧ КК «Спектр-РГ» и КПА.

257 993 400 Russian ruble
Contract date: 24th December 2014
Contract number: 361-7524/14/438
Contractual period: to December 2016
[source]

Fregat-SB

Разгонный блок «Фрегат-СБ» для запуска КА «Спектр-УФ» (РБФСБ-0000-0ТУ)

415 870 000 Russian ruble
Contract date: 6th April 2010
Contract number: 361-1164/10
Contractual period: March 2010 to December 2011
Delivery: December 2011
[source] [source]

Centre for Operation of Land-Based Space Infrastructure (TsENKI)
Центр эксплуатации объектов наземной космической инфраструктуры (ЦЭНКИ)

Service of Zenit rocket

Проведение регламентных работ на двух ракет-носителях «Зенит-М» для запуска КА «Электро-Л» № 2 и «Спектр-РГ»

16 988 000 Russian ruble
Contract date: 24th December 2014
Contract number: 924-С082/14/442
Contractual period: up to December 2015
[source]

[Stan Black]

If I understand this tender the Fregat upper stage is being stored, awaiting launch and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) has had to pay for this work.

Проведение регламентных работ в рамках годового технического обслуживания РБ «Фрегат» № 122-01 для запуска КА «Луна-Глоб», РБ «Фрегат» № 122-02 для запуска КА «Резонанс», РБ «Фрегат» № 122-04 для запуска КА «Метеор-М» № 2-1 и РБ «Фрегат-СБ» № 2006 для запуска КА «Спектр-РГ». Место проведения годового технического обслуживания: ФГУП «НПО им. С.А. Лавочкина» (г. Химки, ул. Ленинградская, д. 24). Годовое техническое обслуживание должно проводиться в соответствии с требованиями технических
условий на изделие по программе-методике РБФ-0000-0 ПМ-7.

http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ok44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0173100007015000109

[russianhalo117]

If I understand this tender the Fregat upper stage is being stored, awaiting launch and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) has had to pay for this work.

Проведение регламентных работ в рамках годового технического обслуживания РБ «Фрегат» № 122-01 для запуска КА «Луна-Глоб», РБ «Фрегат» № 122-02 для запуска КА «Резонанс», РБ «Фрегат» № 122-04 для запуска КА «Метеор-М» № 2-1 и РБ «Фрегат-СБ» № 2006 для запуска КА «Спектр-РГ». Место проведения годового технического обслуживания: ФГУП «НПО им. С.А. Лавочкина» (г. Химки, ул. Ленинградская, д. 24). Годовое техническое обслуживание должно проводиться в соответствии с требованиями технических
условий на изделие по программе-методике РБФ-0000-0 ПМ-7.

http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ok44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0173100007015000109

yes

[eeergo]

News about the start of final assembly of this observatory, set to take place in the next few months:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spektr_rg.html#2016

What's the status of the launcher? Has it been reverted to Soyuz or will it be the "now-for-real" last Zenit?

[asmi]

What's the status of the launcher? Has it been reverted to Soyuz or will it be the "now-for-real" last Zenit?

I think it's too heavy for Soyuz, so only alternatives are Proton and A5.

[russianhalo117]

What's the status of the launcher? Has it been reverted to Soyuz or will it be the "now-for-real" last Zenit?

I think it's too heavy for Soyuz, so only alternatives are Proton and A5.

One of the 2017 designated spare Proton-M/Briz-M was guaranteed as available next year in the event relations deteriorate and need to switch is realized. Current plan still calls for Zenit-3F/Fregat-SB

[Skyrocket]

According to news report, Spektr has moved to Proton and the Zenit will be used for Angosat-1

this http://izvestia.ru/news/644111

[B. Hendrickx]

http://tass.ru/kosmos/3909740

The deputy director of the Institute of Space Research Mikhail Pavlinskiy says the launch of Spektr-RG is now scheduled for March 2018. It will most likely be launched by a Proton/Blok-DM03 originally earmarked for the Glonass program. The Zenit originally scheduled to launch Spektr-RG will now launch AngoSat.

Ilya Lomakin, NPO Lavochkin's head of the Spektr-RG project, says the switch from Zenit to Proton will not require any changes to the satellite itself, only to the interfaces between he satellite and the upper stage.
 

[russianhalo117]

http://tass.ru/kosmos/3909740

The deputy director of the Institute of Space Research Mikhail Pavlinskiy says the launch of Spektr-RG is now scheduled for March 2018. It will most likely be launched by a Proton/Blok-DM03 originally earmarked for the Glonass program. The Zenit originally scheduled to launch Spektr-RG will now launch AngoSat.

Ilya Lomakin, NPO Lavochkin's head of the Spektr-RG project, says the switch from Zenit to Proton will not require any changes to the satellite itself, only to the interfaces between he satellite and the upper stage.
 

Also according to Anatoly Zak's article on his site a while back, the satellite can carry its maximum propellant load in place of the Zenit optimized SC propellant plan

[B. Hendrickx]

http://tass.com/science/927738

Germany’s eRosita telescope for Spektr-RG space observatory delivered to Russia for tests

MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. German eRosita X-ray telescope for the Spektr-RG Russian space observatory was delivered to NPO Lavochkin [observatory maker - TASS] in Moscow Region and its tests have started already, Director of Space Research Institute Lev Zelenyi told TASS on Friday.
"The instrument from Germany was delivered to Russia just recently. It already undergoes tests in NPO Lavochkin. Integration of the German instrument with the observatory will start after tests. It will take a year," Zelenyi said.

Spektr-RG is the orbital astrophysics observatory comprising two X-ray reflecting telescopes: German eRosita and Russian ART-XC. The main goal of the project is to study the Universe in the relevant range, search and classification of the massive galactic clusters and active galactic nuclei in the observed Universe.
It was reported earlier the observatory is scheduled to be launched in March 2018.

[eeergo]

http://tass.com/science/927738

Germany’s eRosita telescope for Spektr-RG space observatory delivered to Russia for tests


MOSCOW, January 27. /TASS/. German eRosita X-ray telescope for the Spektr-RG Russian space observatory was delivered to NPO Lavochkin [observatory maker - TASS] in Moscow Region and its tests have started already, Director of Space Research Institute Lev Zelenyi told TASS on Friday.
"The instrument from Germany was delivered to Russia just recently. It already undergoes tests in NPO Lavochkin. Integration of the German instrument with the observatory will start after tests. It will take a year," Zelenyi said.


Spektr-RG is the orbital astrophysics observatory comprising two X-ray reflecting telescopes: German eRosita and Russian ART-XC. The main goal of the project is to study the Universe in the relevant range, search and classification of the massive galactic clusters and active galactic nuclei in the observed Universe.
It was reported earlier the observatory is scheduled to be launched in March 2018.

Image from Roscosmos.

[wsl2005]

http://www.roscosmos.ru/23199/

[B. Hendrickx]

https://iz.ru/683806/dmitrii-strugovetc-nikolai-krasnov/zapusk-orbitalnogo-teleskopa-spektr-rg-otlozhen-eshche-na-god

Izvestia reports that the launch of Spektr-RG has been pushed back from October 2018 to the spring of 2019 due to problems with the radio equipment needed to send scientific data back to Earth. The problems are said to be related to the need to replace Western-built electronic components by Russian ones as a result of the sanctions. 

According to the story, the original plan was to install German-built radio equipment on Spektr-RG, but later it was decided to fly the same radio equipment intended for the Phobos Grunt mission. When that mission failed in 2011 and the Spektr-R/Radioastron observatory lost three out of four sets of similar radio equipment after its launch the same year, Roscosmos took a fresh look at the use of electronic components on future deep space and scientific missions. Apparently, it was then decided to once again rely more heavily on Western-built electronic components, but the sanctions made that impossible. It's kind of ironic that a mission with heavy Western scientific involvement appears to be falling victim to sanctions imposed by the West.

  https://iz.ru/685329/2017-12-19/mid-razocharovan-nedopuskom-korrespondenta-iz-rf-v-eliseiskii-dvoretc

[B. Hendrickx]

The second link is to another Izvestia story back in October which first revealed the trouble with the radio equipment.

[B. Hendrickx]

The second link is to another Izvestia story back in October which first revealed the trouble with the radio equipment.

Wrong link. Here's the correct link to the October article.
https://iz.ru/632978/leonid-sitnik/2000-chernykh-dyr-v-sutki

[Alter Sachse]

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spektr-rg-2017.html#12

[Stan Black]

Roskosmos has issued a tender for the transportation of the launch vehicle from Khrunichev to the launch site.
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ep44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0995000000218000007

[Steven Pietrobon]

Launch date now officially March 2019.

http://www.interfax.ru/russia/609180

In Russia 10:54, 19 April 2018
Launch of "Spektr-RG " To search for galaxies officially postponed to March 2019

Moscow. April 19. INTERFAX.RU-International Orbital Astrophysical Observatory  "Spektr-RG " will go to space in March next year, reports on Thursday holding  "Russian Space Systems " (Rks, included in corporation  "Roscosmos ").

 "Rks manufactured and handed over to the customer a new Vysokjeffektivnyj on-board DBK for the International Orbital Astrophysical Observatory " Spektr-RG  ", which is scheduled to be launched in March 2019,"-said in a statement of the RCC.

The holding notes that the devices created in the rks will allow scientists to control the spacecraft and receive scientific information at a distance of up to 1.8 million km from the earth.

Installed on board the "Spektr-RG " The complex will take commands from the ground, participate in carrying out trajectory measurements, as well as transmit telemetry and scientific information to the Earth.

 "The innovative design and technological solutions of the RCC allowed to collect this functionality in one complex. The mass of service systems of the spacecraft has significantly decreased in favor of the target load-the German X-ray telescope Erosita and the Russian telescope APT-XC  "-said in the rks.

Radio complex  "Spektr-RG " will provide data transfer to the Earth at a speed up to 512 KB/s and will work throughout the mission of the orbital Telescope-on the range from 200 km to 1.8 million km from the earth. The possibilities of the complex allow the ground stations of the control to determine the coordinates of the spacecraft with an accuracy of 10 m, and the speed-up to 0.5 mm/s.

Specialists of the Rks have already at the stage of development laid in the radio complex for spacecraft  "Spektr-RG " The ability to keep in touch with the device at any orientation. DBK will constantly conduct self-diagnosis and, if necessary, send its results to the ground. There is also a possibility to  "repair " DBK directly in orbit. If from the ground will not arrive commands more than two days, the complex will automatically start the algorithm of elimination of malfunction-it shall be on a special program alternately to connect reserve half of devices until  "turns off " from System The faulty device and the connection will not recover.

The space observatory  "Spektr-RG " is designed to explore the universe in the Gamma and X-ray hard range of energies. The device is designed for 7.5 years of operation at the Point Lagrange L2. During this time scientists expect to make a map of the entire sky and individual galaxies in the X-ray range and get additional data about the nature of black holes, neutron stars and galactic nuclei.

 "It is expected that the mission " Spektr-RG  "will open more than a million new galaxies ",-said the rks.

Earlier, about the postponement of the launch of the device "Interfax " was informed by the source at Baikonur "Baikonur".

[eeergo]

In the FKP "NITs RKP" the electrical testing for Lavochkin's Spektr-RG spacecraft has been completed. All systems and the integrated spacecraft bus are confirmed as working within specifications in order to function correctly in the space environment.

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1041670108018561025

[Stan Black]

«Протон-М» №53547
11С861-03 №4Л
813ГЛН34-0010-0-06 №61514
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ok44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0995000000218000067