Author Topic: Proton-M Launch (WorldSat-3) December 29 (Read 28595 times)

Space101 · « **Reply #40 on:** 12/29/2005 03:05 am »

Russia is showing how it's done at the moment.

Sergi Manstov · « **Reply #41 on:** 12/29/2005 10:45 am »

Video of launch....

http://www.ilslaunch.com/stories/Current_Campaigns/#

Very powerful

Expecting spacecraft seperation in 10 minutes.

Current article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4161

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #42 on:** 12/29/2005 11:14 am »

That's what I call a launch.

Should have been spacecraft seperation by now (in the last 20 mins), nothing on the ILS site yet.

Sergi Manstov · « **Reply #43 on:** 12/29/2005 11:34 am »

American site might be reason. Still too early there.

I would think a problem would have been reported, so I'm hoping this means it was successful. We will have to wait.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #44 on:** 12/29/2005 12:36 pm »

Spacecraft seperation confirmed.

Sergi Manstov · « **Reply #45 on:** 12/29/2005 01:34 pm »

Great!

publiusr · « **Reply #46 on:** 12/29/2005 07:38 pm »

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Sergi Manstov - 29/12/2005 5:45 AM

Video of launch....

http://www.ilslaunch.com/stories/Current_Campaigns/#

Very powerful

Expecting spacecraft seperation in 10 minutes.

Current article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4161

UR-500 Proton actually has more thrust on lift-off than Saturn IB, which also used a cluster of tanks as a first stage. Our Saturn IB was thought of as an Army rocket, and the Air Force wanted their R-36 Tsyclon class Titan II.

Titan II started off being inferior to R-7 Soyuz launch vehicles, then was over-optimised into the proton class Titan IV--a pad sitter now extinct. If only we kept our Saturns.

In the Soviet Union the artillery men played a great role--similar to what General Medaris wanted for the US Army with ABMA before space was robbed from him.

I think the biggest reason why the Soviet Space Program worked so well--was because they kept their Air Force away from it, where the Air Force in the US botched space due to fighter-jocks and the pilot's union.

Here is to more great Russian launches. Well Done.

Colby · « **Reply #47 on:** 12/29/2005 09:22 pm »

A little late, but here are some screenshots of the launch...

Jamie Young · « **Reply #48 on:** 12/29/2005 11:09 pm »

Nice pictures, thanks.

lmike · « **Reply #49 on:** 12/30/2005 11:22 am »

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braddock - 28/12/2005 8:42 PM

What's the launch cost on a Proton-M?

Last time I checked the (ILS) *price* of a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch out of Baikonour is about $85 million. The *costs* are anybody's guess... a lot of work (transportation/on-site work) is done by practically unpaid military drafted conscripts, Krunichev's personel are not that highly paid either.

anik · « **Reply #50 on:** 12/30/2005 11:46 am »

Jonathan's Space Report No. 559
http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html

"SES Global's 5035-kg AMC-23 was launched on Dec 29 by an International Launch Services/Krunichev Proton-M No. 535-13 with a Briz-M upper stage (No. 88514). AMC-23 is an Alcatel Alenia/Cannes Spacebus 4000C3 satellite which was originally built as Americom 13, then Worldsat 3, and is now to provide Ku-band and C-band multimedia and telecom services over the Pacific. The C-band payload will be partly used by the Japanese JSAT system. SES, based in Luxembourg, bought the old RCA (later GE) Americom system in 2001. The Briz-M delivered the satellite to a 6193 x 35615 km x 18.5 deg transfer orbit, leaving its secondary propellant tank in a 311 x 15526 km x 49.6 deg intermediate orbit. The Proton third stage was suborbital on this launch. AMC-23 will use its Astrium S400 apogee engine to reach geostationary orbit."