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International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others) => Russian Launchers - Soyuz, Progress and Uncrewed => Topic started by: anik on 10/29/2008 02:43 pm
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According to http://www.russianspaceweb.com/2008.html#manifest the launch of Proton-M rocket with Briz-M upper stage and Ciel-2 satellite is planned on December 10.
According to http://www.kt.kz/index.php?lang=rus&uin=1138536794&chapter=1153466009 the rocket was delivered to Baikonur cosmodrome by train today.
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http://www.kt.kz/index.php?lang=rus&uin=1138536794&chapter=1153466482
The assembly of the first stage of Proton-M rocket has begun today in Building 92A-50. Also the unloading of blocks of the second stage from railcar is continuing.
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Briz-M upper stage was delivered on 9 november by an An-124-100.
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=4706
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Ciel-2 Blog - http://www.ilslaunch.com/ciel-2/
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Mission Overview - http://www.ilslaunch.com/assets/pdf/Ciel-II-MO-R2.pdf
According to http://www.kt.kz/index.php?lang=rus&uin=1138536794&chapter=1153467759 Ciel-2 satellite was delivered to cosmodrome yesterday by An-124-100 Ruslan aircraft.
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According to http://www.russianspaceweb.com/2008.html the launch is preliminarily planned at 13:43:00 UTC on December 10.
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http://www.kt.kz/index.php?lang=rus&uin=1138536794&chapter=1153468794
The fuelling of high pressure tanks of Briz-M upper stage by propellants is completed.
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=4830
The fuelling of tanks of Ciel-2 satellite is performing today.
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Baikonur: Canadian Satellite In Preparation For Integration on Proton Rocket
24.11.2008
http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=1&nid=298
"Scheduled operations to prepare for 10 December launch of Canada’s Ciel-2, the Thales Alenia Space–built telecommunication satellite, aboard Proton Breeze M rocket go smoothly at Baikonur.
The initial phase of the Ciel-2 launch campaign known as Stand–alone operations (the time when autonomous checking of the spacecraft and pre–launch processing of Proton core rocket and Breeze M upper stage, adapter system and payload fairing is conducted) is nearing successful completion.
The Thales team will complete loading propellants into the tanks inside the spacecraft today. On the same day the spacecraft will undergo final checks before the next processing step (known as Joint Operations) – integration into Space Head Unit (made of the Ciel-2, adapter/separation system, upper stage booster, payload fairing).
The works on SHU will be conducted in Hall 101 of Baikonur processing center (known as “MIK” 92A-50). The Joint Operations – which will be performed by Khrunichev launch team together with Thales Alenia and Ruag Aerospace Sweden (the designer and manufacturer of the separation system) – will commence in a couple of days"
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=4871
Today the fuelled Ciel-2 satellite was installed onto dispenser.
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=4879
Today the satellite with dispenser was attached to Briz-M upper stage.
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=4891
The fairing was installed onto ascent unit on November 29th.
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=4920
Today Proton-M was transported to the fuelling station for the fuelling of low pressure tanks of Briz-M upper stage by propellants.
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Information about launch and satellite from Khrunichev website:
http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/eng/pl_pusk.htm
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Media Advisory - http://www.ilslaunch.com/news-12050
http://www.kt.kz/index.php?lang=rus&uin=1138536794&chapter=1153470802
Today the State Commission should approve the rollout of Proton-M rocket to the launch pad.
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http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=4944
Proton-M rocket with Briz-M upper stage and Ciel-2 satellite was transported to the launch pad 200/39 today.
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Does anyone know, why some Protons are painted in white (e.g. this one) while others are just plain metal (see the one being prepared for the Glonass launch)?
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Does anyone know, why some Protons are painted in white (e.g. this one) while others are just plain metal (see the one being prepared for the Glonass launch)?
Paint cost $ and weight, when this is a comercial flight, then customer pay for paint too ;)
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If this is a commercial launch, will we have a live webcast?
I couldn't find anything on the ILS website :(
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If this is a commercial launch, will we have a live webcast?
I couldn't find anything on the ILS website :(
Try this http://streamvox.streamos.com/vyvx/ils121008/
Broadcast starts at 1315UTC.
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Then maybe this tread should be moved to the live spaceflight section?
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Moved for live coverage.
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45 mins until the webcast starts. Will take help with images, and I'll aim to get a recording of the launch on to the video section.
Thanks to Rui for knocking up a launch preview:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2008/12/ils-aunch-ciel-2-via-proton-m/
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Webcast has started.
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T-22 minutes
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Start of webcast
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And good morning to you too Camy ;)
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"As always, Frank is excited about this launch" :)
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T-15 minutes.
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T-10 minutes.
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Scott Gibson: "Nicer here than it is at home"
That's an understatement... at least here in southern Ontario.
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Proton-M with Ciel-2 on Pad PU-39
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ILS has a backlog of 23 launches over the next three years. That's healthy!
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Good clips of the rocket blessing by the Othodox priest.
"We like to ensure we do all we can for mission success".
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T-60 seconds...no live shots yet, but ILS leave it to the last second to go back to the launch.
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Cool! A hotline! 8) I might call it...
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LAUNCH!
Into first stage flight.
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T+10 seconds. Rolling.
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T+60 seconds. Heading 60.8 degrees.
Max Q.
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T+2 minutes.
1-2 Sep.
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Staging
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Second stage ignition. Really beautiful views for this launch.
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wow, cool stage seperation!
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More liftoff caps:
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2-3 sep and fairing sep confirmed.
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Launch video (just need to be logged into the forum to access):
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=15229.0
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3rd stage shutdown and separation. Awaiting Briz-M ignition.
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14:00 into the flight. Confirmation of Briz-M ignition for 1st burn.
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T+14 minutes. First burn of the Breeze-M confirmed.
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T+16m 22s. Awaiting confirmation of Briz-M shutdown. Standing by to enter blackout period.
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T+16 minutes, nominal flight, end of first of five burns of the Breeze-M (or Briz-M).
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First burn shutdown deemed successful.
Heading into the tracking blackout, so ILS concluding their webcast.
Thanks to all for helping with the coverage :)
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Confirmation of 1st burn shutdown. Webcast ending since no data will be available after the comm blackout begins.
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Confirmation of spacecraft separation is expected around 6pm EST tonight.
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Thanks to all for their additional help with comments and pictures. ;-)
Its always nice to be here in this forum.
Soeren
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Hmm... I called the hotline, and the message said that they were "gearing up for tomorrow's launch". They don't seem to have updated it yet.
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2nd Burn
Posted by ILS Communications, 10:20 a.m. EST on 10 December 2008
http://www.ilslaunch.com/2nd-burn/
"The Breeze M's second burn has been completed successfully. The third burn will start in about two hours. Once the third burn concludes, the Breeze M will shutdown and jettison the additional propellant tank. Moments later, the Breeze M's 4th burn will begin. We'll confirm completion of the 4th burn as soon as we have official word"
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Burns 3 and 4 completed, APT jettisoned.
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Just to wrap up this one:
ILS Communications, 06:03 p.m. EST on 10 December 2008 | 0 Comments
We are happy to announce the successful conclusion of
another launch mission! The Proton M Breeze M rocket has
carried to geostationary transfer orbit the Ciel II
satellite, built by ThalesAlenia Space for the Ciel
Satellite Group. Spacecraft separation occurred on schedule,
at 17:55 EST. Total launch time was 9 hours, 12 minutes.
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Video 17mb from -5 till +125 sec.
http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/video/ciel2.avi
Summary SC launch information
http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/eng/2008/ciel2/ciel_e11.htm
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Thanks for the video, truly spectacular staging.
On an aside, relating to RoskosmosTV: I've noticed a drop in their video updates during November, does anyone know about the cause? They missed a pair of launches there, but apparently they're picking up pace again. I was wondering if the crisis and cost cuts had something to do for some time :)
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This launch used RD-276 engines on the first stage.
So was this the second *full* phase 2 enhanced Proton-M?
http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/eng/2008/ciel2/ciel_inf.htm
http://www.ilslaunch.com/assets/pdf/Ciel-II-MO-R2.pdf
*Proton for Inmarsat-4F3 used the ol' RD-275 but the lightweight structure