Author Topic: LIVE: Sea Launch: Galaxy 18 launch - May 21 (Read 33465 times)

anik · « **Reply #20 on:** 05/13/2008 09:15 pm »

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GW_Simulations - 13/5/2008 10:45 PM

09:23 - 11:43, according to a reincarnation of MSDB

09:43 - 11:43 UTC is there.

My source was slightly wrong...

William Graham · « **Reply #21 on:** 05/13/2008 09:23 pm »

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anik - 13/5/2008 9:15 PM

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GW_Simulations - 13/5/2008 10:45 PM

09:23 - 11:43, according to a reincarnation of MSDB

09:43 - 11:43 UTC is there. My source was slightly wrong...

Thanks. I misread it (and the fact that it went offline again whilst I was looking at it earlier didn't help). Back up now though.

edkyle99 · « **Reply #22 on:** 05/17/2008 08:56 pm »

Odyssey appears to have stopped moving, as of the morning of May 17. There haven't been any announcements of a launch zone arrival so far.

- Ed Kyle

Sco7Buck · « **Reply #23 on:** 05/19/2008 01:15 pm »

72 hour countdown has begun.

http://www.boeing.com/special/sea-launch/mission_galaxy-18/l-72/l-72.html

anik · « **Reply #24 on:** 05/19/2008 02:37 pm »

Sea Launch Initiates Countdown for the Launch of Galaxy 18
http://www.sea-launch.com/news_releases/nr_080519.html

"Long Beach, Calif., May 19, 2008 – The Sea Launch team arrived at the launch site in the Equatorial Pacific over the weekend and initiated a 72-hour countdown, in preparation for the launch of Intelsat’s Galaxy 18 satellite on Wednesday, May 21. Liftoff is planned at 2:43am PDT (9:43 GMT), at the opening of a two-hour launch window.

Upon arrival at the launch site, at 154 degrees West Longitude, the team began ballasting operations to bring the platform to launch depth. A final series of tests on the launch system and the spacecraft are now underway. Prior to fueling operations, the platform will be evacuated, with all personnel safely positioned on the ship, four miles from the platform. An hour after liftoff, a Zenit-3SL vehicle will insert the 4,642 kg (10,234 lb) Galaxy 18 satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit, on its way to a final orbital location of 123 degrees West Longitude.

Built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the 1300-series hybrid spacecraft, carries 24 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders, to provide advanced television, data and telecommunications services to Intelsat customers in North America, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. This spacecraft is designed for a 15-year service life on orbit. It is the 6th mission Sea Launch will execute for Intelsat and the 7th mission with a spacecraft built by SS/L.

Sea Launch will provide live coverage of the Galaxy 18 mission via satellite and on its website, beginning at 2:30am PDT (9:30 GMT) on May 21. Live streaming video will be posted at: http://www.sea-launch.com/current_index_webcast.html . Transponder coordinates for the satellite feed are posted at: http://www.boeing.com/nosearch/sealaunch/broadcast.html ."

McDew · « **Reply #25 on:** 05/20/2008 07:56 pm »

"Sea Launch spokeswoman Paula Korn said her company inquired to the companies involved with the Land Launch, Israel Aerospace Industries and Space International Services, and both said no malfunction took place and the mission was successful. As such, Sea Launch's chief systems engineer determined there was no reason to delay the launch and the constraint was lifted, Korn said."

Call me old school...... but a failure to perform flight software verification prior to launch and injecting the spacecraft into an incorrect orbit is a "malfunction".

edkyle99 · « **Reply #26 on:** 05/20/2008 09:16 pm »

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McDew - 20/5/2008 2:56 PM

"Sea Launch spokeswoman Paula Korn said her company inquired to the companies involved with the Land Launch, Israel Aerospace Industries and Space International Services, and both said no malfunction took place and the mission was successful. As such, Sea Launch's chief systems engineer determined there was no reason to delay the launch and the constraint was lifted, Korn said."

Call me old school...... but a failure to perform flight software verification prior to launch and injecting the spacecraft into an incorrect orbit is a "malfunction".

Two questions.

1. Where did the Paula Korn quote come from?

2. Where did the information about a "failure to perform flight software verification" come from?

- Ed Kyle

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #27 on:** 05/20/2008 11:52 pm »

Moved for live coverage..

McDew · « **Reply #28 on:** 05/21/2008 12:24 am »

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edkyle99 - 20/5/2008 5:16 PM

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McDew - 20/5/2008 2:56 PM

"Sea Launch spokeswoman Paula Korn said her company inquired to the companies involved with the Land Launch, Israel Aerospace Industries and Space International Services, and both said no malfunction took place and the mission was successful. As such, Sea Launch's chief systems engineer determined there was no reason to delay the launch and the constraint was lifted, Korn said."

Call me old school...... but a failure to perform flight software verification prior to launch and injecting the spacecraft into an incorrect orbit is a "malfunction".

Two questions.

1. Where did the Paula Korn quote come from?

2. Where did the information about a "failure to perform flight software verification" come from?

- Ed Kyle

1. Space News
2. Russians

edkyle99 · « **Reply #29 on:** 05/21/2008 12:40 am »

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McDew - 20/5/2008 7:24 PM

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edkyle99 - 20/5/2008 5:16 PM

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McDew - 20/5/2008 2:56 PM

"Sea Launch spokeswoman Paula Korn said her company inquired to the companies involved with the Land Launch, Israel Aerospace Industries and Space International Services, and both said no malfunction took place and the mission was successful. As such, Sea Launch's chief systems engineer determined there was no reason to delay the launch and the constraint was lifted, Korn said."

Call me old school...... but a failure to perform flight software verification prior to launch and injecting the spacecraft into an incorrect orbit is a "malfunction".

Two questions.

1. Where did the Paula Korn quote come from?

2. Where did the information about a "failure to perform flight software verification" come from?

- Ed Kyle
1. Space News
2. Russians

"Russians" as in anecdotal, or "Russians" as in news reports?

A quote from a Sea Launch representative in Space News would seem to have some credibility.

- Ed Kyle

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #30 on:** 05/21/2008 07:12 am »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #31 on:** 05/21/2008 07:30 am »

Just over two hours to launch. You can just make it out, but it does appear like they have calm sea conditions.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #32 on:** 05/21/2008 07:58 am »

Fueling underway.

elmarko · « **Reply #33 on:** 05/21/2008 08:35 am »

Webcast doesn't seem to have started at the correct time...

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #34 on:** 05/21/2008 08:44 am »

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elmarko - 21/5/2008 9:35 AM

Webcast doesn't seem to have started at the correct time...

You're getting caught out by GMT like I did? L-60 minutes yet.

Plenty of time to enjoy the acid jazz on the webcast

elmarko · « **Reply #35 on:** 05/21/2008 08:54 am »

Ahaha. So I am.

And I wasn't sound-enabled before but now I am. Dancing around my office

Is the light going to improve at launch? The last Sea Launch I watched was dark

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #36 on:** 05/21/2008 09:03 am »

I think you'll find this one is going to be a night launch too...

Preview: http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5428

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #37 on:** 05/21/2008 09:14 am »

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #38 on:** 05/21/2008 09:23 am »

By the way, I'll be recording it. I can only do asf - which works, but later someone will convert it to .wmv for those of you that get all arm wavey about not being able to fast forward etc

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #39 on:** 05/21/2008 09:30 am »

Webcast's started.