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Zenit-3SLB launch - Telstar 11N - February 26, 2009
by
anik
on 19 Sep, 2008 14:57
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According to Novosti kosmonavtiki forum, the launch of Zenit-3SLB rocket with DM-SLB upper stage and Telstar 11N satellite is currently scheduled for December 21st, 2008.
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#1
by
anik
on 03 Oct, 2008 20:08
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Quote from
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/2008.html#manifest"As of beginning of October 2008, the launch date was dependent on the departure of the damaged Measat 1R satellite, which went through de-fueling process, but had to be decontaminated and certified for the return to the US. If everything went as planned, Telstar 11N would be shipped to Baikonur in mid-November 2008"
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#2
by
satlaunch
on 03 Nov, 2008 15:33
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#3
by
anik
on 05 Nov, 2008 14:04
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#4
by
anik
on 14 Nov, 2008 15:04
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Quote from
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/2008.html"In order for Telstar to meet the launch window opening on Dec. 21, 2008, it had to be delivered to Baikonur on Nov. 15, 2008. Otherwise, the mission would likely to be delayed to the end of March - beginning of April 2009".
According to Novosti kosmonavtiki forum, the launch date is January 11, 2009 now.
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#5
by
anik
on 27 Nov, 2008 15:53
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I was told the satellite will possibly arrive to cosmodrome on December 1st. But it depends on results of investigation of incidents with MeaSat-3a satellite.
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#6
by
anik
on 16 Dec, 2008 14:01
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The launch is currently scheduled on February 26, but there is rumour about April also.
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#7
by
jacqmans
on 12 Jan, 2009 13:10
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12-01-2009 Telstar-11N Satellite Delivered to Baikonur
Today, at 7 a.m. the Ruslan airplane has delivered US Telstar-11N telecommunication satellite to the Baikonur space port. After the customs clearance, the satellite and the auxiliary hardware will be transported to site 31 for further prelaunch processing.
Zenith-3SLB rocket with DM-SLB upper stage (the third stage of the rocket) are planned to orbit Telstar-11N at the end of February 2009.
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5150
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#8
by
jacqmans
on 13 Jan, 2009 13:43
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13-01-2009 KA “Telstar 11N” is delivered to the technical complex for the preparation
http://www.roscosmos.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5159Today at 5 A.M. msk container with the automatic spacecraft “Telstar -11N” and accessory equipment are delivered on area 31, where in the assembly and testing housing work on the preparation of automatic spacecraft for the starting will be carried out.
Automatic spacecraft “Telstar -11N” was delivered to the spaceport Baikonur yesterday by the aircraft of AN 124-100 “Ruslan” with KA “Telstar -11N”. Before beginning works on unloading of container and equipment from the aircraft
under the management of the specialists of the center of industrial safety and industrial safety measures [TSENKI] was carried out the training with the weight mock-up. In the evening on January 12 container with KA and accessory equipment were submerged to the flatcars and prepared for the transportation to the technical complex.
The starting of KA “Telstar -11[N]” is planned WITH [RKN] the zenith -2S
at the end of February.
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#9
by
satlaunch
on 15 Jan, 2009 13:17
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"Preparations are underway for the launch of the Telstar 11N satellite on the Land Launch system in February. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) built this satellite for Telesat, one of the world's leading fixed satellite services operators, to provide high powered, state-of-the-art satellite capacity for a broad range of video and data applications. With 39 high-power Ku-band transponders, Telstar 11N, weighing about 4010 kg (8,840 lb), is based on the SS/L 1300 platform which provides flexibility for a broad range of applications. The spacecraft also has a unique Atlantic Ocean beam, which will support growing demand for mobile broadband from maritime and aeronautical markets. Following launch, Telstar 11N will operate from 37.5 degrees West Longitude and will connect the continents of North America, Europe and Africa."
http://www.sea-launch.com/land-launch/current_land_launch.htm
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#10
by
anik
on 17 Feb, 2009 15:42
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#11
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 17 Feb, 2009 16:38
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On picture 8220 : what is the lowest logo ?
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#12
by
anik
on 17 Feb, 2009 16:45
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#13
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 17 Feb, 2009 17:28
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And what is the link between this company and Zenit-3 ?
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#14
by
anik
on 17 Feb, 2009 18:02
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And what is the link between this company and Zenit-3?
UGMK is one of shareholders of Space International Services, Ltd.
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#15
by
SIM city
on 17 Feb, 2009 18:32
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And what is the link between this company and Zenit-3?
UGMK is one of shareholders of Space International Services, Ltd.
See the bottom of this article about the Land Launch shareholders.
http://www.dsnews.ua/economy/art39291.html
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#16
by
William Graham
on 17 Feb, 2009 20:17
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Any idea what the other Zenit is for? MEASAT?
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#17
by
SIM city
on 17 Feb, 2009 20:46
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Any idea what the other Zenit is for? MEASAT?
There was news in January of a Zenit being delivered to Baikonur for the Spektr R mission. It is likely that hardware.
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#18
by
patchfree
on 18 Feb, 2009 17:22
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Yes it's for Spektr-R.
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#19
by
Olaf
on 18 Feb, 2009 21:23
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Yes it's for Spektr-R.
According to anik´s schedule Spektr-R will be launched in 2010. What is the reason that the rocket is already in Baikonur?
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#20
by
Satori
on 18 Feb, 2009 21:48
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Yes it's for Spektr-R.
According to anik´s schedule Spektr-R will be launched in 2010. What is the reason that the rocket is already in Baikonur?
Initial launch schedule was 2009.
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#21
by
SIM city
on 19 Feb, 2009 12:09
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Yes it's for Spektr-R.
According to anik´s schedule Spektr-R will be launched in 2010. What is the reason that the rocket is already in Baikonur?
Initial launch schedule was 2009.
Does that mean it can be used for a different launch? Another federal or commercial?
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#22
by
anik
on 19 Feb, 2009 13:52
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Does that mean it can be used for a different launch? Another federal or commercial?
If it is really a rocket for Spektr-R, then it is Zenit-2SB80 rocket, which can be used only with Fregat-SB upper stage, so not for commercial launches, but for launches of Elektro-L and Fobos-Grunt.
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#23
by
vt_hokie
on 20 Feb, 2009 03:24
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On picture 8220: what is the lowest logo?
Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company: http://www.ugmk.com/en/
No Space Systems/Loral or Telesat logo? Seems odd.
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#24
by
anik
on 20 Feb, 2009 13:56
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#25
by
satlaunch
on 24 Feb, 2009 10:55
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#26
by
Satori
on 24 Feb, 2009 13:02
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Isn't strange that we don't have the launch time yet?
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#27
by
Satori
on 24 Feb, 2009 13:08
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Isn't strange that we don't have the launch time yet?
Why don't you search before writing those things? Launch time 1830UTC (21:30 Moscow Time)!!!
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#28
by
Skyrocket
on 24 Feb, 2009 13:27
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#29
by
edkyle99
on 24 Feb, 2009 20:52
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Zenit-3SLB is now at the launch pad.
http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5504
Ineresting: The rocket carries a kyrillic inscription "Зенит-3SLБ" (= Zenit-3SLB). Other commercial Zenits were labled in latin letters reading "Sea Launch" or "Land Launch"
Unlike Sea Launch, the launch campaign side of Land Launch is an all-Ukrainio-Russian show, as I understand it.
- Ed Kyle
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#30
by
William Graham
on 24 Feb, 2009 21:00
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Zenit-3SLB is now at the launch pad.
http://www.federalspace.ru/NewsDoSele.asp?NEWSID=5504
Ineresting: The rocket carries a kyrillic inscription "Зенит-3SLБ" (= Zenit-3SLB). Other commercial Zenits were labled in latin letters reading "Sea Launch" or "Land Launch"
Unlike Sea Launch, the launch campaign side of Land Launch is an all-Ukrainio-Russian show, as I understand it.
- Ed Kyle
AMOS-3 had "Land Launch" on the rocket.
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#31
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 24 Feb, 2009 21:57
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Ineresting: The rocket carries a kyrillic inscription "Зенит-3SLБ"
What is strange is that it's only a "semi-kyrillic" inscription !
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#32
by
edkyle99
on 25 Feb, 2009 04:47
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Unlike Sea Launch, the launch campaign side of Land Launch is an all-Ukrainio-Russian show, as I understand it.
- Ed Kyle
AMOS-3 had "Land Launch" on the rocket.
Yes it did. Perhaps that was just for the inaugural launch. We'll see!
- Ed Kyle
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#33
by
Cbased
on 25 Feb, 2009 11:52
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Ineresting: The rocket carries a kyrillic inscription "Зенит-3SLБ"
What is strange is that it's only a "semi-kyrillic" inscription !
This is 100% correct name for this rocket. You will see it in all official documentation in russian. I believe "SL" means "Sea Launch" modification and it is always written using english characters. And russian "Б" (B) is a further modification for Baikonur (Land launch).
Зенит-3SLБ = 2SБ60 (from Yuzhnoe) + ДМ-SLБ (Block DM-SLB - from Energia). Block DM is used as a 3rd stage (hence number 3 in 3SLБ)
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#34
by
Cbased
on 25 Feb, 2009 11:57
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#35
by
pm1823
on 25 Feb, 2009 15:11
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#36
by
anik
on 26 Feb, 2009 16:54
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#37
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:04
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The MMS doesn't work, nor does the feed linked to from the Sea Launch homepage.
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#38
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:07
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There is now some coverage on the "official" stream,
http://tv-tsenki.com/liveThe feed isn't very good though (understatement - it's nearly as bad as the Venesat webcast).
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#39
by
lbiderman
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:14
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There is now some coverage on the "official" stream,
http://tv-tsenki.com/live
The feed isn't very good though (understatement - it's nearly as bad as the Venesat webcast).
Actually, it´s so bad that it can´t connect! Guess I´ll have to do with the text updates...
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#40
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:17
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There is now some coverage on the "official" stream,
http://tv-tsenki.com/live
The feed isn't very good though (understatement - it's nearly as bad as the Venesat webcast).
Actually, it´s so bad that it can´t connect! Guess I´ll have to do with the text updates...
Keep trying, it sometimes takes a few attempts.
Failing that, we'll have to make do with Vesti.
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#41
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:31
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Coverage on Vesti
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#42
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:31
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Liftoff
Worst launch coverage since Venesat.
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#43
by
vt_hokie
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:32
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Liftoff
Worst launch coverage since Venesat.
Wow, glad I didn't miss much!
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#44
by
charlieb
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:33
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me neither.
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#45
by
lbiderman
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:34
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Still trying, no point at it. Anyway, I´ll wait for the video. It´s not like they were launching humans to the Moon or something...
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#46
by
Satori
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:34
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Liftoff
Worst launch coverage since Venesat.
Wow, glad I didn't miss much!
Didn't managed to catch any launch images. Hopefully we will have a video in a day or two on tvroscosmos.ru.
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#47
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:37
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Rocket is performing nominally, even if the webcast is not.
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#48
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:38
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Second stage throttling down.
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#49
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:38
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SECO
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#50
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:39
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Flight is nominal
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#51
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:40
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Block DM ignition
I'm posting events as I hear them. I've got two computers running the c**p feed from Tsenki, which has intermittent sound (and no video). They are out of sync but I don't know by how much.
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#52
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:42
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Block DM flight is nominal
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#53
by
Satori
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:43
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Is it possible to have the exact lift-off time for this launch in format 1830:XX.XXXUTC?
Thanks!
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#54
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 17:45
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Block DM shutdown.
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#55
by
William Graham
on 26 Feb, 2009 19:00
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According to the Land Launch mission page, launch was at 18:29:55.
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#56
by
Ronsmytheiii
on 26 Feb, 2009 22:26
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Sorry I missed this, had a manufacturing processes test at the time. however it does not seem too much of a loss considering the lack of proper video.
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#57
by
yaroslav
on 26 Feb, 2009 23:45
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#58
by
charlieb
on 27 Feb, 2009 00:00
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Well - lot's of luck to the boys and girls at Telesat with IOT ahead. Personally - I did alot of preliminary ops work on the vehicle before being laid off by Telesat last fall. It's a beast of a satellite comm payload wise.........
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#59
by
yaroslav
on 27 Feb, 2009 00:09
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#60
by
vt_hokie
on 27 Feb, 2009 02:48
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Well - lot's of luck to the boys and girls at Telesat with IOT ahead. Personally - I did alot of preliminary ops work on the vehicle before being laid off by Telesat last fall. It's a beast of a satellite comm payload wise.........
Would've been our first "Omega" 1300 bus, which would have likely proven interesting from an ADCS standpoint!
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#61
by
Satori
on 27 Feb, 2009 08:59
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Launch images from Roskosmos...
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#62
by
Skyrocket
on 27 Feb, 2009 10:10
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Would've been our first "Omega" 1300 bus, which would have likely proven interesting from an ADCS standpoint!
Do you have some more information on the "Omega" 1300 bus?
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#63
by
charlieb
on 27 Feb, 2009 11:35
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Would've been our first "Omega" 1300 bus, which would have likely proven interesting from an ADCS standpoint!
Do you have some more information on the "Omega" 1300 bus?
Simply put (and not to bust proprietary data), Loral changed the way the CPU's 'talk' to the subsystems, and how the subs talk back to the CPU's. Simply, the previous system used analog to dig/dig-dig mux's, and demuxes used dig to dig/analog to dig, with most data transferred to and from the demux's/mux's to the CPU's via coax, naturally with some hard-wired I/Fs for critical commanding req's. Omega uses a LAN/WAN based system (hubs/routers) that I/F to components, most having a 'smart-chip' used to I/F with the Hubs (the chip performs the analog to dig conversions in the subs component). A mix of weight savings (the Demux/Mux units were fairly large-heavy-old tech stuff) and modernization. Nothing earth-shaking here.
No real change in sub-systems (attitude controls/payload/TT&C/thermal, etc) either.....
I think that's it. Maybe VT might have something to add IF he remembers; I've gotten rid of and forgottten most of technical stuff related since I was let go, and I have a feeling VT shares my minor forgetting 'dilemma' as well......
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#64
by
pm1823
on 27 Feb, 2009 15:21
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#65
by
SIM city
on 27 Feb, 2009 16:20
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Ineresting: The rocket carries a kyrillic inscription "Зенит-3SLБ"
What is strange is that it's only a "semi-kyrillic" inscription !
How about Зенит-3SLБФ, Зенит-2SБ40, Зенит-2SБ60, Зенит-2SБ80, Зенит-Ф40, all this came to Russian papers from Ukrainian official papers. So, blame them for "semi-kyrillic", Roscosmos usually use names as they are in contracts.
http://www.nkau.gov.ua/NSAU/pravonsau.nsf/8ee0562c6b91f547c3256a8f00362010/c3d8be0c1a13461cc225731e00288912!OpenDocument
What is this document? I'm having some trouble with the Ukranian, but it looks like there's an order for office supplies in the beginning.
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#66
by
vt_hokie
on 27 Feb, 2009 16:39
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I think that's it. Maybe VT might have something to add IF he remembers; I've gotten rid of and forgottten most of technical stuff related since I was let go, and I have a feeling VT shares my minor forgetting 'dilemma' as well......
Hahaha...how could you forget plasma thrusters?!
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#67
by
charlieb
on 27 Feb, 2009 17:16
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I think that's it. Maybe VT might have something to add IF he remembers; I've gotten rid of and forgottten most of technical stuff related since I was let go, and I have a feeling VT shares my minor forgetting 'dilemma' as well......
Hahaha...how could you forget plasma thrusters?!
LOL - easily - I'm almost 54, + 30 years in this business = so my neuron's are about dead.
Yes - Ding-ding-ding!! - this one has Xenon thrusters - you can go to the Bonus Round...
So far I heard via Jason - via AJA that both arrays deployed and the first AMF is this evening.........
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#68
by
pm1823
on 27 Feb, 2009 17:19
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#69
by
vt_hokie
on 27 Feb, 2009 17:55
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So far I heard via Jason - via AJA that both arrays deployed and the first ANF is this evening.........
That's good news! Hope things continue to go well...
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#70
by
jcm
on 28 Feb, 2009 01:16
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http://www.nkau.gov.ua/NSAU/pravonsau.nsf/8ee0562c6b91f547c3256a8f00362010/c3d8be0c1a13461cc225731e00288912!OpenDocument
What is this document? I'm having some trouble with the Ukranian, but it looks like there's an order for office supplies in the beginning.
It's kinda "Permit For Exportation", i.e. list of goods exported by ukranian NSAU's firms to Russia in 2007.
Very interesting. In a list of designations for imaging satellites, it
refers to the 11F695 and the 11F695U. The former is the Kobal't spysat,
and the latter, which I haven't seen before, is presumably the new
Kobal't-M.
There's also a list of spacecraft: "Al'fa", "71Kh6", "102E".
71Kh6 is the US-KMO geostationary early warning satellite; I wonder what the others are.
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#71
by
Cbased
on 28 Feb, 2009 08:26
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There's also a list of spacecraft: "Al'fa", "71Kh6", "102E".
71Kh6 is the US-KMO geostationary early warning satellite; I wonder what the others are
I think "Al'fa" = Alpha = ISS.
As far as I can tell they talk about Khartron developing control systems for the MLM module (that is currently scheduled for launch in 2011)
