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!
Launch images from Roskosmos...
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?
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......
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.
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?!
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.........
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...
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.
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)
