Author Topic: Soyuz-2-1A - Bars-M #1 - Plesetsk - February 27, 2015 (11:01 UTC)  (Read 60508 times)

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First object from this launch (40420/2015-009A) recorded in 328 x 540 km x 97.64 deg. orbit.
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First object from this launch (40420/2015-009A) recorded in 328 x 540 km x 97.64 deg. orbit.

If the Blok I is in a similar orbit, that has to be one of the highest perigees used by a Soyuz-class launch vehicle.
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(unless the Russians want to confuse us some more with Cosmos numbers!)
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После выведения на орбиту космическому аппарату присвоен порядковый номер «Космос-2503», - сказал Золотухин.

http://vz.ru/news/2015/2/27/731872.html

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First object from this launch (40420/2015-009A) recorded in 328 x 540 km x 97.64 deg. orbit.

Another one (40421/2015-009B) is in a 328 x 537 km x 97.64 deg. orbit.

First object from this launch (40420/2015-009A) recorded in 328 x 540 km x 97.64 deg. orbit.

If the Blok I is in a similar orbit, that has to be one of the highest perigees used by a Soyuz-class launch vehicle.

I think the one used for Egyptsat 2 is even higher. Of course, there are many Block-Es (for Meteor launches etc.) that are in even higher orbits....  :P
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(unless the Russians want to confuse us some more with Cosmos numbers!)
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После выведения на орбиту космическому аппарату присвоен порядковый номер «Космос-2503», - сказал Золотухин.

http://vz.ru/news/2015/2/27/731872.html

Interesting. All the other Russian articles so far just say  "military satellite". Zolotukhin is the press officer of the VVKO
so I guess he knows what he is talking about - oh wait, <remembers some NASA press officials he's dealt with>... hmm,
anyone want to take bets on how soon it is before this number changes?

And if this is 2503, what is Lotos-S?
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Jonathan - 2502?
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Video of the launch:


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And photos of the launch:

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Bars-M is Kosmos-2503. Kosmos-2501 is Luch again.

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and 2502 is lotos? or glonass/uragan?
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and 2502 is lotos? or glonass/uragan?

Kosmos-2501 is GLONASS-K1 n.º 12L and Kosmos-2502 is Lotos.

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If Cosmos 2503 is to enter a Sun-synchronous orbit then the inclination of 97.64 deg means that the average altitude should be about 562 km.   For a near-circular orbit the eccentricity this does not affect the altitude.

No manoeuvres detected from the TLEs after nearly two days in orbit.
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On March 1 and March 2 there were manoeuvres which raised perigee from 328 km to 332 km and then 338 km.   Then late on March 3 there was a manoeuvre near apogee which converted the apogee of 540 km to the new perigee, with the satellite now being in a 541-562 km orbit.   

It is likely that there will be another manoeuvre to circularise the orbit at 561-562 km, the Sun-synch altitude.   The is close to being a 15 circuit repeating orbit..
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Further tweaks to the orbit and the most recent data are: incl - 97.63 deg, period - 95.79 min, 551-563 km altitude.
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Details on its propulsion system:-
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В рамках ОКР 14К035 разработан четырехкамерный корректирующее-тормозной двигатель МВСК83. В настоящее время проводятся работы в обеспечение поставки этого двигателя для комплексных и летных испытаний в составе изделий АО РКЦ «Прогресс» (рисунок 12).
http://www.niimashspace.ru/files/доклады/2015/6-11sentyabrya2015.pdf

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Details on its propulsion system:-
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В рамках ОКР 14К035 разработан четырехкамерный корректирующее-тормозной двигатель МВСК83. В настоящее время проводятся работы в обеспечение поставки этого двигателя для комплексных и летных испытаний в составе изделий АО РКЦ «Прогресс» (рисунок 12).
http://www.niimashspace.ru/files/доклады/2015/6-11sentyabrya2015.pdf

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Четырёхкамерный двигатель на основе четырех ЖРДМТ 11Д428А-24, объединенных в общую систему подачи компонентов топлива и жестко закрепленных на кронштейне
http://www.niimashspace.ru/files/2016/Raket_dvig_maloy_tyagi.pdf

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I believe that this is the patent for the SVIT propulsion system:

http://www.findpatent.ru/patent/256/2560645.html


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