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#20
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 24 Mar, 2014 02:14
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#21
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 24 Mar, 2014 05:08
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#22
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 24 Mar, 2014 08:55
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Looks like the "500th launch of Plesetsk area 43" claim needs to be re-checked as Andrey's list shows this as the 490th orbital launch out of area 43 (276 from pad 4 and 214 from pad 3), plus 1 R-7A and 1 sub-orbital Soyuz-2-1 launch.
A possible explanation is that the "500th launch" milestone is for the squadron no. 14056 that did the launch, and the list may have included several launch attempts, aborts and maybe R-7 ICBM launches from other pads.
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#23
by
Artyom.
on 24 Mar, 2014 09:55
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Photo before launch
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#24
by
Satori
on 24 Mar, 2014 13:03
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According to my tables, if this launch is successful, this will be the 5000th successful orbital launch (using a very basic 'successful launch definition').
Can anyone confirm this?
Thanks!
If your "basic successful launch definition" means that it gets a NORAD designation number after something gets into orbit, then I think it should be very close.....
hmmm I got this as the 4999th one - can you check if you have counted one too much?
It was easy to find the difference... I'm counting the EXPRESS Mu-3S-II (M-3S2-8) launch on January 15, 1995, as a orbital launch. Initially thought as a failed launch, the capsule was latter found in Ghana after orbiting Earth. This was not catalogued, but I'm counting it as an orbital launch success.
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#25
by
Skyrocket
on 24 Mar, 2014 13:12
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Another point is, wether to count Discoverer-1 as orbital. At the time it received the orbital id "1959 Beta 1", but is now considered a failed launch, which did not reach orbit.
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#26
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Satori
on 24 Mar, 2014 13:28
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Another point is, wether to count Discoverer-1 as orbital. At the time it received the orbital id "1959 Beta 1", but is now considered a failed launch, which did not reach orbit.
Good point! So, that changes all and the 5000th successful orbital launch will be the NROL-67 mission... if successful.
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#27
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 24 Mar, 2014 15:23
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Orbits:
39620/2014-012A: 19128 x 19154 km x 64.81 deg. (epoch 14:44 UTC) -> satellite
39621/2014-012B: 19276 x 19620 km x 64.77 deg. (epoch 13:32 UTC) -> Fregat
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#28
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 24 Mar, 2014 17:24
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Someone knows why the Fregat has a strange serial number ?
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#29
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 24 Mar, 2014 17:40
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РН «Союз-2-1б» для запуска бл. КА «ГЛОНАСС-М» № 50с (353У.0001.002 ТУ)
anik, you wrote "Block 48s" in the "plan of Russian launches" thread. Do you have more information on this ?
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#30
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Stan Black
on 24 Mar, 2014 21:13
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РН «Союз-2-1б» для запуска бл. КА «ГЛОНАСС-М» № 50с (353У.0001.002 ТУ)
anik, you wrote "Block 48s" in the "plan of Russian launches" thread. Do you have more information on this ?
It now looks like they are allocating the ‘blok’ numbers on a sequential, per launch basis. This has been allocated blok 48с, a number previously allocated to the failed launch last year.
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/pdf/icg/2013/icg-8/wgA/A1_1.pdf
At the time of ordering it was scheduled to be launch number 50s. After the recent failures these plans changed; and more recent government procurements of rockets and services have omitted the launch numbers. Latest order was for three Soyuz rockets and five fairings; no sequence number or indication of GLONASS satellite model to be launched.
They also ordered rockets and pieces for the third K, and I guess these will actually be used for a different launch with the recent delays to the K models.
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#31
by
Stan Black
on 25 Mar, 2014 09:35
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This satellite should be heading for plane III as one of the satellites there, #724 (launched 2008 - apparently all six of them launched that year suffers from chip degradation problems such that only one of them is now usable) failed last month, forcing the revival of satellite #714 to fill in the place, however it is already 7+ years old (launched Christmas 2005) and probably does not have much operational life left.
Someone at the NK forums calculated the in-plane launch time for plane III to be ~22:49 UTC on March 24 (which gives the opportunity that the actual launch time is on March 23 GMT).
Now showing
http://www.glonass-iac.ru/en/GLONASS/
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#32
by
siweifdu
on 26 Mar, 2014 01:41
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Excuse me. Did this flight use the Fregat upper stage or the improved Fregat-M as Gunter has pointed out? Many thanks.
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#33
by
anik
on 26 Mar, 2014 03:14
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Did this flight use the Fregat upper stage or the improved Fregat-M as Gunter has pointed out?
Fregat-M.
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#34
by
siweifdu
on 26 Mar, 2014 03:15
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Did this flight use the Fregat upper stage or the improved Fregat-M as Gunter has pointed out?
Fregat-M.
Thanks Anik~~
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#35
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 27 Mar, 2014 04:34
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#36
by
Artyom.
on 01 Apr, 2014 03:17
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Hi-Res photo of the launch
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#37
by
pargoo
on 01 Apr, 2014 21:50
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Nice
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#38
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 18 Apr, 2014 06:10
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GLONASS-M #754 has been set to usable on April 14 - unfortunately this was overshadowed by the malfunctioning of satellite #730 in plane I 4 days earlier so the GLONASS system currently only has 23 satellites in operation right now.
Plus the system suffers from yet another major failure on April 14, leaving 8 of the satellites transmitting error messages for half an hour. Whoops....
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#39
by
Stan Black
on 07 Mar, 2016 21:11
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78085168.
This serial number for the rocket reveals a couple of curious things. The first three digits are for the factory, the next two for half-year and year codes, and then the last three are the serial number.
If all the ‘16x’ serial numbers were ordered as a batch, and taking in the year codes then this rocket was intended for the second half of 2007.
It is near it’s 6˝ year warranty period.
I wonder what satellite it was intended to launch?
The original plans for launch of GLONASS on Soyuz have changed. Early on Baikonur was to host the first solo launches by Soyuz, along with triplets on Proton. The first two fairings ordered for Soyuz rockets were to be sent to Baikonur.
A contract dated 15th March 2010 was for third stage engine 14Д23 № 5Л, to be used for a rocket to launch «GLONASS № 1».
It looks like this rocket was intended to launch a GLONASS after all; but from Baikonur.
http://www.zakupkiold.gov.ru/Tender/ViewPurchase.aspx?PurchaseId=439504http://sudact.ru/arbitral/doc/J3XZLnhhm4dh/
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