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#100
by
Chris Bergin
on 11 Dec, 2015 22:21
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Good news or too early?
РОСКОСМОС @fka_roscosmos
Центр управления полётами приступил к управлению космическим аппаратом «Электро-Л» №2
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#101
by
Prober
on 11 Dec, 2015 22:33
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Good news or too early?
РОСКОСМОС @fka_roscosmos
Центр управления полётами приступил к управлению космическим аппаратом «Электро-Л» №2
don't know not up on my Russian
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#102
by
Chris Bergin
on 11 Dec, 2015 22:34
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Good news or too early?
РОСКОСМОС @fka_roscosmos
Центр управления полётами приступил к управлению космическим аппаратом «Электро-Л» №2
don't know not up on my Russian
I speak fluent Russian....but google translate says....
"Mission Control Center began managing the spacecraft Elektro-l № 2 "
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#103
by
Mikhail-G
on 11 Dec, 2015 22:46
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why no mention of 'separation' in this Roscosmos' press-release ?
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#104
by
Chris Bergin
on 11 Dec, 2015 22:47
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why no mention of 'separation' in this Roscosmos' press-release ?
That's why I'm not sure. They didn't mention sep and went straight to taking control of the satellite.
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#105
by
Prober
on 11 Dec, 2015 23:20
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why no mention of 'separation' in this Roscosmos' press-release ?
That's why I'm not sure. They didn't mention sep and went straight to taking control of the satellite.
been confirmed.
http://tass.ru/en/science/843457"The upper stage comprising the booster and the spacecraft separated from the carrier rocket’s second stage," a Roscosmos spokesman said.
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#106
by
baldusi
on 11 Dec, 2015 23:20
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Waiting for correct orbital parameters? The fact that they are in control just means that they got some downlink acknowledgment when it went over the control antennas. It could bee in any wrong orbit and still be in control. Case in point, Galileo FOC-1/2.
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#107
by
Chris Bergin
on 11 Dec, 2015 23:39
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#108
by
ZachS09
on 12 Dec, 2015 00:33
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Congrats to the Zenit launch team for a picture-perfect launch. Let's hope this one turns into the next-to-last flight because I'm hoping for Spektr-RG to launch sometime soon.
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#109
by
jcm
on 12 Dec, 2015 02:17
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No TLEs yet for payload or Fregat.
Cataloged objects:
- Zenit second stage in low orbit
- Four second stage sep-motor covers in 165 x 800 km orbits
- Fregat SBB drop tank in 270 x 4277 km orbit
- Three unidentified and unexpected debris objects in same orbit as drop tank
Fregat should have jettisoned drop tank at 1509 UTC and made two more burns to geotransfer and then GEO.
One assumes the debris objects represent a drop tank breakup after jettison (2011-037/Spektr-R was reported
to have had a later breakup of this type of object this August, but no debris was ever cataloged)
On the other hand, worst case the 'debris objects' could be Fregat and Elektro with a failed second Fregat burn.
This seems unlikely to me, but I'd like to see more definitive statements from the Russians on final orbit (- or TLEs
from JSPOC showing GEO objects, but those could take days.)
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#110
by
jcm
on 12 Dec, 2015 02:29
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Congrats to the Zenit launch team for a picture-perfect launch. Let's hope this one turns into the next-to-last flight because I'm hoping for Spektr RG to launch sometime soon.
In the X-ray astronomy community we've been hoping for Spektr RG to launch sometime soon for a LOOOOOOONG time.... :-)
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#111
by
input~2
on 12 Dec, 2015 07:34
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Apparently the satellite was placed in its nominal quasi-GEO orbit:
http://www.federalspace.ru/21881/ (issued 4 minutes after nominal S/C separation time)
"Propulsion systems of the launcher worked in normal mode, and the spacecraft "Electro-L» №2 was placed into reference Earth orbit ."
No TLE for S/C or Fregat found so far.
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#112
by
input~2
on 13 Dec, 2015 09:03
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#113
by
Artyom.
on 13 Dec, 2015 09:36
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#114
by
otisbow
on 13 Dec, 2015 13:52
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This might be the last launch of the Zenit. Did anybody record the Tsenki broadcast?
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#115
by
Prober
on 13 Dec, 2015 14:11
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This might be the last launch of the Zenit. Did anybody record the Tsenki broadcast?
this utube video is more than what we saw broadcast.
my guess that internal video loading etc might be out there, hours of it.
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#116
by
Yanus
on 19 Dec, 2015 02:50
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#117
by
Yanus
on 19 Dec, 2015 02:54
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Covers falling down in drop zone Nr.326
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#118
by
input~2
on 21 Dec, 2015 16:15
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The satellite has finally been found by JSpOC:
2015-074A/41105 in 35681 x 35814 km x 0.46°
epoch Dec 20 at 22:43UTC
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#119
by
Danderman
on 02 Jan, 2016 17:06
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Someone posted a report on FB today about two objects found in Vietnam this morning after reports of sonic booms. The objects are small metal globes, one 80 cm in diameter with Cyrillic letters, the other 40 cm, found 100 km apart. I believe these are from the Zenit second stage, object 2015-074C, which decayed this morning.
