Author Topic: LIVE: Proton-M/Briz-M launch with Yamal-401 - December 15, 2014 (Read 54112 times)

input~2 · « **Reply #120 on:** 12/15/2014 08:43 am »

"Yamal-401" launched into the target orbit
http://www.federalspace.ru/21191/

Satori · « **Reply #121 on:** 12/15/2014 09:09 am »

Exact launch time was 0016:00.021UTC

Spacecraft separation was 0917:12.302UTC

Satori · « **Reply #122 on:** 12/15/2014 09:20 am »

Launch photos from Roscosmos http://www.roscosmos.ru/21189/

Satori · « **Reply #123 on:** 12/15/2014 09:23 am »

Launch photos from Khrunichev http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=324

input~2 · « **Reply #124 on:** 12/15/2014 11:07 am »

Representation of 1st stage drop zone (Y401-4.jpg) and 2nd stage/fairing sections drop zones (Y401-5.jpg)
source: Khrunichev

N°327 = UNR1238 (NOTAMed area)

owais.usmani · « **Reply #125 on:** 12/15/2014 01:30 pm »

Has anybody recorded the ILS webcast?

input~2 · « **Reply #126 on:** 12/15/2014 06:23 pm »

Quote from: input~2 on 12/15/2014 05:51 am

What seems to be the Briz-M auxiliary tank (APT) has been catalogued by USSTRATCOM:
2014-082A/40345 in
397 x 35622 x 47.63° Arg of perigee: 359.88°
Planned orbit for APT was:
383 x 35651 km x 47.6° Arg of perigee: 0°

Latest TLE for this object (the only one catalogued so far) with epoch 1541UTC provides essentially the same orbit as above (epoch was 0418UTC) confirming that it represents the APT and not the stack

Stan Black · « **Reply #127 on:** 12/15/2014 08:11 pm »

Quote from: input~2 on 12/15/2014 06:52 am

Plume observed over Gorno-Altaisk near 2nd stage drop zone
http://www.gorno-altaisk.info/news/33930
(via http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/)

Not a straight path to orbit? It may explain why they keep missing the target. (I am not being serious.)

Prober · « **Reply #128 on:** 12/16/2014 12:59 am »

Quote from: owais.usmani on 12/15/2014 01:30 pm

Has anybody recorded the ILS webcast?

why bother, the launch stream died. Better to watch other sources.

owais.usmani · « **Reply #129 on:** 12/16/2014 11:44 am »

Quote from: Stan Black on 12/15/2014 08:11 pm

Quote from: input~2 on 12/15/2014 06:52 am
Plume observed over Gorno-Altaisk near 2nd stage drop zone
http://www.gorno-altaisk.info/news/33930
(via http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/)

Not a straight path to orbit? It may explain why they keep missing the target. (I am not being serious.)

but they didn't miss the target on this launch, did they? (and I am being serious)

TakeOff · « **Reply #130 on:** 12/16/2014 11:52 am »

I like this image a bit better. Don't mind the telephone pole falling over... It happens to be perpendicular to the mountain horizon, so it is aesthetically okay.

input~2 · « **Reply #131 on:** 12/24/2014 08:03 am »

As of now, 9 days after near-GSO injection, the satellite has apparently not yet been catalogued by USSTRATCOM

input~2 · « **Reply #132 on:** 01/04/2015 07:56 pm »

No TLEs yet for the spacecraft.
However according to NK forum on January 1, Yamal-401 was in GEO with excentricity 0.0001 and longitude was 89.92°E

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #133 on:** 01/06/2015 07:52 am »

Quote from: input~2 on 01/04/2015 07:56 pm

No TLEs yet for the spacecraft.
However according to NK forum on January 1, Yamal-401 was in GEO with excentricity 0.0001 and longitude was 89.92°E

Looks like NORAD finally tracks the satellite and the Briz-M today - currently the satellite TLE is issued under 40347/2014-082C although I guess it will be swapped later on.