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#120
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 16 May, 2015 06:10
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#121
by
owais.usmani
on 16 May, 2015 06:11
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http://www.interfax.ru/world/442017Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU - During the launch of the Mexican communications satellite MexSat-1 with the help of a rocket "Proton-M" on the 500 seconds of flight there was an emergency situation, the speaker said when reporting on start-up.
During the reporting noted that the first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, the failure occurred during the third stage. Reporting on the start-up has been interrupted.
Its all over guys.
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#122
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 16 May, 2015 06:11
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#123
by
DragonRoco
on 16 May, 2015 06:13
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http://www.interfax.ru/world/442017
Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU - During the launch of the Mexican communications satellite MexSat-1 with the help of a rocket "Proton-M" on the 500 seconds of flight there was an emergency situation, the speaker said when reporting on start-up.
During the reporting noted that the first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, the failure occurred during the third stage. Reporting on the start-up has been interrupted.
Its all over guys.
Is there any chance that the third stage could be re-lit?
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#124
by
owais.usmani
on 16 May, 2015 06:13
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http://tass.ru/kosmos/1972945MOSCOW, May 16. / TASS /. During the flight, the carrier rocket "Proton-M", which was launched today from Baikonur at 08:47 MSK, there was an emergency situation. Told launch commentator, broadcast on the website of Roskosmos.
Abnormal situation has arisen at 08:56 MSK, a minute before the estimated time of separating the upper stage "Briz-M" and the Mexican communications spacecraft "MeksSat-1", which is planned to be put into orbit.
"There was an emergency. The report is over," - said the commentator.
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#125
by
Astro_Zach
on 16 May, 2015 06:13
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At around 15 seconds... is this normal?
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#126
by
owais.usmani
on 16 May, 2015 06:14
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http://www.interfax.ru/world/442017
Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU - During the launch of the Mexican communications satellite MexSat-1 with the help of a rocket "Proton-M" on the 500 seconds of flight there was an emergency situation, the speaker said when reporting on start-up.
During the reporting noted that the first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, the failure occurred during the third stage. Reporting on the start-up has been interrupted.
Its all over guys.
Is there any chance that the third stage could be re-lit?
You kidding me right?
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#127
by
DragonRoco
on 16 May, 2015 06:15
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http://www.interfax.ru/world/442017
Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU - During the launch of the Mexican communications satellite MexSat-1 with the help of a rocket "Proton-M" on the 500 seconds of flight there was an emergency situation, the speaker said when reporting on start-up.
During the reporting noted that the first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, the failure occurred during the third stage. Reporting on the start-up has been interrupted.
Its all over guys.
Is there any chance that the third stage could be re-lit?
You kidding me right?
Just seeing if there is any chance it could have survived
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#128
by
Lars-J
on 16 May, 2015 06:15
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At around 15 seconds... is this normal?
Do you mean the dark smoke? Yes, that seems to occur during all Proton launches.
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#129
by
Satori
on 16 May, 2015 06:15
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Looks the problem occurred one minute before Briz-M separation.
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#130
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 16 May, 2015 06:16
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http://www.interfax.ru/world/442017
Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU - During the launch of the Mexican communications satellite MexSat-1 with the help of a rocket "Proton-M" on the 500 seconds of flight there was an emergency situation, the speaker said when reporting on start-up.
During the reporting noted that the first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, the failure occurred during the third stage. Reporting on the start-up has been interrupted.
Its all over guys.
I think that reporter is just hearing to the broadcast?
In any case this is weird because ILS DO have info on what's going on so if the engine does fail I doubt they won't have insight on that. Look at their last failed launch during the "Proton stages" (JCSAT-11 7 years ago) - it was immediately confirmed.
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#131
by
Astro_Zach
on 16 May, 2015 06:17
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At around 15 seconds... is this normal?
Do you mean the dark smoke? Yes, that seems to occur during all Proton launches.
Ah.. i am not up on Proton as i am other LV
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#132
by
owais.usmani
on 16 May, 2015 06:17
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http://www.interfax.ru/world/442017
Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU - During the launch of the Mexican communications satellite MexSat-1 with the help of a rocket "Proton-M" on the 500 seconds of flight there was an emergency situation, the speaker said when reporting on start-up.
During the reporting noted that the first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, the failure occurred during the third stage. Reporting on the start-up has been interrupted.
Its all over guys.
Is there any chance that the third stage could be re-lit?
You kidding me right?
Just seeing if there is any chance it could have survived
If the third stage shut down before its time, it did because of some problem. Some thing went kaboom in there. How can it be re-lit?
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#133
by
DragonRoco
on 16 May, 2015 06:18
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http://www.interfax.ru/world/442017
Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU - During the launch of the Mexican communications satellite MexSat-1 with the help of a rocket "Proton-M" on the 500 seconds of flight there was an emergency situation, the speaker said when reporting on start-up.
During the reporting noted that the first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, the failure occurred during the third stage. Reporting on the start-up has been interrupted.
Its all over guys.
Is there any chance that the third stage could be re-lit?
You kidding me right?
Just seeing if there is any chance it could have survived
If the third stage shut down before its time, it did because of some problem. Some thing went kaboom in there. How can it be re-lit?
Don't worry, going off the assumption that it didn't light between 2-3 sep, not a failure mid burn
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#134
by
Mapperuo
on 16 May, 2015 06:18
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Last minute of video from feed:
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#135
by
RLA
on 16 May, 2015 06:19
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http://www.interfax.ru/world/442017
Moscow. May 16. INTERFAX.RU - During the launch of the Mexican communications satellite MexSat-1 with the help of a rocket "Proton-M" on the 500 seconds of flight there was an emergency situation, the speaker said when reporting on start-up.
During the reporting noted that the first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, the failure occurred during the third stage. Reporting on the start-up has been interrupted.
Its all over guys.
Almost exactly a year ago, a Proton launch who did carried Ekspress-AM4R failed because the third stage. Its creepy basically almost exactly a year after, now, a similarly situation makes this again failed launch for the Proton.
Sadly, if it is true.
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#136
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 16 May, 2015 06:21
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Perhaps the problem being reported was the telemetry loss being wrongly interpreted. In any case, if the launch was successful, the Briz-M burn is 1:07:33 after launch, or about 6:54 UTC.
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#137
by
jcm
on 16 May, 2015 06:21
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I am not convinced yet. The Russian reports are pessimistic, the ILS reports are optimistic, but I don't see any statement that convinces me anyone knows anything yet. No telemetry is a bad sign, and I don't believe the tracking data
ILS say they are seeing is necessarily real, but I see 'off nominal situation', not definite statement of failure yet.
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#138
by
owais.usmani
on 16 May, 2015 06:23
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https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWebTelemetry indicates that the first burn of BrizM upper stage did start OK in today's #Proton launch. Waiting for confirmation of its status!
ILS: All available data including NORAD info indicates normal flight for #Proton with #MexSat1!
Telemetry display for #Proton launch with #MexSat1 satellite is currently lacking all live data after liftoff.
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#139
by
Lars-J
on 16 May, 2015 06:24
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https://twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb
ILS: All available data including NORAD info indicates normal flight for #Proton with #MexSat1!
Is ILS really hooked into live NORAD radar data? I'm skeptical.