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Soyuz-2-1A - Kobalt-M – Plesetsk – June 5, 2015 (15:24UTC)
by
Satori
on 28 Apr, 2015 22:09
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Kobalt-M n.º 565 is schedule for launch on May 15, 2015, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome using 14A14-1A Soyuz-2-1A (78072171).
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#1
by
Satori
on 28 Apr, 2015 22:12
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If the problems on the Progress M-27M are traced back to a malfunctioning Blok-I, then we may see a delay in this launch.
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#2
by
Satori
on 16 May, 2015 09:06
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According to the NK forum, this launch may take place in June.
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#3
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Phillip Clark
on 16 May, 2015 14:37
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According to the NK forum, this launch may take place in June.
There was a posting along these lines from Roscosmos (I think) on Facebook: not a specific date.
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#4
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zubenelgenubi
on 24 May, 2015 23:44
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My understanding:
This the last film-return imaging reconnaissance mission for any nation?
Zubenelgenubi
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#5
by
Skyrocket
on 25 May, 2015 00:14
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My understanding:
This the last film-return imaging reconnaissance mission for any nation?
Zubenelgenubi
Yes, this is the last one of this species.
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#6
by
russianhalo117
on 27 May, 2015 20:03
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My understanding:
This the last film-return imaging reconnaissance mission for any nation?
Zubenelgenubi
Yes, this is the last one of this species.
US has one that was a flight spare. There is no plans to ever fly it. My father was photo chemist in the USAF and worked in film prepartation and loading processing chemical and developer for flight on both planes and SC through 1998
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#7
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Galactic Penguin SST
on 05 Jun, 2015 10:44
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There are sources reporting that this launch will occur
TODAY at 15:24 UTC (!)..... (e.g.
http://tass.ru/kosmos/2021924)
....which is strange since as of May 29th the reports still points to a delay and nothing about this one was reported since the Progress accident final report came out (only news about the next Progress). Nothing about roll-out (which is standard per recent launches) either. Anyone knows if there are NOTAMs and sea region closure notices anywhere?
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#8
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 10:55
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Well, things have changed since the geopolitical problems with the Ukraine, so I would expect more surprise announcements like this one for the future military launches. But lets just wait and see what happens.
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#9
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Galactic Penguin SST
on 05 Jun, 2015 11:25
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Sounds like this is on with the closing air-routes list here crossing the right area at the right time: G1755/15 - ATS RTE SEGMENTS CLSD: A333 SOTIS - DELIL, G355 SOTIS - DOBUT, G911 KOMOV - MEZEN NDB (MZ), R355 ROKUT - MEZEN NDB (MZ). SFC - UNL, DAILY 1500-1630, 05 JUN 15:00 2015 UNTIL 06 JUN 16:30 2015. CREATED: 01 JUN 07:23 2015
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#10
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 05 Jun, 2015 12:03
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My understanding:
This the last film-return imaging reconnaissance mission for any nation?
Zubenelgenubi
Yes, this is the last one of this species.
US has one that was a flight spare. There is no plans to ever fly it. My father was photo chemist in the USAF and worked in film prepartation and loading processing chemical and developer for flight on both planes and SC through 1998
<OT>Are you referring to the KH-8 now on display at the USAF museum?</OT>
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#11
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2015 12:47
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Good work already guys. Let's keep an eye out for a launch confirmation. I'll rustle up an article.
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#12
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Phillip Clark
on 05 Jun, 2015 13:51
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Digits crossed that this launch is successful.
The chances are high that this will be the final launch of a film-return photoreconnaissance satellite since everyone is now using digital imaging satellites.
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#13
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Artyom.
on 05 Jun, 2015 14:22
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The Soyuz-2-1A launch vehicle on the launch pad. The photo was taken 24 hours ago.
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#14
by
lbiderman
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:09
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So I guess this is going! 15 minutes to launch.
Also, I suspect no webcast, am I right?
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#15
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:12
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It's a military launch, so no webcast.
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#16
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:24
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Launch time... let's wait for news from Plesetsk!!!
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#17
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:27
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#18
by
Svetoslav
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:29
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Launch story was updated, they say it's success
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#19
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:29
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#20
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:30
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Launch story was updated, they say it's success
Earlier T-0? Or premature update?
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#21
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:32
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Launch story was updated, they say it's success
Earlier T-0? Or premature update?
They say that the launch took place at 1524UTC, so update was well before spacecraft separation.
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#22
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:33
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Launch story was updated, they say it's success
Earlier T-0? Or premature update?
They say that the launch took place at 1524UTC.
Copy, so we don't know if it was a success yet.
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#23
by
Svetoslav
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:33
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Earlier T-0? Or premature update?
I'm not sure. RIA Novosti articles get updated quite frequently, even within minutes. But...
18:2705.06.2015 (обновлено: 18:29 05.06.2015), which means it was updated at 18:29.
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#24
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:34
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Wasn't a five minute ride to orbit, so premature.
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#25
by
Rebel44
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:46
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Any reports (not counting that premature announcement)? By now, they should know, if the launch was a success.
How soon can we get confirmation, from independant sources?
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#26
by
Artyom.
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:47
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#27
by
Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:47
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Yeah, I'm hoping someone on the NK forum will be able to give a thumbs up, as opposed to state media.
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#28
by
Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:48
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#29
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:49
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Any reports (not counting that premature announcement)? By now, they should know, if the launch was a success.
How soon can we get confirmation, from independant sources?
Launch sucess confirmation
http://ria.ru/space/20150605/1068427539.html (in Russian)
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#30
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Phillip Clark
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:49
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After the confusion over Cosmos numbers over the last 18 months or so, I wonder what number they will think up for this launch.
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#31
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 15:56
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After the confusion over Cosmos numbers over the last 18 months or so, I wonder what number they will think up for this launch.
Kosmos-2504
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#32
by
gwiz
on 05 Jun, 2015 16:13
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Thought we already had a Kosmos 2504?
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#33
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 16:17
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#34
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Chris Bergin
on 05 Jun, 2015 16:19
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#35
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 05 Jun, 2015 16:21
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#36
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 16:28
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#37
by
Artyom.
on 05 Jun, 2015 16:51
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#38
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 05 Jun, 2015 18:29
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Clearer version:
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#39
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 20:08
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#40
by
Satori
on 05 Jun, 2015 20:24
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Exact launch time was 1523:54.191UTC.
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#41
by
McDew
on 05 Jun, 2015 20:32
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#42
by
RonM
on 05 Jun, 2015 20:49
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#43
by
jcm
on 05 Jun, 2015 23:37
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Cataloged as 40667, 40668 in 177 x 285 km x 81.4 deg orbit, which is very close to the parameters of the previous such mission
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#44
by
Star One
on 06 Jun, 2015 08:34
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Cataloged as 40667, 40668 in 177 x 285 km x 81.4 deg orbit, which is very close to the parameters of the previous such mission
I know they don't stay up long but in such a low orbit they must do a lot of station keeping to maintain that.
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#45
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Phillip Clark
on 06 Jun, 2015 09:01
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Cataloged as 40667, 40668 in 177 x 285 km x 81.4 deg orbit, which is very close to the parameters of the previous such mission
I know they don't stay up long but in such a low orbit they must do a lot of station keeping to maintain that.
Perigee will be raised by 20 km or so to ease orbital decay issues, but expect around a dozen orbital maintenance manoeuvres while the satellite is in orbit for 120-130 days.
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#46
by
Star One
on 06 Jun, 2015 14:49
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Cataloged as 40667, 40668 in 177 x 285 km x 81.4 deg orbit, which is very close to the parameters of the previous such mission
I know they don't stay up long but in such a low orbit they must do a lot of station keeping to maintain that.
Perigee will be raised by 20 km or so to ease orbital decay issues, but expect around a dozen orbital maintenance manoeuvres while the satellite is in orbit for 120-130 days.
Thanks for that info.
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#47
by
Phillip Clark
on 06 Jun, 2015 15:44
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Just for information, I am attaching (if the technology works!) a listing of the Cosmos 2495 orbital manoeuvres from last year: this is from a paper that i am currently working on that is reviewing the final two launches in the Kobalt-M series.
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#48
by
Artyom.
on 07 Jun, 2015 16:34
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#49
by
Phillip Clark
on 09 Jun, 2015 06:38
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Cosmos 2505 has performed its first orbit-raising manoeuvre, from 175-275 km to 193-275 km (Jun 8.56).
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#50
by
Satori
on 23 Jun, 2015 22:01
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Launch video (mistakenly posted on Russian MOD as the Kosmos-2506 launch)
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#51
by
jcm
on 19 Sep, 2015 00:59
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Kosmos-2505 (Kobal't-M) appears to have landed; JSPOC decay notice for Sep 18.
I calculate a likely descent with deorbit around 0840 UTC and landing around 0909 UTC; I imagine Phil Clark will
have his own estimate. Phil?
Orbital life was 104.7 days
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#52
by
Phillip Clark
on 19 Sep, 2015 06:47
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Highly appropriate that the final film-return satellite should come down and thus the series is retired at the time that I was retiring from full-time work!
However, a quick look at the numbers suggests to me a descent on September 17 at about 22:19 UT: then again right now it is a bit early for me after last night's celebrating.
A pity that this satellite wasn't a record-breaker in terms of duration. I can now finish my JBIS paper about the Russian photoreconnaissance programme and get that sent in in the the next two weeks.
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#53
by
gwiz
on 19 Sep, 2015 09:44
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#54
by
jcm
on 19 Sep, 2015 14:34
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#55
by
jcm
on 19 Sep, 2015 14:44
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Nice to get that observational confirmation.
Now if only there were reports of the small SpK film capsules being recovered at some point in the past couple months... has any info come out on their recovery dates?
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#56
by
russianhalo117
on 19 Sep, 2015 18:28
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Highly appropriate that the final film-return satellite should come down and thus the series is retired at the time that I was retiring from full-time work!
However, a quick look at the numbers suggests to me a descent on September 17 at about 22:19 UT: then again right now it is a bit early for me after last night's celebrating.
A pity that this satellite wasn't a record-breaker in terms of duration. I can now finish my JBIS paper about the Russian photoreconnaissance programme and get that sent in in the the next two weeks.
There is enough spare hardware left to build another one and launch next year but there are not any plans to do so. Instead looks like may end being reused for parts or given for display.
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#57
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Phillip Clark
on 19 Sep, 2015 18:38
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There is enough spare hardware left to build another one and launch next year but there plans to do so. Instead looks like may end being reused for parts or given for display.
A pity that it wasn't put together for the London Science Museum!
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#58
by
Stan Black
on 01 Nov, 2015 20:59
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Kobalt-M n.º 565 is schedule for launch on May 15, 2015, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome using 14A14-1A Soyuz-2-1A (78072171).
According to Anik the fairing had serial №78072158. That suggests that the rocket used for this launch, was not the original. No other type of satellite used this type of fairing, article 14С736.
So is there a rocket with serial №78072158? After the previous failed launch of Progress M-27M, was the rocket substituted with №78072171?
There are two types of serial numbers; ones that start with a 7, and those that contain 15000. Rockets prepared for the military have the serial numbers starting with a 7.
Rocket with №78072171 painted on the side, would have been referred to in the factory as 20М136С, the 20th machine of the 136th series, or just 20/136 (once again according to Anik). Mostly the serial numbers starting with a 7, correlate with the factory number. So if №78072171 is 20/136, I would expect №78072158 to be 7/136.
http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum13/topic304/message1399968/#message1399968There is a Soyuz-2-1a rocket with factory number 7/136. It is to be used to launch Kanopus-V-IK, though it is being supplied to fulfil the requirement under contract №353-1193/12 dated 11th September 2012, for the launch of Rezonans.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=37032.msg1440451#msg1440451So rocket №78072158 has become rocket №Т15000-018? That leaves the question of what rocket was originally being prepared to fulfil the Rezonans contract; and what payload was №78072171 assigned to carry?
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#59
by
Nicolas PILLET
on 06 Jan, 2016 18:45
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