Author Topic: Proton-M/DM-03 - Angosat-2 - Baikonur 81/24 - 12 October 2022 (15:00 UTC) (Read 33466 times)

Rondaz · « **Reply #60 on:** 10/12/2022 03:18 pm »

Beautiful launch of #ProtonM rocket into the night sky of Baikonur!

https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1580215035699527681

Rondaz · « **Reply #61 on:** 10/12/2022 03:19 pm »

Russia launches a Proton-M rocket to put the Angosat-2 communications satellite into geostationary orbit.

https://twitter.com/SpaceNosey/status/1580212297498521606

Rondaz · « **Reply #62 on:** 10/12/2022 03:23 pm »

Russia's Proton rocket once was a major player in the global commercial launch market. Then came a string of failures and rise of SpaceX. Now:

https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1580166170304356352

Satori · « **Reply #63 on:** 10/12/2022 03:51 pm »

I'm going to miss those Proton-M ignitions!

Svetoslav · « **Reply #64 on:** 10/12/2022 03:53 pm »

And after the cool liftoff coverage, we're back to the informational "Dark Ages" (to quote Anatoly Zak).

We still don't have information whether the first burn of Blok-D went well and whether the spacecraft achieved initial orbit.

People on Novosti-Kosmonavtiki already ask what's going on.

Vahe231991 · « **Reply #65 on:** 10/12/2022 03:57 pm »

It is possible that there were problems that bedeviled the Angosat-1 satellite that were corrected during fabrication of the Angosat-2, since Angosat-1 contact with ground controllers was lost shortly after the Angosat-1 entered orbit?

Sam Ho · « **Reply #66 on:** 10/12/2022 04:02 pm »

Quote from: Vahe231991 on 10/12/2022 03:57 pm

It is possible that there were problems that bedeviled the Angosat-1 satellite that were corrected during fabrication of the Angosat-2, since Angosat-1 contact with ground controllers was lost shortly after the Angosat-1 entered orbit?

The two satellites are on totally different busses. Angosat-1 was an RSC Energia design; Angosat-2 is an ISS Reshetnev.

See this quote from the first page of this thread.

Quote from: Mammutti on 02/20/2020 02:32 pm

https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1230512877322280960

Quote from: Katya Pavlushchenko
The production of #AngoSat2, a replacement for AngoSat-1, the contact with which was lost shortly after launch, should be finished in March 2022. In order to meet this deadline, the satellite had been taken away from RSC Energia and given to ISS Reshetnev. https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2020/02/18/823343-sputnik-angoli

ace5 · « **Reply #67 on:** 10/12/2022 04:17 pm »

Proton-M

Svetoslav · « **Reply #68 on:** 10/12/2022 04:21 pm »

Anatoly Zak reports that parking orbit has been achieved successfully.

Now onto 7-hour period of coasting and burns

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/angosat2.html

Rondaz · « **Reply #69 on:** 10/12/2022 04:23 pm »

Orbital Launch no.136 of 2022

Angosat-2 | Roscosmos | Oct 12 | 1505 UTC

@roscosmos to launch the #Angola's telecom #Angosat2 (replacing Angosat-1) atop its medium-heavy launcher #ProtonM with DM-3 upper stage from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

https://twitter.com/SpaceIntellige3/status/1580162917755863040

russianhalo117 · « **Reply #70 on:** 10/12/2022 04:57 pm »

Quote from: Rondaz on 10/12/2022 04:23 pm

Orbital Launch no.136 of 2022

Angosat-2 | Roscosmos | Oct 12 | 1505 UTC

@roscosmos to launch the #Angola's telecom #Angosat2 (replacing Angosat-1) atop its medium-heavy launcher #ProtonM with DM-3 upper stage from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

https://twitter.com/SpaceIntellige3/status/1580162917755863040

DM-3 and DM-03 are not the same versions.

ZachS09 · « **Reply #71 on:** 10/12/2022 05:12 pm »

How many more Protons are there to be launched?

Satori · « **Reply #72 on:** 10/12/2022 10:08 pm »

Launch images from Roscosmos...

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #73 on:** 10/12/2022 10:34 pm »

This was posted 6 hours and 14 minutes after launch. Insertion should be about 7 hours after launch, which was about half an hour ago.

https://ria.ru/20221013/kosmos-1823556888.html

Satellite AngoSat-2, launched on the "Proton", entered the calculated orbit
Roscosmos: AngoSat-2 satellite launched at Proton entered the calculated orbit

BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Oct. 13 — RIA Novosti. The AngoSat-2 telecommunications satellite, built in Russia by order of Angola, entered orbit after being launched on a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur, Roscosmos reported.

"AngoSat-2 has arrived at its space destination. On the night of October 13, the Angolan satellite AngoSat-2, created by the Roscosmos enterprise, was put into a given orbit," the state corporation said.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #74 on:** 10/12/2022 10:39 pm »

Confirmation of launch success!

https://www.interfax.ru/world/867601

Worldwide 01:37, 13 October 2022 (UTC)
Angolan communications satellite Angosat-2 launched from Baikonur has been successfully launched into orbit

Moscow. October 13. INTERFAX.RU - The Angolan telecommunications satellite Angosat-2, launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome, was successfully launched into orbit, Roscosmos reported.

"On the night of October 13, the Angolan satellite Angosat-2, created by the Roscosmos enterprise, was put into a given orbit," the state corporation said in a telegram channel.

On the eve of the proton-M launch vehicle launched at 18:00 Moscow time from the site 81 of the Baikonur cosmodrome. The rocket put into orbit the Angosat-2 communication satellite with the DM-03 upper stage.

The spacecraft will be placed in geostationary orbit 36 thousand km from Earth.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #75 on:** 10/12/2022 11:21 pm »

Quote from: russianhalo117 on 10/12/2022 04:57 pm

DM-3 and DM-03 are not the same versions.

That's correct. My understanding is that DM3 (without the hyphen) used the RD-58S engine up to 2006 with Proton-K and DM-03 used the RD-58MF engine from 2010 with Proton-M.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_det/proton-k_blok-dm3.htm
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_det/proton-m_blok-dm-03.htm

xm11 · « **Reply #76 on:** 10/13/2022 03:01 am »

any know tle and norad of satellite >?

Nicolas PILLET · « **Reply #77 on:** 10/13/2022 06:06 am »

Quote from: Steven Pietrobon on 10/12/2022 11:21 pm

That's correct. My understanding is that DM3 (without the hyphen) used the RD-58S engine up to 2006 with Proton-K and DM-03 used the RD-58MF engine from 2010 with Proton-M.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_det/proton-k_blok-dm3.htm
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_det/proton-m_blok-dm-03.htm

You're correct : DM3 and DM-03 are not the same thing.

But RD-58MF is still a distant project and has not flown yet.

Steven Pietrobon · « **Reply #78 on:** 10/13/2022 07:10 am »

Quote from: Nicolas PILLET on 10/13/2022 06:06 am

But RD-58MF is still a distant project and has not flown yet.

Do you know what engine DM-03 uses? Is it the same as DM3?

Nicolas PILLET · « **Reply #79 on:** 10/13/2022 07:40 am »

Quote from: Steven Pietrobon on 10/13/2022 07:10 am

Quote from: Nicolas PILLET on 10/13/2022 06:06 am
But RD-58MF is still a distant project and has not flown yet.

Do you know what engine DM-03 uses? Is it the same as DM3?

11D58M.