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#40 by Space101 on 29 Dec, 2005 03:05
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Russia is showing how it's done at the moment.
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#41 by Sergi Manstov on 29 Dec, 2005 10:45
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Video of launch....
http://www.ilslaunch.com/stories/Current_Campaigns/#
Very powerful
Expecting spacecraft seperation in 10 minutes.
Current article:
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#42 by Chris Bergin on 29 Dec, 2005 11:14
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That's what I call a launch.
Should have been spacecraft seperation by now (in the last 20 mins), nothing on the ILS site yet. -
#43 by Sergi Manstov on 29 Dec, 2005 11:34
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American site might be reason. Still too early there.
I would think a problem would have been reported, so I'm hoping this means it was successful. We will have to wait. -
#44 by Chris Bergin on 29 Dec, 2005 12:36
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Spacecraft seperation confirmed.
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#45 by Sergi Manstov on 29 Dec, 2005 13:34
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Great!
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#46 by publiusr on 29 Dec, 2005 19:38
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Sergi Manstov - 29/12/2005 5:45 AM
Video of launch....
http://www.ilslaunch.com/stories/Current_Campaigns/#
Very powerful
Expecting spacecraft seperation in 10 minutes.
Current article:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?id=4161
UR-500 Proton actually has more thrust on lift-off than Saturn IB, which also used a cluster of tanks as a first stage. Our Saturn IB was thought of as an Army rocket, and the Air Force wanted their R-36 Tsyclon class Titan II.
Titan II started off being inferior to R-7 Soyuz launch vehicles, then was over-optimised into the proton class Titan IV--a pad sitter now extinct. If only we kept our Saturns.
In the Soviet Union the artillery men played a great role--similar to what General Medaris wanted for the US Army with ABMA before space was robbed from him.
I think the biggest reason why the Soviet Space Program worked so well--was because they kept their Air Force away from it, where the Air Force in the US botched space due to fighter-jocks and the pilot's union.
Here is to more great Russian launches. Well Done. -
#47 by Colby on 29 Dec, 2005 21:22
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A little late, but here are some screenshots of the launch...
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#48 by Jamie Young on 29 Dec, 2005 23:09
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Nice pictures, thanks.
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#49 by lmike on 30 Dec, 2005 11:22
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braddock - 28/12/2005 8:42 PM
What's the launch cost on a Proton-M?
Last time I checked the (ILS) *price* of a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch out of Baikonour is about $85 million. The *costs* are anybody's guess... a lot of work (transportation/on-site work) is done by practically unpaid military drafted conscripts, Krunichev's personel are not that highly paid either.
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#50 by anik on 30 Dec, 2005 11:46
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Jonathan's Space Report No. 559
http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html
"SES Global's 5035-kg AMC-23 was launched on Dec 29 by an International Launch Services/Krunichev Proton-M No. 535-13 with a Briz-M upper stage (No. 88514). AMC-23 is an Alcatel Alenia/Cannes Spacebus 4000C3 satellite which was originally built as Americom 13, then Worldsat 3, and is now to provide Ku-band and C-band multimedia and telecom services over the Pacific. The C-band payload will be partly used by the Japanese JSAT system. SES, based in Luxembourg, bought the old RCA (later GE) Americom system in 2001. The Briz-M delivered the satellite to a 6193 x 35615 km x 18.5 deg transfer orbit, leaving its secondary propellant tank in a 311 x 15526 km x 49.6 deg intermediate orbit. The Proton third stage was suborbital on this launch. AMC-23 will use its Astrium S400 apogee engine to reach geostationary orbit."
