Start z Wostocznego 27.12. o 02:07:18,231 z kosmodromu Wostocznyj wystrzelona została RN Sojuz-2.1a/Fregat-M, która wyniosła na orbitę
o parametrach: hp=504 km, ha=511 km, i=97,47° satelity teledetekcyjne Kanopus-W No. 5 i No. 6, na orbitę o wysokości
585 km japońskiego satelitę obserwacyjnego GRUS-1, D-Star ONE (iSat), D-Star ONE (Sparrow), UWE 4 i Lemur-2
(8 sztuk), a na orbitę o wysokości 495 km Lume-1, ZACube-2 i Flock-3k (12 sztuk).
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n181216.htm#09Udany start Sojuza-2.1a z Wostocznego (27.12.2018) BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 28 GRUDNIA 2018
Start Sojuza-2.1a z kosmodromu Wostoczny - 27.12.2018 / Credits - RoskosmosDwudziestego siódmego grudnia rakieta Sojuz-2.1a z kosmodromu Wostoczny. Na pokładzie znalazło się łącznie 28 satelitów.
Do startu rakiety Sojuz-2.1a doszło 27 grudnia o godzinie 03:07 CET. Start nastąpił z nowego rosyjskiego kosmodromu Wostoczny, położonego na dalekim wschodzie Rosji. Start zakończył się sukcesem, a na pokładzie rakiety znalazło się aż 28 satelitów (z czego 26 miało status “drugorzędnych”). Główne satelity zostały wyniesione na orbitę w wysokości około 505 x 510 km i nachyleniu ok. 97,5 stopnia. Był to dopiero
czwarty start rakiety z tego kosmodromu i trzeci udany.
Głównym ładunkiem w tym starcie były dwa satelity Kanopus-W. Zadaniem tych satelitów są optyczne obserwacje Ziemi na paśmie widzialnym i podczerwonym. Maksymalna rozdzielczość tych satelitów wynosi około 2,5 metra. Masy startowe tych satelitów to 473 kg. Satelity zaprojektowano na pięć lat prac na orbicie.
Ponadto, na pokładzie tego Sojuza znalazło się 26 “drugorzędnych” satelitów, w większości typu CubeSat. Dwanaście z tych satelitów należy do firmy Planet, również specjalizującej się w obserwacjach Ziemi. Z pozostałych satelitów na wyróżnienie zasługują dwa satelity D-Star ONE. Są one zbudowane przez jedną z niemieckich firm specjalizujących się w budowie małych satelitów. Co ciekawe, jeden z tych satelitów docelowo będzie używany przez firmę z Czech. Zadaniem obu D-Star ONE jest nasłuch sygnału ADS-B, wykorzystywanego w branży lotniczej.
Pierwszy start z Wostocznego nastąpił 28 kwietnia 2016 roku. Docelowo Wostoczny ma zastąpić kosmodrom Bajkonur. Obecnie co roku Rosja płaci Kazachstanowi 115 milionów dolarów za możliwość korzystania z tego historycznego portu kosmicznego. Budowa tego nowego kosmodromu napotkała wiele problemów,
w tym o charakterze korupcyjnym.
(PFA)
https://kosmonauta.net/2018/12/udany-start-sojuza-2-1a-z-wostocznego-27-12-2018/Космические аппараты выведены на расчетную орбиту27.12.2018 10:10
Сегодня, 27 декабря 2018 года в 5:07 мск, со стартового комплекса космодрома Восточный успешно осуществлен пуск ракеты-носителя «Союз-2.1а» с разгонным блоком (РБ) «Фрегат» и космическими аппаратами (КА) дистанционного зондирования Земли (ДЗЗ) серии «Канопус-В» №5 и 6, а также с 26 КА, выводимыми в качестве попутной полезной нагрузки.
В соответствии с циклограммой полета после двух включений маршевой двигательной установки (МДУ) РБ «Фрегат» КА «Канопус-В» № 5 и КА «Канопус-В» № 6 штатно отделились от разгонного блока в 6:06 и 6:12 мск соответственно.
Последующими включениями МДУ РБ «Фрегат» было реализовано отделение двух групп МКА, состоящих из 12 и 14 КА соответственно. Все космические аппараты выведены на расчетные орбиты.
В общей сложности в ходе миссии РБ «Фрегат» было осуществлено 7 включений маршевой двигательной установки, последнее из которых вывело разгонный блок на орбиту «увода». Фрегат снова доказал свои неоспоримые конкурентные преимущества на мировом рынке пусковых услуг. Данный пуск стал 72-м для разгонного блока «Фрегат».
Космические аппараты GRUS, iSAT, UWE-4, Sparrow and 8 КА типа Lemur, запускаемые в качестве попутной полезной нагрузки по контрактам АО «Главкосмос Пусковые Услуги» и АО «Главкосмос» штатно отделились от разгонного блока «Фрегат» с 07:33 до 07:50 мск на орбитах высотой приблизительно 585 километров.
Космические аппараты Lume-1, ZACube-2 и 12 спутников Dove также штатно отделились от разгонного блока «Фрегат» с 09:13 до 09:43 мск на орбитах высотой приблизительно 495 километров.
https://www.roscosmos.ru/25896/Soyuz launches cluster of 28 satellitesDecember 27, 2018 Stephen Clark
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket climbs off its launch pad Thursday at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Credit: Roscosmos(...) The flight was also the 16th launch of a variant of Russia’s venerable Soyuz rocket this year from Russian spaceports and the Guiana Space Center in South America, and all but one have been successful. No more Russian launches are expected before the end of the year.
After heading towards the north-northwest from Vostochny, the Soyuz-2.1a rocket released a Fregat upper stage to less than nine minutes after liftoff to begin a series of maneuvers to deploy the 28 satellites into three different orbits several hundred miles above Earth. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, confirmed in a statement Thursday that all 28 spacecraft were released into their targeted orbits. The Fregat upper stage fired seven times, including a final ignition to de-orbit the rocket to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
The two Kanopus satellites separated from the Fregat upper stage at 0306 GMT (10:06 p.m. EST) and 0312 GMT (10:12 p.m. EST) — roughly an hour after liftoff — followed by more Fregat engine firings to place the 26 secondary payloads into two different orbits.
Owned by Roscosmos, the Kanopus-V 5 and 6 spacecraft each weigh around a half-ton, and they carry cameras to image Earth in black-and-white and in color for Russian government agencies. They satellites are similar to a pair of Kanopus spacecraft launched in February on the most recent Soyuz flight from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
This picture shows the cluster of 28 satellites, some contained inside deployment mechanisms, attached to the Soyuz rocket’s Fregat upper stage before encapsulation into the payload fairing. Credit: GlavkosmosThe Fregat upper stage aimed to drop off the twin Kanopus satellites in an orbit around 324 miles (522 kilometers) in altitude, before reigniting to release a dozen more small satellites in an orbit around 363 miles (585 kilometers) between 0433 GMT (11:33 p.m. EST) and 0450 GMT (11:50 p.m. EST), according to Roscosmos.
The payloads separated in the second orbit included eight nanosatellites for Spire Global’s fleet of spacecraft collecting atmospheric data and tracking global movements of ships and aircraft. With the satellites deployed Thursday, Spire will have successfully launched more than 80 shoebox-sized satellites since 2015.
Spire has its corporate headquarters in San Francisco, a nanosatellite manufacturing facility in Glasgow, Scotland, and offices in Luxembourg and Boulder, Colorado. Spire’s satellites measure temperatures, pressures and moisture in the atmosphere by studying how air particles disrupt GPS navigation signals, and Spire demonstrated earlier this month it could collect atmospheric data using signals from Europe’s Galileo navigation fleet.
The company has a contract with NOAA to supply weather data for meteorologists to evaluate in concert with information gathered by conventional government-owned weather satellites.
Spire’s satellites also host radio receivers to track maritime and air traffic worldwide.
A pathfinder satellite for a Japanese startup named Axelspace also launched Thursday and separated in the second of the three orbits targeted by the Fregat upper stage. Named GRUS 1, the spacecraft is the first in a fleet of Earth-imaging satellites planned by Axelspace to eventually return pictures of the entire planet every day. It weighed less than 100 kilograms, or 220 kilograms, at launch, according to Axelspace.
Axelspace says the GRUS satellites have an imaging resolution of 2.5 meters, or 8.2 feet. The Japanese startup announced earlier this month it raised $22.8 million in additional capital to pay for the construction of two more GRUS satellites for launch in 2020 to continue expanding the Earth-observing network, called AxelGlobe.
The GRUS 1 satellite. Credit: GlavkosmosTwo CubeSats developed by German Orbital Systems, based in Berlin, were also aboard the Soyuz launcher Thursday. One of the CubeSats, named iSat, was built for the Czech company iSky Technology and carries an ADS-B receiver to track aircraft positions. The other nanosatellite, named D-Star One Sparrow, is an internal project for German Orbital Systems to demonstrate new smallsat technologies.
The University of Würzburg’s fourth experimental CubeSat, known as UWE 4, carries a miniaturized electric propulsion system to be demonstrated in orbit, and also serves as an educational tool for the German university’s engineering students.
The final set of 14 satellites, including the 12 Dove nanosatellites for Planet, deployed in an orbit around 308 miles (495 kilometers) above Earth between 0613 GMT (1:13 a.m. EST) and 0643 GMT (1:43 a.m. EST) after more orbital adjustments by the Fregat upper stage, Roscosmos said in a post-launch press release.
The 12 Planet-owned CubeSats, dubbed the Flock 3k series, join more than 100 spacecraft in Planet’s fleet dedicated to quick-response Earth-imaging. Thursday’s launch was the third to carry Planet payloads into orbit in four weeks from three countries, following successful flights aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on Nov. 29 and a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Dec. 2.
“At Planet, we maintain a diversified launch manifest, engaging with launch providers from all around the world, to mitigate the risks inherent in the launch industry,” the company wrote in a blog post detailing the rapid-fire launch sequence. “Ideally, the launches end up evenly spaced out, but sometimes when it rains (launches), it pours. Our mission operators eagerly await this new batch of Doves, and this will be an exciting end to another strong year for Planet.”
The other satellites deployed in the Fregat’s final orbit were ZACube 2, a South African CubeSat, and the Lume 1 CubeSat from Spain.
Equipped with an AIS receiver to monitor ships and a medium-resolution near-infrared camera to track maritime traffic and detect wildfires, ZACube 2 was developed by the French South African Institute of Technology and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology near Cape Town. Lume 1 comes from the University of Vigo and a spinoff Spanish company named Alén Space, and is also designed for the early detection of wildfires.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/27/soyuz-28-satellite-cluster-launch/Russia inaugurates Vostochny Cosmodrome with semi-commercial Soyuz launchby Matthew Bodner — December 27, 2018
A Soyuz 2.1A rocket lifts off Dec. 27 from Vostochny Cosmodrome carrying a pair Kanopus-V 5 remote sensing satellites and a secondary payload of 26 smallsats arranged by GK Launch Services. Credit: GK Launch ServicesVOSTOCHNY COSMODROME, Russia — With an exasperated hiss and engulfing roar, the sounds of a Soyuz rocket pierced the wild, windswept expanse of Russia’s far eastern taiga in a dramatic signal that Russia’s newest cosmodrome has finally opened for business.
After years of delays, construction mishaps and outrageous corruption scandals, Russia’s new premier space launch facility — the Vostochny Cosmodrome — saw the first successful flight of commercial payloads aboard a Soyuz 2.1A rocket Thursday (Dec. 27) at 11:07 a.m. local time (9:07 p.m. EST, Dec. 26 ).
Thirty seconds into a vertical climb up from the cosmodrome, the Soyuz booster began to arc away toward the horizon, flashing viewers gathered at an observation post 1.5 kilometers away from the launch pad with its engines and subjecting them to a rapid-fire, concussive pounding.
Despite strong winds and temperatures far below anything NASA would consider acceptable launch conditions, it was a beautiful day for a Soyuz launch. As the rocket climbed higher into the atmosphere, it left a brief, fluffy contrail that cast a long shadow onto the cosmodrome below.
As the rocket flew farther out of sight, observers huddled around a radio in the warmth of a prefab shack on a hill overlooking the launch site where local vendors set up shop to sell honey to listen to the calls from mission control: “polyot normalno,” a voice repeated every ten seconds. Flight is nominal.
Observers braved frigid temperatures in Russia’s Far East to witness the Dec. 27 launch. Credit: GK Launch ServicesIn what appeared to be a break from tradition, the cosmodrome’s local Russian Orthodox priest, Evgeny Polyakov, told SpaceNews that today’s mission was not blessed by the church. Nonetheless, the Russian space agency reports the mission proceeded without flaw.
The primary payload for Thursday’s flight were two Russian government Earth observation satellites, Kanopus-V 5 and 6. A secondary payload of 26 small satellites, sold by a new Roscosmos commercial subsidiary, GK Launch Services, piggybacked the launch.
Writing on Twitter after confirmation of their successful delivery into orbit by the rocket’s Fregat upper stage, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin noted that today is Emergency Services Day in Russia, and declared the launch to be “a gift to the courage of our emergency workers.”
“Today’s launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome concludes the flight program for 2018,” Rogozin, who was only briefly at the launch Thursday, wrote. “We are flying!”
Thursday’s launch was the fourth flight of a Soyuz 2-type rocket from Vostochny since the cosmodrome’s first launch in April 2016 and the third successful launch overall. But it was the first launch with commercial payloads sold and serviced by GK Launch Services.
Roscosmos formed GK Launch Services last year as part of a private-public partnership between subsidiary Glavkosmos the Russian space agency’s commercial trading house and private Russian launch provider Kosmotras. Glavkosmos has a 75 percent stake in the company.
The presence of commercial satellites aboard today’s flight was a trial run for GK Launch Services, CEO Alexander Serkin told SpaceNews. The company facilitated the launch of 26 satellite clusters from AxelSpace, Planet Labs, ISL and ECM.
“GK was responsible for most of the technical work involved in launching all 26 satellite clusters,” he said.
Both Glavkosmos and Roscosmos were putting a lot of faith into GK Launch Services by handing over these responsibilities, Serkin said, and Thursday’s launch has paved the way to granting complete operational control of commercial Soyuz launches to GK Launch Services.
The company already has two launches on the books, and is preparing to announce a third.
GK Launch Services has confirmed that the mission’s Fregat upper stage has delivered its 26 piggybacked satellites into their designated low Earth orbits, and re-entered the atmosphere at an altitude of 100 kilometers about 4:25 p.m.
Fregat delivered its primary and secondary payloads into three distinct orbits.
Roscosmos did not specify the orbits of its payloads, but GK Launch Services said one group of small sats were dumped over a period of 17 minutes into an orbital altitude of 585 kilometers, and other over a period of 30 minutes at an altitude of 495 kilometers.
Control over the satellites has been handed over the customers.
Though Thursday marked the first successful launch of piggybacked commercial payloads from Vostochny, it is not yet known when the next, fully GK-operated commercial launch will take place there. The company’s next two launches are slated to fly out of Baikonur in 2020.
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