Starty rakiet (IV kwartał 2020 roku)

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PAŹDZIERNIK 2020

03    01:16:14          Wallops 0A        Antares-230+         Cygnus-14
06    11:29:35          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
11    16:57:04          Xichang           CZ-3B/G2             Gaofen-13
14    05:45:05          Bajkonur 31/6     Sojuz-2.1a           Sojuz MS-17
18    12:25:57          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
24    15:31:34          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
25    19:08:42          Plesieck 43/4     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat    Kosmos 2547 (Głonass-K)
26    15:19:05          Xichang 3         CZ-2C                Yaogan 30-07 A, B, C, Tianqi-06
28    21:21:27          Onenui 1A         Electron/Curie       CE-SAT-IIB, Flock-4e x 9

LISTOPAD 2020

05    23:24:23          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            GPS III SV04
06    03:19:14          Taiyuan 6         CZ-6                 Satellogic 9-18, Tianyi 05, Taiyuan, Beihang-1
07    07:12:00          Jiuquan           Gushenxing-1         Tianqi-11
07    09:41:18          Sriharikota F     PSLV-DL              EOS-01, KSM x 4, Lemur-2z x 4, M6P 2
12    15:59:04          Xichang 3         CZ-3B/G3             Tiantong-1 02
13    22:32             Canaveral 41      Atlas-5/531          NRO L-101
16    00:27:17          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            USCV-1
17    01:52:20          Kourou ZLV        Vega                 SEOSAT-Ingenio, TARANIS
20    02:20:01          Onenui 1          Electron/Curie       DRAGRACER A, DRAGRACER B, BRO-2, BRO-3,
                                                               APSS-1, CORVUS BC 5, SpaceBEE x 18,
                                                               SpaceBEENZ x 6, Gnome Chompski
21    17:17:08          Vandenberg 4E     Falcon-9R            Jason CS-A
23    20:30:22          Wenchang 101      CZ-5                 Chang'e-5
25    02:13:12          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
29    07:15             Tanegashima Y1    H-2A (202)           JDRS-1

GRUDZIEŃ 2020

02    01:33:28          Kourou ELS        Sojuz-ST-A/Fregat-M  Falcon Eye 2
03    01:14:36          Plesieck 43/4     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat    Goniec-M 30, 31, 32, Kosmos 2548,
                                                               Kosmos 2549
06    03:58:14          Xichang 3         CZ-3B/G5             Gaofen-14
06    16:17:08          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            Cargo Dragon CRS-2
09    20:14             Xichang 4         CZ-11                GECAM A, GECAM B
11    01:09             Canaveral 37B     Delta-4H             NRO L-44 (Orion-10)
13    17:30             Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Sirius XM-7
14    05:50:00          Plesieck 35/1     Angara-A5/Briz-M     IPM-2 (makieta)
15    10:09             Onenui 1A         Electron/Curie       Strix-alfa
15    20:55             Kodiak 3B         Astra v3.2           -
17    10:11             Sriharikota S     PSLV-XL              CMS 01
18    12:26:26          Wostocznyj 1S     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat-M  OneWeb x 36
19    14:00             KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            USA-312, USA-313
22    04:37:37          Wenchang 201      CZ-8                 XJY-7, Hisea-1, Yuanguang,
                                                               Tianqi-8, Zhixing-1A
__________________________________________________________________________________________
28    16:42:07          Kourou ELS        Sojuz-ST-A/Fregat-M  CSO 2
2?    ??:??             ?                 CZ-4C ?              ?

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Udany debiut chińskiej rakiety
  22.12. o 04:37:37,198 z Wenchang wystrzelony został pierwszy egzemplarz RN CZ-8, która wyniosła w T+17' 06" na orbitę o średnich parametrach: hp=503 km, ha=515 km, i=97,44° satelity: XJY-7 - tajnego testowego teledetekcyjnego metodą SAR, teledetekcyjnego Hisea-1 (SAR), badawczego z zakresu inżynierii materiałowej Yuanguang, obserwacyjnego Zhixing-1A (ET-SMART-RSS) i telekomunikacyjnego dla Internetu rzeczy Ping’an-1 (Tianqi-8).
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n201216.htm#05

Long March-8 first launch
18 756 wyświetleń•22 gru 2020



Long March 8 rocket lifts 5 satellites in debut flight
By Zhao Lei in Wenchang, Hainan | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-22 12:59


The Long March 8 conducts its debut flight at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in South China's island province of Hainan on Dec 22, 2020. [Photo/China National Space Administration]

The Long March 8, the latest in China's Long March launch vehicle fleet, conducted its debut flight on Tuesday afternoon at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in South China's island province of Hainan.

The 50.3-meter rocket ignited its engines at 12:37 pm at a coastal launch pad, thundering skyward into thick layers of cloud.

After about 15 minutes, the rocket reached a sun-synchronous orbit with an altitude of 512 kilometers, and then deployed the New Technology Demonstrator 7 experimental satellite and four small private satellites.

The mission marked the 356th flight of the Long March rocket family, the pillar of China's space transport system.

Xiao Yun, Long March 8's project manager, said the rocket's successful maiden flight is a new accomplishment in China's efforts to upgrade its medium-lift launch vehicle system and will push forward the nation's march toward a world-class space power.

The rocket's service will also give a strong boost to the development and deployment of satellites operating in low- and medium-altitude orbits, he said.

Designed and built by the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the Long March 8 has two core stages and two side boosters. It has six engines propelled by liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen and kerosene.

With a liftoff weight of 356 metric tons, it is capable of sending payloads weighing 4.5 tons to a sun-synchronous orbit 700 km above the ground or satellites with a combined weight of 2.8 tons to a geostationary transfer orbit, according to the academy.

The Long March 8 is capable of transporting various spacecraft to multiple types of orbits ranging from low-Earth orbit to transfer trajectories to other celestial bodies in the solar system. However, its main task is to place satellites in a sun-synchronous orbit to meet surging demand for launch services from commercial satellite companies at home and abroad, according to designers.

In China and many Western nations, an increasing number of newly founded private companies have started to design and build satellites, generating huge demand for commercial launch services. Many of these privately made satellites are set to operate in a sun-synchronous orbit.

In addition to the Wenchang launch facility, the rocket can also be fired at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gobi Desert.

The Long March 8 conducts its debut flight at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in South China's island province of Hainan on Dec 22, 2020.

Research and development started in 2017 and took about three years. Construction of the first Long March 8 finished in October.

The rocket's designs and technologies are mainly based on those already used by the Long March 3A and Long March 7. The adoption of proven designs guarantees the Long March 8's reliability and operational economy, according to Song Zhengyu, Long March 8's chief designer.



In addition, its high transport efficiency will be attractive to clients, he said.

Project managers have estimated that at least 10 Long March 8s will be used each year given the robust requirements from domestic and international satellite businesses, while their annual manufacturing capacity will soon reach 20.

In the long run, the rocket is expected to become the first reusable model in the Long March series as designers have planned to give it reusability to increase its commercial competitiveness.

Designers intend to develop an integrated first stage for the rocket's future reusable variant. This new first stage will consist of a core booster and two side boosters. Instead of breaking up and falling back to Earth like all existing Chinese rockets' first stages do, the new core and side boosters will stick together and conduct propelled landing as a whole onto a recovery platform at sea.

The most renowned reusable rocket in the world is SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, which made its maiden launch in February 2018. All boosters on the American rocket's first stage can be recovered and reused as they will separate from each other and perform controlled re-entry and landing.

During the past six years, China has made tremendous strides in its rocket industry. In the Long March family alone, six new-generation models were put into service over this period, ranging from the comparatively small, solid-propellant Long March 11 to one of the world's mightiest types – the Long March 5.

Furthermore, several private enterprises have attempted to develop and operate their own carrier rockets and two of them – i-Space and Galactic Energy – have succeeded and used their rockets to fulfill orbital launches.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202012/22/WS5fe17d50a31024ad0ba9d584_1.html

China launches first Long March 8 from Wenchang spaceport
by Andrew Jones — December 22, 2020


The first Long March 8 launch, lifting off from Wenchang. Credit: CNSA

China’s Long March 8 rocket successful in debut launch
December 26, 2020 Stephen Clark


A Long March 8 rocket lifts off from Sunday (U.S. time) from the Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island. Credit: Xinhua

(...) China’s new Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island, in the southern part of the country, fronts the South China Sea. Long March rockets launching from Wenchang, such as the Long March 8, drop their spent boosters over the ocean instead of over land. (...)


This animation illustrates how engineers plan to land the Long March 8’s core stage and side boosters together. Credit: CASC

The Long March 8 rocket will eventually help China replace its fleet of medium-lift launch vehicles, providing launch services for low Earth orbit satellite constellations and payloads bound for higher altitudes, such as geosynchronous orbit, CASC said.

Chinese engineers have also introduced thrust control technology on the Long March 8 rocket, CASC said, laying a foundation for future augmentations to recover and reuse boosters. Future Long March 8 rockets will be fitted with control fins and legs for vertical landings on an offshore platform, similar to the way SpaceX recovers its Falcon 9 boosters on drone ships.

Engineers plan to land the Long March 8’s core stage and two side boosters as a single integrated unit, using low-thrust propulsion to brake before touchdown.

“Long March 8 will offer a platform for the application of and experiments for recycling, intelligent and automatic technologies,” said Wu Yitian, deputy chief designer of the Long March 8 rocket, in a report published by Xinhua. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/26/chinas-long-march-8-rocket-successful-in-debut-launch/

Five payloads include classified remote sensing satellite and a first commercial SAR sat

(...) The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), a CASC subsidiary which designed and produced the launcher, states (Chinese) the new rocket fills the gap in China’s capability for launches to Sun-synchronous orbit in the 3-4.5 ton range.

The Long March 8 is, like the new generation Long March 5, 6, 7 launch vehicles, designed to replace and upgrade China’s aging hypergolic Long March 2, 3 and 4 families. The new launchers first began launching in 2015.

The Long March 8 is to be adapted for reusability in the future. During the launch thrust was throttled down to 77.5 percent around the time of maximum dynamic pressure.

“Thrust adjustment technology is a key technology for rocket reusability and must be mastered,” said Xiao Yun, the commander-in-chief of the Long March 8. Further tests related to vertical take-off and vertical landing are planned for 2021.

The main payload was XJY-7, a classified remote sensing technology test satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST). Mass of the satellite is understood to be around 3 tons.

First commercial SAR satellite

Four smaller payloads were also aboard. Haisea-1 is the first miniature synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite for Spacety, a commercial Chinese satellite company founded in 2016.

Hisea-1 is a C-band SAR satellite using a phased-array antenna. I has a total mass of 180 kilograms and 1-meter resolution .

The China Electronics Technology Group (CETC) provided the SAR payload while Xiamen University was also involved in development of the satellite and payloads. The satellite will be used for coastal and marine research applications.

Spacety told SpaceNews that Hisea-1 is the first generation of light, small SAR satellites currently under development by the company. It aims to reduce mass to below 170 kilograms and resolution to better than 0.5 meters. The firm says it is China’s first miniaturized SAR satellite and also the country’s first commercial SAR satellite.

Spacety says it aims to build a SAR constellation with dozens of satellites across the next two-to-three years. Hisea-1 also carries an iodine electric propulsion system developed by French startup ThrustMe, continuing earlier cooperation with Spacety.

ThrustMe’s Ane Aanesland said the propulsion system will provide the satellite with crucial orbit maintenance, collision avoidance and deorbiting at the end of its three years expected lifetime.

Yuanguang is a 20-kilogram space science satellite developed jointly by Hubei University of Technology (HUT) and Spacety. The primary payload is a space tribology experiment form HUT to conduct experiments of mechanisms and tribology and investigate the change of mechanical properties at the level of material, component and system over flight time in space.

Zhixing-1A, also known as ET-SMART-RSS 6U nanosat, was developed in partnership between Ethiopia and commercial firm Beijing Zhixing Space Technology Co. Ltd. The final payload was Ping’an-1, also referred to as Tianqi Xingzuo-08. It is a satellite for commercial firm Guodian Gaoke’s Apocalypse Internet of Things constellation.

The launch was China’s 38th of 2020. CASC said in January that it aimed to launch around 40 times, before the severity of the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak became apparent.  (...)
https://spacenews.com/china-launches-first-long-march-8-from-wenchang-spaceport/

https://spacenews.com/china-rolls-out-long-march-8-rocket-for-weekend-test-flight/

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/12/long-march-8-debuts-nine-satellites/

XJY 7 https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/xjy-7.htm
Haisi 1
Tianqi 8  https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tianqi-10.htm
Yuanguang
ET-SMART-RSS (Zhixing 1A)  https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/et-smart-rss.htm

[astropl]

PAŹDZIERNIK 2020

03    01:16:14          Wallops 0A        Antares-230+         Cygnus-14
06    11:29:35          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
11    16:57:04          Xichang           CZ-3B/G2             Gaofen-13
14    05:45:05          Bajkonur 31/6     Sojuz-2.1a           Sojuz MS-17
18    12:25:57          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
24    15:31:34          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
25    19:08:42          Plesieck 43/4     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat    Kosmos 2547 (Głonass-K)
26    15:19:05          Xichang 3         CZ-2C                Yaogan 30-07 A, B, C, Tianqi-06
28    21:21:27          Onenui 1A         Electron/Curie       CE-SAT-IIB, Flock-4e x 9

LISTOPAD 2020

05    23:24:23          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            GPS III SV04
06    03:19:14          Taiyuan 6         CZ-6                 Satellogic 9-18, Tianyi 05, Taiyuan, Beihang-1
07    07:12:00          Jiuquan           Gushenxing-1         Tianqi-11
07    09:41:18          Sriharikota F     PSLV-DL              EOS-01, KSM x 4, Lemur-2z x 4, M6P 2
12    15:59:04          Xichang 3         CZ-3B/G3             Tiantong-1 02
13    22:32             Canaveral 41      Atlas-5/531          NRO L-101
16    00:27:17          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            USCV-1
17    01:52:20          Kourou ZLV        Vega                 SEOSAT-Ingenio, TARANIS
20    02:20:01          Onenui 1          Electron/Curie       DRAGRACER A, DRAGRACER B, BRO-2, BRO-3,
                                                               APSS-1, CORVUS BC 5, SpaceBEE x 18,
                                                               SpaceBEENZ x 6, Gnome Chompski
21    17:17:08          Vandenberg 4E     Falcon-9R            Jason CS-A
23    20:30:22          Wenchang 101      CZ-5                 Chang'e-5
25    02:13:12          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
29    07:15             Tanegashima Y1    H-2A (202)           JDRS-1

GRUDZIEŃ 2020

02    01:33:28          Kourou ELS        Sojuz-ST-A/Fregat-M  Falcon Eye 2
03    01:14:36          Plesieck 43/4     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat    Goniec-M 30, 31, 32, Kosmos 2548,
                                                               Kosmos 2549
06    03:58:14          Xichang 3         CZ-3B/G5             Gaofen-14
06    16:17:08          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            Cargo Dragon CRS-2
09    20:14             Xichang 4         CZ-11                GECAM A, GECAM B
11    01:09             Canaveral 37B     Delta-4H             NRO L-44 (Orion-10)
13    17:30             Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Sirius XM-7
14    05:50:00          Plesieck 35/1     Angara-A5/Briz-M     IPM-2 (makieta)
15    10:09             Onenui 1A         Electron/Curie       Strix-alfa
15    20:55             Kodiak 3B         Astra v3.2           -
17    10:11             Sriharikota S     PSLV-XL              CMS 01
18    12:26:26          Wostocznyj 1S     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat-M  OneWeb x 36
19    14:00             KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            USA-312, USA-313
22    04:37:37          Wenchang 201      CZ-8                 XJY-7, Hisea-1, Yuanguang,
                                                               Tianqi-8, Zhixing-1A
27    15:45             Jiuquan           CZ-4C                Yaogan-33, ?
__________________________________________________________________________________________
29    16:42:07          Kourou ELS        Sojuz-ST-A/Fregat-M  CSO 2

[Orionid]

Dwa satelity
  27.12. około 15:45 z kosmodromu Jiuquan wystrzelona została RN CZ-4C, która wyniosła na orbitę satelity Yaogan-33 i ?.

EDIT: 27.12. o 15:44 z kosmodromu Jiuquan wystrzelona została RN CZ-4C, która wyniosła na orbitę o parametrach: hp=682 km, ha=686 km, i=98,26° satelitę zwiadu radarowego Yaogan-33R oraz małego satelitę technologicznego Weina-2.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n201216.htm#07

O godzinie 23:44 w dniu 27 grudnia 2020 r. Chiny użyły rakiety nośnej Long March 4C w Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, aby pomyślnie umieścić satelitę Remote Sensing 33 na zaplanowanej orbicie, a start zakończył się pełnym sukcesem. Misja przewiozła również i wystrzeliła satelitę testowego mikro-nanotechnologii.



Satelita teledetekcyjny nr 33 i satelita testowy mikro-nanotechnologii są wykorzystywane głównie w eksperymentach naukowych, badaniach gruntów i zasobów, szacunkach produkcji rolnej oraz zapobieganiu katastrofom i łagodzeniu ich skutków.

Ta misja to 357 lot rakiet nośnych z serii Long March.
Źródło
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202012/28/WS5fe93624a31024ad0ba9ee3d.html

China launches secret military spy payload
December 27, 2020 Stephen Clark


A Long March 4C rocket took off Sunday with the Yaogan 33 satellite. Credit: Xinhua

A secret Chinese military payload, believed to be a surveillance satellite, successfully flew into space Sunday aboard a Long March 4C rocket on China’s 39th and final scheduled orbital launch attempt of the year.

The military satellite and a smaller secondary payload lifted off from the Jiuquan space center in northwestern China’s Inner Mongolia region at 10:44 a.m. EST (1544 GMT) Sunday, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., or CASC, the top state-owned contractor for the Chinese space program.

A three-stage Long March 4C rocket delivered the two payloads to their targeted orbit, Chinese officials said. U.S. military tracking data indicated the launcher reached an orbit around 425 miles (685 kilometers) in altitude, with an inclination of 98.3 degrees to the equator.

Chinese officials identified the primary payload on the Long March 4C rocket as Yaogan 33, and official statements from Chinese state media and CASC said Yaogan 33 will carry out a “remote sensing” mission.

The Yaogan series of spacecraft include satellites carrying Earth-facing optical telescopes and radar imagers to collect high-resolution imagery for the Chinese military and intelligence agencies.

Independent analysts believe Yaogan 33 might carry a radar reconnaissance imager designed to obtain all-weather, day-and-night imagery of strategic targets around the world.

Yaogan 33 was also the name of a military remote sensing satellite lost in a Long March 4C launch failure in May 2019, prompting speculation that the new Yaogan 33 satellite might be a replacement. However, the new Yaogan 33 satellite launched into a slightly different orbit than the one targeted on the the original ill-fated Yaogan 33 mission in 2019, causing some analysts to question whether the new spacecraft might be the first of a new type of Chinese military surveillance payload.

The name of the previous Yaogan 33 mission was not mentioned in Chinese media reports.

The first Yaogan 33 mission launched from the Taiyuan spaceport in northern China. Chinese officials said the launch of the new Yaogan 33 satellite was moved to Jiuquan to prevent spent stages from the Long March 4C rocket from falling on other countries.

The Long March 4C rocket Sunday also deployed a small technology experiment satellite.

The launch Sunday was likely the final Chinese space mission of 2020. There are no other Long March rockets with publicly-available launch dates before the end of the year.

With Sunday’s flight, China successfully launched 35 space missions into orbit this year in 39 attempts. U.S. companies performed 44 orbital launch attempts, with 40 successes, including flights by California-headquartered Rocket Lab from its private launch base in New Zealand.

The 39 orbital launch attempts ties a record level of Chinese launch activity set in 2018, but China achieved more successful space launches that year.

The four Chinese launch failures this year included a mishap during the debut launch of the Long March 7A rocket in March, a Long March 3B failure in April with the Indonesian Palapa N1 communications satellite, and problems during launches of China’s light-class Kuaizhou 11 and Kuaizhou 1A rockets in July and September.

Major successes for China’s space program in 2020 included launches of the Tianwen 1 rover toward Mars in July, and the launch, landing, and return of the Chang’e 5 lunar sample collection mission in December.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/27/china-launches-secret-military-spy-payload/

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/12/long-march-4c-concludes-chinas-2020/

Yaogan 33R https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/yaogan-29.htm
Weina 02 ?

[Orionid]

Flight VS25: Soyuz – CSO-2 – Launch delay due to weather conditions
December 28, 2020

As weather conditions observed above the Guiana space center were not favorable to a launch today (risk of non-acceptable high altitude winds profile at Lift-off time), Arianespace decided to interrupt the final VS25 launch chronology.

The soonest possible launch date for the VS25 Flight is Tuesday, December 29 at:
> 01:42:07 p.m., in Kourou, French Guiana,
> 16:42:07, Universal Time (UTC),
(...)
https://www.arianespace.com/press-release/soyuz-vs25-delay/

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/28/soyuz-vs25-mission-status-center/

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T-30 min

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Webcast rusza  o 17:25 CET



Arianespace Flight VS25 - CSO-2 (EN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p74FqD_HlOE&feature=youtu.be

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Warunki pogodowe na GO

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PAŹDZIERNIK 2020

03    01:16:14          Wallops 0A        Antares-230+         Cygnus-14
06    11:29:35          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
11    16:57:04          Xichang           CZ-3B/G2             Gaofen-13
14    05:45:05          Bajkonur 31/6     Sojuz-2.1a           Sojuz MS-17
18    12:25:57          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
24    15:31:34          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
25    19:08:42          Plesieck 43/4     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat    Kosmos 2547 (Głonass-K)
26    15:19:05          Xichang 3         CZ-2C                Yaogan 30-07 A, B, C, Tianqi-06
28    21:21:27          Onenui 1A         Electron/Curie       CE-SAT-IIB, Flock-4e x 9

LISTOPAD 2020

05    23:24:23          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            GPS III SV04
06    03:19:14          Taiyuan 6         CZ-6                 Satellogic 9-18, Tianyi 05, Taiyuan, Beihang-1
07    07:12:00          Jiuquan           Gushenxing-1         Tianqi-11
07    09:41:18          Sriharikota F     PSLV-DL              EOS-01, KSM x 4, Lemur-2z x 4, M6P 2
12    15:59:04          Xichang 3         CZ-3B/G3             Tiantong-1 02
13    22:32             Canaveral 41      Atlas-5/531          NRO L-101
16    00:27:17          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            USCV-1
17    01:52:20          Kourou ZLV        Vega                 SEOSAT-Ingenio, TARANIS
20    02:20:01          Onenui 1          Electron/Curie       DRAGRACER A, DRAGRACER B, BRO-2, BRO-3,
                                                               APSS-1, CORVUS BC 5, SpaceBEE x 18,
                                                               SpaceBEENZ x 6, Gnome Chompski
21    17:17:08          Vandenberg 4E     Falcon-9R            Jason CS-A
23    20:30:22          Wenchang 101      CZ-5                 Chang'e-5
25    02:13:12          Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Starlink x 60
29    07:15             Tanegashima Y1    H-2A (202)           JDRS-1

GRUDZIEŃ 2020

02    01:33:28          Kourou ELS        Sojuz-ST-A/Fregat-M  Falcon Eye 2
03    01:14:36          Plesieck 43/4     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat    Goniec-M 30, 31, 32, Kosmos 2548,
                                                               Kosmos 2549
06    03:58:14          Xichang 3         CZ-3B/G5             Gaofen-14
06    16:17:08          KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            Cargo Dragon CRS-2
09    20:14             Xichang 4         CZ-11                GECAM A, GECAM B
11    01:09             Canaveral 37B     Delta-4H             NRO L-44 (Orion-10)
13    17:30             Canaveral 40      Falcon-9R            Sirius XM-7
14    05:50:00          Plesieck 35/1     Angara-A5/Briz-M     IPM-2 (makieta)
15    10:09             Onenui 1A         Electron/Curie       Strix-alfa
15    20:55             Kodiak 3B         Astra v3.2           -
17    10:11             Sriharikota S     PSLV-XL              CMS 01
18    12:26:26          Wostocznyj 1S     Sojuz-2.1b/Fregat-M  OneWeb x 36
19    14:00             KSC 39A           Falcon-9R            USA-312, USA-313
22    04:37:37          Wenchang 201      CZ-8                 XJY-7, Hisea-1, Yuanguang,
                                                               Tianqi-8, Zhixing-1A
27    15:45             Jiuquan           CZ-4C                Yaogan-33R, Weina-2
29    16:42:07          Kourou ELS        Sojuz-ST-A/Fregat-M  CSO 2
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Ostatni start dekady doszedł do skutku
Udało się wyrównać wynik w orbitalnych startach z 2018

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Some statistics on today's flight:

1,931st Soyuz rocket launch
15th Soyuz launch of 2020
25th Soyuz launch from French Guiana
7th launch from Guiana Space Center in 2020
10th Arianespace launch of 2020
324th Arianespace launch since 1980
130th Airbus-built satellite launched by Arianespace
114th global orbital launch attempt in 2020

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Boostery oddzielone

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Flight VS25: Soyuz lifts off from the Spaceport in French Guiana
December 29, 2020

Arianespace’s latest Soyuz mission is now underway following an afternoon liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana.

This flight will last 59 minutes and 37 seconds from liftoff to separation of the CSO-2 satellite, which will be placed into Sun-synchronous orbit. (...)
https://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/flight-vs25-soyuz-lifts-off-from-the-spaceport-in-french-guiana/

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Ostatni start roku
  29.12. o 16:42:07 z Kourou wystrzelona została RN Sojuz-ST-A/Fregat-M, która wyniesie w T+54' 07" na orbitę o parametrach: hp=480 km, ha=480 km, i=97,3° francuskiego satelitę zwiadowczego CSO 2 (Composante Spatiale Optique-1).
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n201216.htm#08





Soyuz ST-A launches CSO-2
250 wyświetleń•29 gru 2020




Pomyślne wyniesienie na orbitę francuskiego wojskowego satelity obserwacyjnego CSO-2
BY REDAKCJA ON 17 STYCZNIA 2021

W kosmosie jest już drugi z trzech optycznych satelitów obserwacyjnych nowej generacji o bardzo wysokiej rozdzielczości.

Zbudowany przez Airbusa dla francuskich sił zbrojnych satelita obserwacyjny CSO-2 (Composante spatiale optique) został pomyślnie wyniesiony w kosmos przy pomocy rakiety Sojuz z europejskiego kosmodromu Kourou w Gujanie Francuskiej.

CSO-2 to drugi z trzech satelitów konstelacji CSO, która zapewni francuskiemu wojsku i partnerom w programie współpracy MUSIS (Multinational Space-based Imaging System) dostęp do zobrazowań rozpoznawczych powierzchni ziemi o ekstremalnie wysokiej rozdzielczości. Satelity CSO są wyposażone w bardzo sprawny system wskazujący obszar zainteresowania i są kontrolowane z bezpiecznego centrum operacyjnego. Konstelacja będzie dostarczać zobrazowania 3D i bardzo wysokiej rozdzielczości, w pasmach widzialnym i podczerwieni, wykonane w dzień i nocą, maksymalizując efekty operacyjne. Satelita CSO-2, identyczny z pierwszym satelitą CSO-1, zostanie jednak umieszczony na niższej orbicie polarnej na wysokości 480 km nad ziemią, co zwiększy zdolności rozpoznawcze konstelacji.

Informacje prasowe Airbus
https://kosmonauta.net/2021/01/pomyslne-wyniesienie-na-orbite-francuskiego-wojskowego-satelity-obserwacyjnego-cso-2/

Soyuz launches French reconnaissance satellite in final 2020 launch
by Jeff Foust — December 29, 2020


A Soyuz ST-A rocket lifts off from French Guiana Dec. 29 carrying the CSO-2 reconnaissance satellite. Credit: Arianespace

WASHINGTON — A Soyuz rocket successfully launched a French reconnaissance satellite Dec. 29 in what is likely the final launch of an active 2020 in spaceflight.

The Soyuz ST-A rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana at 11:42 a.m. Eastern, after a one-day delay because of gusty upper-level winds. The Fregat upper stage, after performing two burns, released the Composante Spatiale Optique (CSO) 2 satellite nearly one hour after liftoff.

CSO-2 was built by Airbus Space and Defence for the French military. The 3,562-kilogram satellite carries an imaging payload provided by Thales Alenia Space to provide high-resolution images at optical and infrared wavelengths, enabling observations during daytime or nighttime.

The spacecraft is the second of three satellites in the overall CSO system, after the launch of CSO-1 in December 2018. CSO-1 operates in an 800-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit to serve what French officials call a “reconnaissance” mission, while CSO-2 will operate in a 480-kilometer orbit, producing higher resolution images for an “identification” mission. A third satellite, CSO-3, is scheduled for launch in 2022 to supplement CSO-1’s reconnaissance mission.

The launch was the third Soyuz mission this month for Arianespace. A Soyuz launched from French Guiana Dec. 1 carrying the FalconEye 2 imaging satellite for the United Arab Emirates, while another Soyuz, launching from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome Dec. 18, placed a set of 36 OneWeb satellites into orbit.

Arianespace conducted 10 launches in 2020 despite a nearly five-month hiatus from March to August because of the pandemic. Besides the three Soyuz launches this month, Arianespace conducted two other Soyuz launches of OneWeb satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, as well as three Ariane 5 and two Vega launches from French Guiana. One of the two Vega launches, carrying two European Earth science satellites, failed in November because of improperly connected cables in the thrust vector control system of the rocket’s upper stage.

The launch is also the last scheduled orbital launch of 2020. There were 114 orbital launch attempts in the year, the same as in 2018 and up from the 102 in 2019. Ten of the 114 failed to reach orbit: four by China, four by U.S.-based companies, and one each by Iran and Europe. The United States accounted for 44 launches, including seven by Rocket Lab, a U.S.-headquartered company that launches from New Zealand. China performed 39 launches. Russian vehicles performed 17 launches, counting the two Soyuz launches from French Guiana.
https://spacenews.com/soyuz-launches-french-reconnaissance-satellite-in-final-2020-launch/

French military surveillance satellite launched by Soyuz rocket
December 29, 2020 Stephen Clark


A Soyuz ST-A rocket fires off its launch pad in French Guiana with the CSO 2 spacecraft. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron

(...) “Mission perfectly accomplished,” said Stéphane Israël, CEO of Arianespace, the French company that oversees launch operations in French Guiana.

“It’s a really moving moment, and great news for the French Armed Forces,” said Caroline Laurent, director of orbital systems at CNES, the French space agency, a partner for the French military on the CSO program. “Personally speaking, I think it is the best Earth observation satellite in the world.”

The CSO 2 spacecraft is set to provide the highest-resolution Earth observation images ever produced by a European satellite. The first images from CSO 2 are expected to be downlinked within about two weeks of launch, according to Laurent.

“We launched a magnificent satellite,” said Maj. Gen. Michel Friedling, head of French Space Command. “It will producing images of extraordinary quality. we are very much looking forward to this. Our military operators are behind their desks awaiting these images.” (...)


The French military’s CSO 2 reconnaissance satellite, with a cover over its optical telescope. Credit: Arianespace

Placing the CSO 2 satellite into a lower orbit allows it to “supply imagery at the highest possible level of resolution, quality and analytical precision,” CNES said on its website.

The improved imaging quality from CSO 2, flying in its lower orbit, makes the new satellite well-suited for follow-up observations from other satellites in the fleet. CSO 2 could help identify targets and reveal information not visible to satellites in higher orbits, which have a broader field-of-view.

In its low-altitude orbit, CSO 2 could identify the details of a car, according to Nadège Roussel, chief weapons engineer at DGA, the French military’s procurement agency.

“Such level of detail is real operational asset, and its performance makes this a unique system in Europe,” she said.

The three CSO satellites are identical, other than an adjustment in the focusing of the optical instrument on CSO 2 to allow it to take pictures from a lower altitude, according to Pierre-Emmanuel Martinez, CSO 2 satellite manager at CNES.

The new-generation CSO spy satellite fleet is costing the French government more than $1.5 billion, including spacecraft, launch and ground system upgrade expenses, according to French authorities. The program is funded through the DGA, and the French space agency CNES is responsible for in-orbit testing, satellite operations, and the purchasing of the spacecraft and launch services.

The French government has agreements to share optical imagery from the CSO satellites with the governments of Germany, Sweden, Belgium, and Italy, officials said. In exchange, the French military receives imagery from German and Italian radar observation satellites, which are designed for day-or-night, all-weather surveillance, and access to a ground station in Sweden.

The CSO satellites will also provide intelligence agencies and military officials imagery day-or-night in visible and infrared bands. The infrared imaging capability is an improvement over the Helios fleet, an upgraded enabled by the introduction of cryogenic cooling systems to chill infrared detectors on the CSO satellites.

Each CSO spacecraft features an agile pointing capability, allowing rapid steering from target to target, and enabling views from different look angles for three-dimensional stereo surveillance products.

French officials said reconnaissance imagery from the CSO satellites are useful in obtaining information about inaccessible regions, evaluating the strength of enemy military forces, and identifying civilians in close proximity to the battlefield. The images can help prepare plans for airstrikes, locate coordinates to guide missiles, avoid collateral damage to civilians, and allow commanders to evaluate the effectiveness of strikes by comparing images taken before and after a military operation.

The CSO 2 satellite also features a new autonomous orbit control capability, allowing the spacecraft to maintain its altitude and counteract atmospheric drag using quick burns of on-board thrusters. The satellite can perform the autonomous control maneuvers over the ocean and be ready to resume imaging operations once back over land, according to the French military.

The three CSO satellites were built by Airbus, with optical imaging instruments produced by Thales Alenia Space. CNES controls the satellites from a center in Toulouse, France, and the French military receives images at an airbase in Creil, France. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/29/french-military-surveillance-satellite-launched-by-soyuz-rocket/

Photos: Soyuz launches French military satellite
January 5, 2021 Stephen Clark


Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/01/05/photos-soyuz-launches-french-military-satellite/

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/12/28/soyuz-vs25-mission-status-center/

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/12/arianespace-cso-2-french-satellite/

statystyki startu https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4251.msg155374#msg155374

https://cso.cnes.fr/en/csomusis-0
CSO 2 https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cso-1.htm

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Starty kosmiczne w 2020 

Starty wg miesięcy:

I  7 (Chiny 3, SpaceX 2, Rocket Lab 1, Europa 1)
II 8+1 (15+1)  (Chiny 1, SpaceX 1, ULA 1, NG 1, Rosja 2, Europa 1, Japonia 1, Iran 1)
III 7+1 (22+2)  (Chiny 2+1, SpaceX 2, ULA 1, Rosja 2)
IV 4+1 (26+3)  (Chiny 1, SpaceX 1, Rosja 2, Iran 1)
V 8+1 (34+4)  (Chiny 4, SpaceX 1, ULA 1, Virgin Orbit 1, Rosja 1, Japonia 1)
VI 7 (41+4) (Chiny 3, SpaceX 3, Rocket Lab 1)
VII 12+2 (53+6) (Chiny 5+1, SpaceX 1, ULA 1, NG 1, Rocket Lab 1, Rosja 2, Japonia 1, Izrael 1)
VIII 7 (60+6) (Chiny 2, SpaceX 3, Rocket Lab 1, Europa 1)
IX 8+2 (68+8) (Chiny 5+1, SpaceX 1, Astra 1, Rosja 1, Europa 1)
X 9 (77+8) (Chiny 2, SpaceX 3, NG 1, Rocket Lab 1, Rosja 2)
XI 12+1 (89+9) (Chiny 4, SpaceX 4, ULA 1, Rocket Lab 1, Europa 1, Japonia 1, Indie 1)
XII 15+1 (104+10) (Chiny 4, SpaceX 3, ULA 1, Rocket Lab 1, ASTRA 1, Rosja 3+2 z Kourou , Indie 1)

W skrócie:

Chiny                                             35+4                                                   
USA/Nowa Zelandia (Rocket Lab)      40+4 (SpaceX 25, ULA 6, NG 3, Virgin Orbit 1, Astra 2 Rocket Lab 6+1)
Rosja                                             15+2 z Kourou                                                   
Europa (bez europejskich Sojuzów)   4+1         
Japonia                                          4                                                 
Indie                                              2
Iran                                               1+1
Izrael                                             1                                   

[1] 19.01. miał miejsce test IAT (In-Flight Abort Test) z użyciem Falcona 9.
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4133.msg146650#msg146650