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We have a double shot of two Russian-built satellites today.
Luch-5A will be first of the triple GEO spacecraft (another two will be Luch-5B and Luch-4) that are to form Russian analog of American TDRS or Chinese Tian Lian system. They will perform tracking and data relay for satellites, manned spaceships in LEO, launch vehicles and their upper stages. It will restore data and command relaying fuctionality that had previously been carried out by series of Altair and first generation Luch satellites launched through second half of the 80's and first half of the 90's (later all these satellites deteriorated and stopped working). Luch's primary bands will be Ku and S beaming with 7 standard transponders and two high-gain tracking antennae.
AMOS-5 is a telecommunications satellite built by Russia's Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Co. for Space Communication Ltd., an Israeli satellite operator. The spacecraft will establish a new orbital position for Spacecom at 17° East, providing a full range of satellite services over Africa. Together with AMOS-2 and AMOS-3, co-located at the 4° West orbital hot spot, and AMOS-4 scheduled for launch in 2012 to serve Asia and Russia, AMOS-5 will enhance Spacecom's satellite coverage over the Middle East and Europe, while adding the emerging African markets to its service portfolio.
Launch location:
Baikonur Launch pad no. 81/24 46° 4'15.38"N, 62°59'5.11"E
Launch dates and times:
[table="head"]{colsp=6}Launch times
Time Zone|
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Live Coverage Of The Launch:
PAYLOAD 1
Luch-5A (pronounced like "Lootch", means a beam, a ray) tracking, telemetry and data relay satellite:
Mission Summary
[table="head"]{colsp=2}Summary
Parameter|Value
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Luch-5A is an element of the Luch multi-purpose data relay system developed for the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, under the nation's Federal Space Program.
The new relay satellite is designed and manufactured by Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Co. in collaboration with the Russian space industry and foreign partners.
Luch-5A will retransmit data from low-flying spacecraft in altitudes of 2,000 kilometers above Earth's surface or lower, including the International Space Station and primarily the lab's Russian segment, as well as other space objects such as launch vehicles and upper stages.
The satellite will track its targets during their powered and coast flight phases that cannot be monitored from Russia and then make online transmissions to Russia's receiving stations.
With its two large S-band and Ku-band high-gain antennas, Luch-5A will accurately pinpoint and track low-flying objects. The satellite carries seven S-band и Ku-band transponders and can transmit commands to tracking spacecraft.
Also, Luch-5A is capable of receiving COSPAS-SARSAT signals and relaying them to ground stations. The satellite will transmit GLONASS positioning corrections, boosting the navigation system's accuracy.
Russia has registered three orbital locations for its Luch data relay constellation - 16° West over the Atlantic, 95° East over the Indian Ocean, and 167° East over the Pacific.
Weighing approximately 950 kilograms, Luch-5A is built on Reshetnev's Express-1000N unpressurized platform.
The satellite's two 4.2 meter umbrella-shaped antennas are comprised of composite spikes covered with gold-plated flywire and fitted with precision tracking electromechanical actuators.
The Luch-5A spacecraft is based on new technical solutions introduced by Reshetnev ISS and its partners. They are:
Thales Alenia Space contributed with their power amplifier units for transponders.
Sumitomo/NEC provided low noise amplifiers and Mayak system transmitters.
Coverage Map
[table="head"]Characteristics|
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PAYLOAD 2
AMOS-5 communications satellite:
Mission Summary
[table="head"]{colsp=2}Summary
Parameter|Value
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This new satellite will support pan-African coverage, featuring a high-power C-band beam and three regional Ku-band beams. With multiple powerful transponders and an excellent vantage point, AMOS-5 will offer a variety of satellite communications services, including VSAT communications and broadband Internet, telephony, data trunking, direct-to-home broadcasting and video distribution.
Based on Reshetnev's Express-1000N medium class platform, the AMOS-5 satellite will carry 18 C-Band and 18 Ku-Band transponders. The spacecraft will generate 5.6 kW of payload power during its 15-year service life. AMOS-5's communications payload and antennas are supplied by Reshetnev's long term partner Thales Alenia Space.
Coverage Map
[table="head"]Characteristics|
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Launch Vehicle:
[table="head"]{colsp=2}Characteristics
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The vehicle's reliability statistics according to http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2011.html#rate:
Luch-5A and AMOS-5 Ascent Timeline
Total payload stack mass = 3 137 kg
[TABLE="head"]Event|Time rel lift-off|Time Moscow|Time UTC|Comment
Lift-off|00:00:00|15:17:00|11:17:00|
1st/2nd Stage Separation|00:02:06|15:19:06|11:19:06|
2nd/3rd Stage Separation|00:05:34|15:22:34|11:22:34|
Payload Fairing Separation|00:05:44|15:22:44|11:22:44|
3rd Stage/Breeze M Separation|00:09:41|15:26:41|11:26:41|
1st Burn Ignition|00:11:15|15:28:15|11:28:15|
1st Burn Shutdown|00:15:38|15:32:38|11:32:38|1st Burn's Duration 00:04:23
2nd Burn Ignition|01:07:35|16:24:35|12:24:35|
2nd Burn Shutdown|01:25:21|16:42:21|12:42:21|2nd Burn's Duration 00:17:43
3rd Burn Ignition|03:28:55|18:45:55|14:45:55|
3rd Burn Shutdown|03:46:53|19:03:53|15:03:53|3rd Burn's Duration 00:17:58
4th Burn Ignition|08:40:26|23:57:26|19:57:26|
4th Burn Shutdown|08:53:00|00:10:00 (on Dec 12)|20:10:00|4th Burn's Duration 00:12:34
Separation of Luch-5A|8:54:10|00:11:10|23:11:10|In orbit inclined at 5° to GEO
5th Burn Ignition|09:33:08|00:50:08|23:50:08|
5th Burn Shutdown|09:33:55|00:50:55|20:50:55|5th Burn's Duration 00:00:45
Separation of AMOS-5|09:35:05|00:52:05|20:52:05|in GEO
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Weather forecast for Baikonur, Kazakhstan on December 11, 2011 (5 p.m.)
Time|Temps|Wind Chill|Heat Index|UV Index|Dew Point|Relative Humidity|Precip|Snow|Clouds|Visibility|Wind|Weather
5 PM|-11°C|-13°C|-11°C|0 Low|-13°C|80%|0%|0%|41%|16KM|NNE 1.34 m/s|
P Cloudy
Sunrise and Sunset times for the location of launch
Times are local.
Event|Time
Astronomical twilight begins|08:29
Nautical twilight begins|09:06
Civil twilight begins|09:43
Sunrise|10:16
Transit (sun is at its highest)|13:40
Sunset|19:03
Civil twilight ends|19:36
Nautical twilight ends|20:14
Astronomical twilight ends|20:50
References
http://www.federalspace.ru
http://tvroscosmos.ru
http://www.tsenki.com/launch_services/help_information/launch/2011/?EID=88633
http://www.khrunichev.ru
http://tihiy.fromru.com/Rn/RN_Proton.htm
http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/glonass/innovation-glonass-11405?page_id=4
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luch-5b.htm
http://kbhmisaeva.ru
http://cosmopark.ru
http://www.tsenki.com
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Forecast.aspx
Luch-5A will be first of the triple GEO spacecraft (another two will be Luch-5B and Luch-4) that are to form Russian analog of American TDRS or Chinese Tian Lian system. They will perform tracking and data relay for satellites, manned spaceships in LEO, launch vehicles and their upper stages. It will restore data and command relaying fuctionality that had previously been carried out by series of Altair and first generation Luch satellites launched through second half of the 80's and first half of the 90's (later all these satellites deteriorated and stopped working). Luch's primary bands will be Ku and S beaming with 7 standard transponders and two high-gain tracking antennae.
AMOS-5 is a telecommunications satellite built by Russia's Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Co. for Space Communication Ltd., an Israeli satellite operator. The spacecraft will establish a new orbital position for Spacecom at 17° East, providing a full range of satellite services over Africa. Together with AMOS-2 and AMOS-3, co-located at the 4° West orbital hot spot, and AMOS-4 scheduled for launch in 2012 to serve Asia and Russia, AMOS-5 will enhance Spacecom's satellite coverage over the Middle East and Europe, while adding the emerging African markets to its service portfolio.
Launch location:
Baikonur Launch pad no. 81/24 46° 4'15.38"N, 62°59'5.11"E
Launch dates and times:
[table="head"]{colsp=6}Launch times
Time Zone|
Australia - Sydney/AEST
| Baikonur / UTC+6
| Moscow / UTC+4/
| Universal / UTC
| Washington / EST
Launch time (Primary):
|10:17:00 p.m.
|17:17:00
|15:17:00
|11:17:00
|6:17:00 a.m.
on:
|Dec. 11, 2011
|Dec. 11, 2011
|Dec. 11, 2011
|Dec. 11, 2011
|Dec. 11, 2011
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[highlight][eventTimer]2011-12-11 11:17:00?before|after;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds %c%[/eventTimer] Luch-5A & AMOS-5 joint launch[/highlight]
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[eventTimer]2011-12-11 20:11:10?before|after;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds %c%[/eventTimer] Luch-5A Separation From the Launch Vehicle
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[eventTimer]2011-12-11 20:52:05?before|after;%dd% Days %hh% Hours %mm% Minutes %ss% Seconds %c%[/eventTimer] AMOS-5 Separation From the Launch Vehicle
[/table]Live Coverage Of The Launch:
- TSENKI Video Streams: http://www.tsenki.com/broadcast/broadcast/ - coverage since 13:17 MSK (9:17 a.m. UTC) till 15:17 MSK (11:17 a.m. UTC)
- Khrunichev COOPI: http://coopi.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=201
- Owners of PDA can watch the launch in test mode on: http://www.space-center.ru
- Vesti.ru http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=onair
PAYLOAD 1
Luch-5A (pronounced like "Lootch", means a beam, a ray) tracking, telemetry and data relay satellite:
Mission Summary
[table="head"]{colsp=2}Summary
Parameter|Value
Working Orbit:
|GEOOrbital Location:
|16° WestCoverage:
|Atlantic hemisphereInc at separation:
|5°[/table]
Luch-5A is an element of the Luch multi-purpose data relay system developed for the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, under the nation's Federal Space Program.
The new relay satellite is designed and manufactured by Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems Co. in collaboration with the Russian space industry and foreign partners.
Luch-5A will retransmit data from low-flying spacecraft in altitudes of 2,000 kilometers above Earth's surface or lower, including the International Space Station and primarily the lab's Russian segment, as well as other space objects such as launch vehicles and upper stages.
The satellite will track its targets during their powered and coast flight phases that cannot be monitored from Russia and then make online transmissions to Russia's receiving stations.
With its two large S-band and Ku-band high-gain antennas, Luch-5A will accurately pinpoint and track low-flying objects. The satellite carries seven S-band и Ku-band transponders and can transmit commands to tracking spacecraft.
Also, Luch-5A is capable of receiving COSPAS-SARSAT signals and relaying them to ground stations. The satellite will transmit GLONASS positioning corrections, boosting the navigation system's accuracy.
Russia has registered three orbital locations for its Luch data relay constellation - 16° West over the Atlantic, 95° East over the Indian Ocean, and 167° East over the Pacific.
Weighing approximately 950 kilograms, Luch-5A is built on Reshetnev's Express-1000N unpressurized platform.
The satellite's two 4.2 meter umbrella-shaped antennas are comprised of composite spikes covered with gold-plated flywire and fitted with precision tracking electromechanical actuators.
The Luch-5A spacecraft is based on new technical solutions introduced by Reshetnev ISS and its partners. They are:
- the craft's honeycomb structure has built-in heat pipes;
- thermal control via heat pipes;
- solar arrays with gallium arsenide multi-junction cells;
- static Earth orientation instrument;
- high-precision star sensor.
Thales Alenia Space contributed with their power amplifier units for transponders.
Sumitomo/NEC provided low noise amplifiers and Mayak system transmitters.
Coverage Map
[table="head"]Characteristics|
Luch-5A
Customer:
|- Roscosmos
Prime contractor:
|- JSC "Information Satellite Systems" Reshetnev Company
Platform:
|- Express-1000 (unpressurized, 3-axis stabilized)
Mass at Separation:
|- 1 140 kg
Dry Mass:
|- 950 kg
Dimensions (stowed):
|- ?
Payload:
|- 7 transponders: Ku, S, L, P, with 23-59.6 dBW EIRP
Antennas:
|- umbrella high-gain, steerable and omnidirectional, one antenna is Ku band (throughput 150 Mbit/s), another is S-band (5 Mbit/s).
Power:
|- No less than 2 200 W, out of which 1 500 W are supplied to the payload.
Life time:
|- 10 years
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PAYLOAD 2
AMOS-5 communications satellite:
Mission Summary
[table="head"]{colsp=2}Summary
Parameter|Value
Working Orbit:
|GEOOrbital Location:
|17° EastCoverage:
|Pan-African Beam and 3 shaped African beams + Europe and Middle EastInc at separation:
|0°[/table]
This new satellite will support pan-African coverage, featuring a high-power C-band beam and three regional Ku-band beams. With multiple powerful transponders and an excellent vantage point, AMOS-5 will offer a variety of satellite communications services, including VSAT communications and broadband Internet, telephony, data trunking, direct-to-home broadcasting and video distribution.
Based on Reshetnev's Express-1000N medium class platform, the AMOS-5 satellite will carry 18 C-Band and 18 Ku-Band transponders. The spacecraft will generate 5.6 kW of payload power during its 15-year service life. AMOS-5's communications payload and antennas are supplied by Reshetnev's long term partner Thales Alenia Space.
Coverage Map
[table="head"]Characteristics|
Luch-5A
Customer:
|- Spacecom Ltd. (Israel)
Prime contractor:
|- JSC "Information Satellite Systems" Reshetnev Company
Platform:
|- Express-1000N (unpressurized, 3-axis stabilized)
Mass at Separation:
|- about 1 800 kg
Dry Mass:
|- 1 600 kg
Dimensions (stowed):
|- ?
Payload:
|- C band: 14 x 72 MHz, 4 x 36 MHz
- Ku band: 18 x 72 MHz
Power:
|- No less than 5 600 W
Life time:
|- 15 years
|
Launch Vehicle:
[table="head"]{colsp=2}Characteristics
Proton-M / Briz-M
Prime contractor:
|- Khrunichev Space Centre
GRAU Index:
|- 8K82KM
Height:
| 58.2 m with upper stage and payload fairingDiameter:
| max 7.4 mLiftoff mass:
| 705 metric tonnesPayload mass:
| ~22 tonnes at LEO1st stage:
|- 6 X RD-275 engines
- Empty 30.6 tonnes
- Propellants 419.41 tonnes (UDMH and NTO)
- Thrust in vacuum 1069.8 tonnes of force
- Thrust at sea level 971.4 tonnes of force
2nd stage:
|- 1 X RD-0211 engine 3 X RD-0210 engines
- Empty 11.4 tonnes
- Propellants 156.113 tonnes (UDMH and NTO)
- Thrust in vacuum 237.4 tonnes of force
3rd stage:
|- 1 X RD-0213 engine & 1 X RD-0214 vernier engine
- Empty 3.7 tonnes
- Propellants 46.562 tonnes (UDMH and NTO)
- Thrust in vacuum 59.36 (core) + 3.15 (vernier) tonnes of force
Upper Stage:
|
- GRAU Index: 14S43
- Common Name: Briz-M
- Designer & Manufacturer: Khrunichev Space Centre
- Dimensions: Length 2.654 m, Diameter 4 m
- Empty Mass 2.2 tonnes
- Propellants 6 660 kg UDMH + 13 260 kg N2O4
- Flight time: no less than 24 hours
- Main Engine: 1 X 14D30
- Thrust in vacuum 2.0 tonnes of force
- ISP 328.6 s
- Main engine restarts: up to 8 times
- Precision Manoeuvering Engines: 4 X 11D458
- Thrust in vacuum 400 N each
- ISP 252 s
- RCS Engines: 12 X 17D58E
- Thrust in vacuum 13.3 N each
- ISP 274 s
Payload Fairing:
|- Diameter 4.35 m
- Length 11.6 m
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The vehicle's reliability statistics according to http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2011.html#rate:
Code:
================================================================
Vehicle Successes/Tries Realzd Pred Consc. Last Dates
Rate Rate* Succes Fail
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Proton-M/Briz-M 47 51 .92 .91 5 08/17/11 2001-Luch-5A and AMOS-5 Ascent Timeline
Total payload stack mass = 3 137 kg
[TABLE="head"]Event|Time rel lift-off|Time Moscow|Time UTC|Comment
Lift-off|00:00:00|15:17:00|11:17:00|
1st/2nd Stage Separation|00:02:06|15:19:06|11:19:06|
2nd/3rd Stage Separation|00:05:34|15:22:34|11:22:34|
Payload Fairing Separation|00:05:44|15:22:44|11:22:44|
3rd Stage/Breeze M Separation|00:09:41|15:26:41|11:26:41|
1st Burn Ignition|00:11:15|15:28:15|11:28:15|
1st Burn Shutdown|00:15:38|15:32:38|11:32:38|1st Burn's Duration 00:04:23
2nd Burn Ignition|01:07:35|16:24:35|12:24:35|
2nd Burn Shutdown|01:25:21|16:42:21|12:42:21|2nd Burn's Duration 00:17:43
3rd Burn Ignition|03:28:55|18:45:55|14:45:55|
3rd Burn Shutdown|03:46:53|19:03:53|15:03:53|3rd Burn's Duration 00:17:58
4th Burn Ignition|08:40:26|23:57:26|19:57:26|
4th Burn Shutdown|08:53:00|00:10:00 (on Dec 12)|20:10:00|4th Burn's Duration 00:12:34
Separation of Luch-5A|8:54:10|00:11:10|23:11:10|In orbit inclined at 5° to GEO
5th Burn Ignition|09:33:08|00:50:08|23:50:08|
5th Burn Shutdown|09:33:55|00:50:55|20:50:55|5th Burn's Duration 00:00:45
Separation of AMOS-5|09:35:05|00:52:05|20:52:05|in GEO
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Weather forecast for Baikonur, Kazakhstan on December 11, 2011 (5 p.m.)
5 PM|-11°C|-13°C|-11°C|0 Low|-13°C|80%|0%|0%|41%|16KM|NNE 1.34 m/s|
Sunrise and Sunset times for the location of launch
Times are local.
Astronomical twilight begins|08:29
Nautical twilight begins|09:06
Civil twilight begins|09:43
Sunrise|10:16
Transit (sun is at its highest)|13:40
Sunset|19:03
Civil twilight ends|19:36
Nautical twilight ends|20:14
Astronomical twilight ends|20:50
References
http://www.federalspace.ru
http://tvroscosmos.ru
http://www.tsenki.com/launch_services/help_information/launch/2011/?EID=88633
http://www.khrunichev.ru
http://tihiy.fromru.com/Rn/RN_Proton.htm
http://www.gpsworld.com/gnss-system/glonass/innovation-glonass-11405?page_id=4
http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luch-5b.htm
http://kbhmisaeva.ru
http://cosmopark.ru
http://www.tsenki.com
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com
http://www.intellicast.com/Local/Forecast.aspx
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