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ЦитироватьРазъём пишет:
2016: MICROSCOPE будет запущен как пассажир в миссии Sentinel 1B в апреле -июне

SOE пишет:
Пока очень и очень вероятно, что в апреле.

ЦитироватьApril 14 • Soyuz • Sentinel 1B
Launch window: 2102:23 GMT (5:02:23 p.m. EDT)
 Launch site: ELS, Sinnamary, French Guiana

ЦитироватьSentinel 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D
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Sentinel 1 [ESA]
 
The Sentinel-1 satellite, which is scheduled to be launched in 2011, is part of the GMES program - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security - a set of Earth observation missions co-funded by ESA and the European Commission. GMES represents the European answer to the ever-increasing requirements of environmental control, and thus provides an important contribution to environmental policies at a global level.
As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space Italy is responsible for the design, development and integration of the satellite that will carry a C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The radar will be based on Thales Alenia Space's key technologies such as the Transmit-Receive modules inside the active antenna.
Based on a Prima (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/alenia_prima.htm) platform, developed by Thales Alenia Space for the Italian Space Agency, Sentinel-1 will weigh 2,280 kilograms at launch and will look at the Earth in swaths up to 700 kilometers with a ground resolution of between 5 and 25 meters according to the sel ected operative mode.
The ESA Sentinel suite is composed of five satellites series. Sentinel-1 will ensure the continuity with ERS (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ers-1.htm) and Envisat (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/envisat.htm) C-band SAR data. Sentinel-2 (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sentinel-2.htm) and Sentinel-3 (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/sentinel-3.htm) satellites are scheduled for launch in 2012 and will support land and ocean monitoring. Sentinel-4 (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/mtg-s.htm) and 5 will be dedicated to meteorology and climatology through atmospheric chemistry study.
In December 2009 ESA signed a contract for a duplicate second spacecraft called Sentinel-1B to be launched in 2016. In December 2015, a contract for two more satellites, Sentinel 1C and 1D, was signed. These will be launched fr om 2021 onwards.

Nation:    Europe
Type / Application:    Earth Observing (Radar)
Operator:    ESA
Contractors:    Thales Alenia Space
Equipment:    C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Configuration:    Prima Bus
Propulsion:    
Power:    2 deployable solar arrays, batteries
Lifetime:    7.25 years
Mass:    2280 kg

ЦитироватьMICROSCOPE
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MICROSCOPE [CNES]
 
The MICROSCOPE (Microsatellite à traînée Compensée pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence) mission has been sel ected at end of 1999 by the French space agency Cnes for a launch scheduled for late 2004. The MICROSCOPE satellite developed by CNES within its new line of product, weights 140 kg and is compatible with a low cost launch like ASAP Ariane-5.
The scientific objective of the mission is the test of the Equivalence Principle (EP) up to an accuracy of 10-15 with its well known manifestation, the universality of free fall. This principle, at the origin of general relativity, is only consolidated by experimental results and presently with an accuracy of several 10-13.
Some involved technologies shall prepare the participation of european team to the future more ambious EP experiment in space: STEP mission.
The satellite is rather compact with no deployable solar panel to insure a high rigidity: any mass motion on board is avoided and no momentum wheel is used during the experiment operation. A peculiar attention is paid for the thermo-elastic behaviour of the satellite, the structure of which is realised with aluminium honeycomb and plates. The three solar panels will be mounted on three faces of the bus. High efficiency AsGa solar cells will be used in order to obtain available power of 80 W, equally shared for the payload, the electrical propulsion and the satellite module. Moreover, to limit magnetic disturbances due to test-mass susceptibility, the magnetic moments on-board the satellite shall be limited and steady, variations less than 0.1 Am² in the EP frequency vicinity and at 30 cm fr om the instrument are specified. This concerns particularly the magneto-torquers or the batteries.
 
Nation:    France
Type / Application:    Science
Operator:    CNES
Contractors:    CNES
Equipment:    
Configuration:    Myriade
Propulsion:    FEEP (Filed Emission Electric Propulsion) ionic microthrusters
Power:    Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:    
Mass:    180 kg

ЦитироватьAn Arianespace Soyuz rocket, designated VS14, will launch on a mission from the Guiana Space Center in South America. The Soyuz will carry the Sentinel 1B radar observation satellite for the European Space Agency and the European Commission, the Microscope microsatellite to research gravitational forces, Norway's Norsat 1 microsatellite for ship tracking and space weather and solar radiation research, and a CubeSat sponsored by the European Space Agency. The Soyuz 2-1a (Soyuz ST-A) rocket will use a Fregat upper stage. [Dec. 27]

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
выясняется, что летит Союз-СТА с Фрегатом-М.  8)

Цитироватьanik пишет:

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
выясняется, что летит Союз-СТА с Фрегатом-М.  8)  

Сергей, так изначально и планировалось, как и с Sentinel 1A.

ЦитироватьSOE пишет:
И снова одним включением  :)  
Пассажир третий, насколько понимаю, не совсем определился вплоть до последнего времени - в относительно недавней документации он оставался анонимным. Теперь понятно, что это будет.

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Разъём в своё время писал, что СТА и Фрегатов М больше не будет.  :oops:

Цитироватьanik пишет:
Сергей, а точно "Фрегат-М", а не "Фрегат-МТ"?

Цитироватьanik пишет:
Сергей, а точно "Фрегат-М", а не "Фрегат-МТ"

ЦитироватьРазъём пишет:
В целях финансовой оптимизации были закуплены еще несколько СТА и Фрегат-М (они дешевле).

ЦитироватьMar 11, 2016
Welcome to French Guiana: two passengers arrive for Arianespace's next Soyuz flight
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Sentinel-1B – encased in its protective shipping container – is unloaded fr om the chartered Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner following its arrival at Félix Eboué Airport in French Guiana (left photo); while at right, Microscope has been removed from the 747 cargo jetliner and is being readied for transfer by road to the Spaceport.

Payload preparation activity for Arianespace's Soyuz Flight VS14 is underway in French Guiana following the separate deliveries of this upcoming mission's primary satellite passenger – Sentinel-1B – and the first of three additional payloads that will join it, the Microscope spacecraft.
                            
Sentinel-1B was transported by a chartered An-124 cargo jetliner that landed this week at Félix Eboué International Airport near French Guiana's capital city, Cayenne – then was unloaded for transfer by road to the Spaceport, wh ere the satellite will be readied for its April 22 launch.
Developed in an industrial consortium led by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space, Sentinel-1B will be orbited for the European Commission's Copernicus Earth observation program – the goal of which is to ensure European independence in the acquisition and management of environmental data concerning the planet, as well as to support local authorities and policy-makers.
After launch, Sentinel-1B will join its "sister" satellite – Sentinel-1A, which was lofted on a 2014 Arianespace Soyuz mission – in orbit to provide more views of Earth for the Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. Both spacecraft carry an advanced radar for all-weather, day-and-night coverage of Earth's surface, and working together, will image the entire planet every six days. Arianespace also orbited the Sentinel-2A satellite on a successful Vega mission performed in 2015.
The Microscope passenger for launch on Soyuz Flight VS14 was delivered to French Guiana this week by a 747 cargo jetliner, arriving two days after Sentinel-1B – with a subsequent transfer by road bringing it to the Spaceport for payload processing as well.
Microscope is a 300-kg. satellite built around the CNES French space agency's Myriade bus, and will be released to a sun-synchronous circular orbit on the April 22 launch – from which it will test the universality of free fall in space, with an accuracy 100-times greater than tests performed on Earth.
CNES' Microscope is one of three additional payloads to be lofted on Flight VS14, and will be joined by Norway's first scientific satellite, NORSAT-1; and a cubesat that is part of the European Space Agency's Fly Your Satellite! educational program.
This upcoming medium-lift Soyuz mission will be the third as part of Arianespace's busy launch manifest for 2016. It follows two separate flights this year that used heavy-lift Ariane 5 vehicles to orbit Intelsat 29e on January 27; and EUTELSAT 65 West A on March 9.   
         
European Commission website – Copernicus: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm)
European Space Agency website – Copernicus: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus)
Thales Alenia Space website: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/space
CNES website: https://cnes.fr/en
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory website – NORSAT-1: utias-sfl.net/?page_id=1260 (http://utias-sfl.net/?page_id=1260)
European Space Agency website – Fly Your Satellite: www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite/Fly_Your_Satellite!_programme (http://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite/Fly_Your_Satellite%21_programme)

ЦитироватьMar 17, 2016   
Payload preparations advance for Arianespace's Soyuz mission with Sentinel-1B

The next spacecraft to be orbited for Europe's Copernicus Earth observation program – Sentinel-1B – is now undergoing pre-launch checkout at the Spaceport, readying it for the April 22 liftoff on Arianespace's upcoming Soyuz flight fr om French Guiana.
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Preparation activity is underway with Soyuz Flight VS14's Sentinel-1B passenger at the Spaceport's S5 facility in French Guiana.
 
Sentinel-1B is being put through its paces inside the Spaceport's S5 payload preparation facility, wh ere the radar satellite was transported following this month's arrival in French Guiana aboard an An-124 cargo jetliner. During initial preparations, the spacecraft was removed from its shipping container in clean room conditions, then positioned for the start-up of processing.
Developed in an industrial consortium led by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space, Sentinel-1B is to deliver essential data for Copernicus – which is a European Space Agency (ESA) program in partnership with the European Commission. Copernicus' goal is to ensure European independence in the acquisition and management of environmental data concerning the planet, as well as to support local authorities and policy-makers.
After launch, Sentinel-1B will join its Sentinel-1A "sister" satellite in Sun-synchronous, near-polar, circular orbit. Both spacecraft carry an advanced radar for all-weather, day-and-night coverage of Earth's surface, and working together, will image the entire planet every six days. Sentinel-1A was launched on a 2014 Arianespace Soyuz mission.
The April 22 flight is designated VS14 in Arianespace's numbering system, and will be the company's third mission performed from Europe's Spaceport in 2016 to date – following successful Ariane 5 launches on January 27 (carrying Intelsat 29e) and March 9 (with EUTELSAT 65 West A).
Three additional passengers are to be lofted along with Sentinel-1B on Soyuz Flight VS14: the CNES French space agency's Microscope spacecraft; the first scientific satellite for Norway, NORSAT-1; and a cubesat payload that will be orbited as part of ESA's Fly Your Satellite! educational program.   

European Space Agency website – Copernicus: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus)
European Commission website – Copernicus: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm)
Thales Alenia Space website: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/space (https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/space)
CNES website: https://cnes.fr/en (https://cnes.fr/en)
UTIAS Space Flight Laboratory website – NORSAT-1: utias-sfl.net/?page_id=1260 (http://utias-sfl.net/?page_id=1260)
European Space Agency website – Fly Your Satellite: www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite/Fly_Your_Satellite!_programme (http://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite/Fly_Your_Satellite%21_programme)

ЦитироватьMar 21, 2016   
A cornerstone of modern physics is to be studied by the Microscope payload on Arianespace's next Soyuz mission

Pre-launch preparation activity is underway in French Guiana with the Microscope satellite, which will be orbited from the Spaceport in April aboard an Arianespace Soyuz launcher to validate a cornerstone of modern physics: the equivalence principle.
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The Microscope satellite is readied for its pre-launch checkout in the Spaceport's S5 payload preparation facility.
 
While in Earth orbit, Microscope will provide data on the relative motion of two bodies in permanent free-fall, studying their movement during several months instead of just seconds possible with ground-based testing.
By furthering knowledge of the equivalence principle – which postulates the equality between gravitational mass and inertial mass – the results from Microscope could open new vistas for theories of gravitation.
Microscope is the French acronym for: Microsatellite à traînée compensée pour l'observation du principe d'equivalence (Microsatellite with drag compensation for observation of the equivalence principle).  This 300-kg. payload is based on the French CNES space agency's Myriade series of microsatellites, and is equipped with cold-gas microthrusters capable of compensating for the smallest trajectory perturbations which might otherwise distort the results.
CNES is in charge of developing the full Microscope system and building the satellite. It is providing 90 percent of funding for this mission, serving as prime contractor in charge of the satellite bus development, satellite integration and testing prior to launch. The space agency also is responsible for construction and operation of the mission control center.
 

Arianespace keeps pace with its goal of 12 launches in 2016

During Arianespace's April 22 launch of Soyuz, Microscope will be orbited along with the Sentinel-1B observation radar platform for Europe's Copernicus Earth observation program, as well as two very small cubesat passengers: Norway's first scientific satellite, NORSAT-1; and a payload from ESA's "Fly Your Satellite!" educational program.
The upcoming Soyuz mission is designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system, and will be the company's third performed from Europe's Spaceport to date in 2016 – following successful Ariane 5 launches on January 27 (carrying Intelsat 29e) and March 9 (with EUTELSAT 65 West A).
Arianespace is targeting as many as 12 flights in 2016 with its complete launcher family, composed of the heavy-lift Ariane 5, medium-lift Soyuz and lightweight Vega.
                  
CNES space agency website: https://cnes.fr/en (https://cnes.fr/en)

ЦитироватьNORSAT 1
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NORSAT 1 [UTIAS]
 
The Norsk Romsenter (Norwegian Space Centre) signed a contract in June 2013 with UTIAS (University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies) for the construction of the NORSAT 1 microsatellite. For less than 20 millon NOK, the University of Toronto will construct the platform for the satellite and integrate the payloads before launch.
The new satellite will be built to investigate solar radiation, space weather and detect ship traffic. The launch is planned 2016. The Norwegian Space Centre will coordinate the development and the integration of the instruments for the new satellite platform. The new satellite will also have its mission control in Norway.
The instruments planned for NORSAT-1 require a larger satellite platform than that of the Norwegian satellite AISSat-1 (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/aissat-1.htm), launched in July 2010. NORSAT-1 will therfore measure 20 × 20 × 40 cm, whereas AISSat-1 measures 20 × 20 × 20 cm.
NORSAT-1 will carry an AIS receiver for performing ship detection from space. The new AIS receiver will be more advanced and employed to test out new detection algorithms. This AIS receiver will detect and track maritime traffic in Norwegian and international waters via the Automatic Identification System (AIS).
The instruments will cover several aspects of scientific research focusing on the sun, including measuring Total Solar Irradiation (TSI) with one instrument, and measuring electron plasma from the sun with a Langmuir probe (LP). The two instruments are being constructed by Norwegian and international research teams, and were chosen because they were the furthest along in their development process and fit the overall plans for the satellite best.
NORSAT-1 will be launched to a polar orbit at approximately 600 kilometers height.[TH]Nation:[/TH] [TH]Type / Application:[/TH] [TH]Operator:[/TH] [TH]Contractors:[/TH] [TH]Equipment:[/TH] [TH]Configuration:[/TH] [TH]Propulsion:[/TH] [TH]Power:[/TH] [TH]Lifetime:[/TH] [TH]Mass:[/TH] [TH]Orbit:[/TH]

Norway

Science, technology

Norsk Romsenter

UTIAS (University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies) (bus); Norsk Romsenter (payload)

AIS-Receiver

Generic Nanosatellite Bus (GNB)

Solar cells, batteries

600 km

ЦитироватьAAUSAT 3, 4, 5
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AAUSAT 5 [AAU]
 
The main purpose for the AAUSAT (Aalborg University Satellite) project is for the involved students to achieve a great deal of knowledge about designing and constructing Space worthy technology.
AAUSAT 3 was built completly inhouse in the university using no Cubseat-kit. It tested an AIS-receiver in orbit.
AAUSAT 4 will test a student built AIS (Automated Identification System) receiver. AAUSAT 4 is one of the educational CubeSats chosen for Phase 1 and 2 of ESA's 'Fly Your Satellite!' initiative.
AAUSAT 5 has a primary mission to receive AIS beacons from ships with a new design based on AAUSAT 3. Additionally a educational payload for high school outreach was designed first half 2014 by engineering students. The AIS receiver payload is based on SDR principles. It was deployed from the ISS on on 5 October 2015 and is expected to remain in orbit for approx 6 months. [TH]Nation:[/TH] [TH]Type / Application:[/TH] [TH]Operator:[/TH] [TH]Contractors:[/TH] [TH]Equipment:[/TH] [TH]Configuration:[/TH] [TH]Propulsion:[/TH] [TH]Power:[/TH] [TH]Lifetime:[/TH] [TH]Mass:[/TH] [TH]Orbit:[/TH]

Denmark

Technology

Aalborg University Cubesat

Aalborg University Cubesat

AIS receiver

CubeSat (1U) (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/cubesat.htm)

None

Solar cells, batteries

1 kg

ЦитироватьOUFTI 1
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OUFTI 1
 
OUFTI 1 (Orbital Utility For Telecommunications / Technology Innovations 1) is a 1U CubeSat (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/cubesat.htm) built by students of the Université de Liège. OUFTI-1 will be the first satellite to test the use of the D-STAR communication protocol in space. Another experiment that will fly aboard OUFTI-1 is an innovative electrical power system proposed by Thales Alenia Space ETCA.
OUFTI 1 is one of the educational CubeSats chosen for Phase 1 and 2 of ESA's 'Fly Your Satellite!' initiative.
[TH]Nation:[/TH] [TH]Type / Application:[/TH] [TH]Operator:[/TH] [TH]Contractors:[/TH] [TH]Equipment:[/TH] [TH]Configuration:[/TH] [TH]Propulsion:[/TH] [TH]Power:[/TH] [TH]Lifetime:[/TH] [TH]Mass:[/TH] [TH]Orbit:[/TH]

Belgium

Technology

Université de Liège

Université de Liège; Pumpkin, Inc. (bus)

CubeSat (1U) (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/cubesat.htm)

None

Solar cells, batteries

1 kg

Цитироватьe-st@r
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e-st@r [Politecnico di Torino]
 
e-st@r (Educational SaTellite @ politecnico di toRino) is a CubeSat (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/cubesat.htm)-type naonsatellite built by the Politecnico di Torino. It was launched on the maiden flight of the Vega (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_det/vega.htm) booster.
e-st@r project is an educational and research program which is being carried out at Politecnico di Torino by the AeroSpace System Engineering Team (ASSET). Aim of the project is the development and launch into orbit of the e-st@r satellite, which is a CubeSat class spacecraft. The project is entirely carried out by students, both graduate and undergraduate, under the supervision of researchers and professors.
Following main scientific objectives and one secondary scientific objective have been identified:

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• first main scientific objective: development and test of an active Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem (ADCS);
• secondary scientific objective: test of commercial components and materials.
  

A test of miniaturized fuel cells originally planned has been cancelled.
e-st@r's signal has been received at the team's ground station in Italy, and by radio amateurs around the world. However, operations have been affected by unexpected tumbling of the CubeSat. Until it achieves attitude stabilization, the team has placed e-st@r in power saving mode. In December 2012, the e-st@r team of Politecnico di Torino announced the termination of e-st@r communications and the end of the mission.
A reflight as e-st@r 2 is planned. e-st@r 2 is one of the educational CubeSats chosen for Phase 1 and 2 of ESA's 'Fly Your Satellite!' initiative.
  [TH]Nation:[/TH] [TH]Type / Application:[/TH] [TH]Operator:[/TH] [TH]Contractors:[/TH] [TH]Equipment:[/TH] [TH]Configuration:[/TH] [TH]Propulsion:[/TH] [TH]Power:[/TH] [TH]Lifetime:[/TH] [TH]Mass:[/TH] [TH]Orbit:[/TH]

Italy

Technology

Politecnico di Torino

Politecnico di Torino

CubeSat (1U) (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/cubesat.htm)

None

Solar cells, batteries

1 kg

ЦитироватьApr 8, 2016
Europe's Sentinel-1B satellite is fueled for Arianespace's Soyuz launch on April 22
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The Sentinel-1B satellite for Arianespace's upcoming Soyuz launch is fueled in the Spaceport's S3B clean room facility.

The primary payload on Arianespace's next mission has been fueled at the Spaceport, readying this European environmental satellite for integration with its Soyuz launcher in French Guiana.
                            
During activity in the Spaceport's S3B clean room facility this week, Sentinel-1B was "topped off" with its propellant load, marking another step in preparations for liftoff on April 22.
Sentinel-1B carries a C-SAR (C-band synthetic aperture radar) instrument for all-weather, day/night images, and will join Sentinal-1A – lofted two years ago by Arianespace on another Soyuz mission.
Built by prime contractor Thales Alenia Space, the satellite will have a liftoff mass of approximately 2,300 kg. and is to operate in low Earth orbit at an altitude of 694 kilometers. It is based on a Prima spacecraft platform developed by Thales Alenia Space on behalf of the Italian space agency, ASI.
Sentinel-1B and the identical Sentinel-1A are part of Europe's Copernicus Earth observation program, managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) program in partnership with the European Commission. Copernicus has the goal of ensuring European independence in the acquisition and management of environmental data concerning the planet, as well as to support local authorities and policy-makers.
The April 22 mission is designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system, and will be the company's third of 12 targeted missions in 2016 with its medium-lift Soyuz, heavy-lift Ariane 5 and lightweight Vega vehicles.   
         
Thales Alenia Space website: www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/space (http://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/space)
European Space Agency website – Copernicus: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus)
European Commission website – Copernicus: www.ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm (http://www.ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm)

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Два дополнительных пассажира

ЦитироватьSOE пишет:

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Два дополнительных пассажира

Один.

ЦитироватьApr 11, 2016
A trio of miniaturized satellites are ready for launch on Arianespace's next Soyuz mission                                                     (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/223050.jpg)
Three "Ps in a pod!" The three miniaturized CubeSat payloads from ESA's Fly Your Satellite! university program are integrated with Soyuz launcher hardware. At left, the CubeSats are shown arranged side-by-side in their P-POD deployment system. The P-POD is then secured to a vertical mounting bracket that has been attached to the Soyuz launcher's ASAP-S platform (photos center, and right).

Payload integration has begun for Arianespace's Soyuz mission on April 22, with the flight's three miniaturized auxiliary satellite passengers now installed on a special platform that enables multiple payloads to be deployed by the workhorse launcher.
                            
This spacecraft trio is from the Fly Your Satellite! program, an educational outreach of the European Space Agency (ESA) in collaboration with European universities. With the Fly Your Satellite! activity, students are provided practical experience with a space hardware project as part of the newly-established ESA Academy.
For Arianespace's Soyuz mission to low Earth orbit next week, the three Fly Your Satellite! spacecraft are of the so-called CubeSat-category – sized at 10.5 X 10.5 cm. each, and weighing 1 kg. per payload. They are installed in a deployment system called P-POD, and will be released during a mission lasting a total of four hours.
The three CubeSats are: OUFTI-1 from the University of Liege, Belgium, which will test a new communications subsystem; e-st@r-II, developed by the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy to demonstrate an attitude control system using measurements of the Earth's magnetic field; and AAUSAT4 from the University of Aalborg, Denmark, to operate an automated ocean vessel identification system.
The P-POD deployment system containing these spacecraft is installed on Soyuz' ASAP-S platform, which can accommodate several auxiliary payloads. Also integrated on ASAP-S will be the 303-kg. satellite called Microscope – a French CNES space agency spacecraft designed to validate a cornerstone of modern physics: the equivalence principle described by Albert Einstein.
The primary payload for Arianespace's Soyuz mission on April 22 is Europe's Sentinel-1B satellite, equipped with a C-SAR (C-band synthetic aperture radar) instrument for all-weather, day/night images as part of the Copernicus Earth observation program. Copernicus is managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) in partnership with the European Commission.
The upcoming Soyuz mission is designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace's launcher numbering system, and will be the company's third of up to 12 launches planned for 2016 using its family of the medium-lift Soyuz, heavy-lift Ariane 5 and lightweight Vega vehicles. Flight VS14 follows two heavy-lift flights with Ariane 5 performed to date this year: one orbiting the EUTELSAT 65 West A relay satellite in March; and the other lofting Intelsat 29e in January.
                                       
Thales Alenia Space website: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/space (https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/space)
European Space Agency website – Copernicus: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus)
European Commission website – Copernicus: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm)

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ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Два дополнительных пассажира

SOE пишет:
Один.

Salo пишет:
Sentinel и Microscope?

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Nordsat похоже не летит.

ЦитироватьApr 12, 2016
Fueling is completed for the upper stage on Arianespace's next Soyuz mission
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After emerging fr om the Spaceport's FCube fueling operations hall (at left), the Fregat upper stage for Arianespace's Soyuz Flight VS14 is transferred by road (photo, right) to the S3B clean room, where it will be integrated with the mission's satellite passengers.

The Fregat upper stage for Arianespace's upcoming Soyuz launch has completed its fueling at the Spaceport in French Guiana and is ready to be integrated with the mission's multi-satellite European payload.
                            
Processing of the upper stage for Flight VS14 was performed in the Spaceport's Fregat Fueling Facility (FCube) – which entered service last year as the latest site at French Guiana created to support Arianespace's sustained operational cadence.
FCube reduces the time required to "top off" Fregat upper stages during Soyuz launch campaigns. It also frees up another facility previously used for Fregat upper stage fueling operations, the Spaceport's S3 building – making the S3 facility more available for the processing of customer spacecraft to be lofted by the various members of Arianespace's launch vehicle family.
 

Fregat is ready to receive the passengers for Flight VS14

Fregat is produced by NPO Lavochkin, a company which is part of the Soyuz launcher's Russian industrial team, and serves as an autonomous and flexible upper stage that extends Soyuz' capability to perform a full range of missions.
After its fueling in the FCube, the Fregat was transferred by road today to the Spaceport's S3B clean room, wh ere the upper stage will be integrated with Flight VS14's passengers: Sentinel-1B, which will provide all-weather, day/night images as part of Europe's Copernicus Earth observation program; France's Microscope, designed to validate the equivalence principle described by Albert Einstein; and three miniaturized CubeSats for the European Space Agency's Fly Your Satellite! university student program.
Flight VS14 is set for liftoff from French Guiana on April 22, deploying its multi-satellite payload during a mission lasting four hours. This will be Arianespace's third launch in 2016, continuing the company's pace for as many as 12 flights this year using its medium-lift Soyuz, heavy-lift Ariane 5 and lightweight Vega.
         
NPO Lavochkin website: www.laspace.ru/ (http://www.laspace.ru/)

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185524.jpg) Peter B. de Selding ‏@pbdes  (https://twitter.com/pbdes)  3 ч.3 часа назад (https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/721011972020531200)  
CNES Microscope fundamental physics sat (launches April 22) has 4.5-m booms to deploy at mission end for deorbiting.
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ЦитироватьApr 19, 2016
Soyuz reaches the launch zone for this week's Arianespace mission
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The basic three-stage Soyuz for Flight VS14 is suspended over the launch pad following today's rollout at the Spaceport in French Guiana.

The Soyuz for Arianespace's next medium-lift mission has arrived at the launch zone in French Guiana, where it stands ready to receive the multi-satellite payload that will be lofted on this April 22 flight.
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/222894.jpg) (http://www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/4-19-2016-vs14-lg.jpg)
Flight VS14's satellite passengers are shown partially encapsulated in their protective payload fairing as part of the Soyuz launcher's "upper composite."
 
Applying procedures that have been followed since the workhorse Soyuz launcher ushered in the Space Age, the basic three-stage vehicle emerged today from its MIK integration building in the Spaceport's northwestern sector.
Riding horizontally on a transporter/erector rail car, Soyuz was then transferred to the Spaceport's ELS launch zone – which was followed by its erection to the vertical orientation and positioning over the launch pad, suspended in place by four large support arms.
With the transfer completed, all was ready for the mobile gantry to be moved into position around Soyuz. This purpose-built, 53-meter-tall structure provides a protected environment for installation of the launcher's "upper composite," which consists of the multiple satellite passengers, Fregat upper stage and two-piece protective payload fairing.
To be lofted on the April 22 mission – which is designated VS14 in Arianespace's numbering system – is Sentinel-1B, which will provide all-weather, day/night images as part of Europe's Copernicus Earth observation program; France's Microscope, designed to validate the equivalence principle described by Albert Einstein; and three miniaturized CubeSats for the European Space Agency's Fly Your Satellite! university student program.
Flight VS14 is scheduled to lift off at precisely 6:02:13 p.m. local time in French Guiana, with its passengers to be deployed during a flight lasting approximately four hours after liftoff. The total payload lift performance is estimated at 3,099 kg.

European Commission website – Copernicus: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm)
European Space Agency website – Copernicus: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus)
European Space Agency website, Fly Your Satellite!/CubeSats: www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite (http://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite)

ЦитироватьApr 20, 2016
Soyuz meets its multi-satellite payload for Friday's Arianespace launch
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The integration of Flight VS14's "upper composite" began with its transfer to the launch pad (at left). It was then raised to the upper level of the mobile gantry for installation atop the Soyuz launcher (photos center, and right).

The medium-lift Soyuz for Arianespace's upcoming launch from French Guiana is now complete, following the integration of its "upper composite" – which consists of a five-satellite payload to support European sustainable development and science, while also promoting science and technology careers.
                            
This activity occurred at the Spaceport's ELS launch complex, beginning with the upper composite's transfer yesterday from the S3B payload preparation facility to the launch pad on a special transporter. After arriving at the ELS site's launch pad, the upper composite was hoisted to the upper level of a purpose-built mobile gantry – which provides a protected environment for the vertical installation atop Soyuz.
Designated Flight VS14, the Soyuz mission will begin with a liftoff at exactly 06:02:13 p.m. (local time in French Guiana) on April 22, deploying its passengers into low Earth orbit during a mission lasting 4 hours, 52 seconds.

 

Flight VS14 Payloads: Sentinel-1B, Microscope, And Three Cubesats

The first spacecraft deployed will be Sentinel-1B, a satellite that joins the space segment of Copernicus – the European Commission's program with the European Space Agency (ESA). Sentinel-1B is a C-band radar observation platform designed to provide a comprehensive solution for radar surveillance of the environment and for security issues. This payload has a liftoff mass estimated at 2,164 kg.
Next to be released by Soyuz is a trio of "Fly Your Satellite!" CubeSats – miniaturized spacecraft that provide European university students practical experience in key phases of a challenging, real satellite project.  The CubeSats weigh 1 kg. each, deployed from a 3-kg. dispenser.
Completing the mission will be release of the CNES French space agency's Microscope scientific satellite, which will verify the equivalency principle for inertial and gravitational mass as stated by Albert Einstein. Microscope has an estimated liftoff mass of 303 kg.
Flight VS14 will be Arianespace's initial Soyuz flight of 2016, and is one of up to 12 missions planned from the Spaceport this year with its launcher family of the medium-lift Soyuz, heavy-lift Ariane 5 and lightweight Vega.  Arianespace has conducted two flights so far in 2016, both using Ariane 5.
          
European Commission website – Copernicus:
www.ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm (http://www.ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm)

European Space Agency website – Copernicus:
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus)

European Space Agency website, Fly Your Satellite!/CubeSats:
www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite (http://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite)

CNES website – Microscope:
https://microscope.cnes.fr/en/MICROSCOPE/index.htm

ЦитироватьIva пишет:

Господи, хоть бы не забыть, что 22 апреля 00.02.23 это уже сегодня, но после полуночи!

Цитироватьтавот пишет:
Надо поправить в шапке дату, дабы не вводить народ в заблуждение.

ЦитироватьNAVAREA IV 296/16 
 WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
 FRENCH GUIANA.
 ROCKETS.
 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 2002Z TO 2133Z DAILY
 22 APR THRU 22 MAY IN AREAS BOUND BY:
 A. 08-44.0N 052-14.0W, 08-10.0N 052-19.0W,
 08-11.0N 052-33.0W, 08-46.0N 052-28.0W.
 B. 13-14.0N 052-23.0W, 12-13.0N 052-25.0W,
 12-13.0N 052-52.0W, 13-14.0N 052-51.0W.
 C. 21-34.0N 053-10.0W, 20-07.0N 053-07.0W,
 20-05.0N 053-47.0W, 21-32.0N 053-51.0W.
 D. 05-23.5N 052-53.8W, 05-38.0N 052-53.8W,
 05-33.2N 052-42.9W, 05-16.8N 052-45.9W.
 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 222233Z MAY 16.//
 Authority: MARINE GUYANE SOYOUZ VS14 041847Z APR 16.
 Date: 170940Z APR 16
 Cancel: 22223300 May 16

HYDROARC 37/16 
 BAFFIN BAY.
 DAVIS STRAIT.
 ROCKETS.
 DNC 28.
 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 2112Z TO 2229Z DAILY
 22 APR THRU 22 MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
 71-56N 060-17W, 70-28N 059-58W,
 70-25N 061-40W, 71-53N 062-07W.
 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 222329Z MAY 16.//
 Authority: MARINE GUYANE SOYOUZ VS14 041847Z APR 16.
 Date: 171010Z APR 16
 Cancel: 22232900 May 16

NAVAREA XII 113/16 
 EASTERN PACIFIC.
 ROCKETS.
 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 0137Z TO 0254Z DAILY
 23 APR THRU 23 MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
 03-06N 119-54W, 03-04N 120-45W,
 11-46S 117-58W, 11-38S 117-07W.
 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 230354Z MAY 16.//
 Authority: MARINE GUYANE SOYOUZ VS14 041847Z APR 16.
 Date: 170945Z APR 16
 Cancel: 23035400 May 16

ЦитироватьА.Фарафонов пишет:
23 апреля 2016 года в 00:02 мск

ЦитироватьThe Soyuz rocket that will take Sentinel-1B, three CubeSats and Microscope into orbit is rolled out to the launch pad in preparation for liftoff on 22 April 2016. Once in orbit, Sentinel-1B will provide radar images of Earth for Europe's Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.

With the Sentinel-1 mission designed as a two-satellite constellation, Sentinel-1B will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, which was launched two years ago.

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
NORSAT 1 похоже не летит.

ЦитироватьEngineers discovered "an incompatibility between the satellite and the launcher supporting structure provided by Arianespace," the press release said.

"Both the satellite and XPOD (container) were ready for launch, but the bracket provided by Arianespace was not properly designed," the Space Flight Laboratory said. "It was concluded that it is unsafe to proceed with the launch with the current bracket structure."

ЦитироватьCNES ‏@CNES  (https://twitter.com/CNES) 1m ago (https://twitter.com/CNES/status/723555539440001024)

Au vu des conditions météorologiques au-dessus du CSG, le lancement #VS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/VS14?src=hash) de #Microscope (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Microscope?src=hash) est reporté de 24h

ЦитироватьАртём Жаров пишет:
Сообщают, что снова перенос по погоде.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29242.jpg) DutchSpace ‏@DutchSpace  (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace) сейчас46 секунд назад (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace/status/723929054542331905)
 #VS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/VS14?src=hash) rouge meteo, vent a attitude, ie ZLS is red due to high level winds, retry in 24 hrs.

Цитироватьтавот пишет:
Ну сегодня (в смысле завтра) то надеюсь пустят, не ? Как прогноз погоды ?

Цитироватьтавот пишет:
Ну сегодня (в смысле завтра) то надеюсь пустят, не ? Как прогноз погоды ?

ЦитироватьОлег пишет:
Вверху - там 0,6,12,18 - это UTC ?

ЦитироватьОлег пишет:
Ели б посмотреть такую картинку на вчера-позавчера, было бы понятно, какие именно ветры их могут напугать.

ЦитироватьОлег пишет:
Я сейчас сообразил, что 20..22 - это много, это шторм, по шкале Бофорта.
Да и 15..16 ( как там у поверхности ) - тоже много. У нас пару дней назад было 12 м/сек, так в проводах и щелях гудело очень сильно.
Если там м/сек , а не км/час, или какие-нибудь узлы и т.д.

ЦитироватьWeather is GO for tonights #VS14 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/VS14?src=hash) #Sentinel1 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel1?src=hash) b #Microscope (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Microscope?src=hash) and 3x @ESA__Education (https://twitter.com/ESA__Education) #cubesats (https://twitter.com/hashtag/cubesats?src=hash) fueling ops start in 5 minutes.

ЦитироватьВован пишет:
Где будем смотреть трансляцию?

Цитироватьphobos24 пишет:
Перенос

ЦитироватьMikhail-G пишет:

Цитироватьphobos24   пишет:
Перенос

Опять?

Цитироватьтавот пишет:

Дык заправили жеж.

ЦитироватьThe board is green! All #ESOC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESOC?src=hash) positions confirm final GO for #Sentinel1 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel1?src=hash) B launch!

ЦитироватьStéphane Israël ‏@arianespaceceo  (https://twitter.com/arianespaceceo) 3 мин.3 минуты назад (https://twitter.com/arianespaceceo/status/724332831984504837)

An anomaly has occured on the SYZ Inertial Measurement Unit. Stop for tonight. Work in progress to confirm launch tomorrow.

Цитировать23:26
Officials aborted tonight's launch attempt due to an anomaly on the Soyuz rocket's inertial measurement unit, according to Stephane Israel, Arianespace's chairman and CEO.

"Stop for tonight," he tweeted. "Work in progress to confirm launch tomorrow."

23:18  SCRUB
Today's Soyuz launch has been scrubbed less than an hour before liftoff. No word yet on the cause of the scrub or when the next launch attempt will occur.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185628.jpg) Stéphane Israël ‏@arianespaceceo  (https://twitter.com/arianespaceceo)  6 мин6 минут назад (https://twitter.com/arianespaceceo/status/724332831984504837)  
An anomaly has occured on the SYZ Inertial Measurement Unit. Stop for tonight. Work in progress to confirm launch tomorrow.

ЦитироватьSam Grey пишет:
а как по русски правильно перевести " Inertial Measurement Unit"?

ЦитироватьРазъём пишет:
Точнее ККП - Комплекс Командных Приборов

ЦитироватьРазъём пишет:
Точнее ККП - Комплекс Командных Приборов

ЦитироватьВован пишет:

Какой-то гироскоп накосячил?

ЦитироватьAnonymous пишет:

ЦитироватьРазъём пишет:
Точнее ККП - Комплекс Командных Приборов

А какие чудаки делают ККП для "Союза"?  :)

Цитироватьтавот пишет:
На сегодня будет попытка ? Или проблема серьёзнее ?

Цитироватьоказывается, инерционный измерительный блок имеет важное значение для поддержания нормальной траектории

ЦитироватьUPDATE 25 April 10:30 CEST: activities are underway in Kourou to replace the inertial unit of Soyuz VS14 that was affected by an outage during yesterday's launch countdown. The result of a new technical review is expected around 13:30 CEST/11:30 UTC. Liftoff of the Soyuz launcher is currently targeted for 25 April at 23:02 CEST/21:02 UTC, pending the outcome of the review.

 UPDATE 25 APRIL 14:15 CEST: technical anomaly has now been resolved, the launch of Soyuz flight VS14 carrying Sentinel-1B and three CubeSats is now planned for Monday, 25 April, at 23:02 CEST (21:02 GMT)

 UPDATE 25 APRIL 18:21 CEST: With the successful completion of operations to replace the Soyuz launcher's inertial system that experienced a technical fault – along with the associated checks – Arianespace has decided to resume the launch chronology.

Цитироватьamez пишет:
Извиняюсь, если проглядел, но норвежский спутник сняли или только собирались?

Цитироватьamez пишет:

Извиняюсь, если проглядел, но норвежский спутник сняли или только собирались?

Цитироватьтавот пишет:

Цитироватьamez пишет:

Извиняюсь, если проглядел, но норвежский спутник сняли или только собирались?

Железная болванка летит вместо него. Вроде как не подошел кронштейн, изготовленный ESA.

Цитировать19:34  Go for launch today (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/221748.png)  (http://24liveblog.com/share/194052025?url=http://v.24liveblog.com/live/?id=1327215)
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After replacing the Soyuz rocket's inertial measurement system overnight and verifying the booster's readiness for launch, Arianespace officials have decided to go ahead with another launch attempt this evening.

Liftoff of the Soyuz rocket fr om French Guiana is set for 2102:13 GMT (5:02:13 p.m. EDT) with five satellites.
The rocket will fly in the Soyuz ST-A configuration with an upgraded RD-0110 third stage engine, a digital flight control system, and an "ST-type" 4.1-meter (13.5-foot) payload fairing covering the satellites.
Soyuz rockets flying from French Guiana are also modified to withstand higher humidity levels at the tropical spaceport, which sits in a very different climate zone than Soyuz launch pads in Russia and Kazakhstan. An S-band telemetry system and a range safety flight termination mechanism also fly on the rocket, a change from Soyuz operations elsewh ere.
The launch will be the 14th flight of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana since its debut mission there in 2011.

Цитировать22:44
The next milestone in the countdown will be retraction of the Soyuz rocket's mobile gantry. Engineers are currently configuring the servicing tower to move to a point about 260 feet from the Soyuz rocket.
The Soyuz rocket with Sentinel 1B, Microscope and three CubeSats on-board is a modernized version of the venerable Russian launcher with an automated digital control system. It also has a flight termination system that can receive commands from safety officials on the ground in the event of a mishap, a key difference between the Soyuz rockets flying from French Guiana and Russian launch sites.
The Soyuz launching this evening is known as the Soyuz ST-A or Soyuz 2-1a configuration.
Other upgrades for Soyuz launchers based in French Guiana include an S-band telemetry system, modifications to cope the the humid tropical climate, and valves in the rocket's fuel tanks to allow empty stages to sink in the Atlantic Ocean. Soyuz launches from Kazakhstan or Russia drop their stages on land.
After liftoff, the rocket will go through pitch and roll programs to align with an northerly trajectory from the launch pad near Sinnamary, French Guiana. After a nearly 10-minute flight powered by the Soyuz rocket's three core stages, a Fregat-M upper stage will take over for a 10-minute burn to put the Sentinel 1B radar Earth observation satellite into a 686-kilometer-high (426-mile) orbit with an inclination of 98.2 degrees.
Another Fregat engine burn is required to inject the AAUSAT-4, e-st@r-II and OUFTI-1 CubeSats into their intended orbit.
Two more firings of the Fregat main engine will put France's Microscope physics probe into its proper orbit.
Microscope, the last of the five satellites to separate from the Fregat upper stage, will be released at T+plus 4 hours, 52 seconds.

22:36
The three-stage Soyuz rocket has been fueled for launch with a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene.
Some statistics on today's flight:

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• 1,859th Soyuz rocket launch
• 6th Soyuz launch of 2016
• 14th Soyuz launch from French Guiana
• 3rd launch from Guiana Space Center in 2016
• 1st Soyuz launch from French Guiana in 2016
• 275th Arianespace launch since 1980
• 4th launch of the Copernicus program
• 144th Thales Alenia Space launched by Arianespace
• 25th global orbital launch attempt in 2016
  

ЦитироватьВован пишет:
Мои друзья в Куру готовят пуск

Цитировать23:33  T-minus 28 minutes
T-minus 28 minutes. The launch team has loaded more than 500,000 pounds of liquid oxygen and kerosene propellant into the rocket this evening, plus hydrogen peroxide to drive the engines' gas turbines and liquid nitrogen to keep the propellant tanks pressurized.
The Soyuz countdown sequence begins 6 minutes, 10 seconds prior to liftoff, then the Fregat upper stage will transition to internal power five minutes before launch.
The umbilical arm servicing the upper stage and payloads will pull away at T-minus 2 minutes, 25 seconds. The Soyuz rocket is operating on internal power at T-minus 40 seconds, and the final servicing mast retracts from the rocket 20 seconds later.
The ignition sequence of the Soyuz rocket's kerosene-fueled core stage and four strap-on boosters begins 17 seconds before liftoff, and all engines should be at full thrust three seconds before launch.

23:25
After riding the Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage to space, the mission's primary passenger, Sentinel 1B, will be released on its own approximately 23 minutes after liftoff.
Sentinel 1B is the second radar-carrying Earth observation satellite for Europe's multibillion-dollar Copernicus environmental monitoring network.
The satellite will almost immediately turn on its radio transmitter and radio its status to a ground station in Svalbard, Norway.
A complex sequence of solar array and antenna deployments will begin around 0000 GMT (8 p.m. EDT), first with the partial deployment of Sentinel 1B's C-band radar instrument.
Part of the five-panel, 40-foot-long C-band instrument must move out of the way to allow Sentinel 1A's solar arrays to extend and begin charging the spacecraft's batteries.
Once the spacecraft is generating power to stay alive, Sentinel 1B will complete the deployments of its two solar array wings and rectangular radar antenna.
The deployments take such a long time because ground controllers designed the sequence to occur only when Sentinel 1B is in view of a tracking station, giving engineers full insight into the activities on-board the satellite.
"This is very delicate operation," said Guido Levrini, the European Space Agency's Copernicus space segment program manager, in an interview earlier this week. "This whole choreography will end 11 hours after liftoff."

23:18
The European-funded, Russian-built pad is located about eight miles northwest of the Ariane 5 and Vega launch pads at the Guiana Space Center. Engineers sel ected the Soyuz launch site based on terrain, geology and a location away from Ariane facilities to ensure they did not interfere with each other.
It took three years and cost European governments $800 million to build the Soyuz launch facility, which is known by its French acronym ELS. Other than the 17-story mobile servicing tower and four lightning masts, the launch pad is modeled after the Soyuz launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
This evening's launch is the 14th Soyuz to fly from ELS.
The Soyuz pad includes blue and yellow umbilical arms and hold-down petals at the base of the rocket. On the back side of the pad is a deep flame trench dug out of granite bedrock. The facility also houses living quarters for Russian workers and a launch control center.
The Soyuz site lies closer to the town of Sinnamary than Kourou, which is more typically associated with the spaceport.

23:16  Mobile gantry retracted
Retraction of the launch pad's 174-foot-tall mobile service gantry is complete. The mobile structure will be secured in launch position about 260 feet fr om the rocket.
The tower's retraction to launch position allows ground teams to

Цитировать23:43
The official video stream from the Guiana Space Center is beginning now.

Coming up at T-minus 10 minutes, the Sentinel 1B spacecraft is due to be configured for launch by switching to an on-board battery power source.

Цитировать23:52
T-minus 10 minutes. All systems are reporting a "go" status for an on-time launch this morning.
It is currently 5:52 p.m. in French Guiana.

Цитировать23:54
T-minus 8 minutes. The Soyuz rocket family has flown 1,858 times since the 1950s, and this is the 14th time the venerable launcher will fly from outside the territory of the former Soviet Union.

Цитировать23:56  Weather go, launch key inserted
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T-minus 6 minutes. The launch key has been installed inside the launch control center, beginning the Soyuz rocket's synchronized countdown sequence.
The final check of weather conditions aloft and at the surface show all conditions are acceptable for liftoff.

Цитировать23:57
T-minus 4 minutes. The exact liftoff time is 2102:13 GMT (5:02:13 p.m. EDT; 6:02:13 p.m. local time).

Цитировать00:01 (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/221748.png)  (http://24liveblog.com/share/194053074?url=http://v.24liveblog.com/live/?id=1327215)
T-minus 1 minute. The Soyuz will transition to internal power 40 seconds before liftoff.

00:00
T-minus 2 minutes. The upper umbilical mast servicing the Soyuz rocket's five satellite payloads is being disconnected from the launcher.

Цитировать00:05  Fairing jettison
T+plus 3 minutes, 50 seconds. The rocket's 13.5-foot ST-type nose fairing has jettisoned now that the launcher is out of the lower atmosphere.

00:04
T+plus 2 minutes. The four strap-on boosters of the Soyuz rocket have separated at an altitude of approximately 37 miles. The core stage continues firing.

00:03  LIFTOFF
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LIFTOFF of the Soyuz rocket with missions to monitor Earth's environment, test Einstein's theory and inspire the next generation of engineers and explorers.

00:01
T-minus 15 seconds. Ignition of the Soyuz rocket's engines.

Цитировать00:08
T+plus 5 minutes, 15 seconds. At an altitude of 240 kilometers and a velocity of 3.66 kilometers per second, the Soyuz rocket's second stage has shut down and separated. Third stage ignition is also confirmed.

Цитировать00:11  Fregat separation
T+plus 9 minutes, 5 seconds. The third stage has shut down and separated from the Soyuz rocket's Fregat upper stage, which will ignite momentarily to boost Sentinel 1B, Microscope and the CubeSats to orbital velocity.

00:11
T+plus 8 minutes, 10 seconds. The third stage RD-0110 engine is firing as planned. Altitude is 420 km and downrange distance is 1,320 km.

Цитировать00:13  First Fregat ignition (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/221748.png)  (http://24liveblog.com/share/194053103?url=http://v.24liveblog.com/live/?id=1327215)
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T+plus 10 minutes. The Fregat upper stage is now firing, burning hydrazine fuel to accelerate Sentinel 1B into orbit. The Fregat has been acquired by a communications station in Saint-Hubert, Canada.

ЦитироватьОлег пишет:

Ой, что это - анимация, или камеры таки поставили ?  

Цитировать00:28  Sentinel 1B separation
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Sentinel 1B separation confirmed! The 4,770-pound spacecraft is flying on its own after deployment from the Soyuz rocket's Fregat upper stage.

00:24
A ground station in Saskatoon, Canada, is now in contact with the Fregat upper stage as it flies overhead in orbit.

00:23
T+plus 21 minutes. The Fregat upper stage has shut down after reaching orbit. Deployment of Sentinel 1B scheduled for T+plus 23 minutes, 35 seconds.

00:21
T+plus 19 minutes. The Fregat and Sentinel 1B are now flying 5,100 kilometers north of French Guiana as the upper stage nears the end of its first burn.

00:18
T+plus 16 minutes. Good performance reported from the Fregat main engine in this 10-minute burn.

ЦитироватьVeganin пишет:
Осталось мелочь отделить и все.

ЦитироватьОлег пишет:

ЦитироватьVeganin пишет:
Осталось мелочь отделить и все.

Да вроде не совсем мелочь - 140 или 180 кг.

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ЦитироватьApr 25, 2016   
Flight VS14 – A successful Arianespace launch with Soyuz, supporting sustainable development, fundamental physics and promoting space careers
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/223058.jpg)                                                                             
Arianespace successfully launched the Sentinel-1B satellite for the Copernicus program on behalf of the European Commission, under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). It also or-bited on this mission, the French CNES space agency's Microscope satellite, and three CubeSats for the ESA Education and Knowledge Management Office's Fly Your Satellite! program. The Soyuz launcher lifted off on April 25, 2016 at 6:02 pm (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana.
                            
Arianespace's third launch of the year was dedicated to European space initiatives for sustainable development, fundamental physics and promoting science and space careers among young Euro-peans. It clearly confirmed Arianespace's commitment to its primary mission, namely guaranteeing reliable and independent access to space for Europe.
 Boosting sustainable development
With the launch of Sentinel-1B, Arianespace continues to deploy the space segment of Copernicus, a program on behalf of the European Commission, under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), which is designed to provide extensive information on the Earth's land masses, oceans and atmosphere. This data plays a critical role in determining environmental and security policies, as well as addressing the needs of both consumers and service providers.
Sentinel-1B is a C-band radar observation satellite, using an SAR (synthetic aperture radar) type sensor. It is identical to the Senti-nel-1A satellite, successfully launched on April 3, 2014 from the Guiana Space Center, also by a Soyuz rocket.

* Sentinel-1B is the 51st satellite to be launched by Arianespace for ESA, and the third for the Copernicus program (after Sentinel-1A in April 2014 and Sentinel-2A in June 2015). * 18 more ESA satellites are scheduled for launch by Arianespace, including Sentinel-3B on Vega. * Earth observation missions account for 9% of the Arianespace missions carried out to date.

Sentinel-1B will round out the initial capacity offered by Sentinel-1A to provide a comprehensive solution for radar surveillance of the environment and for security issues. Together, the two satellites will provide coverage of the Earth in less than six days, day or night and under all weather conditions.
 Supporting science and education
The micro-satellite Microscope (Micro-Satellite à traînée Compensée pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence) is designed to provide ex-perimental verification, to an accuracy of better than 10-15, of the equivalency principle for inertial and gravitational mass as stated by Albert Einstein. If it shows any violation of this basic principle, that would be an earth shattering development in fundamental physics.
Through another payload on this flight, Fly Your Satellite!, Arianespace is contributing to ESA's educational program (via its Education and Knowledge Management bureau).

* Microscope is the 15th satellite launched by Arianespace for French space agency CNES. * CNES is funding 90% of this mission, and acts as prime contractor. * Arianespace's current launch manifest includes one more CNES satellite, Taranis. * Science missions account for 9% of the Arianespace missions carried out to date.

Conducted in conjunction with European universities, the Fly Your Satellite! program enables students to add hands-on scientific ex-perience to their classwork. It is designed to foster their interest in these activities, stimulate them and help them prepare for a career in science and technology, especially in the space sector.
This Arianespace mission orbited three CubeSats built by students from Belgium, Italy and Denmark, to test new technologies. They are the 52nd, 53rd and 54th satellites launched by Arianespace for ESA.

3 CubeSats: * OUTFI-1 from the University of Liège in Belgium is a demonstrator for the D-STAR communica-tions protocol. * e-st@r-II from the Polytechnic institute in Turin, Italy, is a demonstrator for a 3-axis attitude control system, using the Earth's magnetic field, * AAUSAT-4 from the University of Aalborg, Den-mark, is a demonstrator for the reception of sig-nals from an Automatic Identification System (AIS), designed to identify and locate ships sail-ing offshore in coastal regions.

Shortly after the announcement of the completion of this mission, Stéphane Israël, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, said: "This evening's successful launch makes us very happy and very proud to contribute to European missions in support of sustainable development, fundamental physics and fostering European students' vocation for science and space. I would like to thank the European Commission, our leading government customer, for its ongoing confidence via the launch of satellites for Copernicus and Galileo, the European Space Agency, as our direct customer on the launch, for their constant support, and CNES, for enabling us to participate in the amazing experiments being carried out by Microscope. I would also like to thank the Russian space agency Roscosmos for their commitment to our partnership based on the Soyuz launcher, which more than ever reaffirms its dual vocation for commercial and government missions. And bravo to the Arianespace team for this third successful launch of 2016."

Sentinel-1B is based on the Prima (Piattaforma Italiana Multi-Applicativa) platform developed by Thales Alenia Space Italy pour for the Italian Space Agency ASI. It is fitted with a C-Band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) built by Airbus De-fence and Space. Sentinel-1B weighed 2,164 kg. at liftoff and offers a design life of about seven years. It will provide 5,984 watts of electrical power at end-of-life, and will be positioned in Sun-synchronous orbit at an inclination of 98.2° and at an altitude of approximately 686 km. Microscope (MICROSatellite à trainée Compensée pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence) was built by CNES with help from ESA and other partners (CNRS-DLR-ONERA-INSU-OCA-ZARM). It weighed 303 kg. at liftoff, and will offer a minimum service life of two years, with a possible one-year extension. At end-of-life, it will provide 192 W of electrical power. It will also be positioned in Sun-synchronous orbit, with an inclination of 98.2° and at an altitude of about 711 km. Fly Your Satellite ! Each of the three participating universities built one CubeSat in this program: AAUSAT-4, built by the University of Aalborg in Denmark; e-st@r-II, built by Politecnico di Torino (Italy); and OUTFI-1 built by the University of Liège in Belgium. The complete payload weighed 6 kg. at launch (3 kg. for the three CubeSats + 3 kg.for the P-POD payload adapter). Each CubeSat will offer a service life of about one year. All three will be positioned in low Earth orbit (LEO), at an inclination of 98.2°, with a perigee and apogee of 453 km and 665 km, respectively.

About Arianespace
Arianespace uses space to make life better on Earth by providing launch services for all types of satellites into all orbits. It has orbited more than 500 satellites since 1980, using its family of three launchers, Ariane, Soyuz and Vega, from launch sites in French Guiana (South America) and Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Arianespace is headquartered in Evry, near Paris, and has a technical facility at the Gui-ana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, plus local offices in Washington, D.C., Tokyo and Singapore.

ЦитироватьApr 25, 2016
Soyuz demonstrates its Arianespace mission flexibility by delivering five satellites into multiple low Earth orbits                                                           (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/223057.jpg)
Arianespace's third flight of 2016 has demonstrated the versatility of its medium-lift Soyuz launcher, which deployed five European satellites of varying sizes into three different low Earth orbits during a mission lasting four hours.
                            
Departing the Spaceport in French Guiana at the precise launch time of 06:02:13 p.m. on April 25, Soyuz first released Sentinel-1B – a spacecraft for radar surveillance of the environment and for security issues – at 23 minutes into the mission. Three miniaturized CubeSats were then deployed at 2 hours, 48 minutes after liftoff, followed by the separation of the Microscope scientific satellite at 4 hours into the flight.

 

The pace continues for 12 Arianespace launches in 2016

Noting that Arianespace remains on track for its goal of conducting up to 12 missions this year with its complete launcher family, Arianespace Chairman & CEO Stéphane Israël thanked the various players in tonight's success in his post-launch comments. They included the Russian space sector (supplying the Soyuz launcher and its re-ignitable Fregat upper stage, which performed multiple burns during tonight's mission), the French CNES space agency and European Space Agency for their support at the Spaceport launch base, and Arianespace's own teams.
 
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Flight VS14 was the 14th mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana for Arianespace's medium-lift launcher.
 
The workhorse Soyuz once again demonstrated its mission adaptability with this latest launch, designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace's numbering system. It was the Russian-built vehicle's 14th liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana, and the 40th Soyuz mission overall for Arianespace (which includes 26 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, performed by the company's Starsem affiliate).
With the five-satellite payload deployed during Flight VS14, Soyuz has lofted 38 payloads from the Spaceport on missions to: low Earth orbit; medium Earth orbit; Sun synchronous Earth orbit; and an escape trajectory to the second Lagrange point (L2), located approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
Overall, the vehicles in Arianespace's three-member launcher family have performed 275 launches, utilizing the medium-lift Soyuz, heavy-lift Ariane 5 and lightweight Vega.

 

Arianespace's goal: "To put space at the service of a better life on Earth"

Sentinel-1B was the largest satellite deployed during Flight VS14, with a mass at liftoff calculated at 2,164 kg. Developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) on behalf of the European Commission for the Copernicus Earth observation program, Sentinel-1B is the second spacecraft in the Sentinel-1 family of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observation satellites – and follows Sentinel-1A, orbited by Arianespace on another Soyuz from French Guiana in April 2014. Sentinel-1B was built by Thales Alenia Space based on the PRIMA multi-role platform developed for the ASI Italian space agency.
"Sentinel-1B is the third satellite launched by Arianespace to deploy the Copernicus space segment," Arianespace's Israël said. "Through Copernicus, Europe is developing its own global monitoring system to better address our environment and security issues, an objective which is fully in line with our ambition to put space at the service of a better life on Earth."
Israël added that he looked forward to the further broadening of Europe's space ambitions, which, in addition to Copernicus and the Galileo navigation satellite constellation (also being orbited by Arianespace launchers), will open new chapters for secured defense communications, global connectivity and environmental monitoring. "In so doing, we see the European Commission as a key anchor customer for future launch services with the Ariane 6 and Vega C [follow-on launch vehicles]," he stated.

 

CubeSats to prepare students for science and technology careers

During the second phase of tonight's Flight VS14, Soyuz released three CubeSats for the European Space Agency's "Fly Your Satellite!" program, an educational outreach with European universities that provides students hands-on experience to foster their interest in careers of science and technology, especially in the space sector.
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This image depicts Sentinel-1B as it was released during Flight VS14's multi-payload deployment sequence. At left is Soyuz' Fregat upper stage, on which the ASAP-S platform was installed with its three CubeSats. At ASAP-S's center is the extender/adapter that housed the Microscope satellite.
 
The CubeSats had a mass at liftoff of 1 kg. each, and were deployed by a small dispenser system called P-POD, which weighed 3 kg and was installed on the ASAP-S platform that accommodates auxiliary payloads for Soyuz missions. They were the 52nd, 53rd and 54th satellites launched to date by Arianespace for the European Space Agency.
These miniaturized spacecraft are: OUTFI-1, a demonstrator for the D-STAR communications protocol, from the University of Liège in Belgium; the Polytechnic Institute of Turin, Italy's e-st@r-II, serving as a demonstrator for a 3-axis attitude control system using the Earth's magnetic field; and AAUSAT-4 from the University of Aalborg, Denmark, to demonstrate the reception of signals from an Automatic Identification System (AIS), identifying and locating ships sailing offshore in coastal regions.

 

Validating a scientific principle from Albert Einstein

Completing Flight VS14 was the deployment of Microscope, the French CNES space agency's satellite developed to verify the equivalency principle for inertial and gravitational mass as stated by Albert Einstein.
Microscope (the French acronym for: Micro-Satellite à traînée Compensée pour l'Observation du Principe d'Equivalence) had a liftoff mass of just over 300 kg., and was based on CNES' Myriade small satellite bus – with cold-gas microthrusters provided by the European Space Agency and a development cooperation with numerous European entities involved.
The satellite carries two concentric cylindrical test masses made of different materials – one titanium and one a platinum-rhodium alloy. Their movement will be minutely controlled inside independent differential electrostatic accelerometers to keep them motionless with respect to the satellite. If the equivalence principle is verified, these two masses will be subjected to the same control acceleration; if different accelerations have to be applied, the principle will be violated – an event that would shake the foundations of physics.
Microscope was the 15th satellite launched by Arianespace for the CNES space agency. For its ride into orbit, it was positioned at the center of Soyuz' ASAP-S platform – housed inside an extender/adapter.
          
European Commission website – Copernicus: ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/copernicus/index_en.htm)
European Space Agency website – Copernicus: www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus)
European Space Agency website, Fly Your Satellite!/CubeSats: www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite (http://www.esa.int/Education/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite)
CNES website – Microscope: https://microscope.cnes.fr/en/MICROSCOPE/index.htm
Thales Alenia Space website: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/space

ЦитироватьВВК пишет:
Это не про наш случай?

 http://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201604251116-ja83.htm

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А почему кубсат только один?

ЦитироватьSOE пишет:

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Nordsat похоже не летит.

Без "похоже". ГВМ вместо него уже.

Цитироватьnapalm пишет:
Ранее в теме

ЦитироватьSOE пишет:

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Nordsat похоже не летит.

Без "похоже". ГВМ вместо него уже.

ЦитироватьMikhail-G пишет:
А причем здесь Norsat? Там помимо него были три кубсата - OUFTI-1, e-sta@r-II, AAUSAT4.

Цитировать27 April 2016

Following liftoff on 25 April from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, Sentinel-1B has opened its large solar wings and radar antenna.

ЦитироватьSOE пишет: 

ЦитироватьSalo пишет: 
Nordsat похоже не летит.

Без "похоже". ГВМ вместо него уже.

ЦитироватьAir пишет:
(https://www.newkaliningrad.ru/forum/uploads/gallery/album_2386/gallery_6489_2386_115695.jpg)

ЦитироватьAir пишет:
25-й запуск 2016 года. 9-й российской РН. Успешный запуск европейских спутников с космодрома Куру. 14-й старт ракеты-носителя "Союз" с французского космодрома.

ЦитироватьMikhail-G пишет:

Цитироватьnapalm пишет:
Ранее в теме

ЦитироватьSOE пишет:

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Nordsat похоже не летит.

Без "похоже". ГВМ вместо него уже.

А причем здесь Norsat? Там помимо него были три кубсата - OUFTI-1, e-sta@r-II, AAUSAT4.

Цитироватьnapalm пишет: 
Я так понял, кубики нашлись?

ЦитироватьSOE пишет:
Не уверен, что приведенный снимок помог "обнаружить фрагменты". Он был сделан через примерно час после падения, то при поверхностном течении даже консервативно 0.3 м/с унесло пятно более, чем на километр.

Цитата: https://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/82453/Спутник Sentinel-1B испытывает серьёзные проблемы

Европейский спутник ДЗЗ Sentinel-1B испытывает серьёзные проблемы, связанные с энергосистемой космического аппарата. Об этом 10 января в Twitter сообщил корреспондент Би-Би-Си Джонатан Амос (Jonathan Amos).

По его информации, впервые сбой на спутнике был зафиксирован 23 декабря минувшего года. Специалисты проанализировали сложившуюся ситуацию и разработали методику устранения неисправности.

Однако, в ходе подготовки операций по возобновлению нормального функционирования Sentinel-1B стало ясно, что проблема серьёзней, чем это виделось вначале.

В ближайшие дни работы по восстановлению штатной работы спутника будут продолжены.

Цитата: https://twitter.com/AschbacherJosef/status/1481577622849167365Как стало известно, в последнее время в работе спутника Sentinel-1B, запущенного в рамках программы Copernicus EU, возникли некоторые отклонения. В связи с этим ведётся расследование с целью выявить и попытаться устранить первопричину этих отклонений. Проблема связана с одним из блоков подсистемы электропитания.

Помимо этой проблемы, спутник находится под управлением, система терморегулирования работает надлежащим образом, маневры коррекции орбиты выполняются в штатном режиме.

Я знаю, какие неудобства вызывает это происшествие у многих заинтересованных лиц по всему миру, работа которых зависит от данных, передаваемых группировкой спутников Sentinel-1. Буду держать вас в курсе по мере принятия решений.

ЦитироватьШансов на восстановление спутника Sentinel-1B всё меньше и меньше
Представители Европейского космического агентства (ЕКА) заявили, что перспективы восстановления спутника радиолокационной съемки, вышедшего из строя почти три месяца назад, невелики, но усилия по спасению космического корабля продолжаются, пишет SpaceNews (перевод от Google).

Спутник Sentinel-1B вышел из строя в декабре минувшего года, из-за чего космический аппарат не смог получить изображения радара с синтезированной апертурой (SAR) C-диапазона. В январе ЕКА заявило, что расследует проблему с системой питания полезной нагрузки SAR спутника, запущенного в апреле 2016 года.

Руководители ЕКА не были оптимистичны в отношении перспектив восстановления Sentinel-1B. «Ситуация выглядит не очень хорошо, но мы еще не теряем надежды», — сказал Йозеф Ашбахер, генеральный директор ЕКА, отвечая на вопрос о статусе спутника. «Мы все еще изучаем технические варианты того, что может быть основной причиной».

Симонетта Чели, директор по наблюдению за Землей в ЕКА, сказала, что инженеры рассмотрели 18 возможных причин отключения электроэнергии. «Мы еще не подошли к концу истории», — сказала она, отметив, что расследование будет продолжаться, по крайней мере, в течение следующих нескольких недель.

Но, как и Ашбахер, она выглядела пессимистично настроенной в отношении возможности восстановления Sentinel-1B. «Выглядит не очень хорошо, но на данный момент это не последнее слово в отношении 1B».
А.Ж.