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ЦитироватьSentinel-5p satellite passes fit-check and release shock test

(6 February 2016) The launch service for European Space Agency's Sentinel-5p satellite on the Rockot launch vehicle reached an important project milestone during this week.
In the frame of the satellite's test campaign at the facilities of Intespace, Toulouse, Sentinel-5p has been mated for the first time on its dedicated launch vehicle adapter. This adapter system will attach the spacecraft to the Rockot carrier during its travel into space and will eventually release the satellite into the target orbit.
 

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Sentinel-5p being lowered on the Rockot adapter ... (courtesy: Eurockot Launch Services)

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and mated with the Rockot launch vehicle adapter ... (courtesy: Eurockot Launch Services)

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and separated again ... (courtesy: Eurockot Launch Services)

The mating exercise, the so-called fit-check, aimed at verifying the mechanical and electrical interfaces between the Sentinel-5p satellite, built by Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, and the launcher hardware, manufactured by the rocketry company Khrunichev Research and Production Space Centre. The purpose of a fit-check is ensuring a successful integration of the spacecraft onto Rockot at the launch complex and a check of the umbilical connections between the launcher and its payload. For the Sentinel-5p mission, the fit-check was further used to verify a customized purging system which was integrated into the adapter allowing the satellite customer to flush its contamination-sensitive instrument through the satellite-launcher interface during ground operations.
The actual attachment of the Sentinel-5p satellite to its launch adapter is by means of a clamp band mechanism developed by Airbus Defence and Space in Madrid (formerly CASA Espacio). The clamp band is applied with high tension along the spacecraft-launch vehicle interface. The release of the satellite in space is achieved by firing pyro charges which spontaneously opens the clamp and hence allows separation. As the flawless functioning of the release is essential for a launch success, it was tested following the mating under recording the induced shock loads levels.
Fit-check and release shock test have been conducted successfully on February 3rd and 4th, respectively, in a remarkable team effort by Airbus Defence & Space, Khrunichev Space Centre, European Space Agency and Eurockot.
(source: Eurockot Launch Services)

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середина июня – Sentinel-5p – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3

Пишите "ПО" пока нет официоза. Потому, что это даже не лето уже.

ЦитироватьSalo пишет:
Что характерно, в крайнем ESA Bulletin указан апрель.

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Что характерно, в крайнем ESA Bulletin указан апрель. 8)

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Ещё одно предсказание от источника  :)  Так и хочется добавить ,,святого источника,,.
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июнь – Sentinel-5p – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3

В Википедии на той неделе кто-то из Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut не зря поправил на август.
В ближайшие 3 недели сдвиги "вправо" вряд ли будут, судя по графику совещаний. А потом, возможно, снова как всегда.

ЦитироватьОб обеспечении запуска с космодрома Плесецк космического аппарата научного назначения «Сентинел-5П» (Европейское космическое агентство)
Распоряжение от 25 мая 2017 года №1020-р. Космический аппарат предназначен для решения задач программы «Коперник» Европейской комиссии и будет использоваться для получения данных по составу мировой атмосферы, изучения климата и качества атмосферного воздуха. После выведения КА на заданную орбиту он будет внесён в национальный регистр Европейского космического агентства.
Подписанным распоряжением утверждён комплекс мер по проведению запуска с космодрома Плесецк космического аппарата научного назначения (далее – КА) «Сентинел-5П» (Европейское космическое агентство). В частности, предусмотрено оказание услуг с привлечением сил и средств Минобороны России, допуск иностранных специалистов на связанные с запуском объекты.
КА «Сентинел-5П» изготовлен фирмой Thales Alenia Space. Он предназначен для решения задач программы «Коперник» Европейской комиссии и будет использоваться для получения данных по составу мировой атмосферы, изучения климата и качества атмосферного воздуха. После выведения КА на заданную орбиту он будет внесён в национальный регистр Европейского космического агентства.
Все работы по обеспечению запуска КА будут выполнены за счёт внебюджетных источников.

ЦитироватьSept. 21 • Rockot • Sentinel 5p
Launch window: TBD
 Launch site: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
A Eurockot Rockot vehicle will launch with the Sentinel 5 Precursor Earth observation satellite for the European Space Agency and the European Commission. Sentinel 5p carries an instrument to measure air quality, ozone, pollution and aerosols in Earth's atmosphere. Delayed from Oct. 31, early 2017, June and August. [June 9]

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Sept. 21

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Updated 3D animation of @ESA_EO (https://twitter.com/ESA_EO) @CopernicusEU (https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU) #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) flying over The Netherlands, jointly developed between ESA and @NLSpaceOffice (https://twitter.com/NLSpaceOffice)

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With around 2600km swath width, #Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5p?src=hash) will be able to provide daily global coverage for air quality measurements and forecasts

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European satellite with Dutch core ready for launch @KNMI (https://twitter.com/KNMI) @AirbusDS_NL (https://twitter.com/AirbusDS_NL) @TNO_Research (https://twitter.com/TNO_Research) @SRON_Space (https://twitter.com/SRON_Space) @ESA_EO (https://twitter.com/ESA_EO) @esa (https://twitter.com/esa)

ЦитироватьEuropean satellite with Dutch core ready for launch

The Sentinel-5P satellite, with the Dutch space instrument Tropomi at its core, is ready for launch. After its launch, Tropomi will monitor the air quality and spread of greenhouse gases with unprecedented precision. In early October, a Russian Rokot-type rocket will place the satellite into orbit fr om the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Siberia. The Sentinel-5P was seen for the last time today in the cleanroom of Airbus UK in Stevenage, before being prepared for transport to the launch pad.

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The aim of the European megaproject Copernicus is to deploy satellites to monitor the safety and health of our planet. Working on instructions fr om the European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA) has already launched five Sentinel satellites into space, all of which are observing the Earth through their own electronic eyes. Sentinel-5P is the latest addition to the Copernicus stable, this time packed with Dutch-made high tech, combined to form the technological tour de force, Tropomi. Its mission: to analyse the Earth's atmosphere, every day, across the globe, with unprecedented precision.

And not before time, says Pepijn Veefkind fr om the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), which manages the scientific side of the project together with the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON). 'Previous satellite readings provided data about the air quality above urbanised areas around the world, such as Western Europe and Eastern China. The red patches on the maps we compiled from this data speak for themselves. The high-accuracy observations made by Tropomi will give us pointers for tackling the problem.'

Pointers are sorely needed to come to grips with the climate problem. Tropomi is expected to make an important contribution in this respect, by literally mapping the routes taken by greenhouse gases through the Earth's atmosphere. Veefkind: 'A gas like methane, for example, might be much less prevalent in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, yet it has a much more powerful greenhouse effect. Tropomi will show wh ere it's coming from and wh ere it's going.'

Several technological developments realised by the aerospace company Airbus in Leiden, and incorporated into the global concept, are crucial to Tropomi. Sytze Kampen from Airbus: 'Our partners SRON and TNO came up with the idea of immersed gratings. It's a clever optical trick that allows the whole instrument to be forty times smaller. Pure profit in space engineering terms.'

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The Dutch government has invested a total of € 80 million in the development of the space project, thanks to an agreement signed with ESA in 2009 by former Minister of Economic Affairs, Maria van der Hoeven. This allowed the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) to award the contract to the consortium that developed Tropomi. This will lead to more than just new scientific insights, says deputy-director of NSO, Nico van Putten: 'We are capitalising in a field wh ere the Netherlands is already a world leader. Tropomi is creating opportunities for new international projects for Dutch space technology.'

The advanced technology used for Tropomi is the life's work of many Dutch engineers, which is why a final glimpse of the satellite is so special, says Sytze Kampen from Airbus in Leiden. 'This is the final result of a combination of Dutch high tech and years of dedication from a close team of specialists. Seeing a project actually ready for launch is a rare occurrence in the career of a space engineer.'

Tropomi is a collaboration between Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands, KNMI, SRON and TNO. It was commissioned by NSO and ESA. Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands is the principal contractor for developing the instrument, while scientific management is in the hands of KNMI and SRON. Funding for TROPOMI was provided by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.

This is how Tropomi works
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More information about Tropomi: www.tropomi.nl (http://www.tropomi.nl/?lang=en)

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Director @AschbacherJosef (https://twitter.com/AschbacherJosef): #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) "will take @CopernicusEU (https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU) programme into a new era of atmospheric monitoring." http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/Air_pollution_monitoring_Sentinel_on_show ... (https://t.co/qGQ7qB9QHF)
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ЦитироватьAir pollution monitoring Sentinel on show
 
20 July 2017
With Sentinel-5 Precursor about to be packed up and shipped to Russia for liftoff in late September, media representatives, members of the UK Space Agency and National Centre for Earth Observation had the chance to see this Copernicus air-pollution monitoring satellite standing proud in the cleanroom.
 
Sentinel-5 Precursor – also known as Sentinel-5P – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere.

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Sentinel-5P on show

It has been built to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane that affect air quality.

The satellite will help to identify pollution hotspots where public health could be at risk. It will also contribute to services that warn of high levels of UV radiation, which can cause skin cancer, and volcanic ash monitoring for aviation safety.

Carrying the Tropomi instrument, the most advanced of its kind, Sentinel-5P will map the entire planet every 24 hours. The availability of accurate and up-to-date information will help decision-makers to fight air pollution and climate change.

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Josef Aschbacher

Sentinel-5P is the forerunner of the Sentinel-5 mission to be carried on the MetOp Second Generation satellites that will be launched in a few years. Until then Sentinel-5P will deliver much needed information to monitor and track air pollution.

The media event was held at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK, where the satellite was built and tested.

ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Josef Aschbacher, said, "It's wonderful to see the satellite in all its glory, and it's thanks to a truly collaborative effort that it will take the EC's Copernicus programme into a new era of atmospheric monitoring.

"ESA is very grateful to the Netherlands for its substantial contribution to the Tropomi instrument. The mission as a whole was designed and built by a consortium of 30 companies under the leadership of Airbus Defence and Space."

Nico van Putten, Deputy Director of the Netherlands Space Office, added, "The development and the implementation of the top-notch Tropomi instrument for Sentinel-5P is thanks to the remarkable close cooperation between different entities from all over Europe.

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Bringing air pollution into focus

"As a Dutch institution we are proud to contribute to this marvel of space technology, which will now help to tackle global challenges, making Europe even stronger in Earth observation."

Pepijn Veefkind from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, added, "Every day, Tropomi will make almost 20 million observations of important air pollutants and gases affecting the climate.

"KNMI will use this data to improve air-quality forecasts and to keep a close eye on emission increases or reductions, and to monitor what mitigation measures are effective in protecting the air we breathe."

Engineers will now prepare the satellite for shipment to the Plesetsk launch site in Russia. Once there it will be thoroughly tested and prepared for launch in late September.

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#Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) will monitor #TraceGases (https://twitter.com/hashtag/TraceGases?src=hash) such as nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and methane that affect air quality. http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2017/07/Bringing_air_pollution_into_focus ... (https://t.co/drezl0JqJF)

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Sentinel-5 Precursor is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. With air pollution a major concern, the satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate.

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New article: #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) shows off its splendor one last time before being shipped to Russia for launch in September http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/Air_pollution_monitoring_Sentinel_on_show ... (https://t.co/qGQ7qB9QHF)
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The Copernicus Sentinel-5 satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate.

With a swath width of 2600 km, it will map the entire planet every day. Information from this new mission will be used through the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service for air quality forecasts and for decision-making.

ЦитироватьUK-built pollution monitoring satellite ready for launch

Stuart Clark (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/dr-stuart-clark)
Thursday 20 July 2017 16.29 BST

The Sentinel-5P spacecraft is designed to monitor the pollution that causes a reported tens of thousands of deaths every year in the UK

Last year, the European Space Agency launched the Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars. It is designed to look for methane – a key tracer of life – to determine if Martian microbes are present on the red planet (https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2016/mar/11/is-there-life-on-mars-exomars-trace-gas-orbiter-takes-up-the-search).

Now, ESA is preparing to launch another spacecraft to look at methane on another planet: our own.

The UK-built Sentinel-5P, a pollution monitoring satellite, is ready to begin its journey fr om Airbus Defence and Space (http://space.airbus.com/portfolio/earth-observation-satellites/), Stevenage, to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, where it will lift off in late September/early October.

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An artist's impression of Sentinel-5P. Photograph: ESA/Airbus

Sentinel-5P is part of the Copernicus global monitoring programme, a joint venture between the European Commission and the European Space Agency (https://www.theguardian.com/science/european-space-agency). This particular spacecraft is the first Copernicus satellite dedicated to monitoring atmospheric chemistry.

Missions like this are essential for making the connection between space and everyday life on Earth, according to Colin Paynter, Managing Director of Airbus Defence and Space (https://www.theguardian.com/science/space), UK. He says, "Space is not just for geeks, it is part of our national and international infrastructure."

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The Sentinel-5P satellite in the cleanroom at Airbus Defence and Space, Stevenage, UK. Photograph: Max Alexander/Airbus

It traps 28 times more heat than an equivalent mass of carbon dioxide. It is released naturally by living things – hence the interest in looking for it on Mars – but also from the fossil fuel industry, landfill sites, rice agriculture and the thawing of the permafrost at higher latitudes.

As well as methane, Sentinel-5 P will also look for nitrogen dioxide and other key polluting gases.

Nitrogen dioxide comes mainly from road traffic and other fossil fuel combustion, and naturally occurring forest fires. Last year a report (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/22/indoor-and-outdoor-air-pollution-claiming-at-least-40000-uk-lives-a-year) from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health found that in the UK air pollution causes at least 40,000 deaths a year, and costs the economy £20bn a year.

Sentinel-5P will be able to measure pollution accurately across individual countries, (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/18/polluted-air-poisoning-thousands-across-north-of-england-warns-report) which can then be compared to their self-declared pollution inventories. It will image the whole Earth every day, and can also monitor concentrations of volcanic ash for air safety, and warn against high levels of the UV radiation that can cause skin cancer.

The Copernicus programme (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus) aims to provide comprehensive Earth observation data to improve the management of the environment. It will eventually consist of 20 missions, 15 of which will be dedicated satellites and 5 of which will be instruments on other spacecraft.

"A system like this has never existed before," says Josef Aschbacher, Director of Earth Observation Programmes, European Space Agency. "The US and other partners are looking to Europe to make deals to get access to this data."

In a statement released today (http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2017/07/airbus-built-sentinel-5-precursor-satellite-ready-for-launch.html), business secretary Greg Clark said, "The UK-built Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite and the success of the Copernicus Programme demonstrates what we can achieve through collaboration with our European partners and the UK's vital role in the programme thanks to our Earth observation expertise."

Aschbacher confirms that the UK has been a strong partner and says that from a programme management point of view, he wants to see that role continue but, "Brexit is the thing that is floating above us."

Although the UK will remain a member of ESA, around 70 percent of the Copernicus programme is funded from the European Commission. As such, Britain's future involvement seems certain to be affected by the Brexit settlement.

"It is clearly important to our industry to stay a part of the programme," says Graham Turnock, Chief Executive, UK Space Agency, "We cannot wait until the day before Brexit to get clarity on this."

Separately, the future of the Copernicus programme is part of an on-going series of negotiations between ESA, its member countries and the European Commission. Aschbacher says that such constant reappraisal is essential, "We have the best system in the world. In 10 years, I want to ensure that we still have the best system in the world."

The next major hurdle is an ESA Ministerial Meeting in late 2019, after the UK has left the EU. Here, each country will agree how much to contribute to Copernicus and each of the space agency's other programmes.

The Sentinel-5P mission is designed to last for seven years in an 824km-altitude orbit around the Earth. No one knows wh ere the UK will be in its orbit around the EU in 2024.

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ЦитироватьГлава представительства ЕКА в России: нам необходимо продолжать сотрудничество
27 июля, 10:00 UTC+3

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Рене Пишель
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О совместных планах по исследованию Марса и Луны, пилотируемой программе ЕКА, запуске европейских спутников на российских ракетах в интервью ТАСС рассказал глава представительства Европейского космического агентства в России Рене Пишель.

— Европейское космическое агентство уже более двух лет ожидает запуска своих научных аппаратов на орбиту с помощью российской ракеты "Рокот". Когда состоится запуск спутников Sentinel?

— По информации, которой мы располагаем, запуск космического аппарата Sentinel-5P был запланирован на 21 сентября. Мы в курсе того, что во время испытаний ракеты-носителя "Рокот" были обнаружены неполадки, но, насколько нас проинформировали, их уже устранили. По последней информации запуск теперь планируется 9 октября, но мы еще ждем официального подтверждения этой даты.

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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185932.jpg) Sentinel-5p‏ @Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/Sentinel5p) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/Sentinel5p/status/901827844015345664)

My advanced team have arrived in Plesetsk and are busy performing the facility review. I've heard my launch tower has been painted!

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Today I start my travel. 1st part Stevenage to Stansted. Wish me luck!

ЦитироватьРОСКОСМОС. ГРАФИК ПУСКОВ В СЕНТЯБРЕ-НОЯБРЕ 2017 ГОДА
29.08.2017 13:45

Комиссия РОСКОСМОСА определила план запусков космических аппаратов (КА) в рамках Федеральной космической программы (ФКП), Федеральных целевых программ (ФЦП), программ международного сотрудничества и коммерческих проектов осенью 2017 года.

РОСКОСМОС планирует осуществить в сентябре-ноябре 2017 года:
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• 22 сентября - РН «Союз-2.1б» с КА «Глонасс-М»;
• 9-12 октября (дата уточняется) - РН «Рокот» с КА «Сентинел-5П» (Sentinel-5 Precursor).
  

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A postcard from yesterday. Me (we don't want to talk about body weight ;-) but some +700kg) being lifted onto the truck.
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My next mode of transport has arrived!
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Europe's pollution monitoring satellite #Sentinel (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel?src=hash)-5P has left @AirbusSpace (https://twitter.com/AirbusSpace) site and is on its way to launch site. http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2017/08/Sentinel-5-Precursor-begins-final-journey-to-launch-site.html ... (https://t.co/LnbGF8SEwJ)
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Цитировать30 August 2017 • Space
Sentinel-5 Precursor begins final journey to launch site

Stevenage, 30/08/2017 – Europe's pollution monitoring satellite Sentinel-5 Precursor has left Airbus' Stevenage site and is on its way to the launch site, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. Launch is currently planned on 9 October on a Rockot rocket.

The journey that will last 5 days, will start with a flight to Moscow aboard an Antonov 124, followed by another flight to Archangelsk in the northwest of Russia. The last leg of the journey will be a train ride taking the satellite 200km south of Archangelsk to the Russian spaceport of Plesetsk.

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Sentinel-5 Precursor is part of the global monitoring programme "Copernicus", a joint European Commission–ESA undertaking which aims to acquire continuous and accurate Earth observation data and provide services to improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and ensure civil security.

Sentinel-5 Precursor will provide essential atmospheric chemistry data to the Copernicus programme before the Sentinel-5 instrument becomes operational in 2021 on the MetOp Second Generation satellite.

Airbus was prime for Sentinel-5 Precursor, with three sites involved in development and manufacturing of the satellites and its components: Stevenage (UK - prime), Toulouse (France) and Friedrichshafen (Germany). The TROPOMI instrument was built by Airbus Netherlands.

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The cargo is in and now it's my turn. Well done to my Spacecraft Team. Farewell UK, Russia here I come!
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ЦитироватьSentinel-5p Making a Big Entrance at Archangelsk

Today marks "Day One" of the "Sentinel-5p on Rockot" launch campaign. After a nightly stop-over for customs clearance in Moscow, the giant Antonov-124 aircraft with the Sentinel-5p satellite on board appeared in the blue skies over Archangelsk and touched down at Talagi airport at 10:30 local time. A delegation of ESA, Airbus Defence and Space, Eurockot and Khrunichev welcomed the spacecraft team in Northern Russia on a sunny late-summer day.

During the hours to follow, the complete cargo bay of the Antonov aircraft was re-loaded onto trucks for further transportation to Archangelsk rail yard – at minimum speed to protect the delicate freight. Once on the loading ramp, the containers housing the satellite and its engineering equipment were hoisted onto rail cars.

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Thanks to our partners from Khrunichev, Airbus Defence and Space and the railway authorities, the entire transshipment was completed in less than eight hours. The dedicated Sentinel-5p train is now on its way to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with record-breaking slowness. Although only some 250 km away, the train will spend almost ten hours to reach its destination tomorrow morning – again for the sake of pampering the spacecraft.

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Volga-Dnepr flight VDA4900 arriving in Archangelsk delivering Sentinel-5p (credits: Eurockot Launch Services)

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Unloading the Sentinel-5p spacecraft (credits: Eurockot Launch Services)

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Loading Sentinel-5p onto the rail car (credits: Eurockot Launch Services)

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Panoramic view of the unloading process at Talagi airport (credits: Eurockot Launch Services)

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Touchdown and hello Russia!
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185932.jpg) Sentinel-5p‏ @Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/Sentinel5p) 20 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/Sentinel5p/status/903353005562621952)

No rest for my fantastic team, immediately into action preparing me for the next part of my journey by train. Plesetsk, I'm getting closer!
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Цитировать1 сентября 2017 года Европейский космический аппарат (КА) «Сентинел-5П» (Sentinel-5P), предназначенный для мониторинга атмосферы Земли, доставлен на северный российский космодром ПЛЕСЕЦК для подготовки к запуску. Пуск ракеты-носителя (РН) «Рокот» с КА «Сентинел-5П» должен состояться в октябре 2017 года. Выведение полезной нагрузки на целевую солнечно-синхронную орбиту обеспечит разгонный блок (РБ) «Бриз-КМ».
 
Транспортный самолет, на борту которого находился контейнер с космическим аппаратом и наземным вспомогательным оборудованием (НВО) приземлился в аэропорту Талаги (г. Архангельск) утром 31 августа. После разгрузки контейнер железнодорожным транспортом отправили на космодром.
 
Подготовка КА «Сентинел-5П», разгонного блока и ракеты-носителя к предстоящему запуску проводится в монтажно-испытательном корпусе, расположенном на технической площадке космического ракетного комплекса (КРК) «Рокот». Работы, предусмотренные технологическим графиком комплексной подготовки космического аппарата к запуску, должны начаться в ближайшие дни.
 
«Сентинел-5П» – космический аппарат, запускаемый в рамках европейской программы мониторинга окружающей среды Copernicus («Коперник»), известной ранее как «Программа глобального мониторинга в интересах охраны окружающей среды и безопасности» (CMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme). «Сентинел-5П» станет вторым из запущенных ракетой-носителем «Рокот» спутников орбитальной группировки, создаваемой в рамках программы Copernicus.
 

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Контракт на использование РН «Рокот» для выведения КА «Сентинел-5П» был заключен между ESA - European Space Agency (Европейское космическое агентство) и Eurockot Launch Services (Бремен, Германия).
 
Ракета-носитель легкого класса «Рокот» создана на базе МБР РС-18 для обеспечения запусков космических аппаратов массой до 1,95 т на низкие околоземные орбиты по Федеральной космической и коммерческим программам.
 
Возможности РН «Рокот» полностью отвечают задачам выведения малых и средних космических аппаратов на солнечно-синхронные и околополярные орбиты. Применение РБ «Бриз-КМ» в составе ракеты космического назначения «Рокот» позволяет реализовывать различные схемы выведения полезной нагрузки, в том числе, групповое выведение космических аппаратов на одну или несколько орбит.
 
РН «Рокот» используется для коммерческих запусков с 2000 года, а для запусков по федеральным программам – с 2005 года. Общее количество запусков РН «Рокот», осуществленных с космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК (за период с 2000 года по июнь 2016 год) - 26, из которых 7 пусков с попутной полезной нагрузкой. За прошедшие 16 лет «Рокот» вывел на орбиту свыше 60 космических аппаратов различного назначения.
 
ГКНПЦ им. М.В. Хруничева (входит в Госкорпорацию «РОСКОСМОС») является разработчиком и серийным изготовителем РН «Рокот», «Протон», РБ «Бриз-КМ», РБ «Бриз-М» и семейства РН «Ангара». В состав ГКНПЦ входит ряд ключевых производителей компонентов и комплектующих РН «Протон», расположенных в Москве и других городах Российской Федерации. Центр имени М.В. Хруничева является владельцем контрольного пакета акций компании International Launch Services, которая осуществляет маркетинг РН «Протон», и соучредителем совместного предприятия Eurockot Launch Services
 
Зарегистрированное в 1995 году предприятие Eurockot обеспечивает коммерческую эксплуатацию РН «Рокот» на мировом рынке запусков низкоорбитальных космических аппаратов. В настоящее время Eurockot - совместное предприятие ArianeGroup и ГКНПЦ им. М.В.Хруничева. За период с 2009 по 2016 год Eurockot обеспечил успешные запуски четырех космических аппаратов ДЗЗ для ESA - КА GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, а также технологического демонстратора PROBA-2. Дополнительную информацию можно получить, посетив страницу www.khrunichev.com

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Цитироватьche wi пишет:
должен состояться в октябре 2017 года

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185932.jpg) Sentinel-5p‏ @Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/Sentinel5p) 3 ч назад (https://twitter.com/Sentinel5p/status/903696412340346881)

It's been a long journey, my team's a bit sleep deprived but I'm happy to say I'm at the MIK! Let's get my launch campaign really started!

Цитировать09/01/2017
Ride through the Night: Sentinel-5p Reaches Plesetsk
       
After a long and tiring journey through the night, the Sentinel-5p spacecraft and its international escort team arrived at crack of dawn at the municipal boundaries of Plesetsk. After swapping the engineering crew, the satellite train continued into the secured area of Cosmodrome.

After arriving at the integration and test facility (also known as MIK, short for Монтажно-Испытательный Корпус), the unloading of the launch campaign equipment started. The Sentinel-5p satellite, still sitting in its special container waiting to be moved into its dedicated cleanroom, lingers for the first time in close proximity to all Rockot launch vehicle components: the two-stage Booster Unit, the Breeze-KM upper stage and the Payload Fairing.

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A new era of air-quality monitoring is just one step away: #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) is being prepared for liftoff on 13 October. http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/New_era_in_air-quality_monitoring_a_step_away ... (https://t.co/R83UgHerFj)
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ЦитироватьNew era in air-quality monitoring a step away

4 September 2017
The Sentinel-5P satellite has arrived in Plesetsk in northern Russia to be prepared for liftoff on 13 October. Built to deliver global maps of air pollutants every day and in more detail than ever before, this latest Copernicus mission will set a new standard for monitoring air quality.

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Sentinel-5p arrives in Plesetsk

Sentinel-5P is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It follows five other Sentinel satellites already in orbit and delivering a wealth of information about our planet.

The Sentinels make up the core of EU's Copernicus environmental monitoring network. An EU flagship space initiative, Copernicus provides operational information on the world's land surfaces, oceans and atmosphere to support environmental and security policymaking, and meet the needs of citizens and service providers.

Sentinel-5P carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe, our health, and our climate.

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Bringing air pollution into focus

With a swath width of 2600 km, it will map the entire planet every day. Information fr om this new mission will be used through the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service for air-quality forecasts and for decision-making.

The precious cargo was taken fr om Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK, wh ere it was put together and tested, to London Stansted Airport to be loaded onto a huge Antonov plane for its flight to Moscow. This leg was followed by another flight to Arkhangelsk in northwest Russia and then a 250-km train journey to Plesetsk, arriving safe and sound on Friday 1 September.

The team have now cleaned the satellite's transport container and moved it to the 'MIK' cleanroom wh ere it will be opened tomorrow.

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Unloading Sentinel-5P

It will then spend the coming weeks being tested and prepared for liftoff and its journey into orbit on a Rockot launcher.

ESA's Sentinel-5P project manager, Kevin McMullan, said, "I'm very proud of my team and our partners at Airbus Defence and Space, and of course the Netherlands Space Office who we developed the satellite instrument with.

"The campaign to launch Sentinel-5P is now well and truly underway and we are very much looking forward to launch on the 13 October and then making sure the satellite is fully commissioned so that it can start its job of delivering vital information to monitor air pollution."

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ЦитироватьOlaf пишет:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/New_era_in_air-quality_monitoring_a_step_away

ЦитироватьThe Sentinel-5P satellite has arrived in Plesetsk in northern Russia to be prepared for liftoff on 13 October.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185932.jpg) Sentinel-5p‏ @Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/Sentinel5p) 4 ч назад (https://twitter.com/Sentinel5p/status/904984162289012736)

Knock, knock team! According to my schedule, today I want to get out this container!
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Цитировать09/05/2017
Sentinel-5p Settled in Cleanroom

The last few days have been spent with unpacking and settling in at the integration and test facility MIK.

Following the establishment of cleanroom conditions in the dedicated spacecraft area, the satellite container was opened for the first time after transfer to the launch site. Sentinel-5p was then carefully lifted out of the container, mounted on a dolly and moved into its cleanroom. The satellite is now ready to undergo extensive testing operations during the next two weeks.

In parallel, the Breeze-KM upper stage, which will eventually inject Sentinel-5p into orbit, completed today the pneumatic checks successfully.

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Posted on September 6, 2017 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

Sentinel-5P unveiled

Yesterday, we opened Sentinel-5P's transport contain to reveal our baby after its journey to Plesetsk.

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Lifting Sentinel-5P's container lid. (ESA)

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Sentinel-5P revealed. (ESA)

Once the satellite had been carefully lifted out of the container it was turned to stand vertically and then moved fr om cleanroom 101B to cleanroom 101A where it will remain until it is ready to join the upper stage of the Rockot launcher.

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Lifting our baby out of its container. (ESA)

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Current ESA team. (ESA)

The spacecraft container was then pushed out to the general hall wh ere it will stay until the end of the launch campaign.

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Pushing the satellite container out of the way. (ESA)

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Securing Sentinel-5P in position. (ESA)

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Sentinel-5P standing proud. (ESA)

Meanwhile, the engineering team were enjoying the weather in Moscow before boarding the overnight train to join us.
 
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A good day's work. (ESA)

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Airbus team layover in Moscow. (Airbus Defence & Space)

And, at ESA's European Space Operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, the team are running simulation campaigns in preparation for taking over after liftoff on 13 October.

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Preparing to take over after liftoff. (ESA)

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Switched on

Yesterday was a good day.

After the last couple of days spent unpacking and setting up all our support equipment, taking Sentinel-5P out of its transport container and positioning it for testing, yesterday we were ready to switch the satellite on to make sure all was well after its journey – always a tense moment.

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Happy with the 'switch on'. (ESA)

We were not disappointed! The photo shows how happy we were to see that everything switched on meaning that Sentinel-5P is in good health.

While we have smiles in the cleanroom – and we can smile too when we go outside, we have beautiful weather, it's hard to believe we're in a Russian military base.

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Lovely day in Plesetsk. (ESA)

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Crisp and bright in Plesetsk. (ESA)

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Сколько его лет переносили?

Цитировать09/07/2017
Rockot Testing in Full Swing

Rockot's Upper Stage Breeze-KM continuous its test program: After successful completion of the pneumatic checks earlier this week, the Breeze is currently undergoing electrical testing.

In parallel, the Payload Fairing (the two half-shells building the nose cone of the rocket encapsulating the Sentinel-5p satellite during ascent) was inspected and prepared for the so-called "dry run".

The dry run is an exercise during which the Ascent Unit (consisting of the Upper Stage, the Payload Fairing and – at a later point – also including the spacecraft) will be rolled out to the launch pad to be mated with the first two Rockot stages, the so-called Booster Unit. This test serves as verification of the interfaces of the complete system in launch configuration and is planned for end of next week.

The Booster Unit consists of the propulsion stages of the inter-continental ballistic missile SS-19 (Russian designation RS-18 ) which was delivered to the Cosmodrome in its transport and launch container – reflecting its descent of a weapon system. The electrical lines of the Booster Unit are currently tested before its installation on the launch pad.

Sentinel-5p started functional testing to confirm the spacecraft's integrity after its long journey.

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Breeze-KM Testing successful

Yesterday the Rockot's Upper Stage Breeze-KM successfully finished its pneumatically check and electrical test.

Today the Sentinel-5p spacecraft continued with the health tests to confirm that the spacecraft is working properly.

The spacecraft fueling team from Lampoldshausen arrived yesterday. Today the team unpacked the necessary fueling equipment and brought it to the cleanroom 101 B.

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Solar Arrays under Test

After re-generating their working force with a day off the teams today began the week with electrical checks on the Launch Vehicle as well as the Spacecraft. Also, the solar arrays of the Sentinel-5p satellite were checked with regard to their proper functioning while the fueling team continued their preparatory works. The fueling experts underwent a training related to the operations of the crane in the Cleaning Room.

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Battery checks. (ESA)

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Battery checks, fuelling preps, bowling and bagpipes

It's hard to believe that the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite arrived in Plesetsk a just week ago – we've certainly had an exciting and busy few days.

Despite it being the weekend, we worked on Saturday and finished checking Sentinel-5P's battery and continued various other checks.

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Battery checks. (ESA)

The propulsion team has been busy unpacking and making preparations to fuel the satellite. We had a very productive planning meeting to understand the full fuelling process and how this affects the other teams' activities – it's a very hazardous procedure so there are a lot of rules.
 
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Satellite fuelling preparations. (ESA)

And, lunchtime isn't just spent eating, we taking the time to also learn some Russian.

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Learning Russian. (ESA)

Sunday, however, was a well-deserved rest day for the team. Some went shopping, some went for a run and others went bowling.

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Bowling. (ESA)

We all met up in the evening for dinner laid on by Airbus Defence and Space, where Derick treated us to some tunes on the bagpipes – always impressive!

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Dinner. (ESA)

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Playing bagpipes. (ESA)

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Опубликовано: 13 сент. 2017 г.

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Sentinel-5P Project Manager Kevin McMullan and Sentinel-5P Mission Manager Claus Zehner join the show to tell us about their roles in the Sentinel-5P mission, its unique Tropomi instrument and the kind of data it will deliver.

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Today, in one Month's Time, Sentinel-5p will be Launched

The launch of Sentinel-5p on Rockot is scheduled for today in one month. In this phase the joint operations have not yet started. Both Launch Vehicle and Spacecraft team are busy with their standalone operations such as functional and electrical tests. The photo below shows the launch tower in its 'new coat'. It was painted blue shortly before the launch campaign.

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Launch Tower (Credits: Eurockot)

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Sentinel-5P declared fit and well

After having Sunday off to recharge, the team has been forging ahead this week putting Sentinel-5P through its series of health checks, which we've now finished.

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Job done. (ESA)

We have also done the network countdown rehearsal.

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Network countdown. (ESA)

Here the satellite 'takes part' in a test with ESA's European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Germany, and the ground stations used for tracking and commanding the satellite.

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The team has been running flat out to this point and can now relax a little. (ESA)

Airbus Defence and Space NL, who are responsible for the satellite's Tropomi instrument has confirmed that all is well.

In fact, yesterday, the team declared that everything is ready to continue to the next stage of the launch campaign.

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Sentinel-5P almost ready for fuelling. (ESA)

With the satellite declared as healthy the electrical ground support equipment can be disconnected and prepare the satellite for fuelling.

The fuelling team are ready now for this milestone. It may look like a scene from Star Trek, but these are the suits (pictured below) are needed to protect the team from the toxic properties of the fuel used by the satellite propulsion system.

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Might look a bit odd, but these suits are needed to protect the fuelling team. (ESA)

Also, electrical checks on the Rockot upper stage are continuing and the booster is being prepared for shipment to the launch complex.

The weather here is slowly changing as the evening draw in and the days are getting cooler.

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Working on Sentinel-5P. (ESA)

From the ESA Sentinel-5P launch campaign team in Plesetsk

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14 September 2017
With liftoff set for 13 October, engineers at Russia's Plesetsk launch site are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe's next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into orbit.

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Sentinel-5P positioned for testing

The Sentinel-5P satellite has been at Plesetsk in northern Russia for almost two weeks. So far, it has been taken out of its transport container, positioned for testing and engineers have started ticking off the jobs on the long 'to do' list.

William Simpson, ESA's Sentinel-5P satellite and launch manager, said, "It was great to see it arrive here in Plesetsk where the team was ready and waiting, keen to make sure the satellite was in good health after its voyage from the UK.

"The launch campaign has certainly got off to a flying start. We first unpacked all the electrical and mechanical support equipment, which is essential for testing the satellite, and then we used a crane to remove Sentinel-5P gently from its container.

"Once we had it in position, one of the first jobs was to switch it on. This is always a tense moment, so there were smiles and cheers all round when the satellite clicked on, showing that all was well.

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"We're now running though the list of checks, both for the satellite and for its Tropomi instrument, and the propulsion team is preparing to fuel the satellite before it joins the upper stage of its rocket and is encapsulated in the protective rocket fairing.

"While we still have a lot to do, so far, so good."

Sentinel-5P is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It follows five other Sentinel satellites already in orbit and delivering a wealth of information about our planet.

The Sentinels make up the core of EU's Copernicus environmental monitoring network. An EU flagship space initiative, Copernicus provides operational information on the world's land surfaces, oceans and atmosphere to support environmental and security policymaking, and meet the needs of citizens and service providers.

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Sentinel-5P being lifted into position

Sentinel-5P carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate.

With a swath width of 2600 km, it will map the entire planet every day. Information from this new mission will be used through the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service for air quality forecasts and for decision-making.

The satellite will be lofted into orbit on a Rockot launcher on 13 October at 10:27 GMT (11:27 CEST).

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  The Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate. With a swath width of 2600 km, it will map the entire planet every day. Information from this new mission will be used through the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service for air quality forecasts and for decision-making. Tropomi – a spectrometer – will map the global atmosphere every day with a resolution as high as 7 km × 3.5 km. At this resolution, air pollution over cities can be detected.
  

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Here the satellite 'takes part' in a test with ESA's European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Germany, and the ground stations used for tracking and commanding the satellite.

Цитировать09/16/2017
Launch Pad Visit

In order to show the launch pad to the visitors from ESA, the doors of the launch tower were opened and gave a good view inside this huge construction. On the side of the launch tower 26 stars are attached representing 26 Rockot launches, 12 Eurockot and 14 federal launches.

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With the Copernicus Sentinel-5P (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P) satellite set for liftoff on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST)...

ЦитироватьIntroducing Sentinel-5P

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Опубликовано: 18 сент. 2017 г.

The preparations of ESA's latest Earth observation satellite Sentinel-5P, also known as Sentinel-5 Precursor, are finished, and the satellite has been shipped to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia for launch in October 2017.

Sentinel-5P will ensure continued data is gathering on Earth's atmosphere and is the intermediary satellite to fill the gap between the past generation of atmospheric monitoring satellites and the future generation of Sentinel-4 and 5, which will be launched early in the next decade. Sentinel-5P is part of Copernicus, the world's largest environmental monitoring programme which is operated by the European Commission.

This video contains interviews with: Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director of Earth observation programmes, Kevin McMullan, ESA Sentinel-5P Project Manager and Claus Zehner, ESA Sentinel-5P Mission Manager

ЦитироватьEarth from Space: Special edition

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Опубликовано: 19 сент. 2017 г.

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Pepijn Veefkind from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute joins the show to discuss the Tropomi instrument on the Sentinel-5P satellite, set for launch on 13 October.

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Sentinel-5P ready to be fuelled

While the Sentinel-5P is ready to be fuelled, before this can go ahead, the rocket has to be tested. So, on Sunday the rocket booster unit was taken to the launch pad and yesterday the 'ascent unit', minus the satellite, was also moved to the pad and hoisted up onto the booster unit.
The complete rocket system is now being tested.
When this is done, we will get permission to fuel the satellite.

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Ready for fuelling. (ESA)

The satellite completed a pressure test in preparation for fuelling and the fuel has now been moved into the cleanroom.

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Hydrazine fuel for Sentinel-5P. (ESA)

So while the military were moving around parts of the rocket over the weekend, we had Sunday off. The weather was overcast with a bit of rain. There was a run going on in Plesetsk, and some of us experience a Russian sauna, which was different!

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Plesetsk run. (ESA)

Liftoff – planned for 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST) – is getting close now, we are looking forward to passing the next milestone, fuelling the satellite!

From the ESA Sentinel-5P launch campaign team in Plesetsk

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Posted on September 20, 2017 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

Sentinel-5P lifted onto fuelling stand

Yesterday started with an air of apprehension as the Sentinel-5P satellite was lifted off its stand to be transferred to the fuelling table.

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Sentinel-5P being lifted onto fuelling stand. (ESA)

Whilst being lifted the 'red tag' thruster covers were removed.

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Carefully does it. (ESA)

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Gentle placement on stand. (ESA)

And finally gently placed on the fuelling stand.

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On fuelling stand. (ESA)

The satellite is ready and the fuelling team is happy.

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Satellite fuelling team bowled over with news they can start! (ESA)

The launcher has completed its dry run and we have been given permission to fuel. Today we start!!

From the ESA Sentinel-5P launch campaign team in Plesetsk

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Fueling of the Sentinel-5p Spacecraft

The fueling team from the ArianeGroup site Lampoldshausen has been busy with the preparation of the hydrazine loading for more than a week. This morning the activities in the Integration and Fueling Facility MIK started with a briefing in order to double check the readiness of all parties involved in the fueling of the Sentinel-5p satellite. The actual fueling will last several hours. Since it is a hazardous operation, only the fueling team was allowed to be in the clean room. The picture below was taken from the archive and shows the fueling of the Servis-2 satellite launched on Rockot in 2010.

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Fuel Sentinel-5P: done

Almost a month has passed and we have reached a major milestone. After receiving permisson to go ahead, the satellite is fuelled. We all thank them for loading our baby properly for its life in space.

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Standing by for fuelling. (ESA)

Fuelling a satellite is a particularly delicate operation. Hydrazine is extremely toxic so only a few specialists wearing 'scape' suits remain in the cleanroom for the duration.

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Wearing scape suits. (ESA)

The rest of the team stayed back at the hotel.

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Job done. (ESA)

The Ascent Unit is back in the MIK and will start preparations for our arrival.

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Launch adapter waiting. (ESA)

The adapter is sitting waiting patiently to join us.

From the ESA Sentinel-5P launch campaign team in Plesetsk

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Цитировать09/23/2017
Important Milestones Achieved for the Upcoming Launch of Sentinel-5p on Rockot

This week was very successful with the following highlights.

The launch vehicle underwent a dry run on the launch pad which proved that the Upper Stage fits to the booster.

This was the GO for the fueling of the spacecraft which was successfully concluded yesterday and for the Upper Stage that will be transferred to its fueling facility on Monday.

We are on schedule. It's party time!

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Sentinel-5P on Rockot

Released: 18/09/2017

ЦитироватьSentinel-5P satellite fuelled

25 September 2017
Engineers have been at Russia's Plesetsk launch site for a month now, ticking off the jobs on the 'to do' list so that the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite is fit and ready for liftoff on 13 October. With the satellite now fuelled, the team has passed another milestone.

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Fuelling Sentinel-5P

Fuelling a satellite is a particularly delicate operation. Hydrazine is extremely toxic so only a few specialists wearing 'scape' suits remain in the cleanroom.

Once filled with 82 kg of hydrazine, the satellite was weighed. Permission to fuel came after the Rockot launcher had been tested.

This involved the booster and the 'ascent unit' minus the satellite being taken to the launch pad and assembled.

Kevin McMullan, ESA's Sentinel-5P project manager, said, "The campaign to prepare Sentinel-5P is going very well thanks to the expertise and hard work of the teams in Plesetsk.

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'Bowled over' with permission to fuel

"Even though there's a lot at stake and the teams are working long days, everyone remains in good humour, team spirit is excellent."

Sentinel-5P will ride into space on the Rockot on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST).

The state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument will map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate. With a swath width of 2600 km, it will map the entire planet every day.

 (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225456.jpg)  (http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2017/09/Testing_Rockot_for_Sentinel-5P)
Testing Rockot for Sentinel-5P

Information from this new mission will be used through the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service for air quality forecasts and for decision-making.

It is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It follows five other Sentinel satellites already in orbit and delivering a wealth of information about our planet.

The Sentinels make up the core of EU's Copernicus environmental monitoring network.

An EU flagship space initiative, Copernicus provides operational information on the world's land surfaces, oceans and atmosphere to support environmental and security policymaking, and meet the needs of citizens and service providers.

With the ascent unit back in the facility after its outing to the launch pad, the next jobs on the list include joining the satellite to the launch adapter and then encapsulating it in the rocket fairing.

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Sentinel-5P on Rockot

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ЦитироватьЗапуск спутника дистанционного зондирования Земли Sentinel-5p планируется на 13 октября

Космос (http://tass.ru/kosmos)  26 сентября, 11:28 UTC+3

Ранее сообщалось, что спутник должен быть запущен с космодрома Плесецк на ракете-носителе "Рокот"

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Старт ракеты-носителя "Рокот" с космодрома Плесецк
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АДЕЛАИДА /Австралия/, 26 сентября. /ТАСС/. Европейское космическое агентство (ЕКА) и Роскосмос договорились о дате запуска европейского спутника дистанционного зондирования Земли Sentinel-5p, старт планируется на 13 октября. Об этом сообщил во вторник генеральный директор ЕКА Йоханн-Дитрих Вернер.

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"Мы обсуждали запуск спутника дистанционного зондирования Земли Sentinel-5p. Договорились, что он будет запущен в пятницу, 13 октября", - сказал Вернер журналистам на Международном астронавтическом конгрессе.

Ранее сообщалось, что спутник должен быть запущен с космодрома Плесецк на ракете-носителе "Рокот".

По словам Вернера, он и глава Роскосмоса Игорь Комаров также обсуждали вопросы сотрудничества по проекту "ЭкзоМарс". Речь шла о том, что каждая из стран должна поставить друг другу, чтобы обеспечить успешную реализацию миссии в 2020 году.

"Это нечто большее, чем сотрудничество по космическим программам - это дружба. Если у нас возникают вопросы друг к другу, у каждого из нас есть номер мобильного", - отметил Вернер.

 О спутнике

Sentinel-5 Precursor станет шестым спутником из семейства Sentinel, запущенным в рамках программы Copernicus. Аппарат будет следить за химическим составом атмосферы и изменением климата на Земле.

Основным производителем Sentinel-5 Precursor является компания Airbus. В разработку и изготовление спутников и их компонентов вовлечены три производства компании в Стивенидже (Великобритания), Тулузе (Франция) и Фридрихсхафене (Германия).

Установленная на спутнике аппаратура тропосферного мониторинга TROPOMI будет брать пробы озона, диоксида азота, метана и других атмосферных загрязнителей с более высокой степенью детализации, чем предыдущие аппараты.

На смену этому аппарату в 2021 году придет спутник второго поколения MetOp.

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Post-fuelling curry

After the delicate task of fuelling Sentinel-5P had been done, the satellite was lifted to be weighed to confirm how much fuel had been added. After that the fuelling team 'decontaminated' and packed up.

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Thumbs up on the fuelling front. (ESA)

With the satellite fuelled, everyone must carry gas masks when in the MIK cleanroom.
On Saturday evening we celebrated the fuelling milestone by making a great curry – although as always after a good meal, there was a lot of washing up to do.

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Making a curry to celebrate. (ESA)

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Followed by piles of washing up. (ESA)

This week started with the Rockot upper stage setting off on its 30 km train ride to the fuelling station.
With the upper stage out of the way, the team were able to pack the fuelling equipment into its containers and bring the 'clamp band' into the cleanroom in preparation for mating the satellite to the upper stage of the launcher. We also connected the 'umbilical lines' from the electrical ground support equipment to Sentinel-5P – also in preparation for mating.

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Clearing up for the next big job. (ESA)

So next big step is to join our satellite to the launcher ... watch this space!

From the ESA Sentinel-5P launch campaign team in Plesetsk

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Опубликовано: 26 сент. 2017 г.

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Nico van Putten from the Netherlands Space Office and Jonathan Banting from Airbus Defence and Space discuss Sentinel-5P's unique Tropomi instrument and the challenges in building the satellite to accommodate it.

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Posted on September 26, 2017 by Daniel (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/daniel/)

ESOC readies for Sentinel-5P

Interview with ESA's Daniel Mesples, Spacecraft Operations Manager for Sentinel-5P, set for launch on 13 October 2017.

Editor's note: Daniel Mesples took some time from an incredibly busy schedule to talk with us about the training and preparations for 5P launch at ESA's ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

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Q. What is involved in the 'Sim' campaign?

DM: On 18 July, the Sentinel-5P team at ESOC began intensive simulation training. This training will test the abilities of the team to work efficiently during all phases of the mission and to react correctly to any unexpected – or expected! – contingencies. We're especially focussing on LEOP, the launch and early orbit phase, which last three days, and in particular on the critical five-hour period following acquisition of signal – AOS.

During the simulations, the mission control team – about 40 people – is practicing working together and building their ability, which is crucial, to communicate effectively in case of any contingency.

During simulation training, the operations team try to forecast anything that could go wrong and have an emergency plan ready – with everyone knowing what he or she should do – for each option. Further, every step in the launch are tested, in a specific timeframe and sequence.

Q. Why is LEOP so important?

DM: Launch means intense vibrations and acceleration, and entering the challenging physical conditions in space, and these mean that if something is going to go wrong, it's most likely during launch, just after separation and in the critical first hours until we get power and communications stable.

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Sentinel-5P simulation training at ESOC 7 Sep 2017. Credit: ESA

LEOP is the most critical phase, since our spacecraft will be surviving on batteries until we get the solar arrays deployed – and these will only last so long. If the satellite does not initialize correctly or does not deploy the solar panels, there is a high risk of losing the entire mission.

To avoid this, the teams train together, forecasting possible problems and learning how to solve them together as one team.

Q. Why do you mention 'teams', in plural?

DM: The mission control team is actually a 'team of teams'. At the core is the flight control team – the engineers and myself who are dedicated to this mission.

For LEOP, we are supported by numerous additional functional teams from across ESOC; these include teams from flight dynamics, software, mission data systems, ground stations, the Sentinel project office at ESTEC and representatives from industry, who manufactured the satellite.

Q. How does a 'Sim' training session go?

DM: The teams use a spacecraft simulator, which is software designed to behave like the satellite. It, however, also simulates the ground stations and models how the Earth and Sun influence the satellite.

Essentially, the engineers sitting on console in the control room 'see' and interact with the simulated satellite just like they would the real one. And the simulator reacts like the real satellite; if they issue an incorrect command, or carry out the working procedure at the wrong time, the simulated satellite will let them know.

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Simulation managers seen working in the Sim Control Room beneath the Main Control Room at ESOC for Gaia in 2013 Credit: Telespazio VEGA/J. Mai

It's precisely the same idea as airline pilots who spend hours in simulators practicing take offs, landings and emergency procedures.

We also make use of simulated ground stations, to learn how to work with the only interface we have to the real satellite, which is sending commands from a ground station to the satellite and receiving data – telemetry – back from space via a ground station.

Q. Who's on the mission control team?

DM: The total team is 40 people and they are divided into two shifts, A and B, of approximately 20 people each. This allows us to have 24 hr/day operations during LEOP, which is expected to run three days.

Sentinel-5P separation: just before mission control catches a signal from space

Each of the A and B team are trained for the same scenarios. Simulations involve different teams, which includes:

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• Flight control team – 3 engineers, 1 spacecraft controller and 1 operations manager
• The ground operations manager and the mission control system engineers, who check that the network connections to the ground stations and the equipment in the Main Control Room are working properly; they also liaise with the extended 'ground segment'
• The Flight Operations Director (OD) – who oversees the whole effort
• The project team, coming from the Sentinel project office at ESTEC.
  

There is also a separate control room with workstations for the representatives of the satellite manufacturer, a dedicated room for industry partners. Every team communicate with each other via voice loop and all communications are recorded.

Q. What is the Sim campaign schedule?

DM: We started on 18 July and we are continuing until just before launch on 13 October, with 1 or 2 simulations run every week, lasting a full day. The simulations campaign consists mostly of contingency simulations but begins and ends with a nominal simulation.

The schedule has been intense and the team have mastered every contingencies, never letting a problem turn into a crisis. I am very proud to be part of such a motivated and dedicated team and am confident that we are ready for the challenges which lie ahead.

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Sentinel-5P release into orbit

Released: 18/09/2017

ЦитироватьPreparing to fly Sentinel-5P

26 September 2017
The teams that will fly Sentinel-5P are training intensively for launch, ensuring that everyone knows their job and can react to any emergency.

A 'team of teams' at ESA's mission control centre has spent months preparing to assume control of Europe's next Earth observation mission, and the final weeks before launch have been the most intense.

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Team training

Sentinel-5P (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P) – the P refers to 'precursor' – is the first mission for Copernicus dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere.

The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument (http://www.tropomi.nl/?lang=en) that will map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe, and therefore our health, and our climate.

Expansion of the Sentinel fleet in orbit highlights the expertise of teams at ESA and their capability to fly 'constellation' missions, as Sentinel-5P will fly in tight coordination with the US Suomi-NPP mission (https://jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/).

The challenging task of flying Sentinel-5P throughout its planned seven-year mission starts just 93 minutes after liftoff on 13 October, set for 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST), on a Rockot from Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

Phoning home

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Sentinel-5P

That's when the satellite, already in space after separating from the rocket some 14.5 minutes earlier, will make its first call home, signalling via a ground station in Sweden to ESA's main control room in Darmstadt, Germany.

"It's called 'acquisition of signal', and it's the moment when the years of careful development and preparation for our mission control systems, and the months of training for our mission control teams, will prove their worth," says flight operations director Pier Paolo Emanuelli.

That moment is one of the riskiest for the satellite: its rocket must have provided the right boost to put it into the planned orbit, and until its solar panels deploy to start generating power, it must survive on batteries, which will last only for a limited time.

"Once we get the signal, and establish a commanding link with the satellite, we'll begin a critical series of activities and procedures to verify the satellite's health, ensure we have solar power and full communications, activate systems like the startracker cameras for navigation and ensure that 5P is fully functional after the incredibly vigorous ride into space."

These initial activities continue around the clock for the first three days, after which the team will switch to daytime work, if all goes well, and move on to the next phase of the mission: commissioning the Tropomi sensor.

Training for all possibilities
If anything does go wrong, ESA will be well prepared. Since mid-July, the mission control teams – including the operations engineers, flight dynamics specialists, teams from ground stations, the science and project teams and representatives from European industry – have conducted 20 simulations out of the planned 26.

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After this, mission control gets busy

Each runs for a full day, and employs sophisticated software to replicate the satellite and ground systems. Trainers can inject faults, errors and breakdowns into the simulation, testing the skill and knowledge of even the most experienced engineers and the teamwork and problem-solving abilities of everyone.

"The human factor is the one that determines the success of the mission. There is no single responsibility, and it is great to see our teams working together," says spacecraft operations manager Daniel Mesples.

Getting ready to go to space
Between now and launch day, the final round of 'sims' will take place twice per week, culminating with a final dress rehearsal on 11 October, which, by tradition, simulates a completely normal launch sequence.

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Intense work

This will involve the teams in Darmstadt, ground stations in Sweden, the Antarctic, Canada and Norway, and the ESA and Russian teams at Plesetsk.

During the rehearsal, the mission control systems will be connected to Sentinel-5P sitting on top of the rocket via a ground link, which will be removed only a few minutes before liftoff.

"We will already have practised an extensive range of contingency situations, and experience shows it's good for team morale to run though a fully normal launch sequence one final time just prior to liftoff," says Daniel.

On 12 October, the flight operations director will certify to the launch authorities that the mission control teams are fully trained, that the ground systems and facilities are tested and ready, and that launch can proceed.

"In September, the ESA centre celebrated its 50th anniversary in Darmstadt, and its rich history of 77 missions," says Daniel.

"It's terrific that this month has seen many of us practising and training to do what it has excelled in for five decades – preparing to go to space."

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Mating of Sentinel-5p with Rockot Launch Vehicle Started

Following successful stand-alone testing of both, the Sentinel-5p spacecraft and the Rockot launcher, which led into fueling of both vehicles, the launch campaign reached today its key phase: Joint Operations.

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Joint Operations describe the activities following the mating of the satellite with the launcher adapter system. From this point onwards, the launcher teams (Khrunichev Space Center, Space Forces) and the spacecraft teams (ESA, Airbus Defence and Space) need to closely coordinate their actions as their hardware is gradually mated into the Ascent Unit, the upper part of the rocket which will reach orbit.

After formally signing off the readiness certificate to commence with Joint Operations, the Sentinel-5p satellite was hoisted from its test stand and lifted above the adapter system. Careful adjustments to the alignment of the pendulous 1-ton-spacecraft were made by the joint team before precisely lowering Sentinel-5p onto the Rockot adapter interface ring.

Adapter and spacecraft interface rings are being strapped together by means of a clamp band. The correct installation of the band is key to guarantee the connection between Sentinel-5p and the upper stage under flight loads. Therefore, experts from the clamp band manufacturer, Airbus Defence and Space in Madrid (formerly CASA Espacio), supervised the installation.

The next level of launcher integration will be reached on Monday when satellite and adapter will be mated onto the Breeze-KM upper stage. The Breeze-KM returned to the integration facility MIK today - fully fueled.

The success of Joint Operations is due to commitment of the involved teams. On the occasion of starting Joint Operations, we show you today in our picture gallery a few faces behind the functions. (credits: Eurockot Launch Services)

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Европейское космическое агентство (ЕКА) и Роскосмос договорились о дате запуска

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Posted on September 29, 2017 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

Satellite now on launch adapter

Following successful independent testing of both the Sentinel-5p satellite and the Rockot launcher, we have now reached another phase, that of 'joint operations'.

This is the point where all teams work together to mount the satellite on Rockot's upper stage and fit it in the fairing.

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Carefully lifting the fuelled satellite onto the launch adapter. (ESA)

Yesterday, we achieved the first step in the process by mating the satellite to the launch adapter.
This was a very delicate operation as the now-fuelled satellite was lifted from the stand on the fuelling platform onto the adapter.

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Perfect fit. (ESA)

The lengthy process of installing the clamp band and umbilicals then started. We didn't finish until about 23:00 local time so it was a long day, but a successful one.

In parallel, Eric inspected the rocket fairing to ensure it met the stringent cleanliness requirements of the instrument prior to encapsulation next week.

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Making sure the inside of the rocket fairing is spotless. (ESA)

At ESA's European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, simulations continued in preparation for the launch.

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Launch simulations at ESOC. (ESA)

The other afternoon, we did something completely different as we received permission to spend some time at the local children's home that looks after children between 3 and 15 years old. Colleagues that have been in Plesetsk in the past, preparing other Earth observation satellites for launch, have visited the home before.

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Visiting the local children's home. (ESA)

The children's stories are very moving, none of us can imagine......

They usually stay a maximum of six months before transferring to an orphanage if they cannot return home. We met the seven children who are currently staying there. Sadly only one may return to her parents. We found it very emotional to see how much the children loved our contact.

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Bill and one of the children at the home. (ESA)

From the ESA Sentinel-5P launch campaign team in Plesetsk

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Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
Европейское космическое агентство (ЕКА) и Роскосмос договорились о дате запуска

При этом это КА не ЕКА, а Европейской Комиссии, оператор, получивший контракт на запуск находится в Германии, а дата была согласована месяц назад....

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И какие же пусковые операции выполняет этот оператор?

ЦитироватьPavel Illarionov пишет:
расчеты ВКС в Плесецке кормит

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"Sentinel-5p on Rockot" in Effect: Satellite Mounted on Upper Stage

On the third working day into Joint Operations, the Sentinel-5p spacecraft together with the launch vehicle adapter was mounted onto Rockot's upper stage Breeze-KM. As of today, the mission designation "Sentinel-5p on Rockot" can be understood literally.

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The so-called stacking activity started with careful lifting of the satellite and its hoisting over the upper stage. Greatest caution had to be exercised at the time of operation's start since both space vehicles had already been fueled and pressurized. Hence, the activity was closely followed by the involved teams from ESA, Airbus, Khrunichev Space Center and the Russian Space Forces operating the integration facility at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

Following the settling of the Sentinel-5p on Breeze-KM, all interfaces were connected: mechanical, electrical and nitrogen purge connections were established. While non-flight items on the spacecraft were removed, the launcher team was busy attaching the multi-layer insulation on the Rockot stage.

The day concluded with a provisional closing of the payload fairing half-shells around the satellite in order to reduce the exposure of its instruments and solar arrays to environmental contamination.

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Posted on October 3, 2017 by Mariangela (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/mariangela/)

Last look at Sentinel-5P

After a weekend of some well-deserved R&R, the team had a busy day yesterday moving Sentinel-5P to a different cleanroom and mating it with the rocket's upper stage.

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Preparing to move Sentinel-5P (Credits: ESA)

To do this, the satellite was hoisted into the air and then lowered onto the upper stage.

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Hoisted into the air (Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017)

The lifting brackets were then removed.

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Mating Sentinel-5P with the rocket's upper stage (Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017)

Today we're doing final electrical checks and taking our last looks at the satellite before encapsulating it in the rocket fairing.

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Last look at Sentinel-5P (Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017)

Over the weekend, we visited the city of Kargopol to experience the local architecture and try our hand at some of the local arts and crafts. We also stopped at Kenozersky National Park and took a row boat out on the lake to see a restored water mill.

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Sunday selfie (Credits: ESA)

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Опубликовано: 3 окт. 2017 г.

Sentinel-5P will soon join the other Copernicus Sentinel satellites in orbit. Copernicus is the world's largest environmental monitoring programme, and is operated by ESA and the European Commission. With Sentinel-5P, Copernicus will have its first satellite dedicated to the monitoring of atmospheric chemistry. These measurements are important to observe air pollution and climate change.

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Last Glimpse at Sentinel-5p: Encapsulation of Satellite inside the Rockot Ascent Unit

After a successful mating of the Sentinel-5p spacecraft onto the Breeze-KM yesterday, the so-called Ascent Unit was assembled today. The Ascent Unit comprises the upper stage and the payload fairing enclosing the satellite; it is the part of the Rockot launch vehicle which will pass through the atmosphere and will eventually (after fairing jettison) reach orbit.

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The encapsulation of a satellite under the payload fairing always marks a special moment of the launch campaign: the spacecraft is seen for the last time before it disappears behind the nose cone of the rocket, only to be released again into space. This memorable event attracted numerous campaign members into the clean room to have a last photo taken in front of Sentinel-5p resting on its launch vehicle.

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Posted on October 4, 2017 by Kelsea (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/kelsea/)

Sealed from view

We got our last look at Sentinel-5P yesterday. Following electrical checks, the covers protecting the Tropomi instrument were removed and the two fairing halves were installed, sealing the satellite from view. It was an emotional moment for us.

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Encapsulation (Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017)

The fairing protects satellites from the thermal, acoustic and aerodynamic stresses on the ascent to space.

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Fairing closed (Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017)

Yesterday was also the birthday of Bill Simpson, the launch campaign manager. What a birthday gift – encapsulating a satellite!

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Happy birthday, Bill! (Credits: ESA)

In a few days' time the Ascent Unit will be transferred to the launcher on the launch pad.

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Team effort! (Credits: ESA)

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ЦитироватьSentinel-5P sealed from view

4 October 2017
As preparations for the launch of Sentinel-5P continue on track, the team at Russia's Plesetsk site has bid farewell to the satellite as it was sealed from view in the Rockot fairing. Liftoff is set for 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST).

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Last look at the satellite

Since its arrival at the launch site at the beginning of September, Sentinel-5P has been through a series of stringent tests to confirm there was no damage during the flight from the UK.

These tests have made sure that everything is in good working order so that this new satellite will deliver measurement of air quality.

The delicate and risky task of fuelling the satellite took place nearly two weeks ago, after which it was joined to the rocket adapter.

It was then hoisted onto the upper stage and the last protective covers were removed before encapsulation in the rocket fairing, which protects the satellite during the first part of the launch. The next step will be to transfer the 'Ascent Unit' to the Rockot on the launch pad, scheduled for Saturday.

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Sentinel-5P – the 'P' standing for 'Precursor' – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate.

With a swath width of 2600 km, it will map the entire planet every day. Information from this new mission will be used through the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service for air quality forecasts and for decision-making.

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How the fairing will open

The mission will also contribute to services such as volcanic ash monitoring for aviation safety and for services that warn of high levels of UV radiation, which can cause skin damage.

In addition, scientists will also use the measurements to improve our knowledge of important processes in the atmosphere related to the climate and to the formation of holes in the ozone layer.

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Sentinel-5p, Enjoy the Ride – Campaign Team Wishes will be Carried into Space

It is a nice tradition for Eurockot launches from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome: Once the payload fairing of the Rockot has been sealed, and after the mission logos have been attached, the entire launch campaign team gets the chance to sign their names on the rocket. Only eight days away from flight, the nose cone signing ceremony is a very emotional moment and many team members leave good wishes for mission success that will be carried into space. Sentinel-5p, enjoy the ride!

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Musical signing ceremony

With the fairing installed and the logos in place, yesterday each member of the launch campaign team signed the logo while Del played the bagpipes.

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It was very moving to read some of the comments from the team.

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Fairing sticker signed off. (Credits: ESA)

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 Mark your calendar: Friday 13 Oct. - The Sentinel 5 Precursor Earth Observation #satellite (https://twitter.com/hashtag/satellite?src=hash) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125535.png) will be launched(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125513.png). Stay tuned on #Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5p?src=hash)
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Цитировать10/08/2017
Rockot Fully Integrated on Plesetsk Launch Pad 14П25

Yesterday at the crack of dawn, the Rockot Ascent Unit (i.e., the Breeze-KM Upper Stage and the Sentinel-5p spacecraft, integrated under the Payload Fairing) was rolled out of the integration facility MIK on a train headed for launch area 133.

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In order to maintain the required environmental conditions for the Sentinel-5p payload during the transfer to the pad, the fairing was covered with a thermal blanket; an air-conditioning railcar connected to the train provided cleanroom rated air circulation en-route.

Arriving at the Cosmodrome's launch pad 14П25, the wrapped up Ascent Unit was lifted inside the service tower and lowered onto the Booster Unit. The Booster consists of the propulsion stages of the converted inter-continental ballistic missile SS-19 (Russian designation RS-18 ) and builds the first two stages of the civilian Rockot launcher.

The Booster had already been installed on the launch pad for testing in its Transport and Launch Container (TLC). Attached to the launch mast, the TLC will serve as the launching platform; a distinctive feature which reflects Rockot's descent of a mobile weapon system.

The integration of the launch system on the pad was completed through the installation of the TLC extension which provides umbilical connections to the Upper Stage. In the meantime, Sentinel-5p has been powered up through electrical umbilical lines from the under-table room (the vault located under the launch table).

The next major milestone on the way to lift-off on October 13th will be a launch dress rehearsal on October 10th and launcher fueling the day after. Permission for launch will formally be granted through the (technical) state commission on October 12th.

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Journey to the launch pad

Autumn is really setting in with cool damp weather. While our team bundles up against the cold, so does the satellite.

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Upper composite wrapped in thermal covers. (Credits: ESA)

Following some electrical and RF tests (all working well!), a thermal cover was installed on the Ascent Unit in preparation for its four-hour journey to the launch pad. It was then hoisted in the air and placed onto a special train carriage. The team then connected the 'purge cart' to keep the instrument clean during transport.

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'Purge cart' connected. (Credits: ESA)

Some of us got up very early on Saturday to see the train convoy leave the MIK. The whole team then travelled out to the launch pad for its arrival.

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Trip to the launch pad. (Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017)

Still wrapped in its blanket, the Ascent Unit was then hoisted up into the launch tower and onto the booster.

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Ready to lift the Ascent Unit on top of the booster. (Credits: ESA)

In true Scottish spirit, Del played the bagpipes in traditional regalia.

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The purge cart was then precariously lifted onto level 6 to allow the continued purging of the instrument. We then got to go up the tower to see our 'sleeping beauty'.

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Fairing tip in the tower. (Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017)

But once installed the team woke Sentinel-5P up and communicated with the satellite via cabels to demonstrate all went well during the transfer.

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Team in front of the launch tower. (Credits: ESA)   

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Lift-off minus 4 Days: Rockot Integrated Launch Vehicle Readies for Its Mission

Since the installation of the integrated launch vehicle on its pad, Rockot and the Sentinel-5p payload are being serviced in preparation for launch in four days from now.

The rocket is standing inside the Transport and Launch Container which is attached to the stationary column holding the launch vehicle in place. Access to the launch system and the spacecraft (or rather the satellite interface in the payload fairing) for preparatory work is achieved through several gantries on various levels inside the service tower. The service tower, which is actually not a launch tower, will be retracted approximately ten minutes before lift-off to clear the launch pad allowing Rockot to shoot out of the launch container and to climb the skies.

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Electrical check-outs and calibration runs on Sentinel-5p are currently conducted in order to confirm the flawless functioning of the spacecraft after the roll-out to the launch site. The spacecraft team will pay regular visits to the payload on the pad until shortly before launch in order to ensure a continuous purging of the instrument with nitrogen gas as a protective measure against contamination on ground.

In parallel, the Russian Space Forces, in their role as launch operators, are installing the pipelines connecting the Booster Unit with the fuel and oxidizer tank storage. The fueling of the first two rocket stages will take place two days before launch.

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9 October 2017
With four days to liftoff, the next Sentinel satellite is now on the launch pad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

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Sentinel-5P on the launch pad

The rocket will be fuelled two days before launch, set for Friday at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST).
The Sentinel-5P satellite has been at the cosmodrome since early September going through a series of tests and being readied for the big day. After being sealed from view in the rocket fairing last week, it was rolled out to the launch pad on Saturday.

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Poised for liftoff

"This point in any project is always very emotional as most of the team have been working hard for many years, and it is the last time they will see their 'baby'. I am proud to have such a dedicated team," said Bill Simpson, the Sentinel-5P satellite and launcher manager.

"We are now preparing for the dress rehearsal and then launch. It is hard to believe we are so close to our goal."

Once operational, Sentinel-5P will map the global atmosphere every day with a resolution as high as 7 × 3.5 km. At this detail, air pollution over cities can be detected.

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Monitoring air quality

The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols.

The mission will contribute to EU Copernicus services such as volcanic ash monitoring for aviation safety and for services that warn of high levels of UV radiation which can cause skin damage. In addition, the measurements will improve our knowledge of important processes in the atmosphere related to the climate and to the formation of holes in the ozone layer.

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ЦитироватьЗАПУСК КОСМИЧЕСКОГО АППАРАТА «СЕНТИНЕЛ-5П»
13 октября 2017

Пуск ракеты-носителя «Рокот»

13 октября 2017 года в 12:27 мск с космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК запланирован пуск ракеты-носителя «Рокот» с разгонным блоком «Бриз-КМ» и европейским космическим аппаратом «Сентинел-5П». Космический аппарат предназначен для изучения атмосферы Земли и мониторинга климата. Заказчик пуска: Европейское космическое агентство (ESA). Изготовитель космического аппарата: компания «Thales Alenia Space» (Италия).

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Rockot Launch Dress Rehearsal: Practicing the Countdown Procedures

Three days before lift-off, the "Sentinel-5p on Rockot" mission took another important step towards launch. As two complex space vehicles, the Sentinel-5p satellite and its Rockot carrier together with their ground systems, need to be readily configured for flight at a precise point in time, detailed operational procedures need to be followed in order to guarantee a successful launch countdown.

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The launch dress rehearsal is the opportunity to verify the consistency of countdown procedures and it ensures that the launch teams practice their roles during the big day. As part of the countdown, the Sentinel-5p satellite sitting on its rocket was activated and gradually prepared into launch configuration - just as it was about to take off on Rockot. Part of the rehearsal was ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, which will take control over Sentinel-5p once in orbit.

At the same time, the launch teams executed the countdown process from the Mission Control Center at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. As a result: The "Sentinel-5p on Rockot" team is GO for launch.

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ЦитироватьReady to assume control of Sentinel-5P

10 October 2017
Mission controllers completed a critical final rehearsal today, confirming that everything and everyone on ground are ready to take over control of Sentinel-5P in the harsh environment of space.

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Mission control

A 'team of teams' working at ESA's control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, today conducted a final rehearsal for this week's launch of Sentinel-5P.

They were joined by engineers working at ground stations on three continents and by teams responsible for the launcher and its payload in Plesetsk, Russia.

Sentinel-5P will be the first satellite dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere for Europe's ambitious Copernicus programme. It carries the Dutch-built, state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases affecting the air we breathe, our health and our climate.

Expansion of the Sentinel fleet in orbit highlights the expertise of teams at ESA and their capability to fly 'constellation' missions, as Sentinel-5P will fly in tight coordination with the US Suomi-NPP (https://jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/) mission.

Today's rehearsal capped off almost six months' intensive training for the 40 engineers and scientists working who will assume control of the satellite following lift off, set for 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST) on Friday on a Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

All nominal
Following tradition, today's rehearsal simulated a normal launch, providing all teams with a final opportunity to repeat the actions they must perform for real on Friday, assuming all goes according to plan.

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At Plesetsk, too

"This will be our sixth Sentinel satellite launch, but we can never take for granted that everything will function correctly," says Paolo Ferri, head of mission operations.

"Any satellite's hardware, software and systems are severely stressed during launch and the first hours in space, and there are always surprises – going to space is never routine.

"But our teams are the most experienced in Europe, very competent and well trained and I am confident they are ready to handle any contingency."

Practising for any event
In today's rehearsal, the mission team worked 'on console' in the main control room, and were led through the countdown, the liftoff and the initial hours of flight, including receipt of the satellite's first signals from space.

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Sentinel-5P inside Rockot fairing

The team included operations engineers, specialists working on tracking stations and the sophisticated 'ground segment' – the hardware and software used to control the satellite and distribute its data – and experts working in flight dynamics, software and networks, as well as simulation and training teams.

"We've practised every phase of the mission through 23 day-long simulation sessions, some in which everything went according to plan, and some in which unexpected anomalies or system failures occurred," says spacecraft operations manager Daniel Mesples.

For today's rehearsal, the real Sentinel-5P sitting on top of its rocket was connected to the mission control systems in Darmstadt via an umbilical data link, which will be dropped just minutes before liftoff.
 In parallel, teams at the launch site went through all the operations they will have to perform on the day itself.

"This provided all teams involved with the maximum level of realism in this final rehearsal," says flight director Pier Paolo Emanuelli.

"We will now certify that mission control is ready to support the launch of Sentinel-5P on Friday."

Critical moments
For the team at mission control, the most critical moment on Friday will occur some 14.5 minutes after Sentinel-5P separates from the rocket, starting its own free flight.

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Team of teams

That's when the satellite will make its first call home, signalling via a ground station in Sweden that all is well and reporting its health and status.

Acquiring that signal is perhaps the most important moment in the intensive Launch and Early Orbit Phase, which will last three days and see the control team working in shifts around the clock.

These days will include a series of activities to verify the satellite's health, ensure it has solar power and full communications, activate systems like the startracker cameras and the GPS receiver for navigation, and ensure it is fully functional after its raucous ride into space.

If all goes well, the team will switch to normal daytime staffing, and move on to the next phase of the mission: commissioning Tropomi.

"I am very proud of everyone who has worked so hard to ensure that our teams, our systems and our centre are ready for Sentinel-5P launch," says Paolo.

"Next spring, we expect to launch the seventh satellite, Sentinel-3B, completing the first part of the Copernicus fleet in just 30 months, an impressive achievement in support of Europe."

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ЦитироватьN° 20–2017: Call for Media: Launch of Sentinel-5P satellite for Copernicus

25 September 2017

The next satellite of Europe's Copernicus programme is set for launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST). Media representatives are invited to follow the launch at the main event at ESA's Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
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Launch event at ESA's Space Research and Technology Centre

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10:00   Doors open

10:30   Welcome by Jan Woerner, Director General of ESA

Introduction by Josef Aschbacher, Director of ESA Earth Observation Programmes

Addresses by representatives from the European Commission, the Netherlands Space Office and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Talks from experts about what Sentinel-5P will deliver and the social and economic benefits the mission will bring

Live coverage from the launch pad in Plesetsk, Russia, and live transmission from ESA's European Space Operations Centre, in Darmstadt, Germany

11:27     Liftoff from Plesetsk

11:35    Lunch

12:45   Live coverage of satellite separation, solar panel deployment and acquisition of first signal
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Coverage
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Website

ESA's Portal will cover the launch live, providing the videostream of the launch event at ESTEC and updates of the launch at: www.esa.int/sentinel5P (http://www.esa.int/sentinel5p) and www.livestream.com/eurospaceagency (http://www.livestream.com/eurospaceagency)
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Posted on October 11, 2017 by Mariangela (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/mariangela/)

Watch the Sentinel-5P launch event live

Live from ESA's technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, follow the event to celebrate the launch of the air quality monitoring Sentinel-5P satellite.

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The first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere is set for launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST).

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Sentinel-5P in the launch tower (Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017)

During the ESA event, a number of the key players in the mission will discuss building the satellite and its state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument. Tropomi will map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe.

The event will include live feeds from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, as well as from ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany.

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The live webstream, which can be followed on ESA's Sentinel-5P website (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-5P/Sentinel-5P_launch_event), will begin at 08:30 GMT (10:30 CEST) and end at 11:15 GMT (13:15 CEST).

ЦитироватьSentinel-5P services

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Опубликовано: 11 окт. 2017 г.

Sentinel-5P has been fuelled and is now ready for launch fr om the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. Soon the satellite will join the rest of the Sentinel satellites in orbit as part of the Copernicus programme. Sentinel-5P's purpose is to collect data on Earth's atmosphere. It is an intermediary satellite which fills the gap between the past generation of atmospheric monitoring satellites, such as Envisat, and the future generation comprised of Sentinel-4 and -5. The raw data from Sentinel-5P will be sent to the DLR German Aerospace Center wh ere it will be processed and archived. After processing, the data will be distributed to users worldwide.

ЦитироватьWatch live: Sentinel-5P launch
 
The air quality monitoring Sentinel-5P satellite is set for launch from Russia on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST). Follow the launch via live webstream (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel5Plaunch).

(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/76305) (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel5Plaunch)

Sentinel-5P – the 'P' standing for 'Precursor' – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate.

The satellite will be taken into orbit on a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

The live webstream (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel5Plaunch) will begin at 09:00 GMT (11:00 CEST) and end at 11:30 GMT (13:30 CEST), with a break from 9:45 GMT (11:45 CEST) to 10:50 GMT (12:50 CEST).

ЦитироватьSentinel-5P launch event

Live from ESA's technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, follow the event to celebrate the launch of the air quality monitoring Sentinel-5P satellite.

(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/76382) (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel5Pevent)

The first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere is set for launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST).

During the ESA event, a number of the key players in the mission will discuss building the satellite and its state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument. Tropomi will map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe.

The event will include live feeds from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, as well as from ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany.

The live webstream (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel5Pevent) will begin at 08:30 GMT (10:30 CEST) and end at 11:15 GMT (13:15 CEST).

Programme (all times in CEST):

10:30	Welcome addresses by representatives from ESA and the European Parliament
10:40	Live broadcast from ESA's control centre and 'roll call', followed by a discussion on the Copernicus programme and Sentinel-5P mission
10:50	Moderated discussion on Sentinel-5P hardware
11:00	Discussion on atmospheric data and applications
11:15	Social media questions answered live
11:20	Live broadcast from Russia and final countdown
11:27	Liftoff
11:35	Break
12:50	Event resumes; discussion with astronaut André Kuipers
13:00	Live broadcasts from Russia and ESA's control centre: status update
13:05	Closing statements
13:15	End of live coverage from ESA in the Netherlands

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Sentinel-5P launch (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel5Plaunch)		09:00 GMT		11:30 GMT
Sentinel-5P launch event (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel5Pevent)		08:30 GMT		11:15 GMT

ЦитироватьLift-off minus 2 Days: Rockot Launcher Fueled
Access to the launch pad is now restricted after the propellant loading for the Rockot launcher had started. As a result of yesterday's launch vehicle activities, the Rockot has several dozen tons of liquid fuel and oxidizer components on board – enough energy to carry Sentinel-5p into orbit.
There is not much left to do than counting down the time to October 13th, 09:27:44 UTC (which corresponds to 11:27:44 Central European Summer Time) when lift-off for "Sentinel-5p on Rockot" is expected.

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Дата	Запуск	Космодром	Ракета-носитель	Результат
13.10.2017 12:27:30	Запуск КА «Сентинел-5П»	ПЛЕСЕЦК (https://www.roscosmos.ru/480/)	Рокот (https://www.roscosmos.ru/469/)	Предстоящий

ЦитироватьAcquiring signals

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On Friday, 13 October, Europe's Sentinel-5P Earth observation mission will be lofted into space on a Russian rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, with liftoff set for 09:27:30 GMT (11:27:30 CEST).

About 93 minutes later, at around 11:00 GMT, the satellite – having separated from the rocket and opened its solar panels – will transmit its first signals.

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The transmission will indicate that all has gone well with the launch and that the satellite is ready to receive instructions.

On Earth, engineers at the ground station in Kiruna, Sweden will be watching intently, with their 15 m-diameter antenna pointing at the horizon, ready to catch Sentinel-5P's signal as it rises into the sky over the country.

At the same time, 2100 km to the south (https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/distanceresult.html?p1=2490&p2=992), the team at ESA's mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will also be watching closely, because 'acquisition of signal' will mark the moment they assume control, sending commands and downlinking data to check on the satellite's health and status.

The Kiruna station is part of ESA's global network, and it routinely supports multiple missions such as CryoSat, Integral, the Swarm trio and Sentinel.

It is located at Salmijärvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden.

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ЦитироватьSentinel 5p Attached to Rokot ahead of Launch

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Опубликовано: 12 окт. 2017 г.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 4 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/918663266758426625)

FEATURE ARTICLE: Sentinel-5p set for launch on Russia's Rokot launch system - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/sentinel-5p-launch-russias-rokot-system/ ... (https://t.co/InrvzN1ePz) - by William Graham Coverage: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=34833.0 ... (https://t.co/oUvzs6SbFb) Another day, another launch!
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ЦитироватьSentinel-5p set for launch on Russia's Rokot launch system
October 12, 2017 by William Graham
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Rokot's launch will take place from Site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia, which was used by the Soviet Union's Kosmos-2I and Kosmos-3M rockets – derived from the R-12 and R-14 missiles respectively, from 1967 to 1994.

After lifting off, the rocket will climb away from Plesetsk, encountering max-Q, the area of maximum dynamic pressure, about a minute into the flight. The first stage will shut down and separate about 120 seconds after liftoff, with the second stage igniting to continue the climb into orbit. Rokot's payload fairing will separate a little under three minutes into the mission.

Rokot's course will take it north from Plesetsk, over the Arctic. The second stage will burn for about three minutes, delivering Briz-KM to a suborbital trajectory. Shortly after the spent second stage separates, Briz will ignite to inject itself and the payload into an initial parking orbit. The mission will then enter a coast phase, with Briz-KM waiting until it reaches apogee to restart for a brief circularisation burn, attaining the planned circular sun-synchronous orbit.

With the second burn complete, Sentinel-5p will be released from the Briz-KM via separation of the CASA CRSS-937 clamp band that keeps it attached to the rocket. Following spacecraft separation, Briz-KM will make a third burn to lower its orbit – putting distance between itself and the payload and either hastening its decay, or deorbiting itself to a safe, destructive reentry.

Friday's launch may be Rokot's penultimate flight. Russia is retiring Rokot in favor of newer rockets such as the Soyuz-2-1v and Angara-1.2.
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Цитировать10/13/2017 08:13

A modified Russian missile built for nuclear war is set for blastoff on a peaceful mission Friday, targeting placement of a European Earth observation satellite in orbit to measure atmospheric chemistry and global air quality.

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Liftoff of the Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia is set for 0927:44 GMT (5:27:44 a.m. EDT; 12:27:44 p.m. Moscow time) with Sentinel 5 Precursor, a mission designed to make daily air quality measurements with better precision than any satellite before.

Standing 95 feet (29 meters) tall, the Rockot is powered by two booster stages taken from the Russian military's UR-100N, or SS-19, ballistic missile inventory. A purpose-built Breeze KM upper stage produced by Khrunichev, the Russian aerospace contractor, will steer the Sentinel 5P satellite into orbit 512 miles (824 kilometers) above Earth.

Russian ground crews loaded toxic hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide into the Rockot booster Wednesday in readiness for Friday's launch opportunity. The fueling came a few days after technicians installed the Sentinel 5P spacecraft and the Breeze KM upper stage on top of Rockot last Saturday.

A mobile gantry enshrouding the Rockot launch pad at Plesetsk will retract into launch position before liftoff Friday.

The Rockot's first stage engines will fire the vehicle out of its transport and launch container, a vertical tube developed to carry missiles on trucks as mobile weapons.

Heading north from Plesetsk, the booster's first stage will burn out and separate at about T+plus 2 minutes, 2 seconds, and Rockot's second stage will take over to propel Sentinel 5P into space.

The launcher's 8.5-foot-diameter (2.6-meter) payload shroud will fall away around three minutes after liftoff.

The two-stage Rockot booster will push the Sentinel 5P satellite to a speed of more than 12,000 mph -- more than 5 kilometers per second -- before releasing the Breeze KM upper stage at T+plus 5 minutes, 5 seconds.

Moments later, the Breeze KM engine will start up for a burn to place Sentinel 5P into a preliminary egg-shaped parking orbit. After flying over Greenland, Canada, the Western United States and the Pacific Ocean, the rocket will pass over Antarctica before firing the Breeze KM's engine again.

The second burn will circularize the satellite's orbit at an altitude of about 512 miles, or 824 kilometers.

Then the Breeze KM upper stage will release the Sentinel 5P satellite, and a ground station in Sweden is set to receive the first signals from the spacecraft around 1100 GMT (7 a.m. EDT) as it flies overhead.

Built by Airbus Defense and Space in Britain, the satellite will extend its three solar array panels, and begin around three days of basic checkouts before science calibration activities begin.

Sentinel 5P's main instrument is Tropomi, a spectrometer provided by the Netherlands Space Office in partnership with the European Space Agency. The Tropomi sensor will measure trace gases in Earth's atmosphere, such as methane, ozone, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide.

The Sentinel 5P mission cost about 240 million euros, or $284 million at current exchange rates. That figure includes the cost of the spacecraft, launcher, science instrument and ground segment.

It is the sixth satellite to launch since 2014 in the Copernicus program, a flagship multibillion-dollar fleet of Earth-observing spacecraft jointly developed by ESA and the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.

Other Sentinel satellites launched to date provide radar and optical imagery of the Earth, and monitor the health of the world's oceans and ice sheets.

ESA and the European Commission will distribute data from Sentinel 5P globally free of charge, keeping with the Copernicus program's open data policy.

The measurements will help make more accurate air quality forecasts for cities around the world, and provide valuable data inputs in climate models and climate change research.

"The Tropomi data will be used operationally," said Pepijn Veefkind, a senior scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Dutch national weather agency. "It will be used to improve the air quality forecasts, and air quality forecasts are, of course, important for people who are vulnerable to pollution, but also for the general public in case of big smog events."

Measurements from the Tropomi spectrometer will detect atmospheric composition at a scale of 4.3 miles by 2.2 miles (7 kilometers by 3.5 kilometers), a significant improvement in the resolution of similar instruments currently flying in space, such as a precursor Dutch sensor aboard NASA's Aura satellite.

Scientists developed the Tropomi instrument for Sentinel 5P to fill a gap in atmospheric chemistry data after the end of Europe's ERS-2 and Envisat missions. NASA's Aura satellite is still collecting data, but it has been in orbit more than 13 years.

Tropomi results will also extend the data record of ozone and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a key variable in climate change.

"These data are really important in order to understand how the climate is changing and how you can react to it, and how to set mitigation actions," said Claus Zehner, Sentinel 5P's mission manager at ESA.

Designed for a mission of at least seven years, Sentinel 5P weighs about 1,800 pounds (820 kilograms) fully fueled for launch. It is about the size of a full-size car.

The gap-filler mission will lay the groundwork for a the future Sentinel 5 missions, which will consist of instruments on Europe's future MetOp-Second Generation polar-orbiting weather satellites, the first of which is set to launch around 2021

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Цитировать10/13/2017 09:26

The Russian State Commission has given its authority to proceed with final launch preparations today, according to ESA.

ЦитироватьHYDROARC 328/2017 (43) 

BARENTS SEA.
DNC 22.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, SPACE DEBRIS
   0915Z TO 1010Z DAILY 13 AND 14 OCT
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   74-23-35N 025-39-20E, 74-27-04N 027-33-58E,
   74-01-40N 028-39-28E, 73-33-35N 027-52-28E,
   73-30-15N 026-03-38E, 73-54-53N 024-56-20E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 141110Z OCT 17.

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BAFFIN BAY.
CANADA.
DNC 28.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   0915Z TO 1010Z DAILY 13 AND 14 OCT
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   77-36.67N 075-52.50W, 77-35.75N 074-08.00W,
   77-07.00N 073-06.00W, 76-47.42N 074-21.67W,
   76-47.83N 076-00.00W, 77-01.50N 076-58.00W,
   77-22.08N 077-05.58W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 141110Z OCT 17.

( 091103Z OCT 2017 )

ЦитироватьPhotos: Sentinel 5P environmental satellite prepared for liftoff
October 13, 2017 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/10/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

Europe's Sentinel 5P satellite, fitted with a Dutch-developed spectrometer to measure gases in Earth's atmosphere, was fueled and mated to its Russian Rockot booster over the last month at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military complex around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow.

The 1,800-pound (820-kilogram) spacecraft is set for launch Friday at 0927:44 GMT (5:27:44 a.m. EDT; 12:27:44 p.m. Moscow time) to begin a seven-year Earth observation mission for the European Space Agency and the European Commission.

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Built by Airbus Defense and Space in Britain, the Sentinel 5P satellite will help government agencies monitor air quality in cities around the world, search for dangerous volcanic ash plumes, and provide key data inputs in climate change research.

Since its shipment to the Russian launch base in September, Sentinel 5P was filled with propellant and mated with the Rockot's Breeze KM upper stage. Ground crews then installed the Rockot's clamshell-like payload fairing around the satellite, and transported the upper composite — consisting of the Sentinel 5P spacecraft, fairing and Breeze KM — to Complex 133 for hoisting atop the two-stage Rockot booster.

The Rockot's lower two stages were recovered from the Russian military's decommissioned UR-100N, or SS-19, missile stockpiles and repurposed from a weapon of war into a peacetime satellite launcher.

The photos below show major steps in Sentinel 5P's launch campaign, including its attachment to the Breeze KM, encapsulation, and the trip to the Rockot launch pad earlier this week.

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Цитировать10/13/2017 11:01

A poll of the Sentinel 5P team just completed at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, reported no problems with the satellite that could prevent an on-time liftoff at 0927 GMT (5:27 a.m. EDT).

Цитировать10/13/2017
Countdown to Sentinel-5p Lanch on Rockot

The launch team is on console at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome Mission Control Center to support the launch of Sentinel-5p on Rockot at 09:27:44 UTC (11:27:44 CEST) today – counting down ...

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Posted on October 13, 2017 by Mariangela (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/mariangela/)

Green for launch

The team in Plesetsk has been busy with final preparations before launch. On Wednesday the booster was fuelled. Yesterday, the team charged the battery and continued with packing. The Launch Readiness Review was also held, and concluded that everything was green for launch.

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Ready for launch! (Credits: ESA)

Meanwhile at ESA's mission control in Germany, our colleagues held their Pre-Launch Briefing which concluded that all was green for launch.

Today the state commissioning has given the go ahead for launch. If all continues to go nominally, Sentinel-5P will be launched into orbit in less than two hours!

Цитировать10/13/2017 11:27

T-minus 60 minutes. All parameters are reported green for launch of Europe's Sentinel 5P environmental satellite at 0927:44 GMT (5:27:44 a.m. EDT), or 12:27:44 p.m. local time at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

The Rockot launcher is green, and the 1,807-pound (820-kilogram) Sentinel 5P satellite is go for liftoff. Ground crews are evacuating facilities near the Rockot's Complex 133 launch pad at Plesetsk.

Цитировать10/13/2017 11:43

A final poll of the Sentinel 5P control team in Germany gave a "go" for launch.

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186014.jpg) РОСКОСМОС‏Подлинная учетная запись @roscosmos (https://twitter.com/roscosmos) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/918761227966394368)

В 12:27 мск с российского космодрома Плесецк состоится запуск европейского космического аппарата #Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5p?src=hash) - http://online.roscosmos.ru  (https://t.co/ip4MnegEqX).
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Цитировать10/13/2017 11:59

Inside 30 minutes to launch. Some statistics on today's flight:

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• 27th Rockot/Breeze KM launch since 2000
• 1st Rockot/Breeze KM launch of 2017
• 5th launch of a Breeze upper stage in 2017
• 4th launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 2017
• 6th Copernicus satellite to be launched
• 6th Rockot launch for ESA
• 67th orbital launch attempt worldwide in 2017
  

Цитировать10/13/2017 12:08

The Rockot launch vehicle's automated countdown is underway, and the weather at Plesetsk is reported to be acceptable for liftoff.

Цитировать10/13/2017 12:16

The countdown clock will reach zero at 0927:30 GMT (5:27:30 a.m. EDT), the time when gyroscopes inside the Rockot booster become active. But liftoff actually occurs 14 seconds later as the 95-foot-tall (29-meter) booster fires out of its mobile launch tube at Complex 133 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

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Rockot's liquid-fueled first and second stages will separate around 2 minutes, 2 seconds, after liftoff, and the payload shroud covering the Sentinel 5P satellite will jettison 2 minutes, 49 seconds, into the flight.

The launcher's second stage will deploy a Breeze KM upper stage and the Sentinel 5P satellite on a suborbital trajectory at the 5-minute, 5-second point. Ignition of the Breeze KM upper stage is expected six seconds later to boost the spacecraft into a preliminary parking orbit.

Another firing is planned more than an hour into the mission, followed by separation of the Sentinel 5P satellite at 1046 GMT (6:46 a.m. EDT).

Signals from Sentinel 5P satellite should be received via a ground station in Kiruna, Sweden, around 1101 GMT (7:01 a.m. EDT) to confirm the spacecraft's status following its arrival in orbit.

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Цитировать10/13/2017 12:22

Weather is confirmed green for launch, with overcast skies and light winds. All systems on-board the Sentinel 5P satellite are reported ready for launch.

The Sentinel 5P satellite is now being transitioned to internal battery power as the ground team disconnects the power umbilical feeding electricity to the spacecraft before launch.

Цитировать10/13/2017 12:26

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The mobile gantry has retracted to reveal the 95-foot-tall Rockot launcher inside its launch tube for liftoff at 0927:44 GMT (5:27:44 a.m. EST).

Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/918771015680974848)

LAUNCH! Rokot/Briz-KM launches with Sentinel-5P out of Plesetsk. UPDATES: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=34833.0 ... (https://t.co/oUvzs6SbFb)
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Liftoff of Russia's Rockot booster with Sentinel 5P, a European satellite designed to monitor global air quality. https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/10/13/rocket-sentinel-5p-mission-status-center/ ... (https://t.co/XHCcF0Pqan)
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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/918771768965455872)

On to the Briz-KM Upper Stage.
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Цитировать10/13/2017 12:35

ESA and Eurockot report the Breeze KM upper stage is now firing after a nominal flight by the Rockot's first and second stages.

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Космический аппарат #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) успешно стартовал с космодрома Плесецк. Отделение КА от разгонного блока «Бриз-КМ» запланировано в 13:46 мск
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ESA has concluded their live coverage of the first phase of today's launch now that the rocket has passed out of range of ground station. The rest of the mission through separation of the Sentinel 5P satellite at 1046 GMT (6:46 a.m. EDT) will occur automatically out of contact with ground controllers.

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ESA's coverage will resume for spacecraft separation and acquisition of signal.

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Briz-KM and Sentinel-5P in the coast phase and out of sight of ground stations. Coast will be followed by a brief circularisation burn, attaining the planned circular sun-synchronous orbit.

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The Breeze KM main engine should now have switched off after placing Sentinel 5P into a preliminary elliptical orbit around Earth with a high point of around 500 miles (800 kilometers) and a low point of around 100 miles (160 kilometers). The upper stage is coasting before reigniting its engine in less than an hour for a brief firing, followed a few minutes later by separation of the Sentinel 5P satellite.

ЦитироватьSentinel-5P launch on Rockot

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Опубликовано: 13 окт. 2017 г.

ЦитироватьРОСКОСМОС. РКН «РОКОТ» УСПЕШНО СТАРТОВАЛА С КОСМОДРОМА ПЛЕСЕЦК
13.10.2017 12:36

13 октября 2017 года в 12:27 мск с космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК успешно стартовала ракета космического назначения «Рокот» в составе блока ускорителей РС-18, разгонного блока «Бриз-КМ» и космического аппарата (КА) «Сентинел-5П» (Sentinel-5P).

В соответствии с циклограммой полета через 319 секунд после старта ракеты-носителя орбитальный блок отделился от второй ступени РН. Дальнейшее выведение космического аппарата на расчетную орбиту обеспечивается разгонным блоком «Бриз-КМ». Отделение космического аппарата планируется в 13:46 мск.

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«Сентинел-5П» – космический аппарат, запускаемый в рамках европейской программы мониторинга окружающей среды «Коперник» (Copernicus), известной ранее как «Программа глобального мониторинга в интересах охраны окружающей среды и безопасности» (CMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme). «Сентинел-5П» стал вторым из запущенных ракетой-носителем «Рокот» спутников орбитальной группировки, создаваемой в рамках программы «Коперник».

Контракт на использование ракеты-носителя (РН) «Рокот» для выведения КА «Сентинел-5П» был заключен между Европейским космическим агентством (ESA) и Eurockot Launch Services (Бремен, Германия).

Ракета-носитель легкого класса «Рокот» создана на базе МБР РС-18 для обеспечения запусков космических аппаратов массой до 1,95 т на низкие околоземные орбиты по Федеральной космической и коммерческим программам. Возможности РН «Рокот» полностью отвечают задачам выведения малых и средних космических аппаратов на солнечно-синхронные и околополярные орбиты. Применение РБ «Бриз-КМ» в составе ракеты космического назначения «Рокот» позволяет реализовывать различные схемы выведения полезной нагрузки, в том числе, групповое выведение космических аппаратов на одну или несколько орбит.

РН «Рокот» используется для коммерческих запусков с 2000 года, а для запусков по федеральным программам – с 2005 года. Общее количество запусков РН «Рокот», осуществленных с космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК (с учетом сегодняшнего пуска) - 27, из которых 7 пусков с попутной полезной нагрузкой. За прошедшие 17 лет «Рокот» вывел на орбиту свыше 65 космических аппаратов различного назначения.

ГКНПЦ им. М.В. Хруничева (входит в Госкорпорацию «РОСКОСМОС») является разработчиком и серийным изготовителем РН «Рокот», «Протон», РБ «Бриз-КМ», РБ «Бриз-М» и семейства РН «Ангара». В состав ГКНПЦ входит ряд ключевых производителей компонентов и комплектующих РН «Протон», расположенных в Москве и других городах Российской Федерации. Центр имени М.В. Хруничева является владельцем контрольного пакета акций компании International Launch Services, которая осуществляет маркетинг РН «Протон», и соучредителем совместного предприятия Eurockot Launch Services

Зарегистрированное в 1995 году предприятие Eurockot обеспечивает коммерческую эксплуатацию РН «Рокот» на мировом рынке запусков низкоорбитальных космических аппаратов. В настоящее время Eurockot - совместное предприятие ArianeGroup и ГКНПЦ им. М.В.Хруничева. За период с 2009 по 2016 год Eurockot обеспечил успешные запуски четырех космических аппаратов ДЗЗ для ESA - КА GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, а также технологического демонстратора PROBA-2. Дополнительную информацию можно получить, посетив страницу www.khrunichev.com

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The Breeze KM engine should have reignited for a short burn to circularize Sentinel 5P's orbit at an altitude of around 512 miles (824 kilometers), but confirmation of the maneuver's success will only come when the spacecraft passes over a ground station in Sweden in about 20 minutes.

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Separation of the Sentinel 5P satellite from the Breeze KM upper stage should have occurred about one minute ago, but confirmation won't be received for a few more minutes.

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SPACECRAFT SEPARATION!! #BrizKM (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BrizKM?src=hash) should now have released #Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5p?src=hash) to fly free and begin its mission. No contact at this time

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ACQUISITION OF SIGNAL!! #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) is talking loud and clear via our #Kiruna (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kiruna?src=hash) tracking station!!

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Deployment successful! #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) Solar arrays are deployed and generating power

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#Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) #FlightDirector (https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlightDirector?src=hash) "I can confirm we have another mission in orbit!"

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Ground controllers have received the first signals from the Sentinel 5P spacecraft in orbit. The data indicate the satellite deployed as planned from the Rockot's Breeze KM upper stage after a normal climb into orbit.

10/13/2017 14:04

Mission control also confirms Sentinel 5P's three solar array panels deployed after arriving in orbit.

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#ESOC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESOC?src=hash) team now carefully checking #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) status, all looks good so far

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#Svalbard (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Svalbard?src=hash) AOS - the @KSAT_Kongsberg (https://twitter.com/KSAT_Kongsberg) tracking station now reporting a clear signal from #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) too

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#ESOC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESOC?src=hash) controllers now watching as #Sentinel5 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5?src=hash) stabilises its orientation as designed

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# ESOC team now carefully checking # Sentinel5P status, all looks good so far

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можно и поздравлять причастных!

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Sentinel-5P liftoff

Air quality-monitoring satellite in orbit

13 October 2017
The first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere, Sentinel‑5P, has been launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

The 820 kg satellite was carried into orbit on a Rockot launcher at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST) today.

The first stage separated 2 min 16 sec after liftoff, followed by the fairing and second stage at 3 min 3 sec and 5 min 19 sec, respectively. The upper stage then fired twice, delivering Sentinel-5P to its final orbit 79 min after liftoff.

After separating from the upper stage, Sentinel-5P deployed its three solar panels and began communications with Earth. The first signal was received 93 min after launch as the satellite passed over the Kiruna station in Sweden.

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Telemetry links, command and control were then established by controllers at ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, allowing them to monitor the health of the satellite.

The launch and the early orbit phase will last three days, during which controllers will check the satellite's key systems and configure it for flight in space.

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Solar panel opening

Following this, a commissioning phase will check all elements of the satellite's systems and the main instrument will be decontaminated. Once completed after a few weeks, the cooler door will be opened and the calibration and validation of Sentinel-5P's main Tropomi instrument will be performed.

The mission is expected to begin full operations six months from now.

"Launching the sixth Sentinel satellite for the Copernicus programme is testament to the extensive competence we have here at ESA, from its moment of conception to well into operations," said ESA Director General Jan Woerner.

"The Sentinel-5P satellite is now safely in orbit so it is up to our mission control teams to steer this mission into its operational life and maintain it for the next seven years or more."

Sentinel-5P – the P standing for Precursor – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere.

The mission is one of six families of dedicated missions that make up the core of Europe's Copernicus environmental monitoring network. Copernicus relies on the Sentinels and contributing missions to provide data for monitoring the environment and supporting civil security activities. Sentinel-5P carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi to do just that.

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Bringing air pollution into focus

Developed jointly by ESA and the Netherlands Space Office, Tropomi will map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols – all of which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health, and our climate.

Sentinel-5P was developed to reduce data gaps between the Envisat satellite – in particular the Sciamachy instrument – and the launch of Sentinel-5, and to complement the GOME-2 sensor on the MetOp satellite.

"Having Sentinel-5P in orbit will give us daily and global views at our atmosphere with a precision we never had before," said Josef Aschbacher, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes.

"Our historic data records, together with the long-term perspective of the Copernicus satellite programme, opens the doors for generating datasets spanning decades – a prerequisite to understanding our ever-changing Earth. "

In the future, both the geostationary Sentinel-4 and polar-orbiting Sentinel‑5 missions will monitor the composition of the atmosphere for Copernicus Atmosphere Services. Both missions will be carried on meteorological satellites operated by Eumetsat.

Until then, the Sentinel-5P mission will play a key role in monitoring and tracking air pollution.

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S/C Sep and AOS for Sentinel 5p following Rokot launch. ARTICLE - by William Graham: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/sentinel-5p-launch-russias-rokot-system/ ... (https://t.co/InrvzN1ePz)
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Sentinel-5p launches on Russia's Rokot launch system (https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/sentinel-5p-launch-russias-rokot-system/)

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#BrizKM (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BrizKM?src=hash) ignites for its final burn - pushing it towards safe disposal in Earth's atmosphere. #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) thanks you for the ride!


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#BrizKM (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BrizKM?src=hash) upper stage shuts down for the last time - in an orbit 416x754km it will soon burn up safely in the atmosphere #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash)

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#Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) moves out of range of #Inuvik (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Inuvik?src=hash) and begins its first full free orbit - welcome to space!

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Космический аппарат #Sentinel5p (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5p?src=hash) успешно отделился от разгонного блока «Бриз-КМ» на целевой орбите http://roscosmos.ru/24226/  (https://t.co/OKhdqHetex)
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ЦитироватьЦЕНТР ХРУНИЧЕВА. РКН «РОКОТ» УСПЕШНО ВЫВЕЛА НА ОРБИТУ «СЕНТИНЕЛ-5П»
13.10.2017 14:27

Стартовавшая 13 октября в 12:27 мск с Первого государственного испытательного космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК ракета космического назначения (РКН) «Рокот» успешно вывела на орбиту космический аппарат «Сентинел-5П» (Sentinel-5P) для Европейского космического агентства. Отделение космического аппарата от разгонного блока произошло в расчетное время в штатном режиме. Аппарат взят на управление заказчиком.

Пуск и контроль полета ракеты-носителя осуществили Космические войска ВКС России.

Старт и полет ракеты-носителя прошли в штатном режиме. Выведение космического аппарата на целевую солнечно-синхронную орбиту обеспечил разгонный блок «Бриз-КМ».

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Спутник «Сентинел-5П», оснащенный спектрометром TROPOMI, предназначен для измерения качества атмосферы Земли. Стартовая масса космического аппарата - приблизительно 820 кг.

«Сентинел-5П» - второй космический аппарат, запущенный с помощью РН «Рокот» в рамках европейской программы мониторинга окружающей среды Copernicus («Коперник»), известной ранее как «Программа глобального мониторинга в интересах охраны окружающей среды и безопасности» (CMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. За период с 2009 по 2016 г. Eurockot обеспечил успешные запуски четырех космических аппаратов ДЗЗ по программам ЕSА (GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A), а также, - технологического демонстратора Proba -2.

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Thanks to #Rockot (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rockot?src=hash) and all the teams that have worked hard and have hard work ahead of them to make #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) a success

ЦитироватьLIVE: Launch of Rokot from Plesetsk with ESA Sentinel 5p Satellite

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Молодцы! Так держать! Завтра чтоб байконурцы так же чётко запустили!

ЦитироватьModified Russian missile boosts Europe's newest environmental sentinel to space
October 13, 2017 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/10/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

A European satellite that will collect daily measurements of air quality over every major city on Earth rode an uprated Russian ballistic missile into orbit Friday.

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A Rockot booster made fr om decommissioned Russian military missile stages carried Europe's Sentinel 5P satellite to orbit Friday. Credit: ESA

Assembled in Britain with a significant Dutch contribution, the Sentinel 5 Precursor satellite will measure greenhouse gases with unrivaled precision, mapping atmospheric chemistry in city-sized blocks to help tell policymakers and scientists how air pollution changes day-to-day.

The $284 million mission joins a growing fleet of European environmental sentinels launched since 2014 under the umbrella of the Copernicus program, a flagship initiative led by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, in partnership with the European Space Agency.

During Sentinel 5P's planned seven-year mission, the satellite's Tropomi spectrometer will detect the levels of trace gases in Earth's atmosphere, such as methane, ozone, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and aerosols.

"We will do global daily coverage of the Earth, and we will measure all the main gases that influence pollution, climate change and the ozone layer, and Sentinel 5 Precursor will be the best satellite to do this job to date," said Kevin McMullan, Sentinel 5P project manager at ESA.

Sentinel 5P is the sixth satellite to join the Copernicus fleet since launchings began in 2014, joining other spacecraft providing radar and optical imagery of the Earth, and monitor the health of the world's oceans and ice sheets.

European governments conceived the multibillion-dollar Copernicus program to feed near real-time measurements of the condition of Earth's land masses, rivers, lakes, seas and polar regions to civil authorities, scientists, companies and citizens through a free and open data network.

The Sentinel fleet is the largest, and most costly, Earth observation program of its kind, but officials report higher-than-anticipated usage of Copernicus data to date, even with only a partially-complete satellite constellation.

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Artist's illustration of the Sentinel 5P satellite. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

"If you have an earthquake in Italy, Copernicus data have been used," said Pierre Delsaux, the European Commission's deputy director general for internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMEs. "If you have hurricanes ... in the U.S. or in the Caribbean, Copernicus data were there to help people, to rescue people. So Copernicus is fundamental for many applications, many situations in our daily lives."

Sentinel 5P is the first Copernicus satellite dedicated to tracking changes in Earth's atmosphere.

ESA and the European Commission will distribute data fr om Sentinel 5P globally free of charge, keeping with the Copernicus program's open data policy.

The measurements will help make more accurate air quality forecasts for cities around the world, and provide valuable data inputs in climate models and climate change research.

"The Tropomi data will be used operationally," said Pepijn Veefkind, a senior scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Dutch national weather agency. "It will be used to improve the air quality forecasts, and air quality forecasts are, of course, important for people who are vulnerable to pollution, but also for the general public in case of big smog events."

"There will be services that we will offer, on iPhones, tablets and also on websites, upd ated information on air quality for certain practical applications, if you're going somewh ere, and you want to see how the air quality will be in big cities," Aschbacher said in an interview with Spaceflight Now.

Measurements from the Tropomi spectrometer will detect atmospheric composition at a scale of 4.3 miles by 2.2 miles (7 kilometers by 3.5 kilometers), a significant improvement in the resolution of similar instruments currently flying in space, such as a precursor Dutch sensor aboard NASA's Aura satellite.

Tropomi's precision will allow analysts to distinguish between pollution emitted in certain parts of large cities, and in maritime shipping lanes, industrial facilities and oil and gas fields.

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Sentinel 5P's Tropomi instrument will take measurements in a swath around 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers) wide, enabling global air quality measurements every day. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

"One of the thing we'll be looking at will be hotspots of methane, so localized, very strong concentrations of methane," said Ilse Aben, a co-investigator on the Tropomi instrument from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. "We know they are related to the emission of methane by coal mines, gas and oil fields, and waste dumps.

"What we don't know is how much methane is emitted by the individual sources worldwide, and if you want to do something about the reduction of methane in the atmosphere, you need to know wh ere the high emitters are, and that's exactly one of the things that we'll be looking for with Tropomi."

Natural pollutants from wildfires and volcanic eruptions will also be tracked with Sentinel 5P.

Scientists developed the Tropomi instrument for Sentinel 5P to fill a gap in atmospheric chemistry data after the end of Europe's ERS-2 and Envisat missions. NASA's Aura satellite is still collecting data, but it has been in orbit more than 13 years.

Tropomi results will also extend the data record of ozone and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a key variable in climate change.

"These data are really important in order to understand how the climate is changing and how you can react to it, and how to set mitigation actions," said Claus Zehner, Sentinel 5P's mission manager at ESA.

Designed for a mission of at least seven years, Sentinel 5P weighed about 1,800 pounds (820 kilograms) fully fueled for launch. It is about the size of a full-size car.

The gap-filler mission will lay the groundwork for a the future Sentinel 5 missions, which will consist of instruments on Europe's future MetOp-Second Generation polar-orbiting weather satellites, the first of which is se t to launch around 2021.

Sentinel 5P's spacecraft bus and the Tropomi instrument were built by Airbus subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

The mission started its journey toward orbit at 0927:44 GMT (5:27:44 a.m. EDT; 12:27:44 p.m. Moscow time) Friday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

A 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot launcher carried Sentinel 5P aloft, firing out of a transport and launch tube fixed on a pad at the military-run Plesetsk space base around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow.

Powered by a two-stage UR-100N, or SS-19, booster culled from Russia's decommissioned nuclear missile stockpile, the Rockot quickly disappeared as it soared through a gray cloud deck.

The launcher passed the speed of sound in less than a minute, then shut down its first stage and ignited a second stage around two minutes into the mission as it steered on a northerly heading.

A clamshell-like shroud jettisoned from the tip of the rocket moments later, revealing the Sentinel 5P satellite once the vehicle reached the rarefied outer layers of the atmosphere.

A Breeze KM engine took over just after the flight's five-minute point to place the Sentinel 5P satellite in a preliminary parking orbit.

The Rockot's upper stage and Sentinel 5P flew over Greenland, Canada, the Western United States and the Pacific Ocean, then passed over Antarctica before firing the Breeze KM's engine again.

Separation of the Sentinel 5P satellite from the rocket was scheduled for 1046 GMT (6:46 a.m. EDT) in an polar orbit more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) above Earth.

The rocket was out of range of tracking sites for most of the flight, but Sentinel 5P appeared over the horizon at a receiving station in Kiruna, Sweden, right on time at 1101 GMT (7:01 a.m. EDT), and engineers at the European Space Operations Center in Germany verified the satellite's condition.

"All postions on the loop, I can confirm we have AOS (acquisition of signal) in Kiruna at the correct time," said Pier Paolo Emanuelli, the flight director at the Sentinel 5P control center. "The separation sequence was done correctly. We have the (solar) arrays completely deployed and the RCS (reaction control system) is now in the correct mode and starting damping the rates.

"So we have another mission in orbit," he said.

With the craft's power-generating solar panels extended, the next step will be configuring Sentinel 5P for its mission in space.

The satellite will also fine-tune its orbit to an altitude of around 512 miles (824 kilometers) in the coming weeks, taking up a position less than five minutes behind the U.S. Suomi-NPP weather satellite for tandem observations.

A cooler door covering the Tropomi instrument will be opened in a few weeks, ESA said, to begin validation and calibration of the satellite's main payload.

Sentinel 5P should begin full operations in about six months, officials said.

The next member of the Copernicus fleet, named Sentinel 3B, is being readied for launch on another Rockot vehicle in March.

Rockot missions for non-Russian satellites are arranged by Eurockot, a German-Russian company owned by Ariane Group and Khrunichev, the launcher's prime contractor.

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ЦитироватьОлег пишет:
Не перепутали ?

ЦитироватьРазгонный блок "Бриз-КМ" увели на орбиту захоронения
МОСКВА, 13 октября. /ТАСС/. Разгонный блок "Бриз-КМ", с помощью которого в пятницу вывели на расчетную орбиту спутник Sentinel-5p, увели на орбиту захоронения, сообщили журналистам в Минобороны РФ.
"После выведения на орбиту европейского космического аппарата Sentinel-5p, запущенного в 12:28 мск 13 октября с космодрома Плесецк ракетой-носителем легкого класса "Рокот", специалисты Главного испытательного космического центра имени Г. С. Титова провели операцию по уводу разгонного блока "Бриз-КМ" с целевой орбиты космического аппарата на так называемую орбиту захоронения", - сказали в военном ведомстве.
Увод "Бриза-КМ" был осуществлен за счет двух включений двигательной установки с целью придания разгонному блоку импульсов, необходимых для увода его на орбиту высотой более 400 км в перигее и свыше 700 км в апогее.
О спутнике
Sentinel-5 Precursor станет шестым спутником из семейства Sentinel, запущенным в рамках программы Copernicus. Аппарат будет следить за химическим составом атмосферы и изменением климата на Земле.
Основным производителем Sentinel-5 Precursor является компания Airbus. В разработку и изготовление спутников, а также их компонентов вовлечены три производства компании в Стивенидже (Великобритания), Тулузе (Франция) и Фридрихсхафене (Германия).
Установленная на спутнике аппаратура тропосферного мониторинга TROPOMI будет брать пробы озона, диоксида азота, метана и других газов с более высокой степенью детализации, чем предыдущие аппараты.
На смену этому аппарату в 2021 году придет спутник второго поколения MetOp.

Цитироватьzandr пишет:
И в самом деле, Бриз - 400 х 700 км. И это - "орбита захоронения"?  :o  

ЦитироватьZOOR пишет:
А чем плохо? С целевой КА уведен - да. Перигей низкий - да. Достаточно.
За годик "уйдет", причем неизвестно на кого. А нырять сразу "в воду" - можно и промахнуться, кому-то в огород попасть.

Цитироватьzandr пишет:
на так называемую орбиту захоронения

Цитировать10/13/2017
Rockot Launcher orbits Sentinel-5P Earth Observation Mission / Successful Launch of European Copernicus Satellite

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Eurockot Launch Services GmbH of Bremen, Germany, successfully launched the Sentinel-5P satellite today at 12:27 hrs local time (09:27 hrs UTC, 11:27 hrs CET) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia for the European Space Agency (ESA) using a Rockot launch vehicle. The satellite was injected at approximately 852 km altitude and 98.75 degrees inclination.

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This was Eurockot's second launch in support of the European Copernicus multiple satellite system following the successful launch of Sentinel-3A in February 2016.

Copernicus is the Earth Observation Satellite Programme headed by the European Commission (EC) in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). Copernicus satellites support the European Union`s European policy of improving the management of the environment globally to help mitigate the effects of climate change and ensure civil security.

Sentinel-5P is dedicated to monitoring the composition of the Earth's atmosphere as part of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).

Eurockot Launch Services GmbH is the joint venture of ArianeGroup (51%) and Khrunichev Space Center (49%).

Eurockot's next mission will be the launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite in 2018.
For further information please contact: Anna Zorina, Customer and Programme Support Manager, anna.zorina@ariane.group

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ЦитироватьRussian Rockot Booster Blasts Off with Sentinel-5P Atmospheric Monitoring Satellite

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Опубликовано: 13 окт. 2017 г.

Video Credit: Russian Ministry of Defence / ESA

ЦитироватьPhotos: Rockot Blasts Off from Russia with Sentinel-5P Atmospheric Monitoring Satellite
October 13, 2017 (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/photo-rockot-blasts-off-from-russia-with-sentinel-5p-atmospheric-monitoring-satellite/)

A Russian Rockot launch vehicle lifted off from Site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 9:27:44 UTC on Friday, October 13, 2017 with the Sentinel-5P satellite – joining Europe's Copernicus satellite constellation to contribute atmospheric measurements to the program's comprehensive environmental monitoring portfolio. The ICBM-turned-space-launch-vehicle fired its two UR-100N-based stages for five minutes before handing over to the Briz-KM upper stage to deploy the satellite into a circular orbit over 800 Kilometers in altitude. Responsible for operating the mission, the European Space Agency reported Sentinel-5P was healthy in orbit after separating from the rocket 79 minutes after launch.

>> Read our Launch Recap (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/sentinel-5p-rockot-launch-success/)

All Photos: ESA–Stephane Corvaja

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ЦитироватьПодготовка и пуск ракеты-носителя легкого класса «Рокот» (к.Плесецк)

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Опубликовано: 13 окт. 2017 г.

ЦитироватьSentinel-5P Atmospheric Monitoring Satellite Rides into Orbit atop Converted Ballistic Missile
October 13, 2017 (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/sentinel-5p-rockot-launch-success/)

A Russian ICBM-turned-space-launch-vehicle lifted off from a remote Cosmodrome north of Moscow on Friday, boosting into orbit a satellite joining the world's largest environmental monitoring constellation. Joining five Sentinel satellites already in orbit, the Sentinel-5P mission will serve as an important gapfiller, ensuring a long-term record of atmospheric monitoring remains uninterrupted as older satellites retire and new, operational missions under Sentinel are still in development.

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Photo: ESA – Stephane Corvaja

The three-stage Rockot/Briz-KM launch vehicle blasted off from Site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at precisely 9:27:44 UTC on Friday to deliver the 820-Kilogram satellite to its precise drop-off point over 800 Kilometers above the planet. Rockot's two converted ballistic missile stages fired for just over five minutes before the Briz-KM upper stage took over for a pair of engine burns to lift Sentinel-5P into a Sun Synchronous Orbit. Loaded springs pushed the satellite off into orbit 79 minutes after liftoff and first signals received from the spacecraft indicated it was healthy, the European Space Agency said.

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Sentinel-5P during Encapsulation – Photo: ESA

Europe's Copernicus program is a multi-billion-Euro effort to create a satellite constellation and ground architecture capable of collecting a comprehensive set of Earth observation parameters and turning them into relevant, usable data for scientists and policy-makers. For that, the program operates a variety of instruments including high-resolution multi-spectral cameras, radars and specialized sensors, providing a complete picture of Earth's land surface, ocean states and atmospheric parameters.

The Copernicus Program's global surveys are used by policy-makers, maritime operators, scientists, meteorologists and resource managers. Taking the pulse of an ever-changing planet, the Copernicus satellite constellation is expected to finish deployment by 2020. Copernicus is operated by the European Commission, ESA and EUMETSAT and represents Europe's single most expensive space project with a cost of $10 billion through deployment of the fully operational constellation.

>> Sentinel-5P Launch Campaign Photo Gallery (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/photos-eurockot-sentinel-5p-launch-campaign/)

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Sentinel-5P – Image: ESA/ATG medialab

The Sentinel satellite fleet began deployment in April 2014 when the Sentinel-1A Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite took flight from French Guiana, setting out to deliver day-and-night radar imaging for land and ocean services, operating in two-satellite constellation with Sentinel-1B launched in 2016 to obtain a high revisit rate.

Outfitted with high-resolution optical imagers, the Sentinel-2 pair launched in June 2015 and March 2017 delivers information on land surface parameters, vegetation, soil and water cover, inland water bodies and coastal areas. The Sentinel-3 series, the first of which launched in January 2016, hosts four specialized sensors taking land and ocean temperature measurements and delivering topographical data.

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Sentinel-5P to bring air pollution into focus – Image: ESA / ATG medialab

Sentinel-4 and 5 are upcoming hosted payloads flying on the next-generation weather satellites operated by EUMETSAT with Sentinel-4 aiming for Geostationary Orbit and Sentinel-5 deployed on the MetOp Second Generation satellites, both dedicated to monitoring Earth's atmosphere. Since they are still several years from launch, the European Commission decided in 2008 it would be advantageous to deploy a gapfiller in order to ensure a continued atmospheric monitoring capability after the end of ESA's Envisat mission in 2012 and the approaching end of mission for NASA's Aura satellite launched in 2004.

Sentinel-5P, formally the Sentinel-5 Precursor, is designed to fill this gap via seven years of operation for the collection of global atmospheric composition at high resolution and with daily coverage of the entire planet. The satellite was built by Airbus Defence and Space in the UK and hosts the Dutch TROPOMI instrument, the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument – an array of four imaging spectrometers with wide angle optics to capture spectral data in the ultraviolet, visible and infrared wavelengths across a 2,600-Kilometer ground swath at a spatial resolution of seven Kilometers.

>> Sentinel-5P Satellite & Instrument Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/sentinel-5p/)

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TROPOMI Flight Configuration – Photo: Airbus Defence and Space

The 220-Kilogram TROPOMI makes use of Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometry, measuring the backscattered solar light from Earth's atmosphere to detect the characteristic absorption lines of atmospheric constituents down to trace amounts. Its high spatial resolution will enable Sentinel-5P to study methane and CO2 hot spots of natural and man-made origin and also examine sinks for greenhouse gases, among a range of other atmospheric constituents. In total, the operational data products delivered by the mission will provide concentration maps for 19 chemical species, clouds and suspended aerosols.

Friday's launch marked the beginning of the end for Russia's venerable Rockot Booster that debuted as a space launch vehicle in 1990 and has since launched 31 times on missions for the Russian Ministry of Defence and international customers. Rockot employs surplus missile stages from the UR-100N Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that are topped by a Briz-KM upper stage to allow the vehicle to inject up to two metric tons into Low Earth Orbit.

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Photo: ESA

Like a number of launch vehicles originating from the former Eastern Bloc, Rockot has recently fallen victim to the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine over the annexation of Crimea, a fate shared with the Zenit and Dnepr programs as Ukrainian-built launch vehicle components were no longer being exported to Russia. In case of Rockot, critical flight control equipment was only delivered after European officials got involved to negotiate the delivery of the hardware for the Sentinel-5P mission which ended up slipping repeatedly due to these import problems as well as other technical issues with the Rockot booster.

The launch of Sentinel-5P probably was Rockot's penultimate flight with the launch of ESA's Sentinel-3B in 2018 most likely putting a close to Rockot's career as the vehicle makes room for newer rockets like the Soyuz 2-1v and Angara 1.2.

>> Rockot Launch Vehicle Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/rockot/)

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Sentinel-5P installation on Rockot – Photo: ESA

After a long road to launch, Sentinel-5P finally took its place atop Rockot last Saturday and Russian technicians filled the two stages of the launcher with nearly 85 metric tons of toxic hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants on Wednesday. Countdown operations were initiated seven hours ahead of T-0 when teams at the European Space Operations Center began calling up the ground stations involved in the mission while the spacecraft team in Plesetsk started a number of checkouts and reconfigurations to put Sentinel-5P into its launch configuration.

The Russian State Commission provided final clearance for launch and Rockot went through final Guidance, Navigation and Control checks inside T-3 hours with Site 133/3 cleared for liftoff one hour before launch. The 29-meter tall Rockot – still partially hidden in its above-ground launch container – was revealed just ten minutes before launch when its Mobile Service Tower retracted for liftoff.

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Photo: ESA – Stephane Corvaja

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Rockot entered the irreversible steps of its final countdown sequence at T-3 minutes with the pressurization of tanks, opening of fuel valves, the transfer to internal power and the activation of the Guidance Platform. Clocks hit zero at 9:27:30 UTC when final guidance system initialization started.

Rockot ignited its four first stage engines and lifted off at precisely 9:27:44.025 UTC, rising from its launch tube, initially guided by rails. Thundering off, the 107-metric ton Rockot completed a short vertical ascent before starting to pitch and roll to align itself with the planned ascent path to the north west, immediately disappearing into low-hanging clouds over Russia's primary military launch base

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.Ascending with a total thrust of 191 metric-ton-force, Rockot burned some 600 Kilograms of propellant per second as it powered away from Earth with three RD-0233 engines and one RD-0234, quickly moving past the speed of sound. The launch vehicle encountered Maximum Dynamic Pressure 50 seconds after lifting off, passing 11 Kilometers in altitude and traveling at 570 meters per second.

At T+2 minutes and 16 seconds, the four-chamber RD-0236 vernier engine of the second stage was ignited and soared up to full thrust of 1,600 Kilogram-force as its exhaust was directed through four hatches on the first stage. Shutdown of the first stage came at T+2:19 and was followed split-seconds later by the separation, assisted by four retrorockets that pushed the first stage away to clear the way for the second stage to ignite its main engine.

With the first stage headed to a crash landing in the Barents Sea, Stage 2 fired up its RD-0235 main engine, outputting a thrust of 24,500 Kilogram-force for a burn of just under three minutes to lift the vehicle out of the atmosphere. The four gimbaling nozzles of the vernier engine delivered vehicle control during second stage flight.

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Image: ESA/ATG medialab

When the stack reached an altitude of 120 Kilometers, it was safe to jettison the protective payload fairing and expose the Sentinel-5P satellite as aerodynamic forces could no longer harm the delicate payload.

Rockot's job was done at T+5 minutes and 19 seconds when it shut down its second stage and separated the Briz-KM upper stage to finish the orbital injection. Briz-KM initially ignited its four 392-Newton vernier engines for propellant settling prior to firing up its S5.98 main engine on a burn of nine minutes to lift the satellite into a Parking Orbit.

Overall, Briz-KM is 2.6 meters long and launches with a propellant load of nearly 5 metric tons, also using Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine and Nitrogen Tetroxide like the first two stages of Rockot. The 2,000 Kilogram-force S5.98 engine was still firing when the launcher headed out of communications range, aiming for an orbit of 183 by 799 Kilometers.

Achieving orbit, Briz-KM was programmed to passively coast to the high-point of its parking orbit and then fire its S5.98 engine for under one minute to circularize the orbit and deliver Sentinel-5P close to its operational Sun Synchronous Orbit 824 Kilometers in altitude, inclined 97.74 degrees

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First Signals from Sentinel-5P – Photo: ESA Webcast

Separation of the satellite at 10:46 UTC set in motion a pre-programmed series of steps aboard the vehicle to deploy its three solar arrays, reduce body rates and power up its transmitter. Initial signals from Sentinel-5P were received through the Kiruna Ground Station in Sweden, confirming the satellite was healthy and in its planned orbit.

Over the next three days, the satellite will go through its Launch & Early Operations Phase to finish detailed checkouts and transition into a safe configuration for its commissioning phase – taking several months as lengthy decontamination is required by the highly sensitive satellite prior to taking its first look at Earth's atmosphere.

The next launch for the Copernicus Program will be Sentinel-3B to complete the two-satellite Sentinel-3 constellation.

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Космические войска ВКС провели успешный пуск ракеты-носителя «Рокот» с космодрома Плесецк (http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12145989@egNews)

ЦитироватьSentinel-5P: satellite in excellent health (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Sentinel-5P_satellite_in_excellent_health/(print))
16 October 2017

Launched last week, Europe's Sentinel-5P satellite – the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring the air we breathe – is in excellent health.

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The 820 kg satellite was lofted into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia last Friday on a Rockot.

The satellite will use its state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to monitor our atmosphere, mapping a multitude of gases that affect the air we breathe, our climate and human health.

After separating from the upper stage at an orbital speed of around 27 000 km/h, Sentinel opened its three solar panels and began communicating with Earth.

The first signal was received 93 min after launch as it passed over the Kiruna station in northern Sweden.

Critical early days

Contact meant that engineers at ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, could assume control of the satellite, and begin working around the clock to check its condition and start setting it up it for routine flight.

he satellite is on solar power, its navigation and communication systems are operating as expected and it is fully functional after its raucous ride into space.

"Sentinel-5P is in excellent health and we were a little ahead of schedule in the timeline for the first three days," says spacecraft operations manager Daniel Mesples.

"That meant we could reduce our 24 hours-a-day schedule a little earlier than planned and declare that the initial phase was complete by Saturday evening.

"As of today, we're back to working daytime hours. Everything is going very well."

Preparing for the sniffing phase

The good news means the satellite is ready for the next crucial phase: commissioning the Tropomi atmosphere sensor over the next six months.

 Once in service, it will map the entire planet every day for Europe's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service air quality forecasts and for decision-making.

It is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It follows a fleet of five other Sentinels already in orbit and delivering a wealth of information about our planet.

The Sentinels make up the core of the space component of the EU's Copernicus environmental monitoring network.

An EU flagship space initiative, Copernicus provides timely operational information on the world's land surfaces, oceans and atmosphere to support environmental and security policymaking, and meet the needs of citizens and service providers.

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 "The satellite completed its initial critical orbital activities in just about 33 hours, a record, and this time there were no surprises," says Paolo Ferri, head of mission operations at ESA.

"This is a testament to the quality of the satellite builders and the expertise of the mission control team, mixed with the necessary bit of luck.

"Given the complexity of spaceflight and the factors that can't be fully predicted, we can't always count on this, but we are happy when it does happen."

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Posted on October 16, 2017 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

Time to pack up

Following the excitement of launching Sentinel-5P on Friday 13 October, the weekend was much quieter here in Plesetsk.

Time has been mainly spent retrieving equipment from the MIK cleanroom and from the 'under table room', packing up and preparing to go home.

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For the team at ESA's European Spacecraft Operations Centre it has been a different story as they were busy with Sentinel-5P's launch and early orbit phase, which they achieved in record time!

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Snapshot of satellite status. (ESA)

So the satellite is now ready to begin the commissioning phase.

The displays offer a snapshot of the temperatures of the Tropomi radiant cooler door inside and outside. The door will remain closed until 7 November. The warm values are temperatures inside the instrument (which need to stay at about 37°C until we open the door. The -61°C and -64°C indicate the temperatures outside the cooler door.

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Tropomi radiant cooler door inside and outside temperatures. (ESA)

Back here in Russia, as well as packing up we were also able to pass on the items we bought for the children's home we visited the other week (see earlier blog post (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2017/09/29/satellite-now-on-launch-adapter/))  and from the generous donations we will be able to pay for some urgently needed roof repairs.

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Team with stuff for the children's home. (ESA)

From the ESA Sentinel-5P launch campaign team in Plesetsk

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Posted on October 17, 2017 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

Nearly ready to go home

In Plesetsk we visited the launch tower to retrieve the 'purge cart' and continued packing so that we are ready to load the train for departure.

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Packing. (ESA)

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More packing. (ESA)

At the European Spacecraft Operations Centre (ESOC) with the launch and early orbit phase over, the team move into the commissioning phase, which will last six months. This will culminate in the in orbit commissioning review, IOCR, after which the satellite will begin its life delivering information on air quality for Europe's Copernicus programme.

Yesterday though, the X-band link, which relays all the scientific data, was used for the first time and worked perfectly. Also  Sentinel-5p was added to the wall of fame by being added to the scoreboard.

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Wall of fame. (ESA)

Other info: Sentinel-5p is the first ESOC launch on the 13th, moreover, Friday the 13th! This was the 13th commercial launch of Rocket. Must be our lucky number!

From the ESA Sentinel-5P launch campaign team in Plesetsk

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ЦитироватьZOOR пишет:
Ну дают ребята. Молодцы.

ЦитироватьРакетные обломки угрожают жизни северных народов (https://www.gismeteo.ru/news/sobytiya/25409-raketnye-oblomki-ugrozhayut-zhizni-severnyh-narodov/)
25 октября 20:24        
                                                                      
 Европейское космическое агентство 13 октября запустило на орбиту очередной спутник, однако лидеры инуитов в Канаде и Гренландии выступали против этого, заявляя о риске загрязнения важной для них арктической зоны космическим мусором.
 
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 Инуиты. © Judith Slein/Flickr, CC BY-SA
 
 
 Большая часть высокотоксичного ракетного топлива сгорает во время запуска, но остатки летят вниз. Таким образом, когда вторая ступень ракеты отделилась и упала на Землю, она могла содержать до тонны несгоревшего гидразинового топлива, которое было «намеренно выброшено» в Северную водную полынью (North Water Polynya) в заливе Баффина, между Нунавутом и Гренландией.

 Полынья представляет собой зону открытой воды, окруженную морским льдом. Это место обитания арктических видов, таких как нарвалы и тюлени, и один из самых биологически продуктивных районов Арктики. Инуиты — коренные народы Северной Америки — добывают там пищу, поэтому для них он имеет важное продовольственное значение.

 До запуска бывший премьер-министр Гренландии Куупик Клейст назвал неприемлемым попадание потенциально опасного ракетного топлива в Полынью. Согласно ранее опубликованному исследованию, с 2002 года по меньшей мере 10 подобных запусков с северных берегов Норвегии и России привели к попаданию ступеней ракет в этот район или в Баренцево море.

 В соответствии со статьей 29 Декларации ООН о правах коренных народов, государства должны следить за тем, чтобы опасные материалы не попадали на территории коренных народов без их согласия. Однако запуск на позапрошлой неделе, как и другие до него, не были согласованы с инуитами.

 Что будет, если что-то пойдет не так?

 Гидразин — чрезвычайно токсичное химическое вещество, которое редко используется космическими программами из-за его прямой угрозы. Ученым мало известно о последствиях длительного воздействия гидразина на человека и поведении этого вещества в арктической морской среде.

 Гидразин использовался при запуске спутника для мониторинга атмосферы, осуществленном ЕКА на позапрошлой неделе с российского космодрома «Плесецк». Однако ЕКА отрицает, что ракетная ступень может представлять какую-либо угрозу для арктической окружающей среды. Вместе с тем Майкл Байерс, канадский исследователь по вопросам глобальной политики и международного права в Университете Британской Колумбии, подчеркнул, что в настоящее время нет информации о том, сколько неиспользованного гидразина попадает в воду.

 Теоретически, ракетный мусор должен сгореть при повторном входе в атмосферу Земли, не достигнув поверхности. Но что будет, если что-то пойдет не так?

 Правительство Нунавута заявило, что вероятность попадания топлива на Землю остается низкой. Однако риск в любой степени неприемлем, и циркумполярный совет инуитов (ICC) потребовал от космических агентств использовать менее токсичные альтернативы.

 Более двух третей их домохозяйств не имеют надежного доступа к пище. Как неоднократно указывали инуиты, любой риск, связанный с окружающей средой в Арктике, может повлиять на их продовольственную безопасность, питание и здоровье, а также на средства к существованию и культуру. Бывший глава ICC Окалик Эгезияк сказал о предыдущих запусках: «Земля, куда упадет ракета, это не пустыня... Это наш дом».

ЦитироватьSentinel-5P prepared for liftoff

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Опубликовано: 2 нояб. 2017 г.

This timelapse video shows Sentinel-5P satellite, from final preparations to liftoff on a Rockot launcher, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, on 13 October 2017.

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ЦитироватьБольшая часть высокотоксичного ракетного топлива сгорает во время запуска, но остатки летят вниз. Таким образом, когда вторая ступень ракеты отделилась и упала на Землю, она могла содержать до тонны несгоревшего гидразинового топлива, которое было «намеренно выброшено» в Северную водную полынью ( North Water Polynya ) в заливе Баффина, между Нунавутом и Гренландией.

"До тонны" это они зубы крокодилам нарисовали. Не более пары сотен килограмм скорее на момент отделения. И все сгорает.
2-я ступень как-никак.

ЦитироватьEarth from Space: special edition

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Опубликовано: 12 дек. 2017 г.

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, atmospheric scientists from the DLR German Aerospace Center – Diego Loyola and Thilo Erbertseder – join the show to discuss the first data from the recently-launched Sentinel-5P satellite.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185697.jpg)Copernicus ECMWF‏ @CopernicusECMWF (https://twitter.com/CopernicusECMWF) 56 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/CopernicusECMWF/status/1017086561102565377)

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125423.png)Official release of #Sentinel5P (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash) #satellite (https://twitter.com/hashtag/satellite?src=hash) data @esa (https://twitter.com/esa)! #Observations (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Observations?src=hash) from Sentinel-5P are being processed and analysed by #Copernicus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Copernicus?src=hash) CAMS and will be ready to forecast #AirQuality (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AirQuality?src=hash) and to help with related #decisionmaking (https://twitter.com/hashtag/decisionmaking?src=hash) later this year. Read more (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125625.png)https://bit.ly/2N8cWkm  (https://t.co/EnvWzkyy7B)

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ЦитироватьAir quality: Take a deep breath

European Space Agency, ESA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBaDdAbGlFDeS33shmlD0A)

Опубликовано: 16 мая 2019 г.

Air pollution has become a serious problem. According to the World Health Organization, seven million premature deaths per year are linked to air pollution. The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Services provide key information about air quality around the globe to help understand how we can keep our planet breathable.

ЦитироватьСпутник помог обнаружить крупную утечку метана из Пермского бассейна
Спутник Sentinel-5 Precursor помог установить, что повышение концентрации метана в нижних слоях атмосферы над южными штатами США вызвано утечкой из Пермского нефтегазоносного бассейна. Доступ к этому объекту для экологических исследований затруднен по юридическим причинам, но точные данные спутниковых наблюдений позволили обойтись без прямого отбора проб. Порядка 4,6 процентов природного газа, добываемого из Пермского бассейна, теряется, загрязняя воздух и подвергая риску здоровье местного населения и равновесие экосистем. В качестве причин авторы статьи, опубликованной (https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/17/eaaz5120) в журнале Science Advances, называют недостаточно развитую инфраструктуру нефтедобычи и рекомендуют отказаться от факельного метода сжигания попутного газа ввиду его серьезной экологической опасности.

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Потенциал воздействия метана на парниковый эффект в 28-34 (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jgrd.50480) раза выше, чем у CO2. Его экологическая опасность заключается также в том, что он является предшественником крайне токсичного тропосферного озона (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_ozone). Добыча природной нефти практически всегда сопровождается утечками попутного нефтяного газа (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%82%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%B7), который представляет собой метан в смеси с другими углеводородами. Газ, поступающий под высоким давлением, люди собирают и используют, но при давлении менее пяти бар этот процесс затрудняется и становится нерентабельным. Зачастую такой газ просто сжигают на факельных установках, хотя природоохранные организации так делать не рекомендуют (https://www.iea.org/fuels-and-technologies/gas). 


В России, к примеру, нефтедобывающие компании обязаны (http://docs.cntd.ru/document/902137658) сжигать не более 5 процентов попутного газа, но в 2016 году сожгли приблизительно 12,4×106 тонн, что составляет не менее 14 процентов (впрочем, крупные утечки обнаружены не были). К 2017 году ситуация улучшилась, и многие российские компании смогли (https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2018/07/17/new-satellite-data-reveals-progress-global-gas-flaring-declined-in-2017) достичь требуемых показателей.


Самым крупным месторождением нефти и газа в Северной Америке является Пермский бассейн, расположенный в штатах Техас, Нью-Мексико и Оклахома — там добывается более 30 процентов сырой нефти и 10 процентов природного газа в США. Экологический мониторинг этого бассейна затруднен: законодательство соседних штатов в области защиты окружающей среды и имущественных прав значительно отличается, и во многих местах отбирать пробы невозможно.


Ученые под руководством Юйчжуна Чжана (Yuzhong Zhang) из Гарварда в 2018 году анализировали данные, поступающие со спутника Sentinel-5 Precursor. Этот спутник оборудован TROPOMI (http://www.tropomi.eu/) — инструментом мониторинга тропосферы, который определяет концентрации озона, оксидов серы и азота, метана, угарного газа и формальдегида в воздухе. Специалисты заметили повышение концентрации метана над южной территорией США и предположили, что эта эмиссия может свидетельствовать об утечке из Пермского бассейне.

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Скорость потока метана из Пермского бассейна (красная область слева - суббассейн Делавера, красная область справа - суббассейн Мидленда); по оси абсцисс — долгота, по оси ординат — широта, потемнение шкалы соответствует ускорению потока
Yuzhong Zhang et al. / Science Advances, 2020.


Авторы исследования продолжили наблюдения, и в течение 11 месяцев с мая 2018 по март 2019 года зафиксировали суммарные выбросы метана из Пермского бассейна массой (2,7±0,5)×106 тонн. Это составляет 4,6 процента всего добываемого газа в этом бассейне и на 60 процентов превосходит (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6398/186) средние утечки по другим месторождениям США. Таким количеством газа можно обеспечить семь миллионов домов в штате Техас.

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A — сжигание метана факельным способом (измерено по исходящему теплу), В — эмиссия двуокиси азота, сопровождающая такое сжигание.
Yuzhong Zhang et al. / Science Advances, 2020.


Ученые предполагают, что серьезная утечка метана и сопутствующее ей повышение концентрации диоксида азота происходят из-за недостаточно развитой инфраструктуры для сбора, обработки и транспортировки природного газа. Данные спутниковых наблюдений свидетельствуют о сжигании газа «грязным» факельным способом, который не может обеспечить полное разложение сопутствующих газов на нетоксичные соединения. При отсутствии необходимых мер по охране окружающей среды загрязнение будет продолжаться и повлечет за собой риски для здоровья населения и ущерб местным экосистемам.


Не все утечки метана связаны напрямую с антропогенным воздействием: так, климатические изменения приводят к росту эмиссии (https://nplus1.ru/news/2020/04/10/wetland-methane-emissions) метана болотными экосистемами.


Марина Попова

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