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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Salo от 03.02.2018 04:11:44
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/Sentinel-3B_good_to_go
ЦитироватьSentinel-3B good to go
 
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225504.jpg) (http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/01/Sentinel-3B_tested)             
Sentinel-3B tested         
 
 2 February 2018
 After being put through its paces to make sure it is fit for life in orbit around Earth, the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite is ready to be packed up and shipped to Russia for liftoff.
 Its twin, Sentinel-3A, has been in orbit since February 2016, systematically measuring our oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. The information feeds a range of practical applications and is used for monitoring and understanding large-scale global dynamics.
 The pairing of identical satellites provides the best coverage and data delivery for Europe's Copernicus programme – the largest environmental monitoring programme in the world.
 Sentinel-3B has spent the last year at Thales Alenia Space's premises in Cannes, France, being assembled and tested, and now it is fit and ready for its journey to the Plesetsk launch site in northern Russia.
 ESA's Jean-Francois Flamand said, "The satellite has been through a number of tests that mimic the harsh environment of space to ensure that it works as it should.
  (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225505.jpg) (http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/01/Working_on_Sentinel-3B)
Working on Sentinel-3B
 
 "This included putting it in a vacuum chamber, exposing it to extreme temperatures, and we have also simulated the vibrations it will be subjected to during launch."
 With liftoff expected to be confirmed for the end of April, the satellite will start its journey to Russia in March.
 Both Sentinel-3 satellites carry a suite of cutting-edge instruments to supply a new generation of data products, which are particularly useful for marine applications. For example, they monitor ocean-surface temperatures for ocean and weather forecasting services, aquatic biological productivity, ocean pollution and sea-level change.
 The mission also delivers unique and timely information about changing land cover, vegetation, urban heat islands, and for tracking wildfires.
                
A multitalented mission
Access the video (http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2016/01/A_multitalented_mission)             
 
 Sentinel-3B also marks a milestone in Europe's Copernicus programme.
 With the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 pairs already in orbit monitoring our environment, the launch of Sentinel-3B means that three mission constellations will be complete. In addition, Sentinel-5P, a single-satellite mission to monitor air pollution, has been in orbit since October 2017.
 While the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites circle Earth 180° apart, the configuration for Sentinel-3 will be slightly different: the 140° separation will help to measure ocean features such as eddies as accurately as possible.
 Prior to this, however, they will fly just 223 km apart, which means that Sentinel-3B will be a mere 30 seconds behind Sentinel-3A.
  (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225364.png) (http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2016/10/Mediterranean_view)
Mediterranean fr om Sentinel-3A
 
 Flying in tandem like this for around four months is designed to understand any subtle differences between the two sets of instruments – measurements should be almost the same given their brief separation.
 ESA's ocean scientist, Craig Donlon, explains, "Our Sentinel-3 ocean climate record will eventually be derived from four satellites because we will be launching two further Sentinel-3s in the future.
 "We need to understand the small differences between each successive satellite instrument as these influence our ability to determine accurate climate trends.
 "The Sentinel-3 tandem phase is a fantastic opportunity to do this and will provide results so that climate scientists can use all Sentinel-3 data with confidence."
 With the satellite declared fit and ready, it will soon be carefully packed up for shipment to Russia, wh ere it will be tested again before being fitted to the Rockot launcher for the ride into orbit.
                
 Earth from Space: special edition
Access the video (http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2018/01/Earth_from_Space_special_edition2)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 06.02.2018 13:45:13
Слайды 39 и 40 объясняют, почему перенос пуска возможен не на любую последующую дату
http://iocs.ioccg.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/donlon-iocs-copernicus-s2-v3.1b.pdf

Пардон, не заметил, что о тандемной фазе выше уже есть!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 08.02.2018 19:26:19
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186009.jpg)EUMETSAT‏ @eumetsat (https://twitter.com/eumetsat) Feb 6 (https://twitter.com/eumetsat/status/960797207426486273)

The #Copernicus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Copernicus?src=hash) Sentinel-3B satellite is ready to go! After spending the last year at the @Thales_Alenia_S (https://twitter.com/Thales_Alenia_S) premises in Cannes being assembled & tested, it's now fit for its journey to the Plesetsk launch site in northern Russia. Read the @esa (https://twitter.com/esa) article here: https://goo.gl/PmFLa7  (https://t.co/qM2HGERTQP)
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 18.02.2018 09:02:28
Цитироватьvogel пишет:
ЦитироватьJosef Aschbacher ‏ @AschbacherJosef 7h7 hours ago (https://twitter.com/AschbacherJosef/status/964751388973641729)
 Sentinel-3B launch planned 25 April . This will be the seventh Sentinel launch in 4 years. We currently produce 14 TB data volume per day ! Very few realise the magnitude and success of Copernicus. Compliments to all involved ! @CopernicusEU (https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU) @ESA_EO (https://twitter.com/ESA_EO)

https://twitter.com/AschbacherJosef/status/964751388973641729
ЦитироватьPIN пишет:
Да, все планирование сейчас "пляшет" от 25го, это, к тому же, очень подходящий день с точки зрения баллистики.

Все не понятно, чего с 17-го уехали
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: che wi от 20.02.2018 11:21:32
Запуск европейского Sentinel-3b с Плесецка отложен на 25 апреля (http://www.interfax.ru/russia/600619)

ЦитироватьМосква. 19 февраля. INTERFAX.RU - Запуск европейского спутника дистанционного зондирования Земли (ДЗЗ) Sentinel с космодрома Плесецк вновь отложен, сообщил "Интерфаксу" в понедельник источник в ракетно-космической отрасли.

"Запуск спутника ДЗЗ Sentinel-3b с космодрома в Плесецке назначен на 25, а не 6 апреля, как планировалось ранее", - сказал собеседник агентства.

Спойлер
Спутник выведет на орбиту российская ракета-носитель "Рокот".

Ранее сообщалось, что запуск ракеты был перенесен на месяц ранее запланированного - с мая на начало апреля. Предыдущий спутник Sentinel-5p успешно стартовал с космодрома Плесецк 13 октября минувшего года.

Запуски конверсионных ракет-носителей "Рокот" выполняются с космодрома Плесецк в Архангельской области пусковыми расчетами Космических войск ВКС России.

"Рокот" - жидкостная трехступенчатая ракета-носитель легкого класса, спроектированная в Государственном космическом научно-производственном центре им. Хруничева на базе межконтинентальной баллистической ракеты УР-100Н УТТХ (РС-18Б). Первый запуск по суборбитальной траектории состоялся 20 ноября 1990 года.

Ракета-носитель "Рокот" позволяет выводить до 2 тыс. 150 кг полезной нагрузки (при использовании разгонного блока "Бриз-КМ") на круговую орбиту высотой 200 км наклонением 63 градуса с космодрома Плесецк.

Первый пуск "Рокота" выполнен 16 мая 2000 года. Всего осуществлено 26 пусков ракет-носителей этого типа.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 20.02.2018 13:41:27
Цитироватьche wi пишет:
Ранее сообщалось, что запуск ракеты был перенесен на месяц ранее запланированного - с мая на начало апреля.
Цитироватьche wi пишет:
назначен на 25, а не 6 апреля, как планировалось ранее
Кто все эти "источники", откуда они высасывают даты, которые даже не фигурировали в планировании?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: zandr от 20.02.2018 21:21:24
Цитировать"Европейцы по каким-то причинам не успевают доставить космический аппарат вовремя на космодром Плесецк, откуда должен быть осуществлен пуск ракеты-носителя "Рокот" со спутником Sentinel-3b. Поэтому ЕКА попросило перенести старт на более позднюю дату. Пока рассматривается 25 апреля", - сказал собеседник агентства.
Подробнее на ТАСС:
http://tass.ru/kosmos/4974573
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 21.02.2018 12:33:36
ЦитироватьZOOR пишет:
Все не понятно, чего с 17-го уехали
Выше ссылка на ТАСС, там плюс-минус корректно.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 23.02.2018 10:25:59
А тем временем 2 первых серий тренировок позади (https://www.flickr.com/photos/esa_events/sets/72157692957588214)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: поц от 07.03.2018 05:19:42
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67718.jpg)ESA‏Подлинная учетная запись @esa (https://twitter.com/esa) 12 ч.12 часов назад (https://twitter.com/esa/status/971042097724878850)

The Sentinel-3A satellite systematically measures our #oceans (https://twitter.com/hashtag/oceans?src=hash), #land (https://twitter.com/hashtag/land?src=hash), #ice (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ice?src=hash) and #atmosphere (https://twitter.com/hashtag/atmosphere?src=hash). It will soon be joined by its identical twin, Sentinel-3B, to improve data delivery and coverage.

Пишут, что 3В скоро присоединится, ну дай-то Бог...
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 10.03.2018 19:42:11
ЦитироватьSentinel-3: a workhorse mission for Copernicus

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220694.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/user/ESA)  European Space Agency, ESA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBaDdAbGlFDeS33shmlD0A)

Опубликовано: 6 мар. 2018 г.

Following its launch in February 2016 and subsequent commissioning phase, the Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite has been systematically measuring our oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. The information feeds a range of practical applications and is used for monitoring and understanding large-scale global dynamics. Sentinel-3A will soon be joined in orbit by its identical twin, Sentinel-3B. Both satellites carry a suite of cutting-edge instruments to supply a new generation of data products, which are particularly useful for marine applications. For example, they monitor ocean-surface temperatures for ocean and weather forecasting services, aquatic biological productivity, ocean pollution and sea-level change. The mission also delivers unique and timely information about changing land cover, vegetation, urban heat islands, and for tracking wildfires. With the two satellites in orbit, global coverage and data delivery will be optimised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKtN5Y_I7ghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKtN5Y_I7g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKtN5Y_I7g) (4:34)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 10.03.2018 19:45:23
ЦитироватьEarth from Space: special edition

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220694.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/user/ESA)  European Space Agency, ESA (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIBaDdAbGlFDeS33shmlD0A)

Опубликовано: 8 мар. 2018 г.

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Sentinel-3 Project Manager Bruno Berruti joins us from the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes to give us an up-close look at the multiple instruments on the Sentinel-3B satellite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRlWS-NTAshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRlWS-NTAs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRlWS-NTAs) (6:45)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 15.03.2018 14:45:54
Блог по подготовке здесь:
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 16.03.2018 18:40:06
https://www.roscosmos.ru/24828/

или

http://www.khrunichev.com/main.php?id=1&nid=3568 (http://www.khrunichev.com/main.php?id=1&nid=3568)
ЦитироватьЦЕНТР ХРУНИЧЕВА: НА КОСМОДРОМЕ ПЛЕСЕЦК НАЧАЛАСЬ ПОДГОТОВКА К ПУСКУ РАКЕТЫ-НОСИТЕЛЯ «РОКОТ» С ЕВРОПЕЙСКИМ НАУЧНЫМ КОСМИЧЕСКИМ АППАРАТОМ «СЕНТИНЕЛ-3Б»
16.03.2018

Сегодня 16 марта европейский космический аппарат (КА) научного назначения Sentinel-3В («Сентинел-3Б) доставлен из Франции в Россию для подготовки к запуску, который запланирован на апрель текущего года с космодрома Плесецк (Архангельская область). Для выведения спутника на целевую солнечно-синхронную орбиту будет использоваться ракета космического назначения (РКН) «Рокот» с разгонным блоком «Бриз-КМ». Пусковые операции должны быть обеспечены силами и средствами Космических войск ВКС Министерства обороны Российской Федерации.

Контракт на пусковые услуги РКН «Рокот» заключили ESA (Европейское космическое агентство) и фирма Eurockot («Еврокот») - совместное предприятие ArianeGroup и Центра Хруничева, разработчика и изготовителя ракеты-носителя «Рокот». СП Eurockot (Бремен, Германия) обеспечивает коммерческую эксплуатацию ракеты «Рокот» на мировом рынке запусков низкоорбитальных космических аппаратов.

Транспортный самолет, на борту которого находился контейнер с космическим аппаратом и наземным вспомогательным оборудованием (НВО), приземлился в аэропорту Талаги (г. Архангельск) сегодня днем.

Уже завтра 17 марта контейнер железнодорожным транспортом доставят в монтажно-испытательный корпус (МИК), расположенный на технической площадке ракетного космического комплекса (РКК) «Рокот». Работы, предусмотренные технологическим графиком подготовки КА Sentinel-3В, начнутся в МИКе в ближайшие дни. Комплексные проверки и заправку космического аппарата компонентами топлива выполнят специалисты французского подразделения Thales Alenia Space (головного разработчика и изготовителя КА) совместно с коллегами из ESA.

Параллельно, в МИКе команда инженеров Центра Хруничева вместе с техническими специалистами других предприятий РОСКОСМОСА подготовят разгонный блок, переходную систему, головной обтекатель к сборке с космическим аппаратом.
Спойлер
Ракета космического назначения (РКН) легкого класса «Рокот» создана в Центре Хруничева на базе МБР РС-18 для обеспечения запусков космических аппаратов массой до 1,95 т на низкие около¬земные орбиты по Федеральной космической программе и коммерческим программам. Возможности РКН «Рокот» полностью отвечают задачам выведения малых и средних космических аппаратов на солнечно-синхронные и околополярные орбиты. Применение РБ «Бриз-КМ» в составе РКН «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 настоящее время) - 27, из которых 7 пусков с попутной полезной нагрузкой.

За прошедшие 17 лет «Рокот» вывел на орбиту свыше 60 космических аппаратов различного назначения.

КА Sentinel-3В предназначен для решения задач 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). Программа Copernicus осуществляется под эгидой Еврокомиссии в партнёрстве с ESA и Европейским агентством по окружающей среде.

КА Sentinel-3В будет использоваться для сбора данных дистанционного мониторинга о состоянии океанов, морских льдов и прибрежных зон Sentinel-3В станет третьим из спутников серии Sentinel, запущенных на РКН «Рокот» в рамках контрактов, заключенных ESA c СП Eurockot.

Начиная с 2000 года, предприятие Eurockot предоставляет пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» и обеспечивает коммерческие запуски на низкие орбиты малых космических аппаратов для наблюдения Земли, проведения научных экспериментов и исследований, отработке новых технологий в условиях космического пространства. В рамках контрактов с ESA, Eurockot обеспечил успешные запуски пяти космических аппаратов, созданных для реализации европейских программ охраны окружающей среды и безопасности (КА GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, Sentinel 5P), а также, - технологического демонстратора PROBA-2. Предстоящий запуск должен стать 14 –м для предприятия Eurockot.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 17.03.2018 17:51:32
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185970.jpg)Craig Donlon‏ @craigdonlon (https://twitter.com/craigdonlon) 5 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/craigdonlon/status/974950701175595010)

Great news! @ESA_EO (https://twitter.com/ESA_EO) @CopernicusEU (https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU) #sentinel (https://twitter.com/hashtag/sentinel?src=hash)-3B has arrived in Arkhangelsk! Loaded into the train and making its way to Plesetsk to prepare for launch
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 21.03.2018 12:21:27
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/03/20/preparing-to-unveil-sentinel-3b/
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Posted on March 20, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

Preparing to unveil Sentinel-3B   

The Sentinel-3B shipment has now arrived safely at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and the team has been busy getting everything into the facilities.
Спойлер
The Antonov cargo aircraft left Nice, France, in the late evening on 16 March. The flight had been delayed a couple of days because of ice on the runway at Arkhangelsk. Such a heavy aircraft needs a particular 'braking coefficient' to land safely.

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Arrival at Arkhangelsk. (ESA)

After a stopover in Moscow to clear the paperwork, it was onto Arkhangelsk, where the weather had improved compared to the days before.

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Unloading. (ESA)

Then the cargo, which included the container holding Sentinel-3B and a number of other containers of equipment needed to prepare the satellite for launch, was off-loaded and transferred by lorry to a train for the onward journey to Plesetsk.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101104.jpg)
On the train. (ESA)

The team had to endure temperatures of –15°C that felt like –21°C with the wind-chill factor ... but by the time they were done, around midnight, it had dropped to –22°C ..... that's –29°C taking the wind chill into account ....brrrrrrr!

In fact, people could only work outside for around 15 minutes at a time and had to have a five-minute break in the bus or train to warm up before going out again. It was pretty tough.

Once everything had been loaded onto the train, the team was pleased to get back to the hotel where the staff welcomed them with some much-appreciated hot soup.

After being babysat – monitored – for 24 hours and the convoy thoroughly inspected by the railway authorities, the train left Arkhangelsk in the evening of 18 March and arrived early the following morning.

Then with clear sunny skies, it was full steam ahead to get everything unloaded and into the launch facilities, and by the end of the day the job was done.

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Precious cargo. (ESA)

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Big shipment. (ESA)

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101107.jpg)
Glamourous work. (ESA)
 
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Keeping an eye. (ESA)
 
Since then the team have been busy unpacking the containers and preparing to open the special one – the one holding their baby: Sentinel-3B, which is planned for Wednesday 21 March.
 
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101116.jpg)
A few boxes. (ESA)
 
The weather in Plesetsk is a relatively mild –3°C, turning colder.

From the ESA Sentinel-3Blaunch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Отправлено: PIN от 21.03.2018 15:19:50
Упарились они с горами снега в зонах выгрузки. Спасибо Красной Армии, вчера личный состав поработал лопатами и выгрузка оставшейся части оборудования произошла.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: поц от 21.03.2018 16:55:14
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Космические аппараты Sentinel разрабатываются от имени ЕКА в рамках программы Европейского Союза "Коперник". 
Они являются ключом к усилиям Европы по мониторингу окружающей среды. 
Фактически существует шесть семейств спутников или приборов: Sentinel-1 предназначен для обеспечения непрерывности радиолокационных данных, собранных ДЗЗ и Envisat; Sentinel-2 и -3 предназначены для мониторинга суши и океанов. 
Приборы "Сентинел-4" и " 5 " предназначены для метеорологических и климатологических миссий. 
Sentinel-6 обеспечит непрерывность работы миссий Джейсона альтиметрии. 
Компания Thales Alenia Space является основным Подрядчиком для семейств Sentinel-1 и -3 (по 4 спутника), отвечает за наземный сегмент изображения для Sentinel-2 и производит спектрометр визуализации, выполняемый Sentinel-5P, а также радиолокационный высотомер Poseidon-4 Для миссии Jason-CS/Sentinel-6.
SENTINEL-3B ARRIVES AT PLESETSK COSMODROME (https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/news/sentinel-3b-arrives-plesetsk-cosmodrome)

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Спасибо Красной Армии, вчера личный состав поработал лопатами
"Два солдата из стройбата заменяют экскаватор" Ха-ха-ха, господи, как же всё это знакомо, сколько лет прошло, а ничего не изменилось и без Красной Армии никуда!!!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: zandr от 21.03.2018 19:14:33
https://www.roscosmos.ru/24837/
ЦитироватьАпрель 2018       Запуск КА Sentinel-3В     ПЛЕСЕЦК       Рокот        Предстоящий  
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 В апреле 2018 года с космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК запланирован запуск европейского научного космического аппарата Sentinel-3В («Сентинел-3Б»). Для выведения спутника на целевую солнечно-синхронную орбиту будет использоваться ракета-носитель «Рокот» с разгонным блоком «Бриз-КМ». Пусковые операции обеспечиваются силами и средствами Космических войск ВКС Министерства обороны Российской Федерации.
 Космический аппарат Sentinel-3В предназначен для решения задач европейской программы мониторинга окружающей среды Copernicus («Коперник»). Спутник Sentinel-3В будет использоваться для сбора данных дистанционного мониторинга о состоянии океанов, морских льдов и прибрежных зон. Sentinel-3В станет третьим из спутников серии Sentinel, запущенных ракетами-носителями «Рокот» в рамках контрактов, заключенных ESA c СП Eurockot.
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Контракт на пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» заключили ESA (Европейское космическое агентство) и фирма Eurockot («Еврокот») - совместное предприятие ArianeGroup и Центра Хруничева, разработчика и изготовителя ракеты-носителя «Рокот». СП Eurockot (Бремен, Германия) обеспечивает коммерческую эксплуатацию ракеты «Рокот» на мировом рынке запусков низкоорбитальных космических аппаратов.[/JUSTIFY]
   
Начиная с 2000 года, предприятие Eurockot предоставляет пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» и обеспечивает коммерческие запуски на низкие орбиты малых космических аппаратов для наблюдения Земли, проведения научных экспериментов и исследований, отработке новых технологий в условиях космического пространства. В рамках контрактов с ESA, Eurockot обеспечил успешные запуски пяти космических аппаратов, созданных для реализации европейских программ охраны окружающей среды и безопасности (КА GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, Sentinel 5P), а также, -  технологического демонстратора PROBA-2.  Предстоящий запуск должен стать 14-м для предприятия Eurockot.
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Предстоящий запуск должен стать 14-м для предприятия Eurockot.
...и последним?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 22.03.2018 01:35:35
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Довесок
https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2016/01/007/1601_007_AR_EN.mp4
https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2016/01/007/1601_007_AR_EN.mp4 (https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2016/01/007/1601_007_AR_EN.mp4) (1:20)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 22.03.2018 01:40:12
ЦитироватьEARTH FROM SPACE: SPECIAL EDITION

Released: 21/03/2018
Length 00:05:52
Language English
Description
Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, Sentinel-3 Mission Scientist Craig Donlon joins us from the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes to explain how Sentinel-3 is helping us better understand our oceans.

https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2018/03/010/1803_010_AR_EN.mp4
https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2018/03/010/1803_010_AR_EN.mp4 (https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2018/03/010/1803_010_AR_EN.mp4)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 23.03.2018 18:39:09
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/Sentinel-3B_launch_preparations_in_full_swing

Сегодня было и первое включение аппарата.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 23.03.2018 19:52:29
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/03/23/sentinel-3b-on-the-dolly/
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Posted on March 23, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

SENTINEL-3B: ON THE DOLLY

Following its arrival at the Plesetsk launch site, the Sentinel-3B satellite has been taken out of its transport container and placed on its 'tilting dolly'. This dolly holds the satellite in various positions, allowing the engineers to access different parts of the craft.

It will remain in a horizontal position until Monday – allowing it to 'rest' after its journey from France.
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Resting on the dolly. (ESA)

This is a significant step in the launch campaign: Sentinel-3B safely in the Plesetsk facilities and positioned ready for testing.

With this milestone passed, the cleanroom has now been freed of big equipment such as the transport container and horizontal handling device that have done their duty.

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Positioning Sentinel-3B on the dolly. (ESA)

The temperature (19.4°C) and humidity (40–45%) in the control room 111 have been stabilised so that the electrical team can start to validate the electrical ground support equipment following transportation.

A humidifier has been installed as a precautionary measure as the humidity should not drop lower than 40%.

The umbilical rack, which provides power and the telemetry/telecommand interface to the satellite, and the overall check out equipment, control station of the test bench, have been given priority to allow the satellite to be switched on for the first time.

On the Rockot launcher side, everything is progressing as it should. The satellite fairing is in the MIK General Hall, ready to enter 101B, the Russian part of the cleanroom. The booster unit is currently being prepared for its electrical tests, and the Breeze upper stage is undergoing checks.

The weather in Plesetsk is snow and –4°C/–14°C

From the ESA Sentinel-3Blaunch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Отправлено: tnt22 от 27.03.2018 18:00:31
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29242.jpg)DutchSpace‏ @DutchSpace (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace) 4 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/DutchSpace/status/978586250058878976)

Nice CGI image of @ESA_EO (https://twitter.com/ESA_EO) #Sentinel3B (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3B?src=hash) on Rockot during fairing separation, via @esa (https://twitter.com/esa) P. Carril
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 28.03.2018 03:00:35
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/03/27/and-shes-up/
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Posted on March 27, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)
AND SHE'S UP

After unpacking Sentinel-3B and positioning it on the tilting dolly, the satellite has been switched on and moved into a vertical position.

The team switched on the satellite on Friday 23 March – always a tense moment.

ESA's Kristof Gantois said, "It had been in 'dormant mode' for four weeks so it was great to see the first signs of life fr om our baby. All its vitals look normal!"

The vibration specialists also confirmed that nothing untoward had happed to Sentinel-3B during its long journey from Cannes in France to Plesetsk in Russia. So it didn't experience any 'off-nominal' vibrations or shocks and the temperature remained within limits.
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From horizontal to vertical. (ESA)

"These are the very first tests to make sure the satellite is alive and well, from now on we go into the thorough testing plan," added Kristoff.

The team also received another piece of good news from ESA's European Spacecraft Operations Centre in Germany on Friday: they've passed the Operations Readiness Review, meaning that all the ground systems and operations plans & procedures are green for launch.

So, the team in Plesetsk just have the minor task of getting the satellite ready for liftoff!

Work continued on Saturday with testing the satellite's S-band communication system while the propulsion team inspected the 'fill and drain' valve. They have to be sure that there will be no leaks after the satellite has been fuelled.

On Sunday, the team enjoyed a well-deserved day off. Well, apart from the mechanical team who headed for the cleanroom to work on the multilayer insulation – the satellite's thermal covering.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101111.jpg)
Local amenities. (ESA)

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Cold outside. (ESA)

Monday was a busy day that started with the team arriving in the cleanroom at 07:00. Tasks for the day included hoisting the satellite into a vertical position wh ere it will remain until after fuelling.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101113.jpg)
She's up for testing. (ESA)

The weather in Plesetsk is sporadic snow and –4°C/–17°C

From the ESA Sentinel-3Blaunch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Отправлено: tnt22 от 02.04.2018 01:23:21
https://www.roscosmos.ru/24837/
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ДатаЗапускКосмодромРакета-носительРезультат
Апрель 2018Запуск КА Sentinel-3ВПЛЕСЕЦК (https://www.roscosmos.ru/480/) Рокот (https://www.roscosmos.ru/469/) Предстоящий 
Пусковая кампания «Рокот»/«Бриз-КМ»/Sentinel-3В

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Copyright ESA/ATG medialab
В апреле 2018 года с космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК запланирован запуск европейского научного космического аппарата Sentinel-3В («Сентинел-3Б»). Для выведения спутника на целевую солнечно-синхронную орбиту будет использоваться ракета-носитель «Рокот» с разгонным блоком «Бриз-КМ». Пусковые операции обеспечиваются силами и средствами Космических войск ВКС Министерства обороны Российской Федерации.
Спойлер
Космический аппарат Sentinel-3В предназначен для решения задач европейской программы мониторинга окружающей среды Copernicus («Коперник»). Спутник Sentinel-3В будет использоваться для сбора данных дистанционного мониторинга о состоянии океанов, морских льдов и прибрежных зон. Sentinel-3В станет третьим из спутников серии Sentinel, запущенных ракетами-носителями «Рокот» в рамках контрактов, заключенных ESA c СП Eurockot.

https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2016/01/007/1601_007_AR_EN.mp4 (https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2016/01/007/1601_007_AR_EN.mp4)

Контракт на пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» заключили ESA (Европейское космическое агентство) и фирма Eurockot («Еврокот») - совместное предприятие ArianeGroup и Центра Хруничева, разработчика и изготовителя ракеты-носителя «Рокот». СП Eurockot (Бремен, Германия) обеспечивает коммерческую эксплуатацию ракеты «Рокот» на мировом рынке запусков низкоорбитальных космических аппаратов.

Начиная с 2000 года, предприятие Eurockot предоставляет пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» и обеспечивает коммерческие запуски на низкие орбиты малых космических аппаратов для наблюдения Земли, проведения научных экспериментов и исследований, отработке новых технологий в условиях космического пространства. В рамках контрактов с ESA, Eurockot обеспечил успешные запуски пяти космических аппаратов, созданных для реализации европейских программ охраны окружающей среды и безопасности (КА GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, Sentinel 5P), а также, - технологического демонстратора PROBA-2. Предстоящий запуск должен стать 14-м для предприятия Eurockot.

Ракета-носитель «Рокот»

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Ракета-носитель (РН) легкого класса «Рокот» создана с использованием технологий МБР РС-18 в соответствии с распоряжением Правительства Российской Федерации и предназначена для выведения космических аппаратов на низкие околоземные орбиты. Первый демонстрационный пуск РН состоялся 16 мая 2000 года. Разработчиком и производителем РН «Рокот» является ФГУП «ГКНПЦ им. М.В.Хруничева».
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  • наиболее подходит для задач выведения малых и средних аппаратов на солнечно-синхронные и приполярные орбиты; 
  • коммерческие пуски ракеты-носителя «Рокот» осуществляются компанией  Eurockot Launch Services  – совместным предприятием  Airbus Safran Launchers  и ГКНПЦ им. М.В.Хруничева.
Описание ракеты-носителя (https://www.roscosmos.ru/469/)
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Отправлено: tnt22 от 03.04.2018 19:53:46
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/03/easter-at-the-launch-site/
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Posted on April 3, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)
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EASTER AT THE LAUNCH SITE

Well we had a hint of spring weather over the Easter weekend, but winter seems to have returned bringing us wind and snow.  The weather aside, we have been busy ticking off items on the 'to do' list to make the Sentinel-3B satellite ready for liftoff on 25 April .... as well as enjoying the odd Easter egg or two!
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First signs of spring. (ESA)

Over the last few days we've completed a number of things such as check the GPS units, check the onboard time synchronisation mechanisms and check the payload data-handling unit's mass memory.

The satellite's radar altimeter, the ocean and land colour instrument, and the sea and land surface temperature radiometer have had their 'nominal and redundant chains with science data' checked.

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Easter eggs for all. (ESA)

Importantly, the propulsion team has checked the fuel tank by putting it under pressure to make sure that the 'latch valve' doesn't leak. Since the pressure of the tank was taken to 23 bar, which is considered hazardous, the cleanroom was restricted essential personnel only. Once this was done, the team brought the pressure back down to 2 bar for another important test to check that that the satellite's eight thrusters were also leak-tight. And, all is good.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101137.jpg)
Under pressure. (ESA)

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101140.jpg)
Rockot upper composite. (ESA)

Meanwhile, the rocket upper composite has been rolled out to the launch pad and fitted onto the Rockot booster to test the electrics on the complete launch vehicle.

So, all in all a busy Easter ... and everything is on track for the launch on 25 April.

The weather in Plesetsk snow, rain, and wind –9°C/+2°C

From the ESA Sentinel-3Blaunch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Отправлено: zandr от 04.04.2018 17:29:14
http://www.khrunichev.com/main.php?id=1&nid=3572 (http://www.khrunichev.com/main.php?id=1&nid=3572)
ЦитироватьЦЕНТР ХРУНИЧЕВА: НА КОСМОДРОМЕ ПЛЕСЕЦК ПРОДОЛЖАЕТСЯ ПОДГОТОВКА К ПУСКУ РАКЕТЫ-НОСИТЕЛЯ «РОКОТ» С ЕВРОПЕЙСКИМ СПУТНИКОМ «СЕНТИНЕЛ-3Б»
На космодроме Плесецк (Архангельская область)  идет подготовка к пуску ракеты космического назначения  (РКН) «Рокот». Старт запланирован на апрель. «Рокот» должен вывести на низкую солнечно-синхронную орбиту малый космический аппарат  Sentinel-3В («Сентинел-3Б)  для Европейского космического агентства (ЕКА). КА Sentinel-3В предназначен для сбора данных дистанционного мониторинга о состоянии океанов, морских льдов и прибрежных зон.
Пусковые операции будут обеспечены силами и средствами совместного расчета АО «ГКНПЦ им. М.В. Хруничева» и Космических войск ВКС Министерства обороны Российской Федерации. Контракт на пусковые услуги  заключили ЕКА   и  Eurockot («Еврокот») - совместное предприятие ArianeGroup и Центра Хруничева, разработчика и изготовителя ракеты-носителя «Рокот».
По графику работ, 04 апреля завершены электропроверки ракеты космического назначения (РКН) «Рокот» («сухой прогон»). В соответствии с технологией подготовки РКН «Рокот» к пуску после успешно проведенных электропроверок блок ускорителей (две первые ступени) останется на стартовом комплексе до момента начала сборки РКН.
Сегодня вечером космическая головная часть (КГЧ) будет возвращена обратно в МИК, створки головного обтекателя от разгонного блока (РБ) «Бриз-КМ» будут демонтированы, а сам РБ начнут готовить к заправке. После заправки «Бриз-КМ»  вновь переместят в МИК, где затем начнутся работы по окончательной сборке КГЧ.  
Параллельно, в МИКе продолжается плановая подготовка космического аппарата. В ближайшие дни планируется завершить серию электрических и функциональных проверок аппарата и подготовить его к заправке.
Напомним, пусковая кампания на космодроме Плесецк стартовала в середине марта.  
РКН легкого класса «Рокот»
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создана в Центре Хруничева на базе МБР РС-18 для обеспечения запусков космических аппаратов массой до 1,95 т на низкие околоземные орбиты по Федеральной космической программе и коммерческим программам. Возможности РКН «Рокот» полностью отвечают задачам выведения малых и средних космических аппаратов на солнечно-синхронные и околополярные орбиты. Применение РБ «Бриз-КМ» в составе РКН «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 настоящее время) - 27, из которых 7 пусков с попутной полезной нагрузкой. За прошедшие 17 лет «Рокот» вывел на орбиту свыше 60 космических аппаратов различного назначения.
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КА Sentinel-3В
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предназначен для решения задач 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). Программа Copernicus осуществляется под эгидой Еврокомиссии в партнёрстве с ЕКА и Европейским агентством по окружающей среде.
Sentinel-3В станет третьим из спутников серии Sentinel, запущенных на РКН «Рокот» в рамках контрактов, заключенных EКА c СП Eurockot. Начиная с 2000 года, предприятие Eurockot предоставляет пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» и обеспечивает коммерческие запуски на низкие орбиты малых космических аппаратов для наблюдения Земли, проведения научных экспериментов и исследований, отработке новых технологий в условиях космического пространства. В рамках контрактов с EКА, Eurockot обеспечил успешные запуски пяти космических аппаратов, созданных для реализации европейских программ охраны окружающей среды и безопасности (КА GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, Sentinel 5P), а также, - технологического демонстратора PROBA-2. Предстоящий запуск должен стать 14 –м для предприятия Eurockot.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 05.04.2018 17:35:59
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/05/sentinel-3b-forging-ahead/
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Posted on April 5, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

SENTINEL-3B: FORGING AHEAD

The weather seems to be turning milder here in Plesetsk. There are even some patches of green grass emerging here and there as the snow melts. However, it's really slippery outside.

Inside, however, our feet are firmly on the ground and we are forging ahead getting the Sentinel-3B satellite ready for its ride into space on 25 April.

All the 'functional tests' are now done, apart from the last propulsion subsystem tests that will be done on Saturday. So everything is progressing really well. Between now and the weekend we are focussing on things like connecting the flight plugs for the satellite battery and the solar-array release mechanism.

The hydrazine fuel drums have also been moved into the cleanroom. This is classified as a hazardous operation that needs careful planning and only essential staff can be in the cleanroom at this time.

This all happened early yesterday morning and once we got the all-clear, the rest of the team could enter the cleanroom and resume their tasks.

With everything on track, we have a few reviews to go through to formally tick off the tests done so far.
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Working on Sentinel-3B. (ESA)

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There she stands. (ESA)

On the Rockot launcher side, the 'launch vehicle adapter', which is what connects the satellite to the rocket, has had its 'electrical check-out'.  And, the rocket upper composite is in the facilities.

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Some team members in front of the Rockot upper composite. (ESA)

So we have the satellite in good shape, the rocket adapter and the upper composite, which includes the rocket fairing, all in place – just a question of a few more tests, fuelling the satellite and putting all the pieces together!

The weather in Plesetsk snow but sunny –2°C/+2°C

From the ESA Sentinel-3Blaunch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 06.04.2018 18:40:21
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/06/sentinel-3b-time-to-clean-its-tradition/
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Posted on April 6, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

SENTINEL-3B: TIME TO CLEAN, IT'S TRADITION!

According to Russian tradition, yesterday was Clean Thursday – a time to purify in preparation to the upcoming orthodox Easter celebration. So, we tried to comply as best we could and cleaned a lot.

First we cleaned the electrical ground support equipment, which also allowed us to correct a couple of things that had been bugging us.
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On a roll. (ESA)

We were also got the ok to help with the 'cleanliness inspection' of the upper composite before it enters cleanroom 101B. Although it was protected by plastic foil, the upper composite came back to the MIK quite dirty after its visit to the launch pad to be testing. Now nice and shiny it has been transferred into 101B – so all good.

Finally, we also 'cleaned-up' on the test results from the sea and land surface temperature instrument, the x-band communication, and the data handling, power and AOCS subsystems – and again all good and no need for further testing there. The propulsion test results were also perfectly fine for the bit already done. The rest will be completed by Saturday when the last test on the thrusters is carried out.

Except for this remaining test, we can confirm tonight that S3B satellite functional verification after transport to the Launch site has been successfully completed – a milestone.

While we were all busy cleaning, some of the team finished charging the battery and tested switching the on.

The now very clean upper composite was disassembled in 101B, the two fairing halves are now mounted on their frames and preparations to fuel the upper stage have started.

The weather in Plesetsk snow but sunny –4°C/+4°C

From the ESA Sentinel-3Blaunch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 10.04.2018 19:33:52
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/10/sentinel-3b-under-the-table-and-getting-ready-to-fuel/
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SENTINEL-3B: UNDER THE TABLE AND GETTING READY TO FUEL

After having Sunday off – a very much appreciated rest day – we went back to the MIK yesterday morning with our batteries recharged, ready to continue our adventure.

The weather is still making the roads difficult. One of yesterday's tasks was to transport the 'launch pad power supply' to what we call the under-table room, which is a vault under the launch pad. This all went smoothly thanks to the support from the Khrunichev Space Research and Production Center (KSRC) who provided a massive truck equipped with a crane and a team to help with the loading and unloading.
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Preparing to transport the launch pad power supply to the under table room. (ESA)

By lunchtime, the launch pad power supply was installed in the vault. Once its temperature has settled it'll be tested.

There was a lot of to and fro in the MIK, between the General Hall and cleanroom 101B as anything that isn't needed for fuelling Sentinel-3B had to be removed. Also the ground support equipment needed by KSRC to continue preparing the launch adapter and the rocket fairing had to be brought inside. This meant we had to coordinate really well so as not to get in each other's way.

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Launch pad power supply being lifted. (ESA)

In 101A, the satellite activities proceeded as foreseen with the arming of the solar array deployment lines. The mechanical configuration of the satellite is now ready for the fuelling.

The propulsion team continued with the set-up and validation of the fuelling station. They also received their scape suit training and rehearsed safety procedures. So far, so good.

In 101B, KSRC carried on with some more cleaning, focusing on the launch vehicle adapter and on the internal thermal blankets of the fairing.

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Rockot fairing. (ESA)

Once the main AIT team had completed their activities of the day, we all had to leave the MIK. Only a small group of propulsion experts could stay into the evening to place the hydrazine drums on the fuelling platform, which is a hazardous activity so the building has to be effectively evacuated.

So, step by step, everything is being put in place to start fuelling on Wednesday 11 April, following the authorisation which should be given on Tuesday. In parallel, the Breeze upper stage will also start its journey by train to its fuelling station.

The weather in Plesetsk snow but sunny –2°C/+4°C

From the ESA Sentinel-3Blaunch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 11.04.2018 22:00:24
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/11/sentinel-3b-suited-and-booted/
ЦитироватьPosted on April 11, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

SENTINEL-3B: SUITED AND BOOTED

The fuelling team has been suited and booted for the hazardous task of filling the Sentinel-3B satellite with 130 kg of hydrazine – looking good guys!
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Ready to load and looking fab! (ESA)

Since this is happening today, only the Thales Alenia Space fuelling team, accompanied by a propulsion expert, a doctor and interpreters are allowed in the MIK. The rescue team and fire brigade are on-call outside, ready to intervene should anything go wrong.

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Suits ready and waiting. (ESA)

The rest of the team is back at the hotel today keeping out of the way and catching up on paperwork and other tasks.

Yesterday, however, was busy for everyone. In fact, we split up to cover three locations to carry out our respective duties.

One team went out to the launch pad to check on the launch pad power supply that had been installed in the 'under table' vault yesterday. Once the 'self-test' was completed, they did an end-to-end check on the umbilical transit lines to the satellite simulator connected to the cable interface on top of the tower. The electrical ground support equipment network link to the MIK via fibre optic was also verified. Everything was fine.

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Sentinel-3B ready for fuelling. (ESA)

In the Mission Control Centre, one team checked on the communications and voice loops with ESA's ESOC operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany. These are used on the day of launch for the formal delivery of flight parameters from the launch site to ESOC.

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Hydrazine tanks. (ESA)

In the MIK, the train convoy took the Rockot Breeze upper stage to its fuelling station while the Khrunichev guys finished off cleaning the fairing.

At the end of the day we received the green light to fuel both the Breeze and the satellite!

The weather in Plesetsk snow but sunny –4°C/+3°C

From the ESA Sentinel-3Blaunch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 16.04.2018 19:12:53
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/13/sentinel-3-fully-tanked/
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SENTINEL-3 FULLY TANKED

Getting a satellite ready to be launched involves a long list of jobs, but with Sentinel-3B now fuelled, this particular 'to do' list is significantly shorter. And, importantly, all is on track for liftoff on 25 April!
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Concentrating on the job in hand (credits: Thales Alenia Space)

Since hydrazine is extremely toxic, only specialists dressed in bulky astronaut-like suits remained in the cleanroom for the duration of the activity.

After fuelling, the tank was pressurised to an 'intermediate level' and left to stabilise overnight. The following day, the team gradually increased the pressure to the required level.

Upon confirmation that there were no hydrazine traces in the air, the fuelling lines could be disconnected and the decontamination phase started. The fill and drain valves have been closed, torqued to the flight value and wire-locked. The drums with the remaining hydrazine have been moved, ready to be taken back to their container.

On the launcher side, the Breeze started the first part of its fuelling yesterday, and it will be completed today. All the activities are so far fully nominal.

The weather in Plesetsk sunny -2 / +5 degrees

From the ESA Sentinel-3B launch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 17.04.2018 19:42:40
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SENTINEL-3B MEETS LAUNCH ADAPTER

Over the weekend, Sentinel-3B was mated with the launch adapter in the next steps to prepare it for launch next week.
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On the launch adapter (credits: ESA – S. Corvaja)

Following successful independent testing of both the satellite and the Rockot launcher, we have now reached the phase of the 'combined operations', where all teams work together to mount the satellite on Rockot's upper stage and fit it in the fairing.

On Friday, the rocket fairing was inspected to ensure it meets the stringent cleanliness requirements. Upon confirmation, everything was ready to start mating Sentinel-3B to the launch adapter the next day.

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Fairing inspection (credits:  ESA – S. Corvaja) 

This was a very delicate operation as the now-fuelled satellite was lifted fr om the stand on the fuelling platform onto the adapter. But at the end of the day the mating was successfully completed, as the first major step of the combined operations.

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A delicate operation (credits: ESA – S. Corvaja)

On Sunday, the first switch-on of the satellite on the adapter was  successfully performed, together with a set of electrical checks to prove that the new assembly is working properly.

In the afternoon, satellite and adapter were placed on the yellow transport dolly, ready to be transferred to the 101B cleanroom wh ere the launch adapter, called the Breeze Upper Stage, is located and waiting for us!

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On the dolly (credits: ESA – S. Corvaja)

The weather in Plesetsk mostly sunny -2 / +6 degrees

From the ESA Sentinel-3B launch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 18.04.2018 17:26:07
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Дата загрузки: 18 апр. 2018 г.

With liftoff scheduled for 25 April, the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite was sealed yesterday inside the rocket fairing. An important step before doing that is to make sure that the clearance between the satellite and the inside of the fairing shells is ok.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRsq4a6ouYQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRsq4a6ouYQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRsq4a6ouYQ) (0:50)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 18.04.2018 17:47:11
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/18/last-look-at-sentinel-3b/
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LAST LOOK AT SENTINEL-3B

On Monday, the team in Plesetsk had a busy day moving Sentinel-3B to a different cleanroom and mating it with the rocket's upper stage.

To do this, the satellite was hoisted into the air and then lowered onto the upper stage. Once it was assembled and secured on top of the Breeze, the handling device could be removed.
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Hoisted into the air (Credits: ESA)

At the end of the day, Sentinel-3B was ready to meet the fairing the next day.

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Sentinel-3B atop Rockot upper stage (Credits: ESA-S. Corvaja)

Yesterday, most of the day was then dedicated to the finalization of the satellite flight configuration.

This means removing 'non-flight protections', i.e. items that do not go into space and have to be removed from the satellite. So this involved, for example, removing all remaining red-tagged items and the protective covers from the instruments and antennas.

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Removing red-tagged items (Credits: ESA)

At the end of these activities, Sentinel-3B was finally ready to be sealed from view inside the Rockot fairing.

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Ready to meet fairing (Credits: ESA-S. Corvaja)

We then needed to make sure that the clearance between the satellite and the fairing was ok. This is a critical point – especially because there is only clearance of less than 5 cm between the satellite and the inside of the fairing shells.

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Anyway, on placing the fairing around the satellite we found, with some relief, all the clearance was ok and, in fact, it fits perfectly!

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Sentinel-3B a tight fit in the fairing half shell (Credits: ESA-S. Corvaja)

At the end of the day, after a few more checks, the two halves of the fairing were finally closed and Sentinel-3B disappeared from sight, marking the moment we have to say good-bye to our satellite, well 'visually' anyway.

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Last look at Sentinel-3B (Credits: ESA)

It was a very emotional moment after so many years of hard work.

In conclusion, all remains GREEN for the launch!

The weather in Plesetsk sunny -2 / +7 degrees

From the ESA Sentinel-3B launch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 20.04.2018 18:50:22
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20.04.2018 14:57

19 апреля 2018 года в чистовой камере монтажно-испытательного корпуса космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК завершилась сборка космической головной части (КГЧ) ракеты космического назначения «Рокот» в составе разгонного блока (РБ) «Бриз-КМ» и европейского космического аппарата (КА) Sentinel-3B («Cентинел-3Б») под обтекателем.

В ходе работ была выполнена последовательная сборка КА Sentinel-3B с адаптером и РБ «Бриз-КМ», а также монтаж головного обтекателя. Затем собранная космическая головная часть была перевезена в общий зал монтажно-испытательного корпуса. Сегодня специалисты проведут заключительные электрические проверки и установят на головной обтекатель защитный термочехол.

Операции с космической головной частью провела интернациональная команда в составе специалистов Центра Хруничева (входит в Госкорпорацию «РОСКОСМОС») и европейских космических организаций и предприятий: Thales Alenia Space (изготовитель космического аппарата), Европейского космического агентства (ЕSA, заказчик и оператор КА) и других.

Вечером 20 апреля космическая головная часть будет перемещена на транспортный агрегат и подготовлена к отправке на стартовый комплекс для установки на блок ускорителей «Рокот». Вывоз КГЧ на стартовую площадку запланирован 21 апреля 2018 года.

Старт ракеты космического назначения «Рокот» запланирован на 25 апреля 2018 года. Пусковые операции будут обеспечены силами и средствами совместного расчета Центра Хруничева и Космических войск ВКС Министерства обороны РФ.
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Контракт на пусковые услуги заключили ЕSA и компания Eurockot, которая является совместным предприятием ArianeGroup и Центра Хруничева (разработчика и изготовителя «Рокот»). Созданная в 1995 году компания Eurockot обеспечивает коммерческую эксплуатацию ракет-носителей «Рокот» на мировом рынке запусков низкоорбитальных спутников.

КА Sentinel-3В предназначен для решения задач 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). Программа Copernicus осуществляется под эгидой Еврокомиссии в партнёрстве с ЕSA и Европейским агентством по окружающей среде. КА Sentinel-3В будет заниматься сбором данных дистанционного мониторинга о состоянии океанов, морских льдов и прибрежных зон.

Sentinel-3В станет третьим из спутников серии Sentinel, запущенных на РКН «Рокот» в рамках контрактов, заключенных ЕSA c СП Eurockot. С 2000 года компания Eurockot предоставляет пусковые услуги РКН «Рокот» и обеспечивает коммерческие запуски на низкие орбиты малых КА для наблюдения Земли, проведения научных экспериментов и исследований, отработки новых технологий в условиях космического пространства. В рамках контрактов с ЕSA компания Eurockot обеспечила успешные запуски пяти КА, созданных для реализации европейских программ охраны окружающей среды и безопасности (КА GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, Sentinel 5P), а также, - технологического демонстратора PROBA-2. Предстоящий запуск должен стать 14–м для компании.

РКН легкого класса «Рокот» создана в Центре Хруничева на базе МБР РС-18 для обеспечения запусков КА массой до 1,95 т на низкие околоземные орбиты по ФКП и коммерческим программам. Возможности РКН «Рокот» полностью отвечают задачам выведения малых и средних КА на солнечно-синхронные и околополярные орбиты. Применение РБ «Бриз-КМ» в составе РКН «Рокот» позволяет реализовывать различные схемы выведения полезной нагрузки, в том числе групповое выведение КА на одну или несколько орбит. РКН «Рокот» используется для коммерческих запусков с 2000 года, а для запусков по федеральным программам – с 2005 года. Общее количество запусков РКН «Рокот», осуществленных с космодрома Плесецк (с 2000 года) - 27, из них 7 с попутной полезной нагрузкой. За прошедшие 18 лет РКН «Рокот» вывела на орбиту более 60 КА различного назначения.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/217925.jpg) (https://www.roscosmos.ru/media/gallery/big/24977/4448641572.jpg) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/217922.jpg) (https://www.roscosmos.ru/media/gallery/big/24977/3451255524.jpg) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/217924.jpg) (https://www.roscosmos.ru/media/gallery/big/24977/4239248787.jpg) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/217923.jpg) (https://www.roscosmos.ru/media/gallery/big/24977/3829660064.jpg)
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 20.04.2018 18:59:53
АНОНС
https://www.roscosmos.ru/24976/
ЦитироватьЗАПУСК КА «СЕНТИНЕЛ-3Б»
25 апреля 2018

Пусковая кампания

25 апреля 2018 года в 20:57 мск с космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК запланирован запуск европейского научного космического аппарата Sentinel-3В («Сентинел-3Б»). Для выведения спутника на целевую солнечно-синхронную орбиту будет использоваться ракета-носитель «Рокот» с разгонным блоком «Бриз-КМ». Пусковые операции обеспечиваются силами и средствами Космических войск ВКС Министерства обороны Российской Федерации.

Космический аппарат Sentinel-3В предназначен для решения задач европейской программы мониторинга окружающей среды Copernicus («Коперник»). Спутник Sentinel-3В будет использоваться для сбора данных дистанционного мониторинга о состоянии океанов, морских льдов и прибрежных зон. Sentinel-3В станет третьим из спутников серии Sentinel, запущенных ракетами-носителями «Рокот» в рамках контрактов, заключенных ESA c СП Eurockot.
Спойлер
Контракт на пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» заключили ESA (Европейское космическое агентство) и фирма Eurockot («Еврокот») - совместное предприятие ArianeGroup и Центра Хруничева, разработчика и изготовителя ракеты-носителя «Рокот». СП Eurockot (Бремен, Германия) обеспечивает коммерческую эксплуатацию ракеты «Рокот» на мировом рынке запусков низкоорбитальных космических аппаратов.

Начиная с 2000 года, предприятие Eurockot предоставляет пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» и обеспечивает коммерческие запуски на низкие орбиты малых космических аппаратов для наблюдения Земли, проведения научных экспериментов и исследований, отработке новых технологий в условиях космического пространства. В рамках контрактов с ESA, Eurockot обеспечил успешные запуски пяти космических аппаратов, созданных для реализации европейских программ охраны окружающей среды и безопасности (КА GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, Sentinel 5P), а также, - технологического демонстратора PROBA-2. Предстоящий запуск должен стать 14-м для предприятия Eurockot.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 20.04.2018 19:06:21
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/20/sentinel-3b-fairing-adorned/
ЦитироватьPosted on April 20, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)

SENTINEL-3B FAIRING ADORNED

Sentinel-3B's rocket fairing has now been adorned with the mission sticker and everyone has written good luck messages from themselves and on behalf of colleagues that are not in Plesetsk.
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Best wishes for Sentinel-3B. (ESA)

ESA's Patricia Lopez said. "It was nice to feel the emotion around this ceremony, and to see the colourful resulting patchwork. For sure, more than an exceptional satellite will be carried into space."

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Signing the Sentinel-3B sticker. (ESA)

The Breeze upper composite has also been decorated with a very stylish painting of the Taurus constellation.  In Plesetsk, it's traditional to name each rocket after a constellation that has the same number of stars as the launch number.  Sentinel-3B will be the 28th Rockot launch and Taurus has 28 stars, hence this particular painting.

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Sentinel-3B gets Taurus. (ESA)

In parallel, the last launch and early orbit phase simulation to place at ESA's European Operation Centre in Germany. The team in Plesetsk took advantage and said hello on the voice loop from the MIK and from the MCC, both tests were fine.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101147.jpg)
Signed and sealed – just the delivery into orbit part now! (ESA)

In the evening the teams gathered to celebrate a job well done, Sentinel-3B is well and truly signed and sealed ... just the delivery into orbit part to go!

The weather in Plesetsk is cloudy, -4 /+2 degrees

From the ESA Sentinel-3B launch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 20.04.2018 21:37:13
NOTAMs
ЦитироватьENOB

A1427/18 - FOLLOWING RECIVED FROM MAIN AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER OF
RUSSIA AT 18160928:
 
THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT  THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
OF RUSSIA PLANS TO LAUNCH MISSILE IN THE SPACE IN
THE PERIOD FROM 1730 TO 1930 ON APRIL 25
(ALT. DATE: APRIL 26), 2018
AND TO SINK ITS FRAGMENTES IN THE
WATERS OF THE BARENTS SEA.
CHARACTERISTICS OF IMPACT AREAS:
AREA  1:
N721815  E0305430
N721015  E0314610
N714855  E0321827
N713142  E0320630
N713940  E0311630
N720055  E0304305
N721815  E0305430
AREA  2:
N742335  E0253920
N742704  E0273358
N740140  E0283928
N733335  E0275228
N733015  E0260338
N735453  E0245620
N742335  E0253920. GND - UNL, 25 APR 17:30 2018 UNTIL 26 APR 19:30 2018. CREATED:
16 APR 10:47 2018
ЦитироватьBGGL

A0152/18 - DUE TO DEBRIS FROM RUSSIAN MISSILE LAUNCH,
TEMPORARY DANGER AREA IS ESTABLISHED IN BGGL FIR
WITHIN THE FOLLOWING LATERAL LIMITS:
773624N0751200W
773545N0740800W
770700N0730600W
764725N0742140W
764736N0753542W
773624N0751200W. SFC - FL195, 25 APR 17:30 2018 UNTIL 25 APR 19:30 2018. CREATED:
16 APR 14:09 2018
 
A0153/18 - DUE TO DEBRIS FROM RUSSIAN MISSILE LAUNCH,
TEMPORARY DANGER AREA IS ESTABLISHED IN BGGL FIR
WITHIN THE FOLLOWING LATERAL LIMITS:
773624N0751200W
773545N0740800W
770700N0730600W
764725N0742140W
764736N0753542W
773624N0751200W. SFC - FL195, 26 APR 17:30 2018 UNTIL 26 APR 19:30 2018. CREATED:
16 APR 14:09 2018
ЦитироватьCZEG

Z1654/18 - DAH IS AMENDED AS FLW: 
CYD 999 ROCKET HAZARD AREA BOUNDED BY 7736N 7552W-7736N 7512W-
7647N 7535W-7647N 7600W-7701N 7658W-7722N 7705W-7736N 7552W
SFC TO UNL. ACFT SHOULD REMAIN CLR OF AREA DUE
TO DANGER FM FALLING ROCKET DEBRIS. SFC - UNL, DLY 1730-1930, 25 APR 17:30 2018
 UNTIL 26 APR 19:30 2018. CREATED: 18 APR 18:04 2018
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 21.04.2018 00:29:17
NOTMARs
ЦитироватьHYDROARC 52/2018 (43)

BARENTS SEA.
NORWAY.
DNC 22.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   1730Z TO 1930Z DAILY 25 AND 26 APR
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   72-18-15N 030-54-30E, 72-10-15N 031-46-10E,
   71-48-55N 032-18-27E, 71-31-42N 032-06-30E,
   71-39-40N 031-16-30E, 72-00-55N 030-43-05E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 262030Z APR 18.

( 200559Z APR 2018 )


HYDROARC 54/2018 (15)

BAFFIN BAY.
CANADA.
DNC 28.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   1730Z TO 1930Z DAILY 25 AND 26 APR
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   77-36.40N 075-52.30W, 77-36.24N 075-12.00W,
   76-47.36N 075-35.42W, 76-47.50N 076-00.00W,
   76-01.30N 076-58.00W, 77-22.05N 077-05.35W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 262030Z APR 18.

( 200854Z APR 2018 )
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 21.04.2018 02:05:15
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_on_the_move
ЦитироватьSENTINEL-3B ON THE MOVE

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225538.jpg)

DOWNLOAD HI-RES JPG (6.23 MB) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225538.jpg)

DETAILS (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225257.gif) (http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_on_the_move#)

Title Sentinel-3B on the move
Released 20/04/2018 1:30 pm
Copyright ESA–S. Corvaja
Description
The Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite cocooned in its rocket fairing has been moved from the cleanroom at the Plesetsk launch site to the general hall, ready to be placed on the train that will take it to the launch pad.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 21.04.2018 02:14:47
ЦитироватьSentinel: From science to services

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

Опубликовано: 20 апр. 2018 г.

ESA will soon launch the Sentinel-3B Earth observation satellite to join its twin, Sentinel-3A, in orbit. The Sentinel-3 mission is part of Europe's Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. The Sentinel missions are central to Copernicus, which offers a set of key information services for a wide range of practical applications. Data from the Sentinels are also free of charge and open to users worldwide. This video highlights a few examples of how Sentinel-3 is used for research into our oceans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzXsxmx2G4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzXsxmx2G4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypzXsxmx2G4) (4:52)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 21.04.2018 18:14:01
ЦитироватьESA Euronews: Surfing scientists

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

Опубликовано: 20 апр. 2018 г.

We meet a surfing scientist and toxic algae hunters to see how Sentinel-3 satellite data is used to study the coastline of the English Channel in this month's episode of Space.

Bob Brewin is pioneering a new technique in satellite oceanography - by going surfing. The Plymouth Marine Laboratory scientist uses his board to take sea surface temperature measurements, and then use them to better interpret data from European satellite Sentinel-3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLG8yJJ7M4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLG8yJJ7M4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLG8yJJ7M4) (8:46)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 21.04.2018 18:19:50
http://www.eurockot.com/2018/04/upper-composite-being-readied-for-transfer-to-the-launch-pad/
Цитировать04/20/2018
Upper Composite Being Readied for Transfer to the Launch Pad

Yesterday the encapsulation of the fairing was finalized and the fairing mission logos glued on the fairing. At the end of the evening everybody signed the fairing and wrote personal wishes on the sticker.

The movement of the space head (Upper Composite) to the general hall is the main event on our plan today. Just before moving all parties made their last pictures and said goodbye. The first big group of people is leaving Plesetsk today.

Tomorrow Upper Composite will be transported to the launch site and integrated on the Rockot 2nd stage.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 22.04.2018 18:02:22
http://www.eurockot.com/2018/04/upper-composite-transferred-to-the-launch-pad/
Цитировать04/21/2018
Upper Composite Transferred to the Launch Pad

Today the space head (Upper Composite) was transferred fr om the MIK (processing facility) to the launch pad wh ere it was lifted and finally mated with the boosters.

In the evening this operation was followed by a successful electrical line check of the launch tower harness by Khrunichev and Thales.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225791.jpg) (http://www.eurockot.com/wp-content/gallery/upper-composite-transferred-to-the-launch-pad/P1060366.JPG) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225792.jpg) (http://www.eurockot.com/wp-content/gallery/upper-composite-transferred-to-the-launch-pad/P1060374.JPG) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225793.jpg) (http://www.eurockot.com/wp-content/gallery/upper-composite-transferred-to-the-launch-pad/P1060382.JPG) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225794.jpg) (http://www.eurockot.com/wp-content/gallery/upper-composite-transferred-to-the-launch-pad/P1060391.JPG)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 22.04.2018 20:56:00
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67718.jpg)ESA‏Подлинная учетная запись @esa (https://twitter.com/esa) 1 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/esa/status/988097928526024710)

#Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) update: The countdown rehearsal was completed successfully today. Liftoff set for 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST) on Wednesday 25 April.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 23.04.2018 10:26:55
О трансляции ESA

Sentinel3B launch (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel3Blaunch)
 
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/141822.png) (https://livestream.com/ESA)  European Space Agency (https://livestream.com/ESA)

Sentinel-3B launch live
Wed, Apr 25 from 8:30 - 10:40pm Science & Technology
Follow the Sentinel-3B launch live from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia on 25 April, with liftoff scheduled at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST).

Sentinel-3B will join its twin, Sentinel-3A, in orbit. The pairing of identical satellites provides the best coverage and data delivery for Europe's Copernicus programme – the largest environmental monitoring programme in the world. The satellites carry the same suite of cutting-edge instruments to measure oceans, land, ice and atmosphere.

The webstream will include updates from ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany.
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82569)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 23.04.2018 16:21:11
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/Sentinel-3B_on_launch_pad
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225259.jpg) (http://www.esa.int/)

SENTINEL-3B ON LAUNCH PAD

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225533.jpg) (http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/04/Into_the_tower)
Into the tower

23 April 2018
The next Sentinel satellite for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme is poised for liftoff from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.

The Sentinel-3B satellite has been at the cosmodrome since mid-March being readied for its ride into space on 25 April at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST).
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After being sealed from view in the rocket fairing last week, it was rolled out to the launch pad and hoisted into the launch tower at the weekend.

Bruno Berruti, ESA's Sentinel-3 project manager, said, "This is a real milestone, and an emotional one at that.

"We all bid farewell to 'our baby' as it was encapsulated in the Rockot fairing and we are all proud to see that it is now ready and waiting in the launch tower for the big day.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/225537.jpg) (http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/04/Positioning_Sentinel-3B_s_fairing_sticker)
Positioning fairing sticker

"We have reached this point thanks to dedication and hard work from teams at ESA, the EC, Eumetsat, France's CNES space agency, industry, service providers and data users.

"And, thanks to Eurockot and Khrunichev, the preparation of the Rockot launcher over the last weeks has gone smoothly."

Sentinel-3B will join its twin, Sentinel-3A, in orbit to systematically monitor Earth's oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. The pairing of the two satellites optimises coverage and data delivery for Copernicus.

This workhorse mission delivers data within three hours of sensing, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

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Sentinel-3B on track

While these data are fed primarily into the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service, all the Copernicus services benefit to produce knowledge and information products in near-real time for a wide range of applications.

The Sentinel-3 mission is essential for applications for ocean and coastal monitoring, numerical weather and ocean prediction, sea-level change and sea-surface topography monitoring, ocean primary production estimation and land-cover change mapping.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 23.04.2018 17:19:41
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/23/sentinel-3b-poised/
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Posted on April 23, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)
SENTINEL-3B POISED

With the satellite being rolled out to the launch pad and positioned in the launch tower, it's been a very exciting weekend.

Last Friday, with the Rockot upper composite all finished, it was moved fr om the 101B cleanroom to the General Hall ready for rollout on Saturday.
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Leaving the MIK. (ESA)

The Khrunichev teams continued their preparation activities such as electrical checks. Just before we left the site that evening we saw that the upper composite had been covered to keep it warm for its journey to the launch pad and that it was ready to be loaded on the train.

Some of our team members went out to the launch pad to make sure everything is okay in the 'under-table room'. Cameras were also installed so that we can keep a check on the room remotely.

And, since some of the cleanroom equipment is now no longer needed, we've started packing up a bit.

We were also kept busy preparing for the launch countdown procedure which involves ESA, Thales Alenia Space, KSRC, the military and Eurockot. We all now know what everyone's role is on the big day. The full countdown dress rehearsal takes place on Monday.

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An early start! (ESA)

On Saturday we arrived at the MIK at 05:30 in time to see the Sentinel-3B upper composite roll out.

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On track. (ESA)

Following a briefing by the military, the train left at 06:00 sharp. It started by reversing out of the MIK very slowly and then manoeuvred to the right track, and continued at the same slow pace towards the pad, with armed soldiers onboard, watching.

The rail convoy arrived at the pad in front of the launch tower a bit before 09:00.

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Up she goes. (ESA)

We could see the upper composite being lifted up to level 7 of the tower wh ere it was prepared to be mated with the lower stage of the rocket.

After that, the doors of the launch tower closed and the subsequent activities were not for us to see, but we were all very happy and impressed by what we could already attend.

KSRC proceeded with their activities at the launch pad, transit lines electrical check-out, mating of upper composite to the booster unit, removal of thermal protection, connection of the ground cable network.

All went smoothly and the Thales Alenia Space electrical team got their slot for electrical check-out and switch ON of the satellite in the middle of the afternoon. All the verifications were successful.

So by the end of Saturday, everything at the launch pad had been fully assembled.

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Into the tower. (ESA)

Inside the launch tower, within the fairing, on top of the Breeze that sits on the booster unit, Sentinel-3B sleeps quietly, awaiting to be waken-up on Monday for a first launch dress rehearsal.

Liftoff is still set for 25 April at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST).

The weather in Plesetsk is partly cloudy, 7 / +2 degrees

From the ESA Sentinel-3B launch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: zandr от 23.04.2018 20:58:46
https://www.roscosmos.ru/24837/
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25.04.2018 20:57:38Запуск КА Sentinel-3В
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 23.04.2018 22:10:11
Ещё NOTMAR
ЦитироватьHYDROARC 56/2018 (43)

BARENTS SEA.
DNC 22.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, SPACE DEBRIS
   1730Z TO 1930Z DAILY 25 AND 26 APR
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   74-23.6N 025-39.3E, 74-27.0N 027-34.0E,
   74-01.7N 028-39.5E, 73-33.6N 027-52.5E,
   73-30.3N 026-03.6E, 73-54.9N 024-56.3E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 262030Z APR 18.

( 210323Z APR 2018 )
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 24.04.2018 11:35:34
О трансляции Роскосмоса
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Онлайн трансляции (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/217343.png) 25.04.18 20:30 МСК (https://www.roscosmos.ru/317/)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 24.04.2018 13:35:45
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/Watch_live_Sentinel-3B_launch
ЦитироватьWATCH LIVE: SENTINEL-3B LAUNCH

The second in the two-satellite Sentinel-3 mission is set for launch from Russia on 25 April at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST). Follow the launch via live webstream.

Sentinel-3B launch (https://livestream.com/ESA/Sentinel3Blaunch)

Sentinel-3B will join its twin, Sentinel-3A, in orbit. The pairing of identical satellites provides the best coverage and data delivery for Europe's Copernicus programme – the largest environmental monitoring programme in the world. The satellites carry the same suite of cutting-edge instruments to measure oceans, land, ice and atmosphere.

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

The live webstream will begin at 17:30 GMT (19:30 CEST) and end at 19:40 GMT (21:40 CEST), and is divided in two parts:

19:30-20:15 CEST - Last preparations at Plesetsk, liftoff, and updates from ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany

20:15-21:10 CEST - Break

21:10-21:40 CEST - Updates from mission control in Darmstadt on separation and acquisition of signal
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 24.04.2018 17:34:30
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186329.jpg)Deimos Imaging‏ @deimosimaging (https://twitter.com/deimosimaging) 4 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/deimosimaging/status/988725464213655552)

#DEIMOS2 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/DEIMOS2?src=hash) just captured #Plesetsk (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Plesetsk?src=hash) launch site 133 today (Apr. 24) where #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash)-B is ready for tomorrow's launch! Best of luck to @ESA (https://twitter.com/esa) and @CopernicusEU (https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU) (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125513.png)

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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 00:49:54
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Олег от 25.04.2018 12:14:46
По тайге слух пошел, что гептиловая медуза гораздо меньше, чем керосиновая. Что её почти не видно.
Что, в самом деле ? То есть на неземные красоты жителям северо-запада можно не рассчитывать ?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 25.04.2018 15:29:12
В Мурманске белые ночи уже что медузу хотите?
Вряд-ли что увидите - над вами уже 2-я ступень, там движок совсем слабенький.
К тому же при сгорании керосина сажа остается (на ее частичкках конденсируется влага и получаеется медуза), а после гептильной та же вода.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: zandr от 25.04.2018 18:13:18
https://www.roscosmos.ru/24976/ (https://www.roscosmos.ru/24976/)
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Начало прямой трансляции пуска 25 апреля 2018 года в 20:30 мск на сайте ESA (www.esa.int (http://www.esa.int/)) и на сайте РОСКОСМОСА (online.roscosmos.ru (http://online.roscosmos.ru/))
  20:30-21:15 мск - Трансляция подготовки к пуску, старт ракеты космического назначения, трансляция из Центра управления полетами (Дармштадт, Германия)
21:15-22:10 мск - Перерыв
22:10-22:40 мск - Продолжение трансляции из Центра управления полетами (Дармштадт, Германия)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 18:25:21
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/25/ready-for-liftoff/
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Posted on April 25, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)
READY FOR LIFTOFF

With Sentinel-3B sitting and waiting patiently for liftoff and the launch dress rehearsal done, most of us had a day off yesterday – and now we are all rested and ready for tonight's launch!
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Ready for liftoff. (ESA)

Monday's dress rehearsal involved teams here in Plesetsk, the satellite operations team at ESA's European Operations Centre in Germany, and the ground station network. We practiced the countdown and simulated liftoff, checking all the procedures, network and voice links between us. We also rehearsed contingency procedures, which included switching off the satellite safely in the unlikely event of the launch being aborted.

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Dress rehearsal. (ESA)

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ESOC ready. (ESA)

The day resulted in everything being GREEN for launch.

So with everything in place for liftoff on 25 April at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST), we had some free time on Tuesday – which was a beautiful sunny day.

Some of use went to the Cosmodrome Museum. We took a couple of gifts: a model of Sentinel-3 and a framed photo of the launch campaign team in front of the rocket upper composite in the MIK. The gifts were appreciated and found their place in the display. We are officially part of the cosmodrome history!

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Orphanage show. (ESA)

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Playing with the orphanage children. (ESA)

Some of us also went to visit the Plesetsk orphanage and took gifts, thanks those who donated – thanks! The children put on a little singing and dancing routine, which was followed by play and games with their new toys. It was very emotional.

This short break did us all good and certainly helped to recharge our batteries.

Back at the cosmodrome, the Rockot launcher was being fuelled ... all done by 19:00 local time.

SO the satellite and launcher are ready, and we are rested and all ready for the big day ... READY!!!

The weather in Plesetsk is partly cloudy, 7 /+4 degrees

From the ESA Sentinel-3B launch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 18:31:48
ЦитироватьSentinel 3B Satellite Attached to Rokot Launcher

Space Videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdF5d0UwSJJunRcRVzP1uDg)

Опубликовано: 24 апр. 2018 г.

The European Space Agency's Sentinel 3B environmental satellite has been encapsulated into it's payload fairing and then raised and stacked ontop of the Rokot launcher in Plesetsk, Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS_uqyhT--Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS_uqyhT--I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS_uqyhT--I) (12:16)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 18:35:29
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight)  назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/989142242714636288)

ARTICLE: Russian Rokot launch vehicle set for Sentinel-3b launch -

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/04/rokot-sentinel-3b-launch/ ... (https://t.co/QjXWecYmye)

- By William Graham

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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 18:42:53
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/25/rockot-sentinel-3b-mission-status-center/
ЦитироватьLive coverage: Europe's next environmental sentinel set for launch
April 25, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

04/25/2018 16:30 Stephen Clark

A European environmental satellite designed to monitor Earth's oceans, lakes and vegetation is set for liftoff Wednesday aboard a modified Russian ballistic missile originally built to carry nuclear warheads.

The mission is scheduled for launch fr om the Plesetsk Cosmodrome around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow at 1757:38 GMT (1:57:38 p.m. EDT).
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A Rockot launcher, derived from Russia's UR-100N, or SS-19, ballistic missile, will send the Sentinel 3B remote sensing satellite into orbit with the help of a Breeze KM upper stage.

Sentinel 3B is the next in the European Commission's line of Copernicus environmental satellites, joining an identical observatory named Sentinel 3A which launched in February 2016.

Like its sister satellite, Sentinel 3B carries four instruments to track changes in the oceans, chart vegetation growth, detect pollution and wildfires, and measure sea level and the thickness of polar ice sheets.

The Copernicus Earth observation network is the world's most ambitious environmental satellite fleet, and Sentinel 3B is the seventh spacecraft to launch in the multibillion-euro program, which is funded by the European Commission, the European Union's executive body.

The Copernicus program is intended to provide data on Earth's oceans, land surfaces and atmosphere with unprecedented rapidity to scientists, policymakers, businesses, security officials and the public.

The data from the Sentinel satellites are distributed worldwide free of charge. European officials consider the Sentinel satellites part of a continuing operational service, developed in series rather than as one-off science missions.

"We're not just working with the marine environmental service, we're also working with the land, with the atmosphere and with the climate service," said Susanne Mecklenburg, Sentinel 3 mission manager at ESA. "There's a large variety of data that we can actually supply. The marine service is probably the most developed for the moment. It's already using data over the ocean, in particular the ocean color data, which tells us something about the marine ecosystem, about the health of the sea, and also can help predict things like harmful algal blooms."

ESA is in charge of developing and launching the Sentinel satellites on behalf of the EU. For Sentinel 3B, and its predecessor satellite Sentinel 3A, the European weather agency Eumetsat is responsible for mission operations and the distribution of marine data, while ESA will handle the dissemination of land environmental data.

With the launch of Sentinel 3B, which was built by Thales Alenia Space, the Copernicus program will have three satellite families fully deployed. The first two satellites in the Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 families, which are focused on disaster response and land surveys, were launched from 2014 through 2017. Another satellite, named Sentinel 5 Precursor, launched last October to measure global air quality.

Sentinel 3B will launch into a 503-mile-high (810-kilometer) polar orbit, wh ere it will enter a four-month tandem observing campaign in formation with Sentinel 3A to calibrate instruments. Then Sentinel 3B will fly to a greater distance from Sentinel 3A for the rest of its seven-year mission to ensure regular, repeating measurements of the same place on Earth every one-to-two days.

The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) Rockot launcher will boost the Sentinel 3B satellite into orbit Wednesday.

Technicians installed the Sentinel 3B spacecraft and its Breeze KM upper stage atop the Rockot booster inside its mobile launch tower at Plesetsk on Saturday, then completed a launch dress rehearsal Monday.

Russian ground crews also loaded toxic hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide into the Rockot booster in readiness for Wednesday's launch opportunity.

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

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 around two minutes after blastoff, and Rockot's second stage will take over to propel Sentinel 3B 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 3B satellite to a speed of more than 12,000 mph -- more than 5 kilometers per second -- before releasing the Breeze KM upper stage 5 minutes, 5 seconds, after liftoff.

Moments later, the Breeze KM engine will start up for a burn to place Sentinel 3B 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 roughly 30-second second burn will circularize the satellite's orbit at an altitude of about 503 miles.

Then the Breeze KM upper stage will release the Sentinel 3B satellite at around 1917 GMT (3:17 p.m. EDT).

A ground station in Kiruna, Sweden, is set to receive the first signals from the spacecraft around 1930 GMT (3:30 p.m. EDT) as it flies overhead, allowing engineers at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, to confirm the Sentinel 3B satellite is stable and has unfurled its power-generating solar array.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 18:44:07
Цитировать04/25/2018 18:28 Stephen Clark

Earlier today, ground controllers powered up the Sentinel 3B spacecraft inside its shroud atop the Rockot booster at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far northern Russia.

Teams at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, have completed initial data connectivity checks with the satellite.

Ground crews are expected to evacuate facilities near the Rockot's Complex 133 launch pad at Plesetsk around this time.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 19:47:20
Цитировать04/25/2018 19:36 Stephen Clark

A poll of the Sentinel 3B 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 1757 GMT (1:57 p.m. EDT).
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 19:48:25
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82588)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 19:51:11
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/989183706454745093)
 
LIVE Coverage: Russian Rokot launch with Sentinel-3b - ARTICL E:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/04/rokot-sentinel-3b-launch/ ... (https://t.co/QjXWecYmye) 

WEBCAST:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-3/Watch_live_Sentinel-3B_launch ... (https://t.co/YPxhbPtJYs)

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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 19:53:43
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82589)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 19:57:51
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989185191670419456)

Getting exciting at #ESOC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESOC?src=hash) in the build up to the #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B launch. 70 minutes left now until launch with all systems reporting GREEN FOR LAUNCH
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 19:59:54
Цитировать04/25/2018 19:57 Stephen Clark

T-minus 60 minutes. All parameters are reported green for launch of Europe's Sentinel 3B environmental satellite at 1757 GMT (1:57 p.m. EDT), or 8:57 p.m. local time at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

The Rockot launcher is green, and the approximately 2,600-pound (1,200-kilogram) Sentinel 3B satellite is go for liftoff.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:02:03
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82590)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:13:48
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:14:40
Цитировать04/25/2018 20:12 Stephen Clark

A final poll of the Sentinel 3B control team in Germany gave a "go" for launch, and all ground stations in Sweden, Norway, Alaska and Antarctica are reported ready.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:15:50
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989190276248932352)

ESOC Flight Director has conducted the final Roll Call with all positions confirming 'GO' status for #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) launch - 45 minutes until lift-off!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:28:43
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989193542458400770)

Mission Launch Director in #Plesetsk (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Plesetsk?src=hash) confirms #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B spacecraft status Ready for Launch! L - 34 minutes and counting...
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:33:55
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82592)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:34:37
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82594)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:37:54
ESOC
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82595)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:38:42
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82596)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:43:21
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 6 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/989195613039419392)

ESA's borrowed Katy Haswell from Arianespace for the commentary. So expect a reference to the satellite being a "Space Baby" at some point. (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125471.png) (She's very good).

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/163066.jpg)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:44:59
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989197169558212608)

With barely 20 minutes to go before the launch of #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B, the team at the Plesetsk launch site confirm that the spacecraft under the fairing on the Rockot launcher has been switched to internal power. Flight Control Team is holding its collective breath now!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:45:17
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82597) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82598)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:47:55
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82599)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:49:13
Цитировать04/25/2018 20:28 Stephen Clark

Inside 30 minutes to launch. Some statistics on today's flight:
    [/li]
  • 28th Rockot/Breeze KM launch since 2000
  • 1st Rockot/Breeze KM launch of 2018
  • 2nd launch of a Breeze upper stage in 2018
  • 2nd launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 2018
  • 7th Copernicus satellite to be launched
  • 7th Rockot launch for ESA
  • 39th orbital launch attempt worldwide in 2018
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:50:01
Цитировать04/25/2018 20:39 Stephen Clark

The Rockot launch vehicle's automated countdown is underway, and the weather at Plesetsk is reported to be acceptable for liftoff. The Sentinel 3B satellite has been disconnected from its ground power supply and is now operating off its internal batteries.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:52:18
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82600)
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82601)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 25.04.2018 20:52:51
Неполадки у меня или ЦЭНКИ трансляцию завалило?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:53:52
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82602)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:56:04
А ЦЭНКИ вроде и не обещали, нет?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:57:07
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82603) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82604)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Bizonich от 25.04.2018 20:58:55
В чем затык?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 20:59:07
ПУСК!
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82605)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Bizonich от 25.04.2018 20:59:58
Взлет!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:01:55
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82606) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82607)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:02:14
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82608)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:03:38
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82609)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:05:46
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82610)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:06:21
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82611)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:08:21
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82612)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:09:46
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 9 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989201949428940803)

#Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) liftoff!1

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/163070.jpg)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:11:10
Tкп = 20:57:52.016
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Старый от 25.04.2018 21:12:29
Блин! В теме всего 45 зрителей а висит как декабристы!  :evil:
Тнт, можешь пока комментировать без картинок, словами? Ато я волнуюсь. 
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:13:05
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82614)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:15:10
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82615)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:16:09
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82616) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82617)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Bizonich от 25.04.2018 21:16:32
Выключение Бриз-М. (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82618)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 25.04.2018 21:18:11
ЦитироватьСтарый пишет:
Блин! В теме всего 45 зрителей а висит как декабристы! :evil:  
Наоборот на удивление шевелится
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:18:37
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82619)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:19:15
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989206020475052032)

#BreezeKM (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BreezeKM?src=hash) upper stage engine has now have cut off the first of two burns - #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) now flying on a ballistic coast before the second burn when the spacecraft reaches the apogee of its orbit
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Bizonich от 25.04.2018 21:20:10
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82620)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:20:25
Ждём-с!
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989206856710213634)

Flight Control Team at #ESOC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESOC?src=hash) are taking some time to get something to eat after the exctiement of the launch. There is nothing to do until the critical first acquisition of #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B at the Kiruna ground station in 70 minutes...
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 25.04.2018 21:24:05
ЦитироватьМОСКВА, 25 апреля. /ТАСС/. Ракета-носитель "Рокот" с европейским космическим аппаратом дистанционного зондирования Земли Sentinel-3B и разгонным блоком "Бриз-КМ" стартовала с космодрома Плесецк, сообщили в среду в Роскосмосе.
"25 апреля в 20:57 мск с космодрома Плесецк успешно осуществлен пуск ракеты-носителя легкого класса "Рокот" с космическим аппаратом Sentinel-3B", - сказали в госкорпорации.
Пусковые операции обеспечивались силами и средствами Космических войск ВКС РФ.
В 21:02 мск должно произойти отделение "Бриза-КМ" и спутника Sentinel-3В от третьей ступени "Рокота", а в 22:17 мск - отделение космического аппарата от разгонного блока.
Предыдущий запуск "Рокота" был успешно осуществлен с Плесецка 13 октября 2017 года. Тогда на орбиту вывели европейский спутник дистанционного зондирования Земли Sentinel-5p.


Подробнее на ТАСС:
http://tass.ru/kosmos/5158952
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:24:12
Цитировать04/25/2018 21:17 Stephen Clark

The Breeze KM upper stage engine should have completed its first burn to place the Sentinel 3B satellite into a preliminary orbit. A second ignition is scheduled for 1912 GMT (3:12 p.m. EDT) and should last for approximately 30 seconds.

But confirmation of the outcome of both burns will only come when the Sentinel 3B satellite deploys from the Breeze KM upper stage and radios ground controllers through a tracking station in Sweden, a milestone anticipated around 1930 GMT (3:30 p.m. EDT).
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:29:17
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82621)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:36:25
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82622) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82623) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82624) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82625) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82626)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:37:03
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82627) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82628) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82629) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82630)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:41:35
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82631) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82632) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82633)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:46:35
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82634)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:49:14
http://militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=480419 (http://militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=480419)
ЦитироватьЕвропейский спутник Sentinel-3B и разгонный блок "Бриз-КМ" отделились от ракеты-носителя "Рокот"
25.04.2018 21:04:06

Москва. 25 апреля. ИНТЕРФАКС-АВН - Ракета-носитель "Рокот", стартовавшая в среду с космодрома Плесецк, успешно вывела на низкую околоземную орбиту космическую головную часть в составе разгонного блока "Бриз-КМ" и европейского спутника дистанционного зондирования Земли Sentinel-3B.

"Космическая головная часть отделилась от ракеты-носителя в 21.03 МСК", - сообщил "Интерфаксу-АВН" глава постоянного представительства Европейского космического агентства (ЕКА) в Москве Рене Пишель.

Спутник Sentinel-3B создан по заказу ЕКА в рамках программы Copernicus для исследования океанов, льдов на полюсах Земли, земной атмосферы, картографирования земной поверхности. Он будет работать на околополярной солнечно-синхронной орбите высотой 815 км. Срок активного существования - по меньшей мере семь лет, масса - 1150 кг. Пуск ракеты космического назначения "Рокот" был осуществлен 25 апреля боевым расчетом Космических войск ВКС с Государственного испытательного космодрома Плесецк в Архангельской области. Выполненный в среду пуск ракеты-носителя "Рокот" стал 28 в ее летной истории.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:55:10
ЦитироватьSentinel-3B launched by Rockot

SciNews (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjU6ZwoTQtKWfz1urL7XcbA)

Опубликовано: 25 апр. 2018 г.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh97987Uu6Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh97987Uu6M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh97987Uu6M) (2:52)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:56:01
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989214592281784320)

Laughing on the voice loop at #ESOC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESOC?src=hash) - the Ground Operations Manager requested a 'ToV', essentially the difference between scheduled and actual launch time. The response was 17 milliseconds! That's quite an accurate launch! Thanks #Rockot (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rockot?src=hash)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 21:57:28
ЦитироватьLaunch of Russian Rokot with Sentinel 3B ESA Satellite

Space Videos (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdF5d0UwSJJunRcRVzP1uDg)

Опубликовано: 25 апр. 2018 г.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTgq-7KRpQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTgq-7KRpQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTgq-7KRpQ) (12:05)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:03:27
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989217889415770112)

The #ESTRACK (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESTRACK?src=hash) #Kiruna (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kiruna?src=hash) station in northern Sweden has configured for the first contact with #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B. Still 30 minutes to wait until we have our initial AoS
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:07:08
Трансляция ESA возобновлена
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82635)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:11:24
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82636)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:14:40
2-е вкл Бриз-КМ
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82637)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:15:10
И выкл Бриз-КМ
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82638)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:18:48
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82639)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:20:15
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82640)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:20:57
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 5 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989221403248545795)

#BreezeKM (https://twitter.com/hashtag/BreezeKM?src=hash) should now have completed its second burn to circularise the orbit of #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B. Flight Control Team at #ESOC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESOC?src=hash) waiting for the satellite signal via Kiruna ground station in 15 minutes...
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:23:57
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Separation of the spacecraft from the BreezeKM upper stage should be occurring now.... Can you believe that the #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B satellite is travelling at around 7.4 km every second?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:27:54
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82641) (https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82642)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Старый от 25.04.2018 22:29:49
Чево они говорят?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:34:23
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82643)

Есть сигнал!!!
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82644)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:37:07
SUCCESS!!!
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82647)
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82646)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:37:54
Трансляция ESA завершена
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82648)
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82649)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:40:06
http://militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=480424 (http://militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=480424)
ЦитироватьЕвропейский спутник Sentinel-3B выведен на целевую орбиту - ЕКА
25.04.2018 22:32:18

Москва. 25 апреля. ИНТЕРФАКС-АВН - Российская ракета-носитель "Рокот" с разгонным блоком "Бриз-КМ" успешно вывела на целевую орбиту европейский спутник дистанционного зондирования Земли Sentinel-3B, сообщил в среду "Интерфаксу-АВН" глава постоянного представительства Европейского космического агентства (ЕКА) в Москве Рене Пишель.

22:30 мск спутник отделился от разгонного блока", - уточнил он. Спутник Sentinel-3B создан по заказу ЕКА в рамках программы Copernicus. Он будет работать на околополярной солнечно-синхронной орбите высотой 815 км. Время активного существования, как минимум, - семь лет, масса - 1150 кг.
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Выполненный в среду пуск ракеты-носителя "Рокот" стал 28-м в ее летной истории. Запуски конверсионных ракет-носителей (РН) "Рокот" выполняются с космодрома Плесецк (Архангельская область) пусковыми расчетами Космических войск Воздушно-космических сил (ВКС) России.

"Рокот" - жидкостная трехступенчатая ракета-носитель легкого класса разработки Государственного космического научно-производственного центра имени Хруничева. Она создана на базе межконтинентальной баллистической ракеты УР-100Н УТТХ (РС-18Б) с использованием разгонного блока "Бриз-КМ". Первый запуск по суборбитальной траектории состоялся 20 ноября 1990 года.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:40:56
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989225939975462912)

FIRST COMMAND SUCCESSFUL! The Spacecraft Controller in #ESOC (https://twitter.com/hashtag/ESOC?src=hash) has sent the first command to #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B. Flight operations are now fully under way!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Старый от 25.04.2018 22:41:30
Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
SUCCESS!!!
И то неплохо... :)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:41:40
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First reports from the team confirm #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B is in expected condition. The automatic sequence that started once the spacecraft was released from the BreezeKM upper stage was so far successful. Ready to swap to Svalbard ground station. All hands on deck!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:43:20
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 10 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/989225368421851136)

S/C Sep confirmed for Sentinel 3B! ARTICLE:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/04/rokot-sentinel-3b-launch/ ... (https://t.co/QjXWecYmye)

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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 25.04.2018 22:48:56
Молодцы.

ЕвроКота жалко только. Много и хорошо заказывал.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:49:01
http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=1&nid=3579 (http://www.khrunichev.ru/main.php?id=1&nid=3579)
ЦитироватьРАКЕТА–НОСИТЕЛЬ «РОКОТ» УСПЕШНО ВЫВЕЛА НА ОРБИТУ ЕВРОПЕЙСКИЙ СПУТНИК ДЛЯ ГЛОБАЛЬНОГО МОНИТОРИНГА ОКРУЖАЮЩЕЙ СРЕДЫ
25.04.2018

Европейский спутник Sentinel-3B («Сентинель-3Б»), предназначенный для решения задач программы глобального мониторинга окружающей среды Copernicus («Коперник), успешно запущен сегодня 25 апреля с помощью российской ракеты космического назначения (РКН) «Рокот».

Запуск осуществлен в 20 час. 57 мин. мск с космодрома Плесецк (Архангельская область). Для обеспечения пусковых операций использовались силы и средства АО «ГКНПЦ им. М.В. Хруничева» и Космических войск ВКС Министерства обороны Российской Федерации.

Пуск прошел в штатном режиме,  приблизительно через полтора часа после запуска космический аппарат вышел на заданную солнечно-синхронную орбиту.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 22:50:14
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989229030888169472)

The solar array deployment on #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B has been confirmed SUCCESSFUL! Brilliant news. Mission is Good to Go!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 23:04:48
http://spaceflight101.com/sentinel-3b-launch-preview/
ЦитироватьSentinel-3B Satellite to Join Copernicus Constellation via Launch on Rockot Booster
 April 25, 2018 (http://spaceflight101.com/sentinel-3b-launch-preview/) 

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Sentinel-3B during final Processing – Photo: ESA
Europe's Copernicus satellite fleet is gearing up for the arrival of its next addition on Wednesday with a Russian Rockot booster set to blast off fr om the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 17:57 UTC carrying the Sentinel-3B multi-function satellite. Pending successful delivery into orbit, the 1,250-Kilogram satellite will fly at 140-degree separation to its twin launched in 2016 to collect a comprehensive set of ocean and land observation parameters feeding into the data record collected by the Copernicus satellite fleet.
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>> Live Launch Coverage (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/live-rockot-launch-coverage/)

Sentinel-3B was installed atop the 29-meter tall Soviet-era ballistic-missile-turned-space-launcher on Saturday in preparation for Wednesday's launch on a one-hour and 20-minute climb into an 800 Kilometer orbit. This launch will mark the beginning of the end for Rockot as the vehicle is set to fly out its 24-year career as an orbital launch vehicle this year, lifting Sentinel-3B, a pair of Russian defence ministry payloads and a trio of Gonets-M communications satellites.

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Image: ESA, ATG Medialab

Sentinel-3B will be the seventh satellite launched under Copernicus, joining two Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellites, the Sentinel-2 high-resolution imaging satellites, the Sentinel-5 precursor for atmospheric monitoring and the first Sentinel-3 satellite. Operated as a joint venture by the European Commission, the European Space Agency and the European Weather Agency Eumetsat, the Copernicus/GMES program has the primary objective of collecting and making available a comprehensive set of Earth observation parameters collected by different instruments embarked on several satellite missions as well as other data sources like airborne terminals.

To accomplish its goal, Copernicus is to consist of ten different satellite types with an overall program cost of 6.7 billion Euros through 2020. Sentinel data is processed into a variety of products of relevance to the scientific community, useful for operational capabilities like weather forecasting and environmental monitoring, and employed by policy-makers to guide their decisions with respect to environmental regulation, urban planning, etc.

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Image: ESA

Built by Thales Alenia, the Sentinel-3 satellites are considered the most comprehensive of the fleet since they fly with a package of several instruments for data collection on land and ocean parameters, unlike the Sentinel-1 & 2 missions that host a single, specialized instrument.

Combining an Ocean & Land Color Instrument, a Surface Temperature Radiometer and SAR Altimeter, Sentinel-3 collects high-resolution land and ocean surface color data, ocean and land temperature measurements, surface topography data over land and ocean and data for vegetation assessments, ice monitoring, atmospheric studies and fire detection, Additionally, the mission provides data continuity for heritage missions to extend multi-decade records of ocean altimetry and surface temperature.

Sentinel-3A lifted off fr om Russia's prime military launch site on February 16, 2016 and currently operates fr om an orbit of 802 by 803 Kilometers, inclined 98.63 degrees.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/152032.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_next_to_fairing_half_shell8.jpg)
Sentinel-3B Encapsulation – Photo: ESA

Wednesday's Rockot/Briz-KM launch is targeting a near-circular injection orbit of 810 Kilometers, inclined 98.65 degrees from wh ere the satellite will use its own engines to join Sentinel-3A at an in-plane phase angle of 140 degrees in a setup optimized to cut the revisit time of the two-satellite constellation to less than two days. Another two satellites are on order to join the constellation in the first half of the 2020s to increase revisit time and ensure data continuity.

In contrast to the other Copernicus missions, Sentinel-3 operates in a more operational capacity in that a fast data processing pipeline will deliver processed data products in a timely manner to be used in marine forecasting, ice monitoring and ocean current assessments. This is accomplished with a largely automated ground system for data processing and distribution as well as data dumps from the satellite on every orbit of Earth.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/152061.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_being_mated_with_the_Rockot_adapter7.jpg)
Photo: ESA

The Sentinel-3 satellites are outfitted with two imaging payloads and two topography instruments. The Ocean and Land Color Imager is a pushbroom imaging instrument comprised of five cameras covering 21 spectral channels to deliver detailed land and ocean color data as well as fire detection, vegetation data, atmospheric aerosol contents and cloud top height. The other imaging instrument is the Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer covering infrared wavelengths and sweeping out a wide field of view to gather surface temperature data over land and the ocean.

The Topography Payload hosts an active Synthetic Aperture Radar bouncing radio pulses off the ground to measure ocean wave heights and land topography, assisted by a Microwave Radiometer recording Earth's natural microwave emissions to provide correction data accounting for atmospheric water content. To make precise topography measurement, Sentinel-3 relies on a trio of Orbit Determination Systems, in combination achieving a sub-centimeter accuracy in calculating the satellite's orbit.

>> Detailed Instrument Descriptions (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/sentinel-3-instruments/)

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Site 133/3 Launch Complex – Photo: Eurockot

Built and tested by Thales Alenia in France, the satellite was packed up in March and flown to Plesetsk, some 800 Kilometers north of Moscow. Arriving at its launch site on March 17, Sentinel-3B was greeted by snowy weather which caused some hold-ups in the final leg of its journey completed by train. Final testing confirmed the satellite made it to the launch site without problems and was in working order before completing fueling for its planned seven-year mission.

The satellite was mated to its launch adapter on April 14 before taking its position atop the Briz-KM upper stage and being encapsulated in the protective payload fairing. It was then moved to the Site 133/3 launch pad wh ere it was hoisted for installation atop the two-stage Rockot Booster for a final test of checkout activities including a complete countdown rehearsal on Sunday to clear the way for the Launch Readiness Review which gave approval for fueling of the Rockot booster with toxic, self-igniting propellants.

First flown as a space launcher in 1990, Rockot has a launch mass of 107 metric tons and can deliver payloads up to 1,200 Kilograms to Sun Synchronous Orbit. Both Rockot stages and Briz-KM use hypergolic propellants, Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine and Nitrogen Tetroxide.

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

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Sentinel-3A Launch – Photo: ESA

On Wednesday, the satellite team at the launch site and the European Space Operations Center in Germany will head into a seven-hour countdown operation to put the Sentinel-3B satellite through final checkouts, configure it for launch and complete data flow checks with the various ground stations involved in the mission. Wednesday's launch will initially be supported by Russia's Ground Station Network tracking the ascending Rockot vehicle followed by passes over ground stations in South Africa, Kenya, Belgium and Sweden – supporting launch vehicle telemetry relay as well as communications with Sentinel-3B after spacecraft separation.

Final approval from the State Commission is expected six hours before launch and Rockot will head into a series of checkouts. The Mobile Service Tower will be retracted from the above-ground launch canister and, as the count heads into its tail end, the satellite team will provide a final readiness call when Sentinel-3B is on battery power. The final countdown sequence kicks off at T-3 minutes and includes steps to transfer Rockot & Briz-KM to onboard power and pass control over to the launcher.

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Image: ESA/ATG Medialab

T-0 at 17:57:38 UTC marks the start of final gyro settling and ignition comes at T+11 seconds as the RD-0233/0234 engines on the 1st stage soar up to a collective liftoff thrust of 191 metric-ton-force. Climbing out of its Launch Container, Rockot will ascend vertically for a moment before pitching over to begin heading to the north-west to aim for a polar orbit.

Rockot passes Maximum Dynamic Pressure 50 seconds after liftoff when pushing through 11 Kilometers in altitude. The first stage will fire until T+2 minutes and 19 seconds when it shuts down its engines and separates from Stage 2 that will have already ignited its vernier engine to pull away from the first stage.

Staging at 68 Kilometers in altitude will set the stage for a burn of just over three minutes as the second stage pushes the vehicle out of the atmosphere with a thrust of 25 metric-ton-force. Sentinel-3B is revealed three minutes into the flight when Rockot will pass 121 Kilometers in altitude, well outside the dense layers of the atmosphere wh ere aerodynamic forces are no-longer a concern.

>> Reference: Sentinel-3A Launch Profile (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/sentinel-3-launch-profile/)
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Sentinel-3B Launch Profile – Image: Khrunichev
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After second stage shutdown at T+5 minutes and 19 seconds, the Briz-KM upper stage will be in charge of powered flight. It will start with a burn of just over nine minutes, firing its S5.98 engine with a thrust of 2,000 Kilogram-force to boost the stack into an elliptical Parking Orbit of around 153 by 785 Kilometers.

Once arriving in orbit, the stack will enter an hour-long coast to climb to the apogee of its orbit so that the second burn can bring up the perigee and circularize the orbit. While coasting, the vehicle will pass over the Hartebeesthoek, and Malindi ground stations, covering the second burn and spacecraft separation. Briz-KM's second burn is set to start one hour and 15 minutes into the flight and last around 33 seconds to put the vehicle into an orbit of 809 by 811 Kilometers, inclined 98.65°.

Following separation 80 minutes after launch, Sentinel-3B will be tasked with establishing a stable orientation, deploy its single solar array and check in with ground stations to deliver health data to teams at ESOC, marking the start of a three-day initial commissioning phase. For Briz-KM, two disposal maneuvers are coming up after satellite deploy to lower its orbit.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 23:05:47
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 10 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989231436950622218)

#Sentinal3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinal3?src=hash) B Flight Control Team report that the spacecraft has stabilised herself and is in "Sun Pointing Phase" - everything nominal!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 23:07:17
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 9 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989231781995057154)

"2 minutes to carrier down Alaska" - Ground Operations Manager gives heads-up to Flight Control Team of impending Loss of Signal as the satellite transits over the horizon heading north...

7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989232311446237185)

#Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B has now passed over the horizon and we have Loss of Signal over Alaska. Next contact will be over #Troll (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Troll?src=hash) in Antarctica in about 37 minutes. Spacecraft is now orbiting Earth once every 101 minutes!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 23:25:36
http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/rockot-successfully-launches-sentinel-3b/
ЦитироватьSentinel-3B Land & Ocean-Sensing Satellite Delivered to Orbit by Russian Rockot Booster
 April 25, 2018 (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/rockot-successfully-launches-sentinel-3b/)

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Image: ESA Launch Webcast
Europe's Copernicus Earth Observation Constellation welcomed its seventh member on Wednesday after the Sentinel-3B ocean- and land-sensing satellite received a smooth ride to orbit atop a Russian ballistic-missile-turned-space-launcher.

As one of the largest remote sensing constellations, Copernicus currently operates four differently-instrumented satellite types to keep close watch over a changing planet – monitoring land, ocean and atmospheric parameters to serve the scientific community, support operational applications like weather forecasting and ocean monitoring, and guide the decision-making process regarding environmental policies and land use.

The three-stage Rockot/Briz-KM booster shot up fr om its above-ground launch container at Site 133/3 of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at precisely 17:57:52 UTC to deliver the 1,250-Kilogram Sentinel-3B satellite into the orbital plane of its twin that launched in 2016. Rockot's converted ballistic missile stages were in action for five and a half minutes before handing off to the Briz-KM upper stage that was tasked with a pair of engine burns to first inject the stack into an elliptical parking orbit before coasting and circularizing the orbit after half a lap around Earth.
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Image: ESA/ATG Medialab

Sentinel-3B pushed off with loaded springs 80 minutes after liftoff to depart the Briz-KM upper stage and embark on its planned seven-year mission collecting surface color and temperature data over land and ocean as well as altimetry data for sea state assessments. The European Space Agency confirmed Sentinel-3B was in good shape after its nighttime liftoff and was in stable communications with the ground.

Wednesday's launch marked the 31st for the Rockot launch vehicle and its 29th orbital mission since its debut as a space launch vehicle in 1994. It most likely was the vehicle's final commercial mission operated by Eurockot – a joint project of ArianeGroup and rocket builder Khrunichev – as Rockot is expected to be retired by the end of the year.

Based on a stockpile of leftover UR-100N intercontinental ballistic missiles, Rockot was always faced with a limited inventory of vehicles but the rocket's retirement comes because Ukrainian-built components of the Briz-KM flight control system are no-longer available to the Russian Federation for regular operation of Rockot missions.

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Sentinel-3B during Processing – Photo: ESA

As a result, Rockot is currently looking at another three missions before sailing into retirement: lifting the GEO-IK-2 No. 3 geodesy satellite, an unspecified defence ministry mission and a trio of Gonets-M communications satellites.

Taking over for Rockot is the Soyuz 2-1v (http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/soyuz-2-1v/) that flew for the first time in 2013 and is slightly more powerful than the UR-100N-based vehicle. Soyuz 2-1v is also considered more environmentally friendly due to its use of LOX/Kerosene propellant in its boost stages as opposed to Rockot's toxic, storable propellant combination.

Copernicus is a multi-billion Euro effort to create an operational system capable of collecting a comprehensive set of Earth observation parameters with a fleet of differently-instrumented satellites and turning them into usable data for scientists, weather forecasters, and policy-makers. The program operates a variety of instruments including high-resolution multi-spectral cameras, radar systems capable of day-and-night, all-weather imaging as well as specialized sensors for the measurements of sea/land topography, atmospheric changes and surface temperature.

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 its initial deployment by 2021. With a program cost of €6.7-billion, Copernicus is Europe's single most expensive space project and regarded as the world's most ambitious environmental satellite program.

With its current complement of satellites, Copernicus generates around 15 Terabytes of data per day – making it one of the five largest data producers in the world. Over its initial years of operation, Copernicus has delivered over 55 Petabytes of data to a user base of nearly 140,000.

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Sentinel Family – Image: ESA

The Sentinel fleet began deployment back in 2014 when the Sentinel-1A Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite took flight fr om French Guiana atop a Soyuz rocket, setting out to collect sub-meter resolution radar imagery for land and ocean services. It was joined by a nearly identical twin in 2016 to achieve a high revisit rate between the two.

Sentinel-2 also operates as a two-satellite system, launching in June 2015 and March 2017 and hosting high-resolution, multi-spectral imaging instruments to deliver information on land surface parameters, vegetation type, soil and water cover, inland water bodies and coastal areas. The Sentinel-3 satellites are widely regarded as the most comprehensive members of the constellation, hosting four payloads for land and ocean surface temperature measurements and topographical measurements through an altimetry instrument suite.

Sentinel-4 and 5, unlike the other constellation members, are hosted payloads on the next-generation of weather satellites operated by EUMETSAT with Sentinel-4 operating from Geostationary Orbit and Sentinel-5 flying on the MetOp Second Generation in Sun Synchronous Orbit, both tasked with atmospheric monitoring.

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Sentinel-3B Processing – Photo: ESA

A Sentinel-5 Precursor Satellite was launched last year as a stopgap for vital atmospheric spectroscopy data before the upcoming MetOp satellites are ready for launch. Sentinel-6, set for launch in 2020, will replace the Jason Ocean Altimetry Satellite and additional satellites beyond Sentinel-6 are planned as part of the expansion of the constellation in the 2020s.

Data from the Sentinel satellite fleet are distributed worldwide free of charge, benefiting not only the scientific community but being also employed by businesses, security officials and the public. As such, Copernicus is considered an operational program with satellites being produced in series to ensure data continuity over a long period, unlike one-off science missions like Europe's EnviSat that provided data from 2002 through 2012.

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Image: ESA/ATG Medialab

Under Copernicus, the European Commission acts as the funding body and provides overall project management while the European Space Agency is tasked with developing and launching the satellites. EUMETSAT is responsible for the day-to-day operations and the distribution of operational marine data products while ESA is in charge of all other data dissemination and archiving tasks.

Sentinel-3 stands out among the Copernicus satellites as the constellation's most complex members and operating under a more operational architecture with focus on quick data product distribution after collection.

Standing 3.71 meters tall, the Sentinel-3 twins rely on the PRIMA satellite platform of Thales Alenia Space, employing a single, 2,000-Watt solar array, precise three-axis pointing systems, onboard propulsion for orbit maintenance and a multi-sensor orbit determination system to keep track of their orbit with an accuracy of a few centimeters to be able to deliver precise ocean and land altimetry data.

>> Sentinel-3 Spacecraft Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/sentinel-3-spacecraft/) >> Instrument Descriptions (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/sentinel-3-instruments/)

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Image: ESA

Each satellite hosts a 21-channel Ocean and Land Color Instrument (OLCI) operating at a ground resolution up to 300 meters, a Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSRT) measuring land/ocean temperature with an accuracy of ±0.3°C, and a Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter (SRAL) and Microwave Radiometer (MWR) operate in unison to provide precision measurements of ocean states and land topography.

Additionally, data delivered by the instruments will come to use in land and sea ice assessments, ocean-current forecasting, sea-water quality and pollution assessments, as well as a number of land, atmospheric and cryospheric applications in an operational sense (e.g. fire detection, forest cover mapping, land use monitoring).

Forming a dual-satellite system, Sentinel-3A and 3B will operate at an in-plane separation of 140 degrees – unusual for a tandem configuration wh ere 180 degrees provides the best possible revisit time between the two constellation members. This particular setup was sel ected for Sentinel-3 in a compromise between a desire to maximize daily coverage of the constellation while also gaining some overlap between the two satellites' ground swaths to study fast-progressing ocean phenomena like Eddies.

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Photo: ESA Webcast

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Photo: ESA Webcast

As an operational mission, Sentinel-3 implements a high-degree of automation on the satellite and the ground segment to be able to release data products within three hours of acquisition.


For its ride into orbit, Sentinel-3B relied on Rockot – a converted UR-100N Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, developed in the 1970s and first flown as a space launch vehicle in the 1990s. Standing 29 meters tall, the ICBM-based launch vehicle uses storable propellants – Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine & Nitrogen Tetroxide – on all three of its stages.

Engineers at the Site 133/3 launch pad loaded the two-stage Rockot with 82,200 Kilograms of self-igniting propellants to start the week; the Briz-KM had received its dose of toxic propellant before integration with the rocket. Most of the day on Wednesday was dedicated to the Network Countdown, readying the Sentinel-3B satellite via final battery charging and health checks while also preparing the ground tracking network for its role in relaying communications from the satellite.

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

Rockot – still partially hidden in its above-ground launch container – was revealed just ten minutes before launch when its Mobile Service Tower retracted to its liftoff position. By that time, Sentinel-3B was running on internal power and teams in Germany had given their final GO for launch.

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Photo: ESA Webcast

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 17:57:38 UTC when final guidance system initialization started.

Rockot ignited its four first stage engines and lifted off at precisely 17:57:52.016 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 in the twilight skies over Russia's primary military launch base.

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Photo: ESA Webcast

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 separation of the 17-meter long first stage, assisted by four retrorockets that pushed the first stage away to clear the way for the second stage to ignite its main engine.

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Image: ESA

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. When the stack reached an altitude of 120 Kilometers at T+3 minutes, it was safe to jettison the protective payload fairing and expose the Sentinel-3B 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. Only the first portion of the lengthy burn was covered via live telemetry before Briz-KM headed out of ground network range, leaving teams with nothing to do but wait for Briz-KM to complete its pre-programmed mission profile before re-appearing in ground station range.

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First Signals fr om Sentinel-3B – Image: ESA Webcast

Standing 2.6 meters tall, Briz-KM launched with five metric tons of propellants in its tanks for consumption by a 2,000-Kilogram-force S5.98 main engine. First lifting the stack into Parking Orbit of around 153 by 785 Kilometers, Briz-M was then tasked with a 60.5-minute ballistics phase to climb to apogee and then re-fire its engine for 33 seconds in order to lift the vehicle into a circular orbit 810 Kilometers in altitude, inclined 98.65 degrees.

Separation of the satellite was set for 19:17 UTC, though acquisition of signal was only expected after Sentinel-3B had completed a pre-programmed series of steps to stabilize its three-axis orientation, deploy the single solar arrays and initiate communications with the ground. Applause broke out at the European Space Operations Center when the first signals of the satellite were detected through the Kiruna, Sweden station – confirming it was wh ere it was supposed to be after a successful launch.

Throughout the night and the next three days, teams at ESOC will put the satellite through a series of tests and reconfigurations to ensure Sentinel-3B is healthy and ready for the activation of its instruments. For the first four months of its mission, the satellite will shadow Sentinel-3A at a distance of less than 250 Kilometers to allow the two to cover the exact same ground scenes to enable cross-calibration of their instruments before they will be spaced at a 140-degree separation in their orbital plane.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 23:28:27
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ЦитироватьLaunch of Russian Rokot with ESA's Sentinel 3B Satellite

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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: zandr от 25.04.2018 23:38:30
https://www.roscosmos.ru/25004/
ЦитироватьРОСКОСМОС. КОСМИЧЕСКИЙ АППАРАТ SENTINEL-3B ВЫВЕДЕН НА РАСЧЕТНУЮ ОРБИТУ
Европейский спутник Sentinel-3B («Сентинел-3Б») выведен на расчетную орбиту. 25 апреля 2018 года в 22:17 мск космический аппарат отделился от разгонного блока «Бриз-КМ» на заданной солнечно-синхронной орбите. На реализацию всех этапов пусковой кампании от старта ракеты космического назначения «Рокот» с космодрома ПЛЕСЕЦК до отделения спутника потребовалось 1 час 20 минут.
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Космический аппарат Sentinel-3В предназначен для решения задач 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). Программа Copernicus осуществляется под эгидой Еврокомиссии в партнёрстве с ЕSA и Европейским агентством по окружающей среде. Sentinel-3В будет заниматься сбором данных дистанционного мониторинга о состоянии океанов, морских льдов и прибрежных зон.
Sentinel-3В стал третьим из спутников серии Sentinel, запущенных на РКН «Рокот» в рамках контрактов, заключенных ESA c СП Eurockot. Начиная с 2000 года, предприятие Eurockot предоставляет пусковые услуги ракеты-носителя «Рокот» и обеспечивает коммерческие запуски на низкие орбиты малых космических аппаратов. Значительное число этих запусков осуществляется с космическими аппаратами, предназначенными для наблюдения Земли, проведения научных экспериментов и исследований, отработке новых технологий в условиях космического пространства. В рамках контрактов, заключенных между Eurockot и ESА, ракета-носитель «Рокот» успешно вывела на орбиту шесть спутников глобального мониторинга Земли (GOCE, SMOS, SWARM, Sentinel 3A, Sentinel 5P, Sentinel-3b), а также, технологический демонстратор PROBA-2. Состоявшийся запуск стал 14–м для предприятия Eurockot.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 23:57:06
http://www.eurockot.com/2018/04/rockot-launcher-successfully-injects-sentinel-3b-earth-observation-satellite/
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Rockot Launcher Successfully Injects Sentinel-3B Earth Observation Satellite

Eurockot Launch Services GmbH of Bremen, Germany, successfully injected the Sentinel-3B satellite today at 20:57 hrs local time (17:57 hrs UTC, 19:57 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 818 km altitude and 98.63 degrees inclination.

This was Eurockot's third launch in support of the European Copernicus multiple satellite system following the successful launch of Sentinel-3A in February 2016 and Sentinel-5p in October 2017.

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.

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

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Sentinel-3B lifts off (Credits: ESA)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 25.04.2018 23:58:58
ЦитироватьSentinel-3B liftoff replay

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Опубликовано: 25 апр. 2018 г.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 26.04.2018 00:03:58
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/25/and-we-have-liftoff/
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Posted on April 25, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)
SENTINEL-3B LAUNCHED FOR COPERNICUS

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The second Sentinel-3 satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-3B, was launched today, joining its identical twin Sentinel-3A in orbit. This pairing of satellites increases coverage and data delivery for the European Union's Copernicus environment programme.

The 1150 kg Sentinel-3B satellite was carried into orbit on a Rockot launcher from Plesetsk, Russia, at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST; 21:57 local time) on 25 April.

Rockot's upper stage delivered Sentinel-3B into its planned orbit.

Just 92 minutes after liftoff, Sentinel-3B sent its first signals to the Kiruna station in Sweden. Data links were quickly established by teams at ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, allowing them to assume control of the satellite.
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During the three-day launch and the early orbit phase, controllers will check that all the satellite's systems are working and begin calibrating the instruments to commission the satellite. The mission is expected to begin routine operations after five months.

"This is the seventh launch of a Sentinel satellite in the last four years. It is a clear demonstration of what European cooperation can achieve and it is another piece to operating the largest Earth observation programme in the world, together with our partners from the European Commission and Eumetsat," said ESA Director General Jan Wörner.

With this launch, the first set of Sentinel missions for the European Union's Copernicus environmental monitoring network are in orbit, carrying a range of technologies to monitor Earth's land, oceans and atmosphere.

ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Josef Aschbacher, said, "With Sentinel-3B, Europe has put the first constellation of Sentinel missions into orbit – this is no small job and has required strong support by all involved. It allows us to get a very detailed picture of our planet on a daily basis and provides crucial information for policy makers.

"It also offers lots of opportunities for commercial companies to develop new innovative services. And, the free and open data policy allows every citizen to have updates for their own use.

"When we designed such a satellite constellation 20 years ago not everyone was convinced Europe could do that. I am glad to see this has become reality and that it is now a large European success story."

Copernicus relies on the Sentinels and contributing missions to provide data for monitoring the environment and for supporting civil security activities. Sentinel-3 carries a series of cutting-edge sensors to do just that.

Over oceans, it measures the temperature, colour and height of the sea surface as well as the thickness of sea ice. These measurements are used, for example, to monitor changes in Earth's climate and for more hands-on applications such as marine pollution.

Over land, this innovative mission monitors wildfires, maps the way land is used, checks vegetation health and measures the height of rivers and lakes.

Data from the Copernicus Programme are used worldwide and are free of charge.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 26.04.2018 01:41:11
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/25/european-environmental-observer-launched-by-russian-rocket/
ЦитироватьEuropean environmental observer launched by Russian rocket
April 25, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

A new European satellite carrying instruments to track changes in the world's oceans, measure receding ice sheets and chart vegetation growth climbed into orbit Wednesday on top of a Russian Rockot launcher.

The successful launch added the seventh satellite to the Copernicus Earth-observing fleet, a network of environmental observatories funded by the European Union in partnership with the European Space Agency.
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The Sentinel 3B spacecraft — weighing approximately 2,535 pounds (1,150 kilograms) — lifted off at 1757:51 GMT (1:57:51 p.m. EDT) Wednesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in far northern Russia.

The satellite rode a Rockot booster through an overcast sky at the remote forested military base, turning to the north-northwest with hydrazine-fueled engines generating 420,000 pounds of thrust.

Liftoff occurred at 8:57 p.m. local time at Plesetsk, located around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow.

The Rockot's lower two stages were taken from Russia's stockpile of decommissioned UR-100N, or SS-19, ballistic missiles. Originally built to carry nuclear warheads, the missile stages were repurposed for satellite launches.

The missile stages completed their back-to-back firings in the first five minutes the mission, and a Breeze KM upper stage — added to the UR-100N booster to convert it into a satellite launcher — ignited for the first of two burns to place Sentinel 3B into orbit.

The Breeze KM upper stage burned for more than nine minutes to reach a preliminary elliptical parking orbit, then reignited at 1912 GMT (3:12 p.m. EDT) for around 30 seconds to circularize its orbit at an altitude of approximately 500 miles, or 800 kilometers.

The Sentinel 3B satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, deployed from the Breeze KM stage soon after the rocket's second firing, and engineers at the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany, received telemetry from the spacecraft as it soared over a ground station in Kiruna, Sweden, at around 1930 GMT (3:30 p.m. EDT).

The radio signals from Sentinel 3B confirmed the Breeze KM upper stage, which conducted its pre-programmed maneuvers outside of communications coverage, put the new environmental monitoring satellite in the correct orbit.

Controllers said the satellite unfurled its solar array wing to begin producing electricity, one of the first major steps in any satellite's life after launch.

The signal from Sentinel 3B "arrived perfectly on time," said Paolo Ferri, head of the mission operations department at ESA's control center in Germany. "What happens now? The team has to work the whole night to stabilize the spacecraft ... and confirm all the systems are working."

Around three days of intense checkouts and activations are planned for Sentinel 3B through late Friday or early Saturday, then controllers will proceed with commissioning of the satellite's observing instruments.

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Artist's concept of the Sentinel 3B satellite in orbit. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

Sentinel 3B joins an identical observatory named Sentinel 3A which launched in February 2016. It's the seventh satellite in the multibillion-euro Copernicus program managed by the European Commission, the EU's executive body.

Billed as the world's most ambitious program of space-based Earth observation, the Copernicus program is intended to provide data on the planet's oceans, land surfaces and atmosphere with unprecedented rapidity to scientists, policymakers, businesses, security officials and the public.

The data from the Sentinel satellites are distributed worldwide free of charge. European officials consider the Sentinel satellites part of a continuing operational service, developed in series rather than as one-off science missions.

With the launch of Sentinel 3B, the Copernicus program has a full complement of three satellite families. The first two satellites in the Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 families, which are focused on disaster response and land surveys, were launched from 2014 through 2017. Another satellite, named Sentinel 5 Precursor, launched last October to measure global air quality.

Post-launch testing and calibration of the Sentinel 5 Precursor satellite ended earlier this week, just in time for control teams to shift their focus to Sentinel 3B, which is kicking off a seven-year mission.

"This is the seventh launch of a Sentinel satellite in the last four years. It is a clear demonstration of what European cooperation can achieve and it is another piece to operating the largest Earth observation programme in the world, together with our partners from the European Commission and Eumetsat."

ESA is in charge of developing and launching the Sentinel satellites on behalf of the EU. For Sentinel 3B, and its predecessor satellite Sentinel 3A, the European weather agency Eumetsat is responsible for mission operations and the distribution of marine data, while ESA will handle the dissemination of land environmental data.

Launched into an orbit over the poles, Sentinel 3B carries an ocean and land color instrument, a sea and land surface temperature radiometer, a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar altimeter, and a microwave radiometer.

The sensors will look for ocean pollution and track ocean currents, measure the temperature of sea water and ocean waves, and detect changes in ice and vegetation coverage. The Sentinel 3A and 3B satellites can also measure the height of rivers and lakes, and detect wildfires, a capability demonstrated during last year's fire season in California.

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This image of the western Mediterranean was taken by Sentinel 3A's Ocean and Land Color Instrument on Oct. 16, 2016. The islands of Corsica and Sardinia can be seen in the west with coast of Tuscany and the island of Elba to the northeast. The waters along the east coast of Corsica and along the Italian coast are colored by discharge from the land following recent heavy rainfall. Credit: ESA/Eumetsat

"We're not just working with the marine environmental service, we're also working with the land, with the atmosphere and with the climate service," said Susanne Mecklenburg, Sentinel 3 mission manager at ESA. "There's a large variety of data that we can actually supply. The marine service is probably the most developed for the moment. It's already using data over the ocean, in particular the ocean color data, which tells us something about the marine ecosystem, about the health of the sea, and also can help predict things like harmful algal blooms."

Once it completes an initial checkout, Sentinel 3B will fly in formation with Sentinel 3A for around four months, loitering at a distance of about 138 miles (223 kilometers) to allow scientists to calibrate measurements from the new satellite and ensure its instruments are performing as expected.

"Sentinel 3B, especially, is very complicated because it has four insturments on-board, and thus is something like the successor of the very famous Envisat satellite," Woerner said. "It has sensors on-board to look to the sea, to ice, but also to fire, so it's really a very complex machine."

Some time in September, Sentinel 3B should be declared operational, once the new satellite moves a farther distance from its twin, allowing both observatories to work in tandem and collect data at the same place on Earth every one-to-two days.

"With Sentinel-3B, Europe has put the first constellation of Sentinel missions into orbit — this is no small job and has required strong support by all involved," said Josef Aschbacher, director of ESA's Earth observation programs. "It allows us to get a very detailed picture of our planet on a daily basis and provides crucial information for policymakers.

"It also offers lots of opportunities for commercial companies to develop new innovative services. And, the free and open data policy allows every citizen to have updates for their own use," Aschbacher said in a statement.

"When we designed such a satellite constellation 20 years ago not everyone was convinced Europe could do that," he said. "I am glad to see this has become reality and that it is now a large European success story."

Sentinel data are shared with and redistributed by numerous government agencies and companies, including NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Geological Survey in the United States, Geoscience Australia, institutions across Europe, and Amazon and Google, according to Aschbacher.

"We learned a lot (from the Sentinel 3A mission)," said Craig Donlon, ESA's Sentinel 3 mission scientist. "We have scientists working in Europe and all over in the international operational laboratories, as well as in the research institutes, using satellite data from Sentinel 3 together with other instruments on other satellites to address a whole variety of different questions.

"For example, in the Great Barrier Reef, the Sentinel 3 sea and land surface radiomenter is providing us with the best sea surface temperatures in the world, and these are helping us to understand coral bleaching."

Two more copies of the Sentinel 3 satellite family are in development for launch in 2023 and 2024 to replace the Sentinel 3A and 3B spacecraft.

The Sentinel 3A and 3B satellites have a combined value of approximately 515 million euros, or about $575 million, according to Bruno Berruti, ESA's Sentinel 3 project manager.

About two-thirds of that cost can be attributed to Sentinel 3A because it was the first satellite in the series, he said.

After accounting for the value of ESA's contract with Eurockot, a German-Russian venture in charge of commercial Rockot launch services, the cost of Sentinel 3B's mission could be estimated at around 200 million euros, or roughly $240 million.

The launch of Sentinel 3B may have been the last commercial Rockot flight under the auspices of Eurockot, a partnership between European-based Ariane Group and Moscow-headquartered Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.

Several more Rockot missions are planned for Russian government satellites, but Eurockot has no more commercial missions booked, and Russian news reports have suggested the Rockot program will soon end.

Small ESA satellites like the ones that used to regularly launch on Rockot boosters are now expected to fly on European Vega rockets launched from European territory in French Guiana, a region of South America administered by France. Future satellites from Eurockot's other previous customers are also reserved to launch on other rockets.

Rockot boosters fitted with Breeze KM upper stages upgraded for satellite launches have flown 28 times since 2000, a record that includes a 2005 mission that led the destruction of an ESA science satellite, and a 2011 launch that deployed a Russian military payload into the wrong orbit.
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 26.04.2018 06:43:41
НОРАД зарегистрировал 2 объекта запуска
0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 43437U 18039A   18115.90215451 -.00000044  00000-0  00000+0 0  9993
2 43437  98.6232 183.8461 0012034 284.3934 214.8602 14.26457543    12

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 43438U 18039B   18115.90574020  .00002177  00000-0  10000-3 0  9997
2 43438  98.6927 183.8188 0257705 307.0042 229.7514 14.97036135    03

43437 / 2018-039A : 795 x 812 km x 98.623°
43438 / 2018-039B : 397 x 755 km x 98.693°
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: oby1 от 26.04.2018 06:51:16
ЦитироватьZOOR пишет:
Молодцы.

ЕвроКота жалко только. Много и хорошо заказывал.
 Кто знает,  возможно еще коммерция будет,  Рокот судя по некоторой инфе продолжит летать с новой СУ.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 26.04.2018 09:44:30
Поехал домой после ухода за горизонт на Аляске. Скучно, никаких аномалий. Вообще :-[
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 26.04.2018 10:01:32
А выведение нормальное, отклонения в пределах 1..1.5 сигмы номинальной дисперсии параметров.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 26.04.2018 11:11:26
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/press-release/sentinel-3b-orbit
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SENTINEL-3B IN ORBIT!
25.04.2018

Cannes, April 25, 2018 – The Sentinel-3B satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space for the European Space Agency (ESA), was successfully orbited today by a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
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A cornerstone mission in the European Earth observation program Copernicus, Sentinel-3B features a series of state-of-the-art instruments.
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  • Two optical instruments: OLCI (Ocean and Land Color Instrument) and SLSTR* (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer).
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  • Two RF (radio-frequency) instruments: SRAL (Synthetic-aperture Radar ALtimeter), and MWR (Microwave Radiometer), which will provide measurements to determine the topography of oceans, sea ice and bodies of water on land.
Sentinel-3B will systematically cover all of the Earth's land surfaces and oceans, gathering data that will help improve oceanographic and atmospheric forecasts. It will also improve our understanding of the oceans' "health", as well as fishery and water resources, agriculture, forests, biodiversity, public health and food security. At the same time, it will allow us to accurately monitor changes in sea heights and the shrinking polar ice.

(https://www.thalesgroup.com/sites/default/files/styles/resp_custom_user_wide_1x/public/assets/images/sentinel-3b_-_solar_array_deployment_cthales_alenia_space_imagin_1100_2_1_0.jpg?itok=MUcqRUOl×tamp=1524651461)

Sentinel-3B's orbit at 815 kilometers allows it to scan the entire surface of the Earth, using both radar and optical sensors, while regularly revisiting the same area. Because of this regular scanning of the surface, Sentinel-3B offers a plethora of applications: tracking marine currents and therefore movements in pollution, the movement of plankton and the marine biomass that consumes it, changes in ocean levels, monitoring polar ice, forests, farming zones, etc.
 
A number of satellites in the Copernicus program are already in orbit: Sentinel 1A, launched in 2014, 2A, launched in 2015, 1B and 3A, launched in 2016, 2B and 5P, launched in 2017. They are already transmitting a substantial stream of raw data, used in conjunction with data from other Earth observation satellites. The successful launch of Sentinel-3B means that the three Sentinel missions are now complete, marking a major turning point for Thales Alenia Space.
 
Thales Alenia Space won the original contract from the European Space Agency back in December 2009, with Telespazio directing ground segment operations for the entire Sentinel-3 mission. Users can receive significant environmental data just three hours after the information has been picked up by the satellites.

* The SLSTR (Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer), built by an international consortium led by Leonardo of Italy, delivers very precise measurements of the Earth's surface, with a resolution of 1,000 meters. It includes two channels for the observation of fires.

Copyrights:
Artistic view: © ESA/Pierre Carril
Photo: ©Thales Alenia Space/Imag
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 26.04.2018 16:51:17
http://spaceflight101.com/photos-converted-ballistic-missile-launches-from-russia-with-sentinel-3b-observation-satellite/
ЦитироватьPhotos: Converted Ballistic Missile Launches from Russia with Sentinel-3B Observation Satellite
 April 25, 2018 (http://spaceflight101.com/photos-converted-ballistic-missile-launches-from-russia-with-sentinel-3b-observation-satellite/) 

A Rockot/Briz-KM launch vehicle lifted off from Site 133/3 at Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome on April 25, 2018 at 17:57:52 UTC with the Sentinel-3B satellite set to join Europe's Copernicus Constellation as its seventh member. Outfitted with four instruments to collect sea & land surface color & temperature measurements as well as altimetry of land and sea, Sentinel-3 is considered the most complex in the fleet, making a significant contribution to Copernicus data – currently creating 15 TB per day. Rockot's two converted ballistic missile stages were in action for five and a half minutes before the Briz-KM upper stage took over for a two-burn mission to inject Sentinel-3B into an 800-Kilometer orbit to join its twin launched back in 2016.
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>> Read our Launch Recap (http://spaceflight101.com/copernicus/rockot-successfully-launches-sentinel-3b/)

All Photos: European Space Agency, S. Corvaja 
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/154330.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_liftoff.jpg)
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/154335.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_liftoff-6.jpg)
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/154334.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_liftoff-5.jpg)
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/154333.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_liftoff-4.jpg)
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/154331.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_liftoff-2.jpg)
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/154332.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_liftoff-3.jpg)
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/154329.jpg) (http://spaceflight101.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sentinel-3B_liftoff-1.jpg)
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 26.04.2018 19:28:43
Объекты запуска идентифицированы
(https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/file/82661)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 26.04.2018 20:28:33
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 13 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989553410084130816)

Constellation complete: Mission controllers keep a close watch on the launch and progress of #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B as it joins its identical twin, 3A, to complete a constellation that provides monitoring of Earth's oceans, land, ice & atmosphere #Copernicus (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Copernicus?src=hash) #IOTW (https://twitter.com/hashtag/IOTW?src=hash) http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/04/Constellation_complete ... (https://t.co/TkYet9pF4D)
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/163170.jpg)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 26.04.2018 22:04:38
ЦитироватьSentinel-3B highlights

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

Опубликовано: 26 апр. 2018 г.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_wMiG4oMghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_wMiG4oMg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_wMiG4oMg) (3:23)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 27.04.2018 11:58:34
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 31 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989782922512228352)

Update from Flight Director Pier-Paolo Emanuelli at ESOC: The critical 'Launch & Early Orbit Phase' for #Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B was completed last night!
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/163210.jpg)
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(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/163211.jpg)
(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/163212.jpg)
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 27.04.2018 12:00:09
Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/68356.jpg)ESA Operations‏Подлинная учетная запись @esaoperations (https://twitter.com/esaoperations) 31 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/989783352717795328)

#Sentinel3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel3?src=hash) B commissioning activities (getting the satellite and its instruments ready for work) will start next week. Our spacecraft is in excellent health!
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 27.04.2018 16:39:21
Появился

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=43437&live=1
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 27.04.2018 18:28:18
Вывели на орбиту, которая очень близка (по величинам и знакам отклонений полуоси и эксцентриситета) на ту, которая использовалась в последней серии тренировок за неделю до пуска. Забавно.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 27.04.2018 17:51:47
ЦитироватьPIN пишет:
Вывели на орбиту, которая очень близка (по величинам и знакам отклонений полуоси и эксцентриситета) на ту, которая использовалась в последней серии тренировок за неделю до пуска. Забавно.

Вывели на орбиту, которая называется "в колышек". Сами пишете
ЦитироватьPIN пишет:
А выведение нормальное, отклонения в пределах 1..1.5 сигмы номинальной дисперсии параметров.

Так что теперь страдать?
Извиняюсь, требований к точности поддержания структуры ОГ не знаю, но сдуру можно и ухо сломать.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 27.04.2018 18:55:47
ЦитироватьZOOR пишет:
Так что теперь страдать?
Ваще не "страдаю", всего лишь написал о странном совпадении. Ошибка выведения (пока она невелика)  влияет лишь на выбор стратегии по коррекциям для  начала тандемной фазы. Некоторые отклонения очень благоприятно сказываются на потребном количестве коррекций, так уже было с другим "Сентинелом".
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: ZOOR от 27.04.2018 18:01:34
ЦитироватьPIN пишет:
Ошибка выведения (пока она невелика)влияет лишь на выбор стратегии по коррекциям для начала тандемной фазы.
А там что, планируется построить группировку с точностью как у ГРЕЙСов?
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 28.04.2018 11:06:52
ЦитироватьZOOR пишет:
А там что, планируется построить группировку с точностью как у ГРЕЙСов?
Насколько помню, куда более расслабленные требования для тандемной фазы (до октября примерно), но тоже работы денерирует немало + частоты вверх и вниз у обоих аппаратов одни и те же.
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 30.04.2018 18:48:19
http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2018/04/30/time-to-go-home/
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Posted on April 30, 2018 by Honora (http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/author/honora/)
TIME TO GO HOME

With the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite safely in orbit and with the good news that the launch and early orbit phase was finished in record time – and following a launch campaign that lasted 49 days, it's time for the Plesetsk team to return home to their families.
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(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101118.jpg)
Moving out. (ESA)

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101133.jpg)
Bags packed. (ESA)

So at the end of last week and the over the weekend there was the last packing to do, the last cake to eat and all the administration to close, and it was time say a final good-bye to the Russians in 'rocket city' Mirny.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101153.jpg)
Cleaning up after the winter snow for May celebrations. (ESA)

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101130.jpg)
Getting ready for festivities. (ESA)

Meanwhile preparations in the city for the May celebrations were in full swing. People are busy with brooms, shovels and rubbish bags. After six months of winter weather, there is a lot of rubbish emerging fr om the melting snow – but they are working hard to get everything ready for a parade.

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/101127.jpg)
Time for the train. (ESA)

On Sunday 29 April, the train convoy with all containers left the MIK and the launch base for the station in Plesetsk. Around 22:00, the train convoy then left for Arkhangelsk. On Monday everything will be transferred to the airport, wh ere Antonov is waiting.

So, for us, it's a big good-bye to Plesetsk as we all look forward to getting home.

From the ESA Sentinel-3B launch campaign team in Plesetsk
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Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: Олег от 02.05.2018 19:59:11
А запуск все же видели, не так феерично, как Союз конечно. В Кирове - ссыла (https://www.newsler.ru/science/2018/05/01/kirovchane-sfotografirovali-zapusk-rakety-rokot)
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: PIN от 17.05.2018 12:30:22
В кухне здания ЦУЗ в холодильнике (морозильной камере) остались 2 бутылки водки и 4 литра апельсинового сока. Забирайте....
Название: Sentinel-3B – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 25.04.2018, 17:57 UTC
Отправлено: tnt22 от 23.05.2018 17:23:09
ЦитироватьTimelapse: Preparing Sentinel-3B for liftoff

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

Опубликовано: 23 мая 2018 г.

See in this timelapse how the Sentinel-3B satellite was prepared for its liftoff on 25 April 2018 from Plesetsk in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFuwDS3aSkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFuwDS3aSk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFuwDS3aSk) (4:39)