Arabsat 5A,COMS 1-Ariane 5 ECA(V195)- 27.06.10 01:41 ЛМВ

[Salo]

Половина стартового окна позади.

[Salo]

Пошёл семиминутный отсчёт.

[Salo]

Не судьба сегодня.
На 16 секунде остаеовили время.

[vaitek]

А что было-то? А то я французский еще в 10ом классе забыл...

[Salo]

У меня звука нет вообще.

[Брабонт]

Всё, отбой.

[Salo]

http://www.arianespace.com/news-press-release/2010/06-24-2010-V195-launch-postponed.asp

Flight 195 – Arabsat-5A and COMS: Launch delayed

Kourou, June 24, 2010

Due to a launch vehicle pressurization anomaly on the main cryogenic stage during final countdown operations for Flight 195, Arianespace has decided to postpone the launch.

The launch vehicle and its Arabsat-5A and COMS satellite payloads have been placed in stand-by mode and maintained in fully safe conditions.

A new date for the mission will be announced as soon as possible.

Шо, опять? :shock:

[LRV_75]

Французы тоже лихие парни  
Первый раз эту фразу услышал от Поповкина: "Лучше поиметь проблемы на земле, чем в полете"
Случай с КСЛВ (пошли на пуск сразу после помывки ракеты) очередной раз доказывает это.
Лучше перестраховаться и дать отбой.

[Salo]

http://www.itar-tass.com/level2.html?NewsID=15263846&PageNum=0

Запуск ракеты-носителя "Ариан-5" с двумя спутниками на борту вновь отложен по техпричинам

25.06.2010, 12.18   
   
ПАРИЖ, 25 июня. /ИТАР-ТАСС/. Запуск с космодрома Куру /Французская Гвиана/ европейской ракеты-носителя "Ариан-5" с двумя спутниками на борту вновь отложен. Об этом сообщил сегодня представитель корпорации "Арианспейс", ответственной за коммерческие запуски с этого космодрома.

Отмену запуска в ночь со среды на четверг корпорация объяснила техническими причинами, в частности "проблемой герметизации на уровне основной, первой ступени" ракеты. Минувшей ночью обратный счет пришлось прерывать два раза. Первый раз за 17 секунд до старта, второй раз - за 16 секунд. В ночь со среды на четверг запуск был отложен "из-за резкого понижения давления, но только в верхней ступени носителя", объяснил представитель.

Он не сообщил возможной даты следующей попытки запуска ракеты.

[Salo]

http://www.arianespace.com/news-press-release/2010/06-26-2010-launch-date.asp

Arianespace launch 195 – Arabsat-5A and COMS: Liftoff is set for Saturday, June 26, 2010

Kourou, June 26, 2010

In the two synchronized sequences performed during the launch countdown on Thursday, June 24, an atypical pressure value was observed in the pressurization system of Ariane 5's cryogenic main stage.  After precise analysis of this phenomenon, and complementary checks were carried out, Arianespace has decided to resume final countdown operations for Flight 195 with the Arabsat-5A and COMS satellite payloads.

Liftoff of the Ariane 5 launcher is now set for the night of Saturday, June 26, as early as possible in the following launch window:
From 6:41 p.m. to 7:52 p.m., local time in Kourou, French Guiana
From 5:41 p.m. to 6:52 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
From 9:41 p.m. to 10:52 p.m. UTC.

[us2-star]

Улетела, наконец-то!

[Aleksandras]

Всё ОК! Все хлопают в ладошки!

[Salo]

http://www.arianespace.com/news-press-release/2010/06-26-2010-v195-launch-success.asp

Mission accomplished! Arianespace orbits Arabsat-5A and COMS

Kourou, June 26, 2010

On Saturday, June 26, Arianespace orbited the Arabsat-5A communications satellite for the operator Arabsat, and the COMS multimission satellite for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).

51st Ariane 5 launch, 37th success in a row

This latest successful launch of Ariane 5, the second in 2010, once again proves the launcher's operational capabilities. Ariane 5 is the only commercial satellite launcher now on the market capable of simultaneously launching two payloads and handling a complete range of missions, from commercial launches into geostationary orbit to scientific satellites boosted into special orbits.

The 51st launch of an Ariane 5, and the 37th successful mission in a row, clearly confirms the launcher's reliability and availability. Arianespace's launch Service & Solutions continue to set the global standard and guarantee independent access to space for all customers, including national and international space agencies, private firms and governments.

Two loyal customers

Arianespace and Arabsat have developed close ties over the 25 years since the launch of Arabsat 1A in 1985. Arabsat 5A is the seventh Arabsat satellite to have chosen the European launcher.

The launch of South Korea's COMS satellite continues a partnership that started nearly 20 years ago with the launch of Kitsat scientific microsats for SaTRec, Satellite Technology Research Center, and continued with the launch of the Koreasat-3 communications satellite for the operator Korea Telecom.

 Arabsat-5A/COMS mission at a glance

The mission was carried out by an Ariane 5 ECA launcher from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Liftoff was on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 6:41 pm local time in Kourou (5:41 p.m. in Washington, D.C., 21:41 UTC, 11:41 p.m. in Paris and on Sunday, June 27, at 12:41 a.m. in Riyadh, 6:41 a.m. in Seoul).

Arabsat-5A weighed 4,939 kg. at launch. It was built by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space within the scope of a turnkey contract with satcom operator Arabsat, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Astrium provided the Eurostar E3000 platform and was responsible for satellite integration, while Thales Alenia Space supplied the payload. Arabsat-5A will provide telecommunications and TV broadcasting services in the Middle East and North Africa. Positioned at 30.5 degrees East, it has a design life exceeding 15 years.

COMS, the Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite, weighed 2,460 kg. at launch and is fitted with three payloads. In addition to its meteorological observation and ocean surveillance missions, its orbital position over the Korean peninsula will enable it to provide broadband multimedia communications services. Program prime contractor Astrium built COMS under co-operative efforts with Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) using a Eurostar E3000 platform, fitted with a meteorological imaging system and an ocean observation payload. The Ka-Band telecommunication payload was developed by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Korea and was supplied by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI).

[Salo]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/ariane/v195/gallery/

[Salo]

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/techscience/2010/06/26/56/0601000000AEN20100626001200320F.HTML

Chollian marks major leap in S. Korea's satellite program

SEOUL, June 27 (Yonhap) -- The launch of South Korea's Chollian satellite marks a major leap forward for the country's space development program, a state-run aerospace agency said Sunday.

   The Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) in charge of the country's rocket and satellite projects said the liftoff of the communication, ocean and meteorological satellite (COMS) from the Guiana Space Center in South America represents a milestone in the country's "catch-up effort" with established leaders in this cutting technology field.

   The Daejeon-based institute, located 160 kilometers south of Seoul, said the satellite makes South Korea the first country in the world to operate an oceanographic observation satellite in geostationary orbit that can simultaneously provide weather-related information and communications services around the clock.

   The Chollian, which took eight years to build and will circle the globe at an altitude of around 36,000 kilometers, also makes the country the seventh in the world to operate an independent weather satellite after the United States, the European Union, Japan, China, India and Russia.

   "The COMS highlights what the country has achieved in the satellite field in the past two decades," KARI said. It pointed out that because the country sent up its first "Uribyol" or Korean Institute of Technology Satellite (KITSAT) in August 11, 1992, it entered the satellite race 40 years behind forerunners in this sector.

   Since the KITSAT launch program, which included two other machines, the country placed a total of 12 satellites -- including the Chollian -- into the Earth's orbit. These include four Mugunghwa or Koreasat telecommunication satellites operated by the private sector; two multipurpose Arirang satellites equipped with advanced, high resolution cameras; and a single Science and Technology Satellite-1 (STSAT-1) into space in 2003.

   SK Telecom Co., a local telecommunications service provider, had also placed the world's first digital multimedia broadcasting satellite called the "Hanbyul" in orbit in 2004 along in cooperation with Japanese partner Mobile Broadcasting Corp.

   "At present the country's satellite technology level and knowhow is around 70-80 percent of 'early starters' like the U.S. and Russia but it is reducing the gap," the space agency claimed.

   It said that at the current pace, the country should reach levels roughly on a par with some satellite technology leaders before 2030.

   KARI said that even if the Naro-1 rocket carrying the STSAT-2 was lost during liftoff, the country is in the process of developing or deploying at least four other satellites in the next few years to replace and augment four in operation. The Naro-1 also called the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1 was the country's first locally assembled space rocket built with extensive support from Russia.

   Two satellites are to blast off in the second half of this year, including the Arirang 5, which will have a radar imaging device that can detect developments on the Earth's surface at night and in bad weather.

   The agency under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said that the ultimate goal is to develop comprehensive technologies to launch all of its satellites without relying on foreign rockets and launch pads.

   The country recently built the Naro Space Center off the country's southern coast to spur its space program.

   Seoul, meanwhile, is engaged in a space program that calls for the building of a 300-ton thrust rocket capable of carrying a 1.5 ton satellite into orbit by 2020 and to place a probe around the Moon five years later.

[Salo]

http://cybersecurity.ru/space/97403.html

Введен в строй первый корейский геостационарный метеоспутник

(10:22) 06.07.2010

В Министерстве образования, науки и технологий Южной Кореи сегодня объявили о том, что первый корейский геостационарный метеоспутник успешно введен в эксплуатацию и работает штатно. В космос этот аппарат был запущен в июне с космодрома Куру во Французской Гвиане.

Аппарат весом 2460 кг представляет собой первый в мире геостационарный спутник для наблюдения за погодой в океане и мониторинга состояния воды. Сообщается, что данные с этого спутника позволят стране получать максимально точные и актуальные данные о перемещении водных масс, циклонах, температурах воды и воздуха, а также о широкой гамме изменений окружающей среды.

В Южной Корее говорят, что запуск данного аппарата делает Южную Корею 10-й страной в мире, способной полностью самостоятельно производить современные космические спутники. Сейчас новый аппарат находится на высоте 37 000 км строго над территорией Южной Кореи и период его вращения совпадает с периодом вращения Земли.

"Сейчас аппарат занимается тонкой подстрокой собственной орбиты и проводит пробные сеансы передачи данных", - говорят в подразделении развития космических программ. На данный момент спутник работает без ошибок, а его обслуживание проводится совместно с французским авиа-космическим концерном EADS Astrium.

Аппарат сконструирован таким образом, чтобы передавать океанографические данные каждые 15 минут, а в случае чрезвычайных ситуаций этот интервал можно сокращать до 8 минут. До недавнего времени Южная Корея получала каждые 30 минут метеорологические данные от Японии и каждые несколько часов от США.

Работать новый спутник должен семь лет, а в его создание было инвестировано около 288 млн долларов.

[Брабонт]

Очнувшись после очередного коматоза, NORAD выдало наборы на оба спутника: COMS уже на стационаре, Arabsat (признанный арабским, в отличие от своего собрата 5B) двое суток назад был ещё на исходной ГПО. Почему, не ясно.