Gaia – Soyuz-STB/Fregat-MT (VS06) – Куру/Синнамари – 20.12.2013 09:12 UTC

[phobos24]

ykpoi пишет:
Я что-то не понял, Фрегат прямо до L2 его потащит что ли?

Вы правильно поняли, Фрегат-МТ еще через несколько суток 500 м давать будет.

[phobos24]

Виктор Левашов пишет:
Необычно как: ГЧ на РН устанавливают прямо на старте.

Им так удобнее. Когда я дачу строил, я стропила на земле собирал, видно, так им удобнее

[testest]

phobos24 пишет:

ykpoi пишет:
Я что-то не понял, Фрегат прямо до L2 его потащит что ли?

Вы правильно поняли, Фрегат-МТ еще через несколько суток 500 м давать будет.

Интересно будет наблюдать. Жаль, на "Фрегате" камер нет.

[PIN]

phobos24 пишет:
Вы правильно поняли, Фрегат-МТ еще через несколько суток 500 м давать будет.

А кому и куда? Разделение Фрегата и ПН - менее чем через 42 минуты после старта.

[Старый]

phobos24 пишет:

ykpoi пишет:
Я что-то не понял, Фрегат прямо до L2 его потащит что ли?

Вы правильно поняли, Фрегат-МТ еще через несколько суток 500 м давать будет.

А батареек и точности гироскопов у Фрегата хватит?

[PIN]

юмористы...

[Salo]

http://www.arianespace.com/news-mission-update/2013/1118.asp

The stars are waiting! Gaia is cleared for liftoff on Arianespace's deep-space Soyuz mission
 
December 18, 2013 - Soyuz Flight VS06
 
An unprecedented endeavor to plot the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy is set for liftoff early tomorrow morning from the Spaceport following today's go-ahead for Arianespace's medium-lift Soyuz mission with the European Gaia spacecraft.
This sixth launch of the Russian-built workhorse from French Guiana will deploy the European Space Agency's (ESA) billion-star mapper during a fast-paced Soyuz mission profile of just under 42 minutes.  It will place Gaia on a trajectory toward an orbit around the Sun at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers beyond Earth, operating from a location known as the L2 Lagrangian point.
Gaia has an estimated liftoff mass of 2,034 kg. and was produced for ESA by the Astrium space division of EADS.  During its 5.5-year design lifetime, the spacecraft will observe each of its target stars approximately 70 times, precisely charting their positions, distances, movements and changes in brightness.
Discoveries of new celestial objects – such as extra-solar planets and brown dwarfs – are expected in the hundreds of thousands, along with similar numbers of asteroids within the Solar System. Other goals are the study of some 500,000 distant quasars, as well as stringent new tests of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
Gaia contains two optical telescopes that operate with three science instruments to precisely determine the location of stars and their velocities, and to split their light into a spectrum for analysis.  Using Gaia's slow spinning motion, the telescopes sweep across the entire celestial sphere, enabling the spacecraft's detectors to repeatedly measure the position of each celestial object – detecting changes in motion through space.
Arianespace's mission with Gaia is designated Flight VS06 in the company's launcher family numbering system, and uses the Soyuz ST launcher version with a Fregat upper stage.  The European star-mapping spacecraft will be the 25th scientific payload lofted by Arianespace.


 The payload "stack" for Arianespace's Flight VS06 is detailed in this cutaway drawing.  A two-piece fairing protects the Gaia spacecraft and its Fregat upper stage during the launcher's initial climb-out.

[Space Alien]

[DMLL]

napalm пишет:
*Вопрос из зала*

А почему на Союзе?

Развёрнутый ответ будет длинным.

В юго-западной четверти земного шара нужно испытанное и надёжное средство доставки термоядерного оружия для борьбы с исчадиями ада дальнего космоса - астероидами.

[phobos24]

SOE пишет:
А кому и куда? Разделение Фрегата и ПН - менее чем через 42 минуты после старта.

SOE пишет:
юмористы...

Я подумал, что Вы всерьез к троллингу отнеслись, простите Удачи!. 2520 секунда от КП отделение ПН

[Salo]

http://www.arianespace.com/news-mission-update/2013/1119.asp

Sights set on the stars: Gaia is poised for its Soyuz liftoff
 
Soyuz Flight VS06
Arianespace's medium-lift Soyuz launcher is set to loft Gaia – a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft – on a December 19 mission that kicks off the star-mapper's ambitious journey to chart the Milky Way.
Final preparations are now underway for liftoff of this Russian-built workhorse fr om Spaceport at precisely 6:12:19 a.m. local time in French Guiana.
Soyuz will carry out a nearly 42 minute mission to deploy Gaia en route to the spacecraft's final operating position some 1.5 million kilometers from Earth at the second Lagrangian point, L2.
After liftoff, the powered phase of Soyuz' three lower stages is to last approximately nine minutes before the upper composite – consisting of Gaia, its adapter and the Fregat upper stage – separates. The autonomous and flexible Fregat stage will then conduct two burns, each followed by a ballistic phase prior to Gaia's separation, which concludes Arianespace's 41-minute, 59-second mission.
Designated VS06 in Arianespace's numbering system, this mission is Soyuz' sixth launch from French Guiana, wh ere it has joined the company's heavy-lift Ariane 5 and lightweight Vega in operations from the Spaceport.
 ESA's impressive Gaia mission seeks to understand the origin, structure and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy by creating a map of more than one billion stars. The Astrium-built spacecraft will precisely chart stars' positions, distances, movements and changes in brightness by observing each of its targets approximately 70 times during its 5.5-year design life. Gaia is also expected to discover a large number of celestial objects such as asteroids, newly formed stars, stellar explosions and black holes.


The Jupiter Mission Control center's split-screen display provides camera views of the Soyuz launch site in French Guiana, including close-ups of the vehicle's stages and payload fairing.

[che wi]

https://twitter.com/ESAGaia/status/413574254689411072

Soyuz VS06 for #Gaia fuelled.

"Союз-СТ-Б" с европейским телескопом "Гайя" стартует с космодрома Куру
http://ria.ru/space/20131219/985006701.html


Российская ракета-носитель "Союз-СТ" выведет в космос европейский телескоп
http://itar-tass.com/nauka/843967

[che wi]

https://twitter.com/ESAGaia/status/413585727167811584

Gantry around #Gaia has been moved aside. All lights green. Less than an hour to go.

[Вован]

che wi пишет:
 https://twitter.com/ESAGaia/status/413585727167811584

Gantry around #Gaia has been moved aside. All lights green. Less than an hour to go.

Ага

[Salo]

Пошла трансляция:
http://www.arianespace.tv/

[Вован]

Пока вступительная речь

[che wi]

[Salo]

Семь минут до старта!

[che wi]

[che wi]

"Klyuch na start" is the next milestone...