Echostar 17&MSG-3=Ariane 5ECA(VA207)-06.07.2012 01:36ЛМВ

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Европейская ракета-носитель Ariane 5 вывела на орбиту дву спутника[/size]

Ракета-носитель европейского космического концерна Arianespace в ночь на пятницу успешно вывела на орбиту два спутника, передает агентство Ассошиэйтед Пресс.

Пуск ракеты Ariane 5 был осуществлен с космодрома во Французской Гвиане в четверг вечером по местному времени (ночь пятницы мск). На ее борту находился телекоммуникационный спутник, принадлежащий американской компании Hughes Network Systems, и метеорологический спутник, который будет делать снимки Европы, Северной Атлантики и Африки.

http://ria.ru/science/20120706/692892242.html

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Какая красота!

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LEOP пока проходит совершенно беспроблемно, тьфу-тьфу.

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http://www.spacenews.com/launch/120706-echostar17-healthy.html

Fri, 6 July, 2012
SS/L-built EchoStar 17 Healthy in Orbit Following Ariane 5 Launch[/size]
By Peter B. de Selding

    DARMSTADT, Germany — Europe's Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rocket successfully placed the EchoStar 17 broadband satellite and Europe's MSG-3 meteorological satellite into geostationary orbit July 5 in the fourth of seven Ariane 5 launch campaigns planned this year.

    It was the 49th consecutive success for the Ariane 5 rocket, operated from Europe's Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America.

    The builders of both satellites said after the launch that their spacecraft were sending signals and were healthy in orbit.

    Insurance underwriters and others paid particular attention to the launch because EchoStar 17, insured for about $300 million, was the first flight of a Space Systems/Loral (SS/L)-built satellite since a May 31 launch of the Intelsat 19.

    One of the two Intelsat 19 solar arrays at first failed to deploy after indicating a problem in power levels. When the array deployed nearly two weeks after Intelsat 19's launch aboard a Sea Launch rocket, controllers determined that it had suffered permanent damage that will limit the power available to the satellite during its 15-year service life.

    Palo Alto, Calif.-based Space Systems/Loral and Sea Launch AG of Bern, Switzerland, appear to be at odds over what happened to Intelsat 19, with each suggesting that the other's hardware was to blame.

    A board of inquiry has been established but has not completed its work sifting through the Sea Launch telemetry of conditions under the rocket's fairing as it climbed through the atmosphere.

    With no solid information, insurers and satellite operators had little alternative but to trust their own instincts with respect to the launch of upcoming Space Systems/Loral satellites.

    Standing down a launch could mean a satellite operator is placed in the back of the launch services provider's queue, which could mean months of delays.

    The SES-5 satellite, owned by SES of Luxembourg, had been scheduled to be the next Space Systems/Loral satellite to launch after Intelsat 19. But International Launch Services (ILS) of McLean, Va., which markets Russia's Proton heavy-lift vehicle, postponed the launch for rocket-related reasons.

    SES-5 is now scheduled for launch from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 10.

    EchoStar 17 was thus the first out of the gates after Intelsat 19. Space Systems/Loral early July 6 said the satellite had deployed its solar arrays on schedule, and that all other systems were performing as designed.

    Weighing 6,100 kilograms at launch, EchoStar 17 will be capable of providing 16.1 kilowatts of power to its all-Ka-band communications payload at the end of the satellite's planned 15-year life.

    EchoStar 17 is the third of a new generation of satellites built to provide heretofore unheard-of amounts of bandwidth for consumer broadband applications. Paris-based Eutelsat's Ka-Sat entered service in mid-2011. Carlsbad, Calif.-based ViaSat's ViaSat-1, an EchoStar 17 lookalike, has been operational since January.

    EchoStar 17 will operate at 107.1 degrees west and will offer Hughes Communications' HughesNet Gen4 broadband service.

    The satellite, which is expected to enter commercial service in October after completing in-orbit checkout, will permit Hughes to match the bandwidth offer of ViaSat's Exede service.

    ViaSat-1 and EchoStar 17 — whose name was changed from Jupiter following Hughes' purchase by EchoStar of Englewood, Colo., in 2011 — each provide around 140 gigabits of bandwidth, or 14 times the bandwidth of Hughes' Spaceway 3 satellite, which uses Ka-band as well but is an earlier design.

    The similarities of EchoStar 17 and ViaSat-1 are Exhibit A in ViaSat's lawsuit, filed against Space Systems/Loral earlier this year, alleging breach of contract and patent infringement.

     

    Meteosat's MSG-3

    The launch's other payload, the MSG-3 satellite, is the third second-generation Meteosat spacecraft built for the European Space Agency and the 26-nation Eumetsat, Europe's meteorological satellite organization, which is based here.

    MSG-3 is likely to replace the first second-generation Meteosat, permitting the older spacecraft to be moved over the Indian Ocean to continue a Eumetsat-provided service in that region.

    MSG-3 is one of four nearly identical second-generation Meteosat satellites built by Thales Alenia Space of Cannes, France. The last of them is scheduled for launch in early 2014. This series of satellites is designed to operate for just seven years in geostationary orbit, but previous Meteosats have proved capable of conserving their fuel to remain on station far longer.

    After the satellite's in-orbit checkout, the first image from MSG-3 — which once in operations will be renamed Meteosat 10 — is expected in August. It will operate at 0 degrees longitude, the longstanding home of Meteosat spacecraft.

    MSG-3 is a spin-stabilized satellite, its cylindrical design recalling the early days of the satellite telecommunications industry, when most satellites were built this way. The design features solar panels that form the cylinder's outer shell.

    Modern telecommunications and meteorological satellites are stabilized on their three axes and feature solar wings that are folded up at launch and then deploy once the satellite is in orbit.

    Eumetsat and ESA also are moving to three-axis stabilization for the Meteosat Third Generation satellites, which are being built by a consortium led by Thales Alenia Space and OHB AG of Bremen, Germany.

    In what sounded like a veiled reference to the questions surrounding the Intelsat 19 launch, Thales Alenia Space Executive Vice President Joel Chenet, in a postlaunch address here, said: "Let me say first off that our solar arrays are fully deployed.[/size]

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http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?type=I&collection=Launchers

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LEOP пока проходит совершенно беспроблемно, тьфу-тьфу.

http://www.spacenews.com/launch/120706-echostar17-healthy.html

In what sounded like a veiled reference to the questions surrounding the Intelsat 19 launch, Thales Alenia Space Executive Vice President Joel Chenet, in a postlaunch address here, said: "Let me say first off that our solar arrays are fully deployed.

 

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Он не тормоз, он так шутит

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Да понятно, понятно, шутка такая

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Space Systems/Loral-Built Broadband Satellite for Hughes Successfully Launched, Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/06/12 -- Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) (NASDAQ: LORL), the world's leading provider of commercial satellites, today announced that the EchoStar XVII satellite, designed and built for Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), was launched yesterday and is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its solar arrays on schedule following its launch aboard an Ariane 5 vehicle provided by Arianespace from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Tomorrow, the satellite will begin firing its main thruster in order to start maneuvering into geostationary orbit.

"It has been our privilege to work with Hughes on this advanced satellite for broadband in the U.S.," said John Celli, president of Space Systems/Loral. "The excellent spirit of teamwork between our companies has resulted in one of the world's highest capacity satellites to ever launch."

EchoStar XVII, with JUPITER™ high-throughput technology, is an all Ka-band, broadband satellite designed to provide HughesNet® Gen4 high-speed satellite Internet service in North America. With more than 100 gigabits per second capacity for enhanced service to both consumers and businesses, the satellite's complex multi-spot beam architecture will focus capacity in the areas in North America with the highest traffic demand.

"Space Systems/Loral has been an excellent partner in building EchoStar XVII," said Pradman Kaul, president of Hughes. "This satellite was many years in planning and we are excited that it is now beginning its performance in space."

EchoStar XVII is based on the highly reliable Space Systems/Loral 1300 space-proven platform which provides the flexibility to support a broad range of applications and technology advances. The spacecraft is designed to deliver service for 15 years or more. With this launch, there are 70 SS/L-built geostationary satellites currently on orbit.

http://investor.loral.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=689446

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LEOP MSG3 окончен сегодня, аппарат в данный момент передается Eumetsat, catering service уже охлаждает шампанское и готовит легкие закуски.

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http://www.eumetsat.int/msg3/news.html

MSG-3 successfully handed over to EUMETSAT[/size]

At 12:00 UTC today (16 July) EUMETSAT successfully took over control of MSG-3 from ESA/ESOC, who provided the LEOP service.
Monday 16 July 2012

Following the launch, on 5 July, MSG-3 has been under the control of ESA/ESOC for the last 11 days. During that time the satellite was moved into geostationary orbit and various satellite functions were activated and critical manoeuvres were executed.

Now that MSG-3 is under EUMETSAT control commissioning will begin. The first phase consists of in-orbit testing (IOT). It systematically switches on all of MSG-3 functions and verifies the performances of the Satellite Platform, followed by the Payload, including the SEVIRI and GERB instruments.

The IOT phase is directed and executed by EUMETSAT, with support from ESA and industry experts. It aims to verify the satellite in-orbit performance following the on ground testing phase.

In the second phase of commissioning the end-to-end performance of the instrument chains is tested. The SEVIRI instrument will be switched on around six weeks after launch and the first image will be acquired. GERB will be switched on a few days later. After instrument switch on, there will be many weeks of testing with SEVIRI Imaging Verification and Validation, Calibration Verification and Validation and Product Processing Verification and Validation.

Sergio Rota, Head of the Geostationary. Satellite Programme Division at EUMETSAT, said: "The preparation for commissioning was started well before the launch itself. A prerequisite for starting the launch campaign of MSG-3 was to confirm the readiness for commissioning execution following LEOP. I look forward to the successful accomplishment of this final phase of the MSG-3 early operations."

Following a successful commissioning phase MSG-3 start its drift phase, when it is gradually manoeuvred into its final position – at 0°. It is due to become prime satellite at the beginning of 2013, when it will be renamed Meteosat-10. It will take over the full-disk imaging mission, covering the European and African continents and parts of the Atlantic and Indian oceans, every 15 minutes. Meteosat-9 will be moved from 0° to 9.5°E and will take over rapid-scan services, collecting data every five minutes over Europe, north Atlantic and the Mediterranean area.
Last Updated: 16 July, 2012 12:25[/size]

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А вот и первая фотография со спутника MSG-3

MSG-3, Europe's latest weather satellite, delivers first image
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PR 25 2012 - Today, the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument on MSG-3 captured its first image of the Earth. This demonstrates that Europe's latest geostationary weather satellite, launched on 5 July, is performing well and is on its way to taking over operational service after six months of commissioning.
 
The European Space Agency (ESA) was responsible for the initial operations after launch (the so-called launch and early orbit phase) of MSG-3 and handed over the satellite to EUMETSAT on 16 July.
The first image is a joint achievement by ESA, EUMETSAT, and the European space industry. For its mandatory programmes, EUMETSAT relies on ESA for the development of new satellites and the procurement of recurrent satellites like MSG-3. This cooperation model has made Europe a world leader in satellite meteorology by making best use of the respective expertise of the two agencies.  

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMRFKVXF5H_index_0.html



Полный размер фото - http://www.esa.int/images/MSG-3_first_image_7aug12_H.jpg.

Европейский метеоспутник MSG-3 передал на Землю первое изображение[/size]

Метеоспутник MSG-3, запущенный с космодрома Куру в начале июля, передал с орбиты первый снимок, сообщает европейское метеоагентство EUMETSAT.

Спутник MSG-3 был выведен на геостационарную орбиту с помощью ракеты "Ариан-5" 6 июля, и передан Европейским космическим агентством (ЕКА) в управление метеорологам в середине месяца. В настоящее время аппарат находится в фазе проверки и начнет работать в "полную силу" примерно через шесть месяцев.

MSG-3 - третий из серии европейских геостационарных метеоспутников, первый из которых был запущен в 2002 году. На борту этих аппаратов находится камера инфракрасного и видимого диапазона SEVIRI (Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager). Этот прибор обеспечивает пространственное разрешение 1 километр в видимом свете и 3 километра в инфракрасном. Каждые 15 минут он сканирует всю поверхность Земли, наблюдая за изменениями облачности.

С его помощью метеорологи рассчитывают значительно улучшить сверхкраткосрочные прогнозы на территории Европы и Азии, в частности, более успешно прогнозировать ураганы и туман.
Помимо SEVIRI на борту аппарата находится также прибор, измеряющий уровень солнечной радиации, приходящей к Земле, а также ту ее часть, которая отражается обратно в космос. Его данные позволят лучше понять климатические процессы.

Кроме того, на спутнике установлен транспондер для реттрансляции сигналов с аварийных радиомаяков.

Следующий аппарат, MSG-4, будет запущен, как ожидается в 2015 году.

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