O3b (4 sats) - Soyuz-STB/Fregat-MT (VS08 ) - Куру/Синнамари ELS - 10.07.2014 18:55 UTC

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Разъём пишет:
На пуски Gaia и SWARM повлиять не должно

Может не повлиять, если Арианэспас не станет настаивать на переносе Gaia на несколько дней раньше.

[Liss]

Странно... не далее как 6 сентября под этот пуск закрыли опасные зоны:

A0286/13 - RESTRICTED AREA SOR4 ACTIVATED. 29 SEP 09:00 2013 UNTIL 10 OCT 19:34 2013. CREATED: 06 SEP 15:23 2013

A0285/13 - DANGEROUS AREA SOD3 ACTIVATED. DAILY: 1726-2004, 30 SEP 17:26 2013 UNTIL 10 OCT 20:04 2013. CREATED: 06 SEP 15:20 2013

A0287/13 - TEMPORARY DANGEROUS AREA ACTIVATED DUE TO ROCKET LAUNCHING SOYOUZ ZA/V706-VS06 LATERAL LIMITS AS FOLLOWS QUADRILATERAL: 0529N04936W 0515N04935W 0514N05014W 052905014W. AMSL - UNL, DAILY 1726-2004, 30 SEP 17:26 2013 UNTIL 10 OCT 20:04 2013. CREATED: 06 SEP 15:33 2013

A0288/13 - TEMPORARY DANGEROUS AREA ACTIVATED DUE TO ROCKET LAUNCHING SOYOUZ ZB/V706-VS06 LATERAL LIMITS AS FOLLOWS QUADRILATERAL: 0529N04355W 0501N04356W 0503N04512W 0530N04512W. AMSL - UNL, DAILY 1726-2004, 30 SEP 17:26 2013 UNTIL 10 OCT 20:04 2013. CREATED: 06 SEP 15:39 2013

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Для меня выгладит странным также и то, что O3B 2 недели назад уже приняли решение, что "чинить" будут на месте и быстро...

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http://www.spacenews.com/article/satellite-telecom/37121o3b-delays-launch-to-2014-for-additional-spacecraft-testing

O3b Delays Launch to 2014 for Additional Spacecraft Testing
By Peter B. de Selding | Sep. 9, 2013

PARIS — Startup satellite broadband provider O3b Networks on Sept. 9 said its planned Sept. 30 launch of four satellites aboard a European Soyuz rocket has been delayed until early 2014 "for additional testing" to be conducted by the company.
O3b, based in Britain's Channel Islands, did not detail the nature of the problem, which will delay the company's commercial service start date. O3b launched its first four satellites earlier this year and had been counting on the second group of four — with a third to be launched in 2014 — to start commercial introduction of its high-speed broadband delivery.
In addition to whatever issue O3b has on its satellites, the company is fighting for access to the Europeanized Soyuz rocket, whose 2014 manifest is already crowded with launches of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation constellation.
 

O3b launched its first four satellites earlier this year (shown here in a shipping container) and had been counting on the second group of four — with a third to be launched in 2014 — to start commercial introduction of its high-speed broadband delivery. Credit: O3b photo

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то же по-русски
http://ria.ru/science/20130910/962142597.html

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Оно и к лучшему. А то ведь Франции захотелось превентивных ракетно-бомбовых ударов... Не все же с этим согласны.

[Liss]

Заявки на районы падения аннулированы.

[Liss]

Но не все:

N0031/13 - TEMPO RESTRICTED AREA (ROCKET STAGE FALL V706-VS06) 045002N0410903W, 045811N0410836W, 045904N0395929W, 051111N0393805W, 044800N0393819W ACT. AMSL - UNL, DLY 1726/2004, 30 SEP 17:26 2013 UNTIL 10 OCT 20:04 2013. CREATED: 23 SEP 14:27 2013

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http://www.spacenews.com/article/satellite-telecom/37528o3b-satellites-returned-to-manufacturer-for-testing

O3b Satellites Returned to Manufacturer for Testing
By Peter B. de Selding | Oct. 3, 2013

O3b Chief Executive Steve Collar said the power anomaly observed on at least two of the first four O3b spacecraft launched in June is not serious enough to compromise their mission. Credit: 03b photo

PARIS — Startup satellite broadband provider O3b Networks has returned its second group of four spacecraft to their manufacturing facility in Italy after calling off a planned late-September launch because of a signal power anomaly on the first four satellites, O3b Chief Executive Steve Collar said Oct. 2.
The four newer satellites, which had been scheduled for a Sept. 30 launch aboard a Europeanized Soyuz rocket from Europe's Guiana Space Center on the northeast coast of South America, were flown to prime contractor Thales Alenia Space's Rome production plant for what Collar said is likely to be two or three weeks of tests.
In an interview, Collar reiterated that the power anomaly observed on at least two of the first four O3b spacecraft launched in June is not serious enough to compromise their mission. It has not become more serious in the several weeks since it was first discovered, he said. Collar said the company acted out of caution in pulling the spacecraft from the manifest of commercial launch services provider Arianespace.
Surrendering its September launch slot aboard the Soyuz is likely to force O3b to wait until early 2014 for a new place on the manifest. Next up on the Soyuz is the European Space Agency's Gaia star mapping satellite, scheduled for launch Nov. 20. Given the nearly seven weeks it takes to transition from one Soyuz launch to another, the O3b mission would in any event be unlikely until early 2014.
Collar said O3b, which is based in Britain's Channel Islands, will not begin talks with Evry, France-based Arianespace on a new launch date until the tests in Rome determine what the power issue is on the orbiting spacecraft and whether it is serious enough to require satellite modifications.
O3b has a third set of four satellites under construction at Thales Alenia Space. These had been scheduled for a mid-2014 launch aboard a Europeanized Soyuz. Collar said that remains the objective but conceded that Arianespace's Soyuz manifest for 2014 at this point looks just as crowded as the 2013 Soyuz manifest did a year ago.
Europe's Galileo satellite constellation, whose initial launches are two satellites at a time aboard the Soyuz, has been delayed until late spring 2014. If that schedule holds, demand for Soyuz in 2014 may exceed the planned four liftoffs during the year.
Collar stressed that O3b's relations with Arianespace, which were strained due to launch manifest debates before the June launch of the first satellites, are now excellent.

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Delayed O3b Satellites Should be Ready for March Launch
By Peter B. de Selding | Nov. 1, 2013

http://www.spacenews.com/article/satellite-telecom/37953delayed-o3b-satellites-should-be-ready-for-march-launch

PARIS — The four O3b broadband satellites that missed their scheduled September launch following discovery of a suspected component defect will be the subject of a design review the week of Nov. 4 that should enable repairs to be made in time for a March launch, O3b Chief Executive Steve Collar said Nov. 1.

Collar said that the first four O3b satellites, already in orbit, have not exhibited any further degradation to their performance since mid-September, when a signal anomaly first tipped O3b and manufacturer Thales Alenia Space to a possible problem.

In an interview, Collar said he was nonetheless happy, in retrospect, to have called off the planned late-September launch of the second batch of satellites aboard a Europeanized version of Russia's Soyuz rocket.

Collar said the design review at Thales Alenia Space's Rome facility in all likelihood will validate the proposed repair work. In that case, he said, the satellites' digital timing units could be replaced in time to ship the satellites to Europe's Guiana Space Center, on the northeast coast of South America, by mid-February in view to a March launch.

Collar said that once O3b and Thales Alenia Space have set a firm shipment date, O3b will approach launch services provider Arianespace to set a firm launch date.

The same component issue that delayed O3b has more recently delayed the launch of Europe's Gaia star-mapping science satellite, whose scheduled Nov. 20 liftoff was scrapped.

Gaia managers have said the location of the suspect timing unit on their satellite makes it easy to remove. In O3b's case, the units are much further embedded into the satellites, which was one reason why the spacecraft were returned from the launch site to the Rome manufacturing plant.

Gaia has remained at the spaceport, with its defective timing unit returned to Italy. The repaired unit will be shipped back to the launch base in time for a Dec. 20 launch.

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Gaia отправила оба транспондера быстро, купив им билеты бизнес-классом, чтобы не рисковать перевозить в багажном отсеке и не попадать в руки грузчикам

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http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/39321logjam-at-european-spaceport-puts-arianespace-in-a-ticklish-spot

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But a commercial customer, O3b Networks of Britain's Channel Islands, also has reserved a Soyuz launch slot and is under commercial pressure to put satellites into operation as soon as possible. That makes five payload packages vying for only four Soyuz slots in 2014.
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Sitting quietly in the back of the conference room was O3b Chief Executive Steve Collar. Collar said the satellite timing unit glitch that had forced his late-2013 launch to move to 2014 has been remedied and that the satellites would be ready to launch "within two weeks" once Arianespace gives a launch date. O3b has been tentatively set for a June launch. Collar said he is confident that his launch slot is secure in mid-2014.
While only one batch of O3b satellites has been launched to date, the company is already experienced in defending its launch slots against showcase European government programs. 
One industry official said Arianespace, under its contract with O3b, could be subject to financial penalties if it misses the June slot by more than a few weeks.
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Пуск ожидается в середине августа.

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http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/39868ses-leans-on-arianespace-to-give-galileo-launch-slot-to-o3b

SES Leans on Arianespace To Give Galileo Launch Slot to O3b  
By Peter B. de Selding | Mar. 14, 2014  
 

SES says an O3b satellite launch is crucial to the business' health because a defect on the in-orbit spacecraft is at risk of taking one or more of them out of service at any moment. Credit: Arianespace photo
   
WASHINGTON — Satellite fleet operator SES is threatening to cease future dealings with European launch services provider Arianespace unless SES's O3b Networks broadband satellites are given a spring launch slot also coveted by the European Commission for the commission's Galileo spacecraft, industry officials said.
SES, which is the world's second-largest commercial fleet owner, is further saying that a launch before late this year of a second four-pack of O3b satellites — the first four were launched in June 2013 — is crucial to the business' health because a defect on the in-orbit spacecraft is at risk of taking one or more of them out of service at any moment.
O3b began offering commercial services the week of March 10 with its first four satellites, but needs a six-satellite constellation to provide the full suite of fixed and mobile broadband services. A failure of one of the current satellites would shut down the commercial service, creating an urgency at SES and O3b for the second launch.
O3b Chief Executive Steve Collar said the next four satellites, which were pulled from the Arianespace launch manifest last year once the hardware defect became known, will be shipped to Europe's Guiana Space Center, on the northeast coast of South America, by early April.
SES has enlisted the aid of the Luxembourg government to battle the European Commission for priority access to the Europeanized Russian Soyuz launch vehicle ahead of the two Galileo positioning, navigation and timing satellites, which like the O3b spacecraft are behind schedule. 
Commission officials are anxious to get the Galileo system into orbit. Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani has been pressuring the European Space Agency and European industry to assure that six Galileo satellites are launched this year.
One official familiar with the state of the Galileo program said the next two satellites — the first of 22 under construction by a consortium led by OHB AG of Bremen, Germany — would be ready to ship to the spaceport by early April.
The O3b and Galileo passengers are thus expected to arrive at the launch site at about the same time, which will create a nightmare scenario for Evry, France-based Arianespace as it would need to disappoint one of two powerful constituencies.
Luxembourg-based SES has been making eyes at Arianespace competitor Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and its less-costly Falcon 9 rocket and has only one launch currently scheduled on the heavy-lift Ariane 5. But as the owner of a 50-satellilte fleet, SES will be launching three or four satellites per year in the coming years just to maintain its current orbital inventory. In the past two decades it has been one of Arianespace's biggest customers.
While still a startup, a successful O3b would offer Arianespace multiple future launches beyond the two remaining on Arianespace's Soyuz manifest. SES officials have said a successful O3b ultimately could become a constellation of 100 or more satellites if demand develops.
O3b, based in Britain's Channel Islands, is developing a global broadband-delivery network using a constellation of satellites in an unusual 8,000-kilometer equatorial orbit.
SES, which purchased a large equity stake in O3b and was initially skeptical of its promise, has since become convinced that it can become a healthy business. SES's stake in the company gives the Luxembourg operator a path to eventual full control of O3b.
SES Chief Executive Romain Bausch said here March 11 during the Satellite 2014 conference that the first satellites are performing better than planned, delivering 1.6 gigabits per second of throughput per beam compared to 1.2 gigabits originally forecasted.
SES spokesman Yves Feltes on March 12 declined to discuss the O3b anomaly beyond saying the company was determined to get the second group of four satellites launched as quickly as possible.
But an onboard subsystem called the centralized power supply and frequency generator unit on the spacecraft proved defective. One industry official said that the defect does not undermine the day-to-day functioning of the satellites but that the trajectory of the anomaly is not knowable. 
"You can't model when it might overheat, and when the problem might lead to a failure of the satellite," this official said. "It could, in fact, be in a few months, which is why the second group of satellites is so important. The risk to the business if it cannot add four healthy satellites relatively soon is real."
One industry official said that while O3b may not have many options beyond the Europeanized Soyuz, SES has multiple options besides Arianespace to launch its core business of direct-broadcast television satellites.

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 http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/39868ses-leans-on-arianespace-to-give-galileo-launch-slot-to-o3b

SES Leans on Arianespace To Give Galileo Launch Slot to O3b
By Peter B. de Selding | Mar. 14, 2014
 
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Luxembourg-based SES has been making eyes at Arianespace competitor Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and its less-costly Falcon 9 rocket and has only one launch currently scheduled on the heavy-lift Ariane 5. But as the owner of a 50-satellilte fleet, SES will be launching three or four satellites per year in the coming years just to maintain its current orbital inventory. In the past two decades it has been one of Arianespace's biggest customers.....

Вроде получается что СЭС прямо говорит что у Арианспейс появился конкурент, к которому если что они могут обратится, но при этом говорят типа ускоряйтесь и будет у Вас много работы. Я правильно перевел?

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http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/40118galileo-delay-could-save-arianespace-from-difficult-decision

Galileo Delay Could Save Arianespace from Difficult Decision
By Peter B. de Selding | Apr. 4, 2014  
 
O3b and SES had asked Arianespace to reserve the June Soyuz launch for four O3b satellites (above, initial launch of O3b satellites). Credit: Arianespace photo

KOUROU, French Guiana — A confrontation between the European Commission and the world's second-largest commercial satellite fleet operator about priority access to a June launch slot appears to have been resolved with delays in the delivery of the commission's spacecraft, government and industry officials said.
As a result, a June slot for a Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket is all but certain to be given to O3b Networks, a startup broadband satellite operator that badly needs to add to its in-orbit constellation.
Based in Britain's Channel Islands, O3b's biggest shareholder is SES of Luxembourg, one of the biggest customers for European Ariane 5 heavy-lift rockets, which are operated alongside Soyuz and the small-satellite Vega launcher at Europe's spaceport here on the northeast coast of South America.
O3b and SES had asked launch service provider Arianespace to reserve the June Soyuz launch for four O3b satellites. The sooner they were launched, O3b and SES said, the less likely it was that a defect on the current four-satellite constellation would lead to a shutdown of O3b's fledgling commercial business.
But the European Commission, which has become perhaps Arianespace's biggest single customer, was adamant that it wanted three Soyuz launches this year to be able to provide initial services from its Galileo positioning, navigation and timing constellation by late this year or early 2015.
Four Galileo satellites are in orbit. The commission had said that a minimum of 10 were needed to provide initial services, meaning the equivalent of three Soyuz campaigns, each carrying two Galileo satellites.
Both O3b and Galileo are late, having missed launch opportunities in 2013. O3b needed to correct the defect in the first four satellites, discovered only weeks before the second O3b launch. Galileo's first two satellites were delayed when it developed that their antennas would need to be replaced.
But Galileo and O3b have now overcome these problems and, until recently, were both targeting arrivals here sometime in April. That would force Arianespace into a difficult choice.
O3b has said its four satellites are ready for delivery. Arianespace Chief Executive Stephane Israel, briefing reporters here April 4 after the Soyuz launch, confirmed that the O3b spacecraft were packed and ready for shipment from continental Europe as early as the week of April 7.
Two officials said the prime minister of Luxembourg wrote the 20-nation European Space Agency, among others, urging that O3b not be shunted aside because of political pressure from the European Commission to launch Galileo.
ESA Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain, speaking to reporters here April 3 after the Soyuz launch, said it now appeared that the two Galileo satellites would not be shipped before the first week of May.
It is Arianespace's job to decide launch priority, Dordain said, adding that political pressure from Luxembourg on the one hand and the European Commission on the other is a normal reaction of people defending their home teams.
Dordain also said that Galileo needs only eight satellites in orbit, not 10, to begin initial services. He said he remains committed to delivering six satellites to the spaceport in 2014, but that even if only four of them are launched, ESA can keep its word to the European Commission with respect to the start of Galileo services by early 2015.
Israel declined to say how Arianespace would decide the issue, but stressed that any decision would made only after consulting with ESA, the European Commission and O3b.
Arianespace's past policy has been to accord launch slots on a first-come, first-served basis in cases when satellites miss their initially contracted launch dates.
Arianespace has scheduled three more Soyuz launches in 2014 after the successful first mission April 3. O3b has another four-satellite pack awaiting launch and had hoped for a slot late this year. That is now likely to slip to 2015, industry officials said.
Assuming it secures two launches this year starting in August, the commission's Galileo program has 18 more satellites to launch. Officials said it is possible that O3b and Galileo will be fighting anew next year for the earliest possible Soyuz slot.

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anik пишет:
O3b - 27 июня.

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Salo пишет:

anik пишет:
O3b - 27 июня.

Galileo победил? У них вроде май. Даешь больше "Союзов" с Куру, а то ведь передерутся .

[Salo]

Галилео в августе.

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Salo пишет:
Галилео в августе.

Спасибо. Не посмотрел уточненный план.