Sentinel-5p – Рокот/Бриз-КМ – Плесецк 133/3 – 13.10.2017 09:27 UTC

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http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/10/Acquiring_signals

Acquiring signals



On Friday, 13 October, Europe's Sentinel-5P Earth observation mission will be lofted into space on a Russian rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, with liftoff set for 09:27:30 GMT (11:27:30 CEST).

About 93 minutes later, at around 11:00 GMT, the satellite – having separated from the rocket and opened its solar panels – will transmit its first signals.

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The transmission will indicate that all has gone well with the launch and that the satellite is ready to receive instructions.

On Earth, engineers at the ground station in Kiruna, Sweden will be watching intently, with their 15 m-diameter antenna pointing at the horizon, ready to catch Sentinel-5P's signal as it rises into the sky over the country.

At the same time, 2100 km to the south, the team at ESA's mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, will also be watching closely, because 'acquisition of signal' will mark the moment they assume control, sending commands and downlinking data to check on the satellite's health and status.

The Kiruna station is part of ESA's global network, and it routinely supports multiple missions such as CryoSat, Integral, the Swarm trio and Sentinel.

It is located at Salmijärvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden.

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Sentinel 5p Attached to Rokot ahead of Launch

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Опубликовано: 12 окт. 2017 г.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 4 ч. назад

FEATURE ARTICLE: Sentinel-5p set for launch on Russia's Rokot launch system - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/sentinel-5p-launch-russias-rokot-system/ ... - by William Graham Coverage: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=34833.0 ... Another day, another launch!

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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/10/sentinel-5p-launch-russias-rokot-system/

Sentinel-5p set for launch on Russia's Rokot launch system
October 12, 2017 by William Graham
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Rokot's launch will take place from Site 133/3 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia, which was used by the Soviet Union's Kosmos-2I and Kosmos-3M rockets – derived from the R-12 and R-14 missiles respectively, from 1967 to 1994.

After lifting off, the rocket will climb away from Plesetsk, encountering max-Q, the area of maximum dynamic pressure, about a minute into the flight. The first stage will shut down and separate about 120 seconds after liftoff, with the second stage igniting to continue the climb into orbit. Rokot's payload fairing will separate a little under three minutes into the mission.

Rokot's course will take it north from Plesetsk, over the Arctic. The second stage will burn for about three minutes, delivering Briz-KM to a suborbital trajectory. Shortly after the spent second stage separates, Briz will ignite to inject itself and the payload into an initial parking orbit. The mission will then enter a coast phase, with Briz-KM waiting until it reaches apogee to restart for a brief circularisation burn, attaining the planned circular sun-synchronous orbit.

With the second burn complete, Sentinel-5p will be released from the Briz-KM via separation of the CASA CRSS-937 clamp band that keeps it attached to the rocket. Following spacecraft separation, Briz-KM will make a third burn to lower its orbit – putting distance between itself and the payload and either hastening its decay, or deorbiting itself to a safe, destructive reentry.

Friday's launch may be Rokot's penultimate flight. Russia is retiring Rokot in favor of newer rockets such as the Soyuz-2-1v and Angara-1.2.
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10/13/2017 08:13

A modified Russian missile built for nuclear war is set for blastoff on a peaceful mission Friday, targeting placement of a European Earth observation satellite in orbit to measure atmospheric chemistry and global air quality.

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Liftoff of the Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia is set for 0927:44 GMT (5:27:44 a.m. EDT; 12:27:44 p.m. Moscow time) with Sentinel 5 Precursor, a mission designed to make daily air quality measurements with better precision than any satellite before.

Standing 95 feet (29 meters) tall, the Rockot is powered by two booster stages taken from the Russian military's UR-100N, or SS-19, ballistic missile inventory. A purpose-built Breeze KM upper stage produced by Khrunichev, the Russian aerospace contractor, will steer the Sentinel 5P satellite into orbit 512 miles (824 kilometers) above Earth.

Russian ground crews loaded toxic hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide into the Rockot booster Wednesday in readiness for Friday's launch opportunity. The fueling came a few days after technicians installed the Sentinel 5P spacecraft and the Breeze KM upper stage on top of Rockot last Saturday.

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

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 at about T+plus 2 minutes, 2 seconds, and Rockot's second stage will take over to propel Sentinel 5P 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 5P satellite to a speed of more than 12,000 mph -- more than 5 kilometers per second -- before releasing the Breeze KM upper stage at T+plus 5 minutes, 5 seconds.

Moments later, the Breeze KM engine will start up for a burn to place Sentinel 5P 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 second burn will circularize the satellite's orbit at an altitude of about 512 miles, or 824 kilometers.

Then the Breeze KM upper stage will release the Sentinel 5P satellite, and a ground station in Sweden is set to receive the first signals from the spacecraft around 1100 GMT (7 a.m. EDT) as it flies overhead.

Built by Airbus Defense and Space in Britain, the satellite will extend its three solar array panels, and begin around three days of basic checkouts before science calibration activities begin.

Sentinel 5P's main instrument is Tropomi, a spectrometer provided by the Netherlands Space Office in partnership with the European Space Agency. The Tropomi sensor will measure trace gases in Earth's atmosphere, such as methane, ozone, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide.

The Sentinel 5P mission cost about 240 million euros, or $284 million at current exchange rates. That figure includes the cost of the spacecraft, launcher, science instrument and ground segment.

It is the sixth satellite to launch since 2014 in the Copernicus program, a flagship multibillion-dollar fleet of Earth-observing spacecraft jointly developed by ESA and the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.

Other Sentinel satellites launched to date provide radar and optical imagery of the Earth, and monitor the health of the world's oceans and ice sheets.

ESA and the European Commission will distribute data from Sentinel 5P globally free of charge, keeping with the Copernicus program's open data policy.

The measurements will help make more accurate air quality forecasts for cities around the world, and provide valuable data inputs in climate models and climate change research.

"The Tropomi data will be used operationally," said Pepijn Veefkind, a senior scientist at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, the Dutch national weather agency. "It will be used to improve the air quality forecasts, and air quality forecasts are, of course, important for people who are vulnerable to pollution, but also for the general public in case of big smog events."

Measurements from the Tropomi spectrometer will detect atmospheric composition at a scale of 4.3 miles by 2.2 miles (7 kilometers by 3.5 kilometers), a significant improvement in the resolution of similar instruments currently flying in space, such as a precursor Dutch sensor aboard NASA's Aura satellite.

Scientists developed the Tropomi instrument for Sentinel 5P to fill a gap in atmospheric chemistry data after the end of Europe's ERS-2 and Envisat missions. NASA's Aura satellite is still collecting data, but it has been in orbit more than 13 years.

Tropomi results will also extend the data record of ozone and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a key variable in climate change.

"These data are really important in order to understand how the climate is changing and how you can react to it, and how to set mitigation actions," said Claus Zehner, Sentinel 5P's mission manager at ESA.

Designed for a mission of at least seven years, Sentinel 5P weighs about 1,800 pounds (820 kilograms) fully fueled for launch. It is about the size of a full-size car.

The gap-filler mission will lay the groundwork for a the future Sentinel 5 missions, which will consist of instruments on Europe's future MetOp-Second Generation polar-orbiting weather satellites, the first of which is set to launch around 2021

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10/13/2017 09:26

The Russian State Commission has given its authority to proceed with final launch preparations today, according to ESA.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/10/13/photos-sentinel-5p-environmental-satellite-prepared-for-liftoff/

Photos: Sentinel 5P environmental satellite prepared for liftoff
October 13, 2017 Stephen Clark

Europe's Sentinel 5P satellite, fitted with a Dutch-developed spectrometer to measure gases in Earth's atmosphere, was fueled and mated to its Russian Rockot booster over the last month at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military complex around 500 miles (800 kilometers) north of Moscow.

The 1,800-pound (820-kilogram) spacecraft is set for launch Friday at 0927:44 GMT (5:27:44 a.m. EDT; 12:27:44 p.m. Moscow time) to begin a seven-year Earth observation mission for the European Space Agency and the European Commission.

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Built by Airbus Defense and Space in Britain, the Sentinel 5P satellite will help government agencies monitor air quality in cities around the world, search for dangerous volcanic ash plumes, and provide key data inputs in climate change research.

Since its shipment to the Russian launch base in September, Sentinel 5P was filled with propellant and mated with the Rockot's Breeze KM upper stage. Ground crews then installed the Rockot's clamshell-like payload fairing around the satellite, and transported the upper composite — consisting of the Sentinel 5P spacecraft, fairing and Breeze KM — to Complex 133 for hoisting atop the two-stage Rockot booster.

The Rockot's lower two stages were recovered from the Russian military's decommissioned UR-100N, or SS-19, missile stockpiles and repurposed from a weapon of war into a peacetime satellite launcher.

The photos below show major steps in Sentinel 5P's launch campaign, including its attachment to the Breeze KM, encapsulation, and the trip to the Rockot launch pad earlier this week.


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10/13/2017 11:01

A poll of the Sentinel 5P 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 0927 GMT (5:27 a.m. EDT).

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http://www.eurockot.com/2017/10/countdown-to-sentinel-5p-lanch-on-rockot/

10/13/2017
Countdown to Sentinel-5p Lanch on Rockot

The launch team is on console at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome Mission Control Center to support the launch of Sentinel-5p on Rockot at 09:27:44 UTC (11:27:44 CEST) today – counting down ...

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http://blogs.esa.int/eolaunches/2017/10/13/green-for-launch/

Posted on October 13, 2017 by Mariangela

Green for launch

The team in Plesetsk has been busy with final preparations before launch. On Wednesday the booster was fuelled. Yesterday, the team charged the battery and continued with packing. The Launch Readiness Review was also held, and concluded that everything was green for launch.


Ready for launch! (Credits: ESA)

Meanwhile at ESA's mission control in Germany, our colleagues held their Pre-Launch Briefing which concluded that all was green for launch.

Today the state commissioning has given the go ahead for launch. If all continues to go nominally, Sentinel-5P will be launched into orbit in less than two hours!

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10/13/2017 11:27

T-minus 60 minutes. All parameters are reported green for launch of Europe's Sentinel 5P environmental satellite at 0927:44 GMT (5:27:44 a.m. EDT), or 12:27:44 p.m. local time at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

The Rockot launcher is green, and the 1,807-pound (820-kilogram) Sentinel 5P satellite is go for liftoff. Ground crews are evacuating facilities near the Rockot's Complex 133 launch pad at Plesetsk.

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Хоть и пятница, 13-е, но надеюсь советский УР-100Н УТТХ не подведёт!

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All board GREEN - GO for launch!

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10/13/2017 11:43

A final poll of the Sentinel 5P control team in Germany gave a "go" for launch.

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