IGS Radar-5 – H-IIA (F33) – Танэгасима – 17.03.2017, 01:20 UTC

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Пошла.

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Есть КП! 04: 21 ДМВ

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 3 мин. назад
 
LAUNCH! JAXA H-IIA launches with the IGS-5 spy satellite! Follow Along Live: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42128.40 ...
 
 
 
 

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Там что, 2-я ступень еще работает? Тяжело без японского .

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2-я закончила.

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Прол пишет:
Там что, 2-я ступень еще работает? Тяжело без японского    .

Примерная циклограмма есть здесь
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42128.msg1655227#msg1655227
но засада - тоже почти вся на японском  

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tnt22 пишет:

Прол пишет:
Там что, 2-я ступень еще работает? Тяжело без японского    .

Примерная циклограмма есть здесь
 https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42128.msg1655227#msg1655227
но засада - тоже почти вся на японском  

Спасибо.

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Ну вот и разделение с КА. Можно поздравить японцев с выводом.

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柴田孔明‏ @koumeiShibata 58 сек. назад

衛星分離！

Есть отделение IGS Radar-5

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Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 3 мин. назад
 
The H-2A rocket has delivered a Japanese satellite into orbit to monitor North Korean and Chinese military movements https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/03/17/h-2a-rocket-in-position-for-launch-of-japanese-radar-reconnaissance-craft/ ...

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[ЗАПИСЬ] Прямая трансляция пуска РН H-IIA (IGS Radar 5) на русском (27:04)

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Теперь у японцев группировка из 4-х КА с РСА. Молодцы. Можно только позавидовать :cry: .

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ネコビデオ ビジュアル ソリューションズ‏ @nvslive 13 мин. назад

H-IIAロケット33号機の打ち上げは成功しました。　情報収集衛星レーダー5号機の分離を確認のアナウンス。　#h2af33 http://blog.nvs-live.com/?eid=449  #nvslive

The launch of the H - IIA Launch Vehicle No.3 succeeded. Information announcement Announcement confirming separation of the satellite radar 5 Unit.

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Цветущая сакура и уносящаяся вдаль ракета...

ﾏｹﾞｼﾏﾝ つば九郎に会いたい！‏ @mageshiman1025 24 мин. назад

桜とロケットロードと遊具で遊ぶ子ども達 #H2AF33

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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/03/japanese-h-iia-rocket-latest-igs-launch/

Japanese H-IIA rocket launches latest IGS spy satellite
March 16, 2017 by William Graham
 
 

Japan's H-IIA rocket has lofted the next in a series of new-generation radar imaging satellite for the country's military. The launch of latest IGS-5 spacecraft lifted off on schedule at 10:20 local time (01:20 UTC) on Friday, setting sail from the first pad of the Tanegashima Space Centre's Yoshinobu Launch Complex.

 Japanese Mission:
The launch carried the fifteenth spacecraft in Japan's Joho Shushu Eisei (JSE) series of satellites, commonly known in English as the Information Gathering Satellites or IGS. The IGS program, which is operated by Japan's Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Centre, consists of optical and radar imaging spacecraft.

The IGS program was initiated by Japan following North Korea's attempted launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1 satellite in August 1998; a launch which overflew Japan and raised concerns about North Korea's ability to develop a rocket capable of attacking Japan.

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The satellites are constructed by Mitsubishi Electric and launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries using the H-IIA rocket.



The first pair of IGS satellites – one carrying an optical imaging payload and the other a radar imager – were launched together in March 2003. After another dual launch the same year ended in failure, IGS launches were postponed until the deployment of a lone optical satellite in 2006. A radar spacecraft followed in 2007, launching with a prototype second-generation optical satellite.

The constellation entered its second generation of satellite in November 2009 with the fourth IGS Optical spacecraft; another second-generation optical spacecraft followed in September 2011.

The radar element of the constellation has also entered its second generation, with spacecraft launching in December 2011 and January 2013. The 2013 launch also carried a prototype for the third-generation optical IGS spacecraft, the operational version of which was launched in March of 2015.
 
A further second-generation radar satellite was deployed in January in order to provide the constellation with redundancy should a satellite be lost. The need for a spare satellite arose due to the poor reliability of the first-generation radar satellites, which both failed within four years of their launches.

The latest launch carried the second third-generation spacecraft for the series. Taking advantage of systems demonstrated by 2013's prototype mission and the 2015 mission, the Optical 5 satellite will be used to image the Earth's surface in high resolution. The satellite is reported to have a ground resolution of approximately 40 centimeters (16 in).



For Friday's launch – which was delayed by poor weather earlier this week – the H-IIA flew in its 202 configuration. The smallest version of the H-IIA, the 202 has been used for all of its launches since a 2009 upgrade increased its performance and rendered the now-retired intermediate 2022 and 2024 configurations obsolete.

A two-stage vehicle, the rocket consists of fully cryogenic first and second stages; fuelled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. A pair of SRB-A3 solid rocket motors provide additional thrust to the first stage during the early phases of the flight.

The rocket that performed Friday's launch had the flight number F-33.

Departing from Pad 1 of the Yoshinobu Launch Complex, or LA-Y, at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Tanegashima Space Centre, the rocket carried its payload into a sun-synchronous orbit.



The Yoshinobu Complex consists of two pads, the first of which was built for Japan's H-II rocket in the 1990s, with the second being constructed in the early 2000s as a backup pad for the H-IIA.

For this mission, the first pad was used by the H-IIA with the second plays host to the larger H-IIB, which is used for JAXA's Kounotori resupply missions to the International Space Station.

The LE-7A engine which powers the first stage of the H-IIA ignited two to three seconds before liftoff.

When the countdown reached zero, the vehicle ignited its SRM-A3 solid motors to begin the climb towards orbit. Although details of the mission profile have not been published, it is likely to follow a similar flightplan to Japan's previous launches into sun-synchronous orbits.



The solid rocket motors burned for the first 99 seconds of the flight before their thrust tailed off and they were no longer providing sufficient thrust to aid the vehicle's ascent. Hydraulic actuators activated approximately nine seconds after the motors burned out to jettison their spent casings from the rocket.

The rocket's payload fairing also separated during first-stage flight, likely around four to five minutes after liftoff.

The first stage's fuel supply was depleted at around the six minute, fifty seconds mark in the flight, after which the vehicle coasted until stage separation eight seconds later. Six seconds after staging the LE-5B engine of the second stage ignited to begin its role in the launch.

Depending on mission parameters the second stage can either make a single burn with a duration of around eight minutes, or two shorter burns, to achieve the satellite's operational sun-synchronous orbit. The single-burn profile, followed shortly be spacecraft separation, is the most likely scenario.

While there were unknowns, per the parameters of the ascent, a successful spacecraft separation was confirmed by JAXA shortly after the event occurred.

(Images via JAXA and Twitter)

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http://tass.ru/kosmos/4102847

Япония запустила ракету с разведывательным спутником
ТОКИО, 17 марта. /Корр. ТАСС Кирилл Агафонов/. Японское агентство аэрокосмических исследований (JAXA) запустило в пятницу разведывательный спутник Radar-5 с помощью тяжелой ракеты-носителя H-2A. Прямая трансляция старта с космодрома Танэгасима в префектуре Кагосима велась в прямом эфире.
Запуск спутника прошел успешно. Об этом сообщила компания Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, разработавшая H-2A.
Спутник оснащен специальными радарами, которые позволят вести наблюдение в ночное время и при плохих погодных условиях. Вместе с тем точные характеристики аппарата неизвестны. На орбите он должен заменить своего предшественника Radar-3, который был запущен еще в 2011 году в связи с ракетными испытаниями в КНДР.
Изначально запуск Radar-5 планировался на четверг, однако был перенесен из-за плохой погоды.
В январе с Танэгасимы был отправлен в космос военный спутник связи "Кирамэки-2" ("Искра-2") . В составе группировки с двумя другими аппаратами он будет обслуживать исключительно нужды вооруженных сил страны.