Циклон-4

[Bell]

[ZOOR]

На Битрикс переезжают, век воли не видать (с)

[Bell]

Все, пропал калабуховский дом!  

А по сабжу - увеличение стоимости почти до лярда баксов - это какбэ попахивает приговором...

[Salo]

Mark пишет:

Украина построит космодром с помощью Бразилии, 6 сентября 2013.

 Украина привлекает кредитование для строительства космодрома с Бразильской авиакосмической компанией. Об этом вице-премьер-министр Украины Юрий Бойко заявил СМИ.
"Мы привлекаем сейчас кредитование для строительства космодрома вместе с Бразильской авиакосмической компанией, мы используем средства, которые идут по программам", — заявил он. По словам Бойко, кроме бюджетных средств правительство имеет еще несколько коммерческих проектов, которые дополнительно предоставляют средства для развития авиакосмической отрасли, передает Newsru.ua. http://newsru.ua/

5 сентября Верховная Рада Украины приняла национальную космическую программу на 2013-2017 годы. Основные мероприятия национальной космической программы на 2013- 2017 годы включают, в частности: создание системы геоинформационного обеспечения и проведения мониторинга чрезвычайных ситуаций с использованием космической информации; запуск трех космических аппаратов (дистанционного зондирования Земли "Сич-2-1", научно-технологического "Микросат" и университетского "УМС-1" )  ; создание космического ракетного комплекса "Циклон-4" на пусковом центре Алкантара (Бразилия); содействие созданию национальной спутниковой системы связи "Лыбидь"; создание новейшей ракетно-космической техники и технологий ее изготовления; содействие коммерческой эксплуатации ракет-носителей "Циклон-4", "Зенит-2SLБ", "Зенит-3SLБ" ("Наземный старт" )  , "Зенит-3SL" ("Морской старт" )  , "Днепр" и Национальной спутниковой системы связи "Лыбидь"; развитие международного сотрудничества с РФ, странами ЕС, Бразилией, Канадой, Белоруссией, США, Казахстаном; расширение сотрудничества с Европейским космическим агентством (ЕКА).

http://www.rosbalt.ru/ukraina/2013/09/06/1172671.html

[Vlad(VB)]

13,09,2013 на т.н. "сухом космодроме" на территории ДЗМО состоялся т.н. "пробный запуск" - взаимное перемещение составляющих наземного оборудования, в т.ч. подъем чисто символического макета ракеты, который мы уже видели из прошлых репортажей. Показан пульт управления ПУА (вроде бы).
Заявлена дата декабрь 2014.
Есть видео в местных новостях, но я не знаю, как записать/сохранить оттуда. Возможно позже появится фоторепортаж. http://11channel.dp.ua/static/broadcast.html
Повтор новостей в 21:30 по киевскому времени.

[anik]

Не знаю, было ли это уже в этой теме или нет.

Аэрофотосъемка с Bing Maps: справа внизу - стартовый комплекс для VLS, а все, что наверху - явно относится к "Циклону-4".

[Saul]

 Уже скоро!!!

[Vlad(VB)]

Это не то. Это не Днепротяжмаш. Это внизу пр.Кирова будет музей. Я писал о музее в теме украинский космос.

[Палкин]

Мне сегодня почудилось, что Циклон-4 нормально полетит. В церковь что ли сходить, помолиться...

[Старый]

Палкин пишет:
 В церковь что ли сходить, помолиться...

Ещё успеете...

[donetskiy]

Пара видео:
http://11channel.dp.ua/news/dp/2013/09/13/22424.html

Фоторепортаж:
http://34.ua/24084-ciklon-raketa.html

[Salo]

http://www.aviationweek.com/Blogs.aspx?plckBlogId=Blog:04ce340e-4b63-4d23-9695-d49ab661f385&plckPostId=Blog:04ce340e-4b63-4d23-9695-d49ab661f385Post:18609d33-7ed2-47b1-a7b2-19d6282a2cf2

Ukraine, Brazil Prepare for 2015 Cyclone 4 Launch
Posted by Amy Svitak 3:09 AM on Sep 24, 2013

Brazilian-Ukainian joint venture Alcantara Cyclone Space (ACS) continues preparations for the 2015 debut of a new variant of the Cyclone rocket fr om a 30-year-old launch facility on Brazil's north-Atlantic coast.

At 2.3 deg. N. Lat., Alcantara is even closer to the Equator than Europe's Guiana Space Center in Kourou, wh ere commercial launch services consortium Arianespace manages missions of Europe's heavy-lift Ariane 5, Russia's medium-class Soyuz and Italy's Vega light launcher. From Alcantara, ACS's three-stage Cyclone 4 rocket—equipped with a restartable upper stage engine and 4-m payload fairing—is designed to put 5,685 kg. (12,500 lb.) into a circular low Earth orbit at 200 km (124 mi.), and a 3,910-kg spacecraft to a 400-km sun-synchronous orbit.
For geostationary missions, Cyclone 4 will initially deliver a 1,600 kg into geostationary transfer orbit. The goal, however, is to gradually boost performance to 2,200 kg with per-launch costs ranging from $50-$55 million.

"Originally, we were planning to focus on LEO only. But now, as we're witnessing the growth of electric propulsion satellites, we're working to increase payload capability," says ACS Chief Commercial Officer Sergiy Guchenkov.

Manufactured in Ukraine by the Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Cyclone 4 will use first and second stages similar to the Soviet-era Cyclone 2 and Cyclone 3 rockets. Guchenkov notes that the first and second stages of the Cyclone 2 and Cyclone 3 rockets have launched 228 times with just one failure, which he says was due to a first-stage propellant leak.

An all-new third stage based on Ukrainian Zenit and Dnepr technology will carry up to 9 tons of propellant and allow Cyclone 4 to execute up to five burns.

Since breaking ground on the ACS launch pad in 2010, the government-backed venture has spent close to $300 million developing the site, which is now 48% complete. The project is running almost three years behind schedule, however, as funding delays and legal wrangling with local tribes has stalled development of the launch center. In May, Guchenkov says the governments of Ukraine and Brazil jointly approved an increase in total ACS spending for the site, from around $487 million to $918 million.

He says ACS is planning to complete construction of the launch pad at Alcantara next year, with Cyclone 4 hardware delivery and testing at the site to begin in early 2015. He says the launch vehicle is 76% complete and has undergone 73% of its scheduled test regime, including completion of ground tests.

Guchenkov says ACS expects to conduct a qualificaiton mission of Cyclone 4 in late 2015, launching multiple small payloads to low Earth orbit, including a Japanese satellite.

[pragmatik]

что то поздно всё, постоянно сроки съезжают. обещались они в 11 году(когда брали кредит у сбербанка в 250м$), что в 13 году запустят. Да и сейчас у них ничего реального нет......(кроме самих ракет Циклон, взятых   из арсенала МО России). А заказчики пуска появились? 
Что то не верится в коммерческую привлекательность этой бодяги.
http://korrespondent.net/tech/science/1275739-pervyj-zapusk-ukrainskoj-rakety-s-brazilskogo-kosmodroma-planiruetsya-v-2013-godu


Украина инвестировала в проект по запуску ракет «Циклон-4» с космодрома в Бразилии свыше $130 миллионов. Общая стоимость проекта достигает $488 миллионов. Данный совместный украинско-бразильский проект предусматривает сотрудничество по использованию ракеты-носителя «Циклон-4» на пусковом центре Алкантара.
Председатель Государственного космического агентства Юрий Алексеев отметил, что в 2011 г. правительство дало гарантии для привлечения $260 миллионов  кредитов государственным конструкторским бюро «Южное» для завершения работ на пусковом комплексе Алкантара, — пишет РБК.
В ближайшее время украинские предприятия завершат изготовление исследовательского образца ракеты «Циклон-4» для летных испытаний. В Бразилии получены разрешения на строительство пускового комплекса. Идет подготовка строительной площадки и возведение вспомогательных объектов. Из-за отставания работ по строительству порта технологическое оборудование решено доставлять в близлежащий порт Итаки, откуда автотранспортом будут перевозить в Алкантару. Над проектом с украинской стороны работают около 50 тыс. человек, 80 организаций и предприятий.
Как отмечает РИА-Новости, запуск украинской ракеты-носителя «Циклон-4» с бразильского космодрома Aлкантара состоится в конце 2012 — начале 2013 года. Украина и Бразилия подписали договор о долгосрочном сотрудничестве по использованию носителя «Циклон-4» на пусковом центре Алкантара 21 октября 2003 г. Первый старт по этой программе планировался на конец 2010 года.
 

Вообщем очередной попил.

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/37550backers-insist-brazilian-spaceport-is-nearing-launch-readiness

Backers Insist Brazilian Spaceport Is Nearing Launch Readiness
By Peter B. de Selding | Oct. 4, 2013

BEIJING — The company created to sell commercial launch services aboard Ukrainian rockets operated from a Brazilian equatorial spaceport is seeking to persuade skeptics that it is finally nearing launch readiness.

A decade after it was created by a Ukrainian-Brazilian bilateral treaty and after the investment of several hundred million dollars, Alcantara Cyclone Space (ACS) says an inaugural flight from the Brazilian Alcantara site likely will occur in 2015.

In presentations to a finance audience in September in Paris and to a technical audience here Sept. 24 at the 64th International Astronautical Congress, ACS and Ukrainian officials said the issues that have slowed development are in the past.

Some three-quarters of the development needed for the Cyclone 4 rocket — using Cyclone 3 and Cyclone 4 first and second stages and a new upper stage designed by Ukraine's Yuzhnoye — is completed, ACS officials said, and 48 percent of the launch site's construction has been completed.

But that is the same percent completion ACS announced in March. Sergiy Guchenko, ACS's chief commercial officer, said development of the launch base has been slowed by property-ownership claims by the indigenous population.

Brazil and Ukraine agreed in October 2003 to develop the Alcantara site using Cyclone 4 after Brazil's own domestic rocket development foundered with an August 2003 on-pad explosion.

But the Cyclone 4 project — as innovative in its way as France's decision to import Russia's Soyuz rocket to Europe's Guiana Space Center, next door to Alcantara — has always appeared the result of a political agreement not always appreciated by the Brazilian Space Agency, AEB.

In a speech here Sept. 23 devoted to international cooperation and Brazil's acknowledgement that it could not go it alone in space development, AEB President Jose Raimundo Braga Coelho did not mention the Alcantara project.

ACS officials said Brazil's VLS rocket, which is still part of the nation's space strategy, will share the 620-square-kilometer Alcantara launch base with Cyclone 4.

Brazil and Ukraine are dividing equally the financing of ACS, which under the treaty is supposed to refund the investment from proceeds of launch service contracts over time. This is not unlike an agreement Europe's Arianespace launch consortium struck with the European Investment Bank for a loan to purchase Russian Soyuz vehicles for use at the European spaceport.

The loan for Soyuz purchases was concluded in 2005, and the first Europeanized Soyuz was launched in late 2011.

Soyuz is slowly being integrated into Arianespace's operational rhythm and has proved popular with European governments for Earth observation missions.

Like Arianespace, ACS will have at its disposal a launch site whose proximity to the equator gives a vehicle born in the former Soviet Union a much wider launch market offering more capacity to a given orbit than can be offered from Russia's high-latitude spaceports.

In addition to its equatorial location, Alcantara like Europe's Guiana Space Center can launch into polar and equatorial orbit without overflying land areas.

ACS says a Cyclone 4 launched from Alcantara can carry a 3,900-kilogram satellite into a sun-synchronous polar orbit with a 400-kilometer altitude. For payloads heading to equatorial low Earth orbit, Cyclone 4 can carry nearly 5,700 kilograms.

For a telecommunications satellite destined for geostationary transfer orbit, Cyclone 4 can handle up to 1,600 kilograms in launch mass, a figure ACS says it hopes to improve over time. The new upper stage is capped by a 3.65-meter-diameter fairing.

Industry officials, including some who would compete with ACS, say the evolution of the global commercial satellite market appears to have turned in ACS's favor, assuming the company can prove itself in the next couple of years and keep prices below those offered by the Europeanized Soyuz and the newer European Vega small-satellite launcher.

Multiple small-satellite initiatives are finding traction among investors, and almost all of them are concerned that vehicles in Russia and Ukraine — the German-Russian Rockot, the Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr, the Russian Soyuz — will not provide sufficient launch frequency to satisfy the market for piggyback payloads.

The Russian and Ukrainian vehicles operating now have also sharply increased their prices in recent years.

Despite the market success of the European Soyuz, European government authorities are already planning all-European alternatives to support their domestic industry instead of sending cash to Russia's Soyuz builders.

Whether Brazil's VLS rocket development will be a priority in Brazil's newly ambitious space program remains unclear.

[Salo]

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article/PrintArticle.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_11_04_2013_p28-631738.xml&p=1&printView=true

At the International Astronautical Congress in Beijing last month, Ukrainian officials unveiled Alcantara Cyclone Space, their new joint commercial launch services operation with Brazil (AW&ST Sept. 16, p. 50). Yuri Alexseyev, chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine, says work on preparations to loft a new variant of the country's Cyclone launch vehicle —designated Cyclone 4—from the Alcantara launch facility on Brazil's north coast is behind schedule, largely because of heavy rains. But work on the new rocket, with a new restartable upper stage powered by a "military grade" hydrazine engine, is proceeding apace at the state-owned Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. Ground tests of the new stage are expected before year's end, Alexseyev said here last week.
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Boyko says Ukraine is ready to supply crewmembers to the ISS, and to participate in other ways. It has also made preliminary studies of using the new upper stage for the Cyclone 4 on Antares. Powered by the RD-861K engine, the new stage would improve the accuracy of Antares payload placement over the ATK-supplied solid-fuel upper stage that will be used on the ISS contract, Alexseyev explained.

[Salo]

http://player.rutv.ru/index/iframe/video_id/688300/sid/vh/?acc_video_id=688300
 

[Salo]

http://www.alcantaracyclonespace.com/for-customers/project-status

Project Status                   
                                           
Currently, about 78% of the Launch Vehicle have been manufactured and 73% tested. About 48% of the Launch Site civil construction have been completed. Most of Ground Support Equipment has been contracted, and some has already been received in Alcantara. The first Cyclone-4 launch is estimated to take place in 2015.
Below are some pictures showing the current situation:

Launch Vehicle

 
First two stages

 
Upper stage main engine

 
Strap-down inertial navigation system testing

 
Upper stage propellant bay testing


Fairing separation system testing


Oxidizer tanks destructive testing


Control system instruments integrated testing


Upper stage propellant bay vibration testing


First stage fuel tank


Launcher aft bay

Launch Site


Launch Complex
       

Launch Complex


Processing Complex


Processing Complex


Processing Complex

Ground Support Equipment

[Старый]

Ух ты! Дела то идут...

[Salo]

А у левого варианта третьей ступени РЗТ значительно больше. SpaceR об этом писал когда-то.

[Salo]

Кстати это первое фото ступени в сборе.