NROL-26/GSO ELINT (USA-202) – Delta IV-Heavy – Canaveral – 18.01.2009 02:47 UTC

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[ronatu]

Таки улетела! :wink:

The Delta 4-Heavy rocket launches at 9:47 p.m. EST on January 17.
Credit: Chris Miller/Spaceflight Now

The NRO payload on the Delta 4-Heavy is a 5-to-6 ton eavesdropping spacecraft with a high tech deployable antenna as wide as 350 feet.

[ronatu]

The Delta 4-Heavy rocket launches at 9:47 p.m. EST on January 17.
Credit: Chris Miller/Spaceflight Now


...Over the last two-and-a-half years, however, two different eavesdropping satellites have been launched on smaller Delta 4-Medium and Atlas 5 rockets from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. These spacecraft, with smaller antennas, are in highly elliptical orbits of roughly 700 x 23,500 miles....

[Salo]

http://www.floridatoday.com/content/blogs/space/2009/01/delta-iv-heavy-roars-off-on-secret.shtml

Saturday, January 17, 2009
Delta IV Heavy Roars Off On Secret Mission
 A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket roared of its oceanside launch pad at Cape Canaveral tonight and streaked through star-lit skies on its way toward orbit.

Standing 24 stories tall, the behemoth booster and its classified National Reconnaissance Office payload blasted off at 9:47 p.m. -- more than two hours later than originally planned. A series of unspecified technical problems beset the rocket, forcing the ULA launch team to skip liftoff times set at 7:33 p.m., 8:13 p.m. and 9:13 p.m. before the Delta IV Heavy finally thundered aloft.

The triple-bodied booster lit up the horizon on the coast and the powerful engines on each of its common core boosters blazed individual trails as the Delta IV Heavy climbed away from launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The launch was only the third for the nation's largest unmanned expendable launch vehicle, and it looked quite different from a NASA shuttle or Atlas V and other variants of the Delta family of rockets.

The first-stage of the rocket appeared to fly just as expected, and the second stage started up on time. The payload fairing separated from the rocket about seven minutes into flight and United Launch Alliance cut off commentary at the request of their customer: the super-secret NRO, which owns and operates the nation's fleet of spy satellites.

The NRO had no comment on the nature of the payload or its mission. Officials would not comment on whether the payload separated cleanly from the rocket, or at what point in the flight.

The NRO operates photo and radar reconnaissance satellites; signals intelligence satellites; ocean surveillance satellites; and data relay satellites.

[ALI]

ronatu пишет:
 

The NRO payload on the Delta 4-Heavy is a 5-to-6 ton eavesdropping spacecraft with a high tech deployable antenna as wide as 350 feet.

Хотелось бы знать по подробней о ПН и крупногабаритной антенне (диаметр около 107м).
Есть информация?

[Aleksandras]

Промелькнуло: http://s41.radikal.ru/i094/0901/34/1707d0d3fa87.jpg  :?:  :?:

[Liss]

Промелькнуло: http://s41.radikal.ru/i094/0901/34/1707d0d3fa87.jpg  :?:  :?:

И как, простите, заголовок сочетается с подписью про запуск покойничков в космос?

[Aleksandras]

Что вижу -то пою :lol: , весёлые люди они, может быть.

[krypton]

Хотелось бы знать по подробней о ПН и крупногабаритной антенне (диаметр около 107м).

703-808-1198.

[Чебурашка]

Промелькнуло: http://s41.radikal.ru/i094/0901/34/1707d0d3fa87.jpg  :?:  :?:

И как, простите, заголовок сочетается с подписью про запуск покойничков в космос?

Происки конкурентов из Lockheed Martin  :lol:  :lol:
Типа намекают, что особенности выведения привели к преждевременной смерти DSP-23