План индийских космических пусков

[ZOOR]

Все конечно хорошо, но мое пожелание (на которое можно конечно наплевать, и я не обижусь) завершать длинные посты на англицком коротким выводом на общематерном.

Так хоть будешь знать, какую инфу (конечно, с точки зрения приводящего информацию) дали.

[Johannes]

AISat is a DLR small-satellite project carried out in cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen and two industrial partners. [...] It is scheduled for launch on the Indian PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) by the end of 2010. [DLR brochure][pdf, 1.5MB]

[Johannes]

Space Downstream Services 2010 Conference, May 6-7, 2010, Tallinn, Estonia[/size]
D. Reizniece et al.: FIRST LATVIAN SATELLITE VENTA-1 [pdf, 7.6MB]

Venta-1 is scheduled for launch in the first quarter of 2011.

[Johannes]

The "Max Valier" satellite is scheduled for launch on the Indian PSLV in the spring of 2011. [1][2]

[Salo]

Thanks!

[Salo]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-17/india-to-launch-five-satellites-after-fixing-rocket-anomaly-.html

India to Launch Five Satellites After Fixing Rocket 'Anomaly'
June 17, 2010, 6:22 AM EDT

By Jay Shankar

June 17 (Bloomberg) -- India plans to put five remote- sensing satellites into orbit in the first half of next month after fixing a rocket "anomaly" that forced it to delay launches in May.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle will carry India's Cartosat-2B, Algeria's ALSAT-2A and two small satellites from the University of Toronto, P.S. Veeraraghavan, director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, said by phone today from the southern city of Thiruvananthapuram. The fifth unit will be a one-kilogram satellite built by Indian students, he said.

The agency, based in Thiruvananthapuram, has corrected the anomaly, which was in the second stage of the rocket, Veeraraghavan said. The delay had disrupted India's challenge to China, Japan, and South Korea as it competes for commercial- satellite launches.

In April, India also failed in its bid to join a group of five nations using their own rocket technology to launch large satellites into higher orbits when scientists lost control of the 50-meter (164 feet) GSLV-D3 spacecraft minutes after blastoff.

"The reasons for the failure are still being analyzed and we expect a report in a month's time," Veeraraghavan said.

India is planning a $2.5 billion unmanned mission to space by 2015 and is slated to launch a second unmanned moon craft Chandrayaan II at a cost of $87.5 million before March 2013.

The Asian nation launched its first space rocket in 1963 and its first satellite in 1975. The country's satellite program consists of 21 orbiters, of which 11 are currently in service.

--Editors: Anand Krishnamoorthy, Neil Denslow.

[Salo]

http://expressbuzz.com/states/andhrapradesh/karimnagar-lad-turns-space-scientist/181188.html

Karimnagar lad turns space scientist

Naveen Kumar Tallam
Express News Service
First Published : 13 Jun 2010 05:32:48 AM IST
Last Updated : 13 Jun 2010 09:39:43 AM IST

KARIMNAGAR: Young Harish Rao has done Karimnagar proud. He was part of the team which made 1-kg mini satellite, Pico, which will be put in orbit on July 28.

The team with students drawn from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka was guided by the Indian Space Research Organisation, Bengaluru in their mission.

Harish Rao, a Karimnagar lad, is currently studying Mechanical engineering third year at the KITS, Ramtek in Nagpur. He briefed about the satellite to the students of Vindhya Valley High School at a programme in Karimnagar today.

He said the satellite was handed over to ISRO through Karnataka Governor Hansiraj Bharadwaj on April 17 this year. It will be launched into 700-km orbit through PSLV-C15 on July 28.

He got to attend the International Astronomy Conference (IAC) in Hyderabad in 2007 when he was studying his B.Tech first year and was inspired by a talk on the subject.

Since then his ambition was to do something constructive in space research and was guided by small satellite project director DV Raghava Murthy of Bengaluru.

His role is to ensure that the satellite after reaching the orbit clicks pictures on the earth.

It was made at a cost of Rs 55 lakh with the support of 7 institutions in Andhra Pradesh and Bengaluru.

After completing his B.Tech, Harish Rao wants to settle in some space-related research institution and do something proud for the nation.

He and his team were awarded Hansvon Muldau by the Scotland International Astronomy Vehicle conference in 2008 for presenting paper on the project. His team is also going to take part in a astronomy conference to be held in Czech Republic in September this year.

Vindhya Valley correspondent and his mother Laxmi Prakash Rao and Principal Jayes Anand congratulated Harish for his achievement and efforts to realise his ambition.

[Salo]

http://spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html

July 27/28    PSLV  •  Cartosat 2B
Launch time: 0353 GMT on 28th (11:53 p.m. EDT on 27th)
Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India

India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will launch the Cartosat 2B remote sensing satellite and multiple secondary payloads. Delayed from May 5. Delayed from May 9 by second stage pressure issue. Delayed from June 5. [June 23]

[Salo]

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/june2010/srmsat.htm

September launch for ham radio satellite SRMSat

An Amateur Radio satellite being built by students of SRM University in Chennai may be launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in September.

The primary load on the September launch is Cartosat and this launch was also slated to carry two Amateur Radio satellites STUDSAT and TISat-1.

A description of the SRMSAT ground station indicates it may use the bands 145.8MHz for the uplink and 434.5MHz for the downlink.

A SRM University press release describes SRMSAT as a 15 watt satellite weighing between 10 and 15 kg and measuring one meter cube. The project is estimated at Rs 2 crore and the construction of the satellite is done within the university's premises.

"This project is aimed at increasing the technical expertise of our staff and students and giving them the rare opportunity of constructing a satellite first-hand with ISRO scientists guiding them. We want to prove that our students are worthy of this feat. We hope to launch a satellite once in every two years, of course, with different scientific objectives," says P Satyanarayana, vice-chancellor, SRM University.

Read the NDTV story 'ISRO may launch nano satellite in September' at
http://publication.samachar.com/pub_article.php?
id=9450692&nextids=9447831|9449069|9449922|
9410540|9450692&nextIndex=0

SRMSAT Information
http://www.prlog.org/10719954-future-perfect-of-srm-
university.html

SRMSAT Ground Station
http://srmuniv.academia.edu/ssn/Papers

SRMSAT Yahoo Group
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/srmsat/

Chennai Hams VHF/UHF/HF Enthusiasts Forum
http://chennaihams.blogspot.com/2010/03/
asol-exam-conducted-at-srm-university.html

Further information on other payloads with Cartosat is at
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/
may_satellite_launch.htm

[Salo]

http://www.livemint.com/2010/07/01144904/After-two-setbacks-Isro-set-t.html

After two setbacks, Isro set to launch five satellites on 12 July

K. Raghu

Bangalore: After two setbacks this year, India's space agency is set to launch five satellites on 12 July, including one that can shoot pictures of small objects on land and compress the time needed for building high-resolution maps by half.

In April, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) lost its fourth-generation communication satellite GSAT-4 when its heaviest rocket yet—the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV), powered by a home-grown cryogenic engine—plunged into sea within five minutes of launch. The rocket was to put India in an exclusive club of nations capable of hurling communication satellites and offering space launches commercially.

Isro then deferred the launch of its workhorse polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) scheduled in May after it found leaks in the rocket's second stage. The leaks were detected when pressurized nitrogen was pumped in the rocket as part of tests on the launch pad.

The same rocket will be fired now, following repairs and further tests, said an Isro official from Sriharikota. He did not want to be named.

"Even if the leak is minor, it takes many days to rectify and certify it fit," said U.R. Rao, a former chairman of Isro. "In space, you don't take risks."

The rocket will also launch Alsat-2A, a remote sensing satellite from Algeria and India's first African customer, two nano satellites from the University of Toronto, and Studsat, a small satellite built by engineering students in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

Isro's commercial arm, Antrix Corp. Ltd, has already signed a second satellite launch from Algeria for next year.

So far, PSLV has launched 39 satellites, nearly half of them from India, in 16 missions.

Isro expects Cartosat-2B to join two other satellites that are already in orbit—the Cartosat-2 and 2A—and return more high-resolution images to earth and provide complete coverage of the subcontinent, said S. Satish, director, Isro.

Cartosat-2B has a high resolution of 0.8 metre, allowing it to photograph objects the size of a typical bicycle.

Typically, satellites that can snap high resolution images can cover a small width or swath of 10km. To cover a larger area, a satellite would have to come back to a specific spot repeatedly, which would take a long time as it would have to complete one orbit of the earth to do this. A constellation of three satellites, on the other hand, can cover the entire country.

"It is like a camera; you want sharp images you need to be closer. You can go farther to cover a larger area, but you won't get minute details," said Rao.

As for the GSLV, Satish said a panel that's studying what led to its crash is set to announce its report next week.

[Salo]

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/ISRO-to-launch-more-satellites-this-year/articleshow/6158620.cms

ISRO to launch more satellites this year
12 Jul 2010, 1434 hrs IST,IANS

 SRIHARIKOTA: After successfully placing five satellites in orbit on Monday, India's space agency ISRO said it will launch more satellites this year and efforts were on to put two Indians in space orbit.

"We will launch GSat-5, a communication satellite, using GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket. The other launch will be Resourscesat-2, a remote sensing satellite, using the rocket PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle)," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Radhakrishnan said in Sriharikota.

He was talking to reporters after five satellites, including the advanced high resolution cartography satellite Cartosat-2B, were placed in orbit following the successful launch of the PSLV rocket from the spaceport here, about 80 km north of Chennai.

He said: "The next PSLV rocket will carry multiple satellites - Resourcesat-2 and two small satellites."

According to ISRO officials, the organisation has all the sub-systems to assemble the PSLV rocket. The launch is slated before October this year.

"The work on assembling the GSLV rocket will start on Wednesday and the launch is expected to be by September-end or October first week," said PS Veeraghavan, the director at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.

On the manned mission planned by ISRO, Radhakrishnan said the space agency has laid the road map to put two humans in orbit for seven days.

"For manned mission we have to have the orbital capsule-module to carry the humans - life support systems and escape systems for the astronauts in case of an emergency. The systems are being designed and the concept has been reviewed," said S. Ramakrishnan, the director of the ISRO's Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre.

"The first phase is to design the orbital vehicle. Once it is built the design will be evaluated by launching it in a PSLV rocket. That will give us confidence. The avionics needed for that rocket is complex and have to be developed."

"The first phase will look at the critical technologies needed for human flight and the second phase is to get the human rating for the rocket and the orbital vehicle," said Radhakrishnan.

The second phase of the human flight mission is to build a new launch pad and astronaut training centre.

"The new launch pad and accompanying facilities needed for human space flight will involve an outlay of Rs 1,000 crore," said MC Dathan, the director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

Earlier in the day, five satellites weighing 819 kg were placed in orbit.

Over 20 minutes after the blast off, the PSLV rocket first released the Cartosat-2B followed by Alsat-2A and the three small satellites. This was the first successful launch after Radhakrishnan took over as ISRO chairman last year.

"With the launch of Cartosat-2B, ISRO will have 10 remote sensing satellites in orbit - IRS 1D, Resourcesat 1, TES, Cartosat 1, 2 and 2A, IMS 1, RISAT-2, Oceansat 1 and 2," S. Satish, the ISRO director (publications and public relations), said.

India is a world leader in the remote sensing data market and earns a sizeable amount.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/13/stories/2010071354831100.htm

Plan to send two Indians into space

T.S. Subramanian

The module for the astronauts has been designed

A third launch pad costing Rs.1,000 crore will be built at Sriharikota

SRIHARIKOTA: An unmanned crew module will be put in orbit around the earth by a modified Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in 2013 as a forerunner to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sending two Indians into space, S. Ramakrishnan, Director, Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, ISRO, said here on Monday.

India has plans to send two astronauts in a low-earth orbit and they will stay in space for about a week before returning to the earth. A third launch pad, at a cost of Rs.1,000 crore, will be built at Sriharikota, where the rocket that will take the astronauts into space will be assembled and launched.

Mr. Ramakrishnan told journalists here, after the successful PSLV-C15 flight, that the module for the astronauts had already been designed. The life-support systems, thermal-proofing and the crew escape system in case of an emergency had been defined. "We are also planning a launch pad abort for the crew in case of an accident," Mr. Ramakrishnan said.

PSLV-C15 Mission Director P. Kunhikrishnan said that the satellites went to their precise orbits. If the mission was to inject five satellites into a polar orbit an altitude of 637 km, the final figure was an apogee of 637.39 km and a perigee of 631 km.

There was no "hold" in the 51-hour countdown to the launch. The PSLV-C15 lifted off majestically at the appointed time of 9.22 a.m., painting the sky with yellow flames. At the end of 17 minutes and 14 seconds of the flight, the satellites were home and dry.

There was applause when T.K. Alex, Director of ISRO Satellite Centre in Bangalore, announced that the Studsat's signals were received at the ground station in Bangalore and those of the Alsat in Algeria.

While the PSLV-C15 cost Rs.80 crore, the Cartosat-2B cost Rs.175 crores.

The PSLV - C15 Vehicle Director was B. Jayakumar and the Satellite Director M. Krishnaswamy.

Speaking on the Human Spaceflight Programme, ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said ISRO needed a highly reliable vehicle to take humans into space. Such rockets were called human rated vehicles. Certain crucial facilities such as a new launch pad for sending human beings into space had to be built at the spaceport at Sriharikota.

Facilities to handle the astronauts when they returned to the earth also needed to be built. In the first phase of the programme, these critical technologies, including that of re-entry, would be developed. In the second phase, a human rated vehicle would be developed. In the third phase, astronauts would be trained to go into space. Normally, it took three years to train an astronaut, Dr. Radhakrishnan said.

N. Narayanamoorthy, Chief Executive, Human Spaceflight Programme, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, said the most important technology to be developed was the crew escape system. In the first phase, the module for astronauts and a PSLV with a modified first stage would be built. It would be an unmanned module but identical to the final module. The location for the third launch pad site had been decided upon, said M.C. Dathan, Director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. It would boast of a vehicle assembly building.

Multi-purpose images

R.R. Navalgund, Director, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, said Cartosat-2B, launched on Monday from Sriharikota, could be used in a variety of ways, depending on the imagination of the user. The images taken by its panchromatic camera could be used for planning roads in villages, building harbours, preparing accurate maps, keeping a watch on encroachments, and for various infrastructural activities, said Dr. Navalgund.

(Cartosat-2B's images will have a resolution of 0.8 metres, i.e. from a height of 637 km it can take pictures of objects on the earth which are three foot long.)

P.S. Veeraraghavan, Director, VSSC, said a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV - F06) would lift off from Sriharikota by September-end or the first week of October this year.

http://www.livemint.com/2010/07/12210334/Isro8217s-success-wins-Indi.html?atype=tp

Isro's success wins India orders to launch eight foreign satellites
K. Raghu

India's space agency has won orders to launch eight foreign satellites on the back of its success on Monday, when it launched five satellites into the orbit, including one from Algeria and two from Canada.

Its workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket, stripped of its strap-on motors, also carried two Indian satellites—Cartosat-2B and a 1kg satellite built by students of engineering colleges in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

The Cartosat-2B, the third in a series of mapping satellites, can shoot images of small objects on land and help compress the time needed for building high-resolution maps by half.

"There are some more opportunities we are discussing. There is interest for PSLV with customers," said K.R.SridharaMurthi, managing director of Antrix Corp. Ltd, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).

He did not name the eight foreign customers.

The Algerian space agency has finalized the launch of its second remote sensing satellite with India.

It paid Antrix around $4 million (Rs18.68 crore) for Monday's launch.

So far, PSLV has launched 44 satellites, more than half of them from India, in 17 missions.

Now, Isro will standardize the rocket in four models, help farm it to private industry to build systems and reduce the time taken to build the launcher.

"With the standard models, we can also customise additional features, like the ability to launch multiple satellites at the same time," said Murthi. Antrix earned a revenue of Rs1,059 crore in 2008-09, according to the latest figures available.

"PSLV has been successful consistently. It will be the rocket of choice (to launch satellites in low earth orbit)," said B.N. Raghunandan, chairman of the aerospace engineering department at the Indian Institute of Science. "Once the GSLV with the indigenous cryogenic engine is ready, you will see GSLV more routinely. People are working on that."

Isro has faced two setbacks this year. In April, its heaviest rocket yet, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) crashed into sea after its home-grown cryogenic engine failed. Isro also lost its fourth-generation communication satellite GSAT-4 in the mishap.

A panel investigating the failure pointed to a snag in the fuel pump.

The rocket was to put India in an exclusive club of nations capable of hurling communication satellites and offering space launches commercially, which Isro says would be done in a year.

The same month, it deferred a May launch of PSLV following a pressure leak in the rocket's second stage.

It was rectified and launched on Monday.

Isro will launch Resourcesat-2, a remote sensing satellite, on the PSLV rocket and GSAT-5, a communication satellite, on a GSLV rocket later this year.

The GSLV will be powered by a Russian cryogenic engine, Isro spokesperson S. Satish said.

[Salo]

Состоявшиеся пуски

15 апреля - GSAT-4, Gagan - GSLV-D3 (Mk.II) - 14:57 ЛМВ - авария РН на этапе работы третьей ступени
12 июля - Cartosat-2B, ALSAT-2A, STUDSAT, TIsat-1, AISSat-1 - PSLV-C15 (CA) - 07:53 ЛМВ

Планирующиеся пуски

2010
Дата – КА – РКН/РБ – Время
начало октября - GSAT-5B(INSAT-4D) - GSLV-F06 (Mk.II) - ПО
середина октября - RESOURCESAT-2, YOUTHSAT, X-Sat - PSLV-C16 - ПО
конец года - RISAT-1, AISat, SRMSat - PSLV-C17 (XL) - ПО

2011
ПО - GSAT-6(INSAT-4E) - GSLV-F05 (Mk.II) - ПО
ПО - GSAT-8(INSAT-4G), Gagan - ARIANE-5 - ПО
ПО - MEGHA-TROPIQUES - PSLV-C18 - ПО
ПО - Navy Communications Satellite - GSLV(ПО) -
ПО - TES-HYP, SARAL (ALTIKA-ARGOS) (ПО) - PSLV-C19 - ПО
ПО - InSat-3D - GSLV-F07 (ПО) - ПО
ПО - GSAT-10P, Gagan - Ariane 5 - ПО
ПО - GSAT-12, Gagan - GSLV-F08 (ПО) - ПО
ПО - IRNSS-1, IRNSS-2 - PSLV-C20 - ПО

Попутная нагрузка

начало года - CANX-4, CANX-5 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
первый квартал - Venta-1 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
весна - Max Valier - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
середина года - UniBRITE, BRITE-AUSTRIA - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - Sathyabama satellite - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - Jugnu - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - RLV-TD - ПО - ПО
ПО - TAUVEX- GSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - IMSAT - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
конец года - ALSAT-2B - PSLV (ПО) - ПО

2012
первый квартал - GSAT-9 - GSLV (ПО) (Mk II) - ПО
первый квартал - ASTROSAT-1, ADITYA-1 - PSLV-C21 - ПО
ПО - CARTOSAT-3, SRE-2 - PSLV-C22 - ПО
ПО - DMSAR-1 - PSLV-C23 - ПО
ПО - RISAT-3 - PSLV-C24 - ПО
ПО - IRNSS-3, IRNSS-4 - PSLV-C25 - ПО
ПО - GSAT-11 - Ariane 5 - ПО
ПО - GSAT-13 - GSLV-F09 (Mk.II) - ПО
ПО - GSAT-14 - GSLV-F10 (Mk.II) - ПО

2013
январь-февраль - Chandrayaan-2 - GSLV (ПО) (Mk II) - ПО
первый квартал - GSAT-14 - GSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - RESOURCESAT-3 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - OCEANSAT-3 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - GSAT-7(INSAT-4F) - GSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - IRNSS-5 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - IRNSS-6 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - IRNSS-7 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - Navy Communications Satellite - ПО - ПО
ПО - GEO-HR - GSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - ACTS-1(F) - GSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - ITM-1 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - TecSAR-2 - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - Unmanned Crew Module - PSLV (ПО) - ПО

Попутная нагрузка
ПО - I-STAG - ПО - ПО
ПО - SENSE-P, SENSE-E - ПО - ПО

2014
ПО - GSAT-15 - GSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - CCI-Sat - PSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - ASTROSAT-2 - GSLV (ПО) - ПО
ПО - ACTS-2 - GSLV (ПО) - ПО

2016
ПО - Mars Mission (ПО) - GSLV-Mk III - ПО
ПО - Human Space Flight Programme- GSLV MkII - ПО

Используемые сокращения:
КА – космический аппарат
РКН – ракета космического назначения
РБ – разгонный блок
ПО – подлежит определению
ЛМВ – летнее московское время
ДМВ – декретное московкое время
НВМ – неотделяемый весовой макет

Изменения от 13 июля
Изменения от 20 июля
Изменения от 29 июля
Изменения от 16 августа

[Salo]

http://www.aps.dz/an/page7.asp

Algeria to build, on its land, Alsat-2B by late 2010
ALGIERS –Algeria will, by late 2010, build on its territory, another satellite called Alsat-2B, which launch is scheduled for the end of 2011, Director General of the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL), Azzedine Oussedik announced Thursday. Oussedik who reviewed in a press briefing the timing of the manufacturing in Toulouse (France) and the launch, on July 12, of the high-resolution satellite Alsat-2A since the Sriharikota site, located in Chennai (Southern India) said that "the engineers who worked on this project will build themselves, in Algeria, the satellite Alsat-2B." "Alsat-2B has a high accuracy with an image per day. It will be the twin of Alsat-2A, which will be operational in one month with reception of an image every three days," ASAL director said.

[Salo]

http://www.utias-sfl.net/SpecialProjects/LaunchIndex.html

Nanosatellite Launch Service 7
Launch Date: 2010/2011
Launch Vehicle: Antrix Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
Separation System: XPOD Duo
Spacecraft Complement: CanX-4 and CanX-5(Canada)
NLS-7 will carry the twin-spacecraft CanX-4 and CanX-5 formation flying mission. This flight is intended to be the first flight of the XPOD Duo separation system that is capable of carrying 15 kg, 20 cm by 20 cm by 40 cm spacecraft

Nanosatellite Launch Service 8
Launch Date: mid-2011
Launch Vehicle: Antrix Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
Separation System: XPOD GNB, XPOD Double-M2
Spacecraft Complement: BRITE-Austria, UniBRITE, partners
UTIAS/SFL is in final negotation with ANTRIX for the launch of at least three spacecraft. The lead spacecraft in this launch is the SFL-designed BRITE-Austria (TU Graz) astronomy nanosatellite and the SFL-built UniBRITE (University of Vienna). The launch is targeting a 800 km sun synchronous orbit with 06:00 LTDN.

[SpaceR]

2010
. . .
конец сентября - начало октября - GSAT-5P(INSAT-4D) - GSLV-F06 (Mk.II) - ПО

Индийский КВРБ полетит уже в сентябре??  :shock:

[Salo]

Полетит форсированный КВД-1А, характеристики которого аналогичны CUS.

[SpaceR]

Полетит форсированный КВД-1А, характеристики которого аналогичны CUS.

Вообще-то индекс Mk.II  относится к РН с криогенным блоком индийского производства независимо от его характеристик.
Возможно, логичнее дать этим РН индекс Mk.IА ?..  :roll:

Но я знаю, что Вы человек упрямый и критику недолюбливаете.

[Salo]

Нужно подождать осени и все прояснится само собой.

[Salo]

Масса Insat-4D ( GSAT-5P) 2250 кг, что на 30 кг больше чем у GSAT-4.

[Salo]

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/07/13/stories/2010071354640400.htm

An improved Resourcesat-2 is due for launch in October and a 24x7 all-season RISAT-1 by year-end, the ISRO Chairman, Dr K. Radhakrishnan, said after the launch that was witnessed by the Planning Commission's Deputy Chairman, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia.