The long-lived Block-D series upper stage has not been featured on its long time partner, the Proton rocket, for quite a long time. Indeed during their last joint flight 2.5 years ago the upper stage drank too much LOX (due to some calculation error of the fuel loading values on the upper stage, flying for the first time in an enlarged version) and the rocket failed to put it and its payloads into orbit.
Today the two will fly together again to attempt to do what should have been done on that launch in December 2010 - to put three GLONASS-M navigation satellites into their planned medium Earth orbit. Amazingly this will be the 328th launch of a Block-D series upper stage since 1967 - a very large number for such a complex cryogenic upper stage!
Launch location:
Baikonur Launch pad no. 81/24 46° 4'15.38"N, 62°59'5.11"E
Launch dates and times:
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Live Coverage Of The Launch:
PAYLOAD
3 Uragan-M (11F654M, 14F113) navigation satellites:
Stack Summary
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Uragan-M spacecraft are the second generation of GLONASS satellites with an increased lifetime of 7 years following up the first generation Uragan spacecraft.
Characteristics|
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Launch Vehicle:
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The vehicle's reliability statistics according to http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/reliability2010.txt:
Weather forecast for Baikonur, Kazakhstan on July 2, 2013 (8 a.m.)
Time|Temps|Dew Point|Relative Humidity|Precip|Snow|Clouds|Pressure|Wind|Weather
8 AM|27°C|8°C|30%|0%|0%|97%|998 hPa|22 km/h S|
Overcast
References
http://www.federalspace.ru
http://tvroscosmos.ru
http://www.khrunichev.ru
http://www.glonass-ianc.rsa.ru
http://tihiy.fromru.com/Rn/RN_Proton.htm
http://www.energia.ru
http://krasm.com
http://www.iss-reshetnev.com/
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com
http://english.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=44.84999847,65.50000000
Today the two will fly together again to attempt to do what should have been done on that launch in December 2010 - to put three GLONASS-M navigation satellites into their planned medium Earth orbit. Amazingly this will be the 328th launch of a Block-D series upper stage since 1967 - a very large number for such a complex cryogenic upper stage!
Launch location:
Baikonur Launch pad no. 81/24 46° 4'15.38"N, 62°59'5.11"E
Launch dates and times:
Time Zone |
Australia - Sydney/AEST
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Baikonur / UTC+6
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Moscow / MSK/
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Universal / UTC
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Washington / EDT
Launch time (Primary):
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13:38:22
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08:38:22
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06:38:22
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02:38:22
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22:38:22
on (Primary):
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Jul. 2, 2013
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Jul. 2, 2013
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Jul. 2, 2013
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Jul. 2, 2013
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Jul. 1, 2013
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Live Coverage Of The Launch:
- TSENKI Video Streams: http://www.tv-tsenki.com/live.php - coverage from 05:00 MSK (01:00 UTC)
PAYLOAD
3 Uragan-M (11F654M, 14F113) navigation satellites:
Stack Summary
Parameter | Value
Manufacturer's article numbers:
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48, 49, 50
GLONASS System numbers (expected):
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748, 749, 750
COSMOS designators (expected):
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Cosmos-2488, -2489, -2490
Target Orbit:
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MEO
ApA X PeA
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19100 X 19100 km
Inclination:
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64.39°
RA of Asc. Node:
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26° (GLONASS plane II)Uragan-M spacecraft are the second generation of GLONASS satellites with an increased lifetime of 7 years following up the first generation Uragan spacecraft.
Uragan-M
Customer:
|- Roscosmos, Russian Ministry of Defense
Prime contractor:
|- JSC "Information Satellite Systems" Reshetnev Company
Mission:
|- Satellite for providing global navigation services for military and civilian users
GRAU Index:
|- 11F654M or 14F113
Type of Platform:
|- Pressurized
Mass:
|- Total mass at lift-off 1 415 kg
Stabilization:
|- 3 axis stabilized
Navigation Payload:
|- L-Band
- 25 channels separated by 0.5625 MHz intervals in 2 frequency bands: 1602.5625 - 1615.5 MHz and 1240 - 1260 MHz
- Right hand circular polarized.
- On-board cesium clocks provide time accuracy to 1000 nanoseconds
On-board power:
|- 1 400 W
Life time:
|- 7 years
Coverage area:
|- Global
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Launch Vehicle:
Proton-M / Block DM-03
Prime contractor:
|- Khrunichev Space Centre
GRAU Index:
|- 8K82KM
Height:
| ~57 m with upper stage and payload fairingDiameter:
| max 7.4 mLiftoff mass:
| ~700 tonnesPayload mass:
| ~22 tonnes at LEO1st stage:
|- 6 X RD-275 engines
- Empty 30.6 tonnes
- Propellants 419.41 tonnes (UDMH and NTO)
- Thrust in vacuum 1069.8 tonnes of force
- Thrust at sea level 971.4 tonnes of force
2nd stage:
|- 1 X RD-0211 engine 3 X RD-0210 engines
- Empty 11.4 tonnes
- Propellants 156.113 tonnes (UDMH and NTO)
- Thrust in vacuum 237.4 tonnes of force
3rd stage:
|- 1 X RD-0213 engine & 1 X RD-0214 vernier engine
- Empty 3.7 tonnes
- Propellants 46.562 tonnes (UDMH and NTO)
- Thrust in vacuum 59.36 (core) + 3.15 (vernier) tonnes of force
Upper Stage:
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- GRAU Index: 11S861-03
- Common Name: Block DM-03
- Designer: RKK Energia
- Manufacturer: "Krasmash" Krasnoyarsk Machine Building Plant
- 1 X RD-58M engine
- Empty 2.2 tonnes
- Diameter 4.1 m
- Propellants 15.095 tonnes (LOX and Kerosene RG-1)
- Thrust in vacuum 8.67 tonnes of force
- ISP 254 s
- Flight time 7-21 hours
Payload Fairing:
|- Diameter 4.35 m
- Length 10 m
The vehicle's reliability statistics according to http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/reliability2010.txt:
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Vehicle Successes/Tries Realzd Pred Consc. Last Dates
Rate Rate* Succes Fail
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Proton-M/DM-03 0 1 .00 .33 0 12/5/10 2010-
Weather forecast for Baikonur, Kazakhstan on July 2, 2013 (8 a.m.)
8 AM|27°C|8°C|30%|0%|0%|97%|998 hPa|22 km/h S|
References
http://www.federalspace.ru
http://tvroscosmos.ru
http://www.khrunichev.ru
http://www.glonass-ianc.rsa.ru
http://tihiy.fromru.com/Rn/RN_Proton.htm
http://www.energia.ru
http://krasm.com
http://www.iss-reshetnev.com/
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com
http://english.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=44.84999847,65.50000000
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