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An ISC Kosmotras Dnepr rocket will launch eight satellites for institutions across five different countries from the Yasny Launch Base near Orenburg, Russia. These satellites includes several earth-observations satellites for Ukraine, Turkey and Nigeria, as well as several picosats for different technological demonstrations for institutions in Italy, Nigeria, Ukraine and a company based in the US.
Launch time: 07:12:30 UTC (3:12:30 a.m. EDT / 10:12:30 MSD)
Launch site: Dombarovskiy 13, Yasny, Russia
Link to calendar event with set countdown timer for this launch.
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Payload details:
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Launch Vehicle details:
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Launch Preparations:
All payloads integrated in the space head module:
Rollout:
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External links:
Surrey Satellite Technologies Limited: NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X
Surrey Satellite Technologies Limited: NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X Launch Gallery
(in Turkish) RASAT team launch blog
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Launch Successful! :thumbup:
(in Russian) Press release for the launch by RIA Novosti news
William Graham, NASASpaceflight.com: Dnepr launches with Ukraine’s Sich-2 and several passengers
Launch time: 07:12:30 UTC (3:12:30 a.m. EDT / 10:12:30 MSD)
Launch site: Dombarovskiy 13, Yasny, Russia
Link to calendar event with set countdown timer for this launch.
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Payload details:
Sich-2 is a small Earth remote sensing satellite based on Yuzhnoye's MS-2-8 micro satellite plattform. It is built under the Ukraine National Space Program. Built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, Sich-2 is based on the MS-2-8 satellite bus. It has a mass of 169 kilograms, and is expected to operate for five years. The satellite carries optical and infrared imagers, which will be used to produce images for agricultural and development planning, mapping, and monitoring natural disasters.
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NigeriaSat 2 will provide Nigeria with valuable geographically referenced high-resolution satellite imaging for applications in mapping, water resources management, agricultural land use, population estimation, health hazard monitoring and disaster mitigation and management. The 300 kg Earth-observation satellite was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in Guildford, Britain.
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NigeriaSat X is being developed by a team of 25 Nigerian trainee engineers at SSTL under a program to provide hands-on experience in all aspects of spacecraft development. The NX satellite is based on the SSTL-100 platform and features a 22 meter multispectral imaging system with an 600 km swath. The 100 kg Earth-observation satellite was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in Guildford, Britain.
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RASAT is a turkish imaging microsatellite owned by TUBITAK-UZAY (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - Space Technologies Research Institute).
RASAT is the first remote sensing satellite that is being developed and manufactured in Turkey by Turkish engineers. The predecessor mission was BILSAT 1, which was launched in 2003 and was operational until August 2006 when it battery failed.
The main purpose of the RASAT program is to further improve the experience and skills acquired by the BILSAT program, as well as to further improve the infrastructure required to assemble, integrate and test small satellites in Turkey without receiving any foreign resources in terms of advisors or partners.
The RASAT project started in 2004 with requirements calling for an optical imager with a resolution of 7.5 m in the panchromatic band and 15 m in the multispectral bands.
RASAT is the first remote sensing satellite that is being developed and manufactured in Turkey by Turkish engineers. The predecessor mission was BILSAT 1, which was launched in 2003 and was operational until August 2006 when it battery failed.
The main purpose of the RASAT program is to further improve the experience and skills acquired by the BILSAT program, as well as to further improve the infrastructure required to assemble, integrate and test small satellites in Turkey without receiving any foreign resources in terms of advisors or partners.
The RASAT project started in 2004 with requirements calling for an optical imager with a resolution of 7.5 m in the panchromatic band and 15 m in the multispectral bands.
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EDUSAT, which weighs about 10 kg, is an orbiting testing system for technological qualification, build by the La Sapienza University of Rome, and is open to research centers and industry. In addition, the project includes the verification of dynamics principles, measurements of the Earth magnetic field, detection of cosmic particles, measurements of the Solar constant. Technological goals include the study of deorbiting systems, behaviour of solar cells in orbit, validation of an S-band transponder.
(should be the satellite in the center)
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AprizeSat (5 & 6), is a constellation of small Low-Earth-Orbit satellites (64 satellites planned) to achieve a global communication system of data transmission and fixed and mobile asset tracking and monitoring (GMPCS). They are build by the SpaceQuest Company for LatinSat of Argentina.
AprizeSat 5 and 6 feature an AIS (Automatic Identification System) receivers to gather position data from ships.
(should be the satellite in the lower-left corner)
AprizeSat 5 and 6 feature an AIS (Automatic Identification System) receivers to gather position data from ships.
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BPA-2 (Blok Perspektivnoy Avioniki-2), is a package of experimental avionics monted to the third stage of a Dnepr-1 launch vehicle. The payload is not seperated from the stage.
This package is built by the Ukrainian company "Hartron-Arkos". It has the purpose to test navigation equipment for civil planes and spacecraft.
(should be located along with the rocket control systems)
This package is built by the Ukrainian company "Hartron-Arkos". It has the purpose to test navigation equipment for civil planes and spacecraft.
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Launch Vehicle details:
Dnepr launch vehicle (LV) is based on the SS-18 liquid-fuelled ICBM and has a three-stage plus Space Head Module (SHM) in-line configuration.
The LV 1st and 2nd stages are original SS-18 stages and used without any modification. Dnepr 3rd stage is an original SS-18 3rd stage with upgraded control system that enables implementation of the required flight program of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd stages, forming and issuing commands to payload and Space Head Module separation devices and getting the 3rd stage and remaining SHM elements off the injection orbit after the separation of all the payloads.
Ejection from Silo:
Launch Profile:
The LV 1st and 2nd stages are original SS-18 stages and used without any modification. Dnepr 3rd stage is an original SS-18 3rd stage with upgraded control system that enables implementation of the required flight program of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd stages, forming and issuing commands to payload and Space Head Module separation devices and getting the 3rd stage and remaining SHM elements off the injection orbit after the separation of all the payloads.
Ejection from Silo:
Launch Profile:
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Launch Preparations:
All payloads integrated in the space head module:
Rollout:
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External links:
Surrey Satellite Technologies Limited: NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X
Surrey Satellite Technologies Limited: NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X Launch Gallery
(in Turkish) RASAT team launch blog
---------- Post added at 17:11 ---------- Previous post was at 15:05 ----------
Launch Successful! :thumbup:
(in Russian) Press release for the launch by RIA Novosti news
William Graham, NASASpaceflight.com: Dnepr launches with Ukraine’s Sich-2 and several passengers
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