Launch News Soyuz Flight VS16 to Launch Hispasat 36W-1

[Nicholas Kang]

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Official Arianespace Mission Page: http://www.arianespace.com/mission/ariane-flight-vs16/

Launch Kit: www.arianespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/VS16-launchkit-EN.pdf

Press Release: http://www.arianespace.com/press-re...na-space-center-to-launch-hispasat-satellite/

Overview:

Launch vehicle:Soyuz
Launch date:January 27, 2017
Status:Upcoming
Payload(s):Hispasat 36W-1
Customer(s):Hispasat
Prime contractor(s):OHB-System
Launch site:Spaceport, French Guiana (Guiana Space Center)

Mission Description:

For its year-opening launch of 2017, Arianespace will orbit the Hispasat 36W-1 geostationary satellite for the Spanish operator Hispasat using a Soyuz launch vehicle.

Designated Flight VS16 in Arianespace’s launcher family numbering system, this mission will be the first-ever mission to geostationary transfer orbit performed by Soyuz from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana.

Hispasat 36W-1 is the first satellite to be built using Europe’s new “SmallGEO” platform developed by OHB System AG (Germany) under ESA’s ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) program.

Launch time:

Kourou|22:03:34 p.m. (Jan. 27)
Washington, D.C.|20:03:34 p.m. (Jan. 27)
Universal Time (UTC)|01:03:34 (Jan. 28)
Paris|02:03:34 a.m. (Jan. 28)

Payload:

Hispasat 36W-1 satellite

Hispasat 36W-1 is a telecommunications satellite for Hispasat, and the first to be built using Europe’s new “SmallGEO” platform.

Hispasat is the Spanish satellite communications operator, a leader in the distribution of content in Spanish and Portuguese. With more than 25 years’ experience, the Hispasat Group maintains an important presence on the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America, where it is now the fourth-largest satellite operator.

Hispasat distributes more than 1,250 television and radio channels through its powerful fleet of satellites and is a key driver for the Spanish aerospace industry.

The Hispasat 36W-1 satellite features the innovative RedSAT regenerative payload, along with an antenna equipped with a processor that allows onboard beam reconfiguration. It is fitted with 20 Ku-band transponders and the additional capacity of three transponders in Ka band.

From its orbital position at 36 deg. West, Hispasat 36W-1 will allow Hispasat to provide a wide range of telecommunications services in Spain, Portugal, the Canary Islands and South America.

Hispasat 36W-1 was built by OHB System AG in Bremen, Germany, using a SmallGEO platform.

Developed by OHB System AG under ESA’s ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) program, the SmallGEO platform line offers satellite operators an entirely European solution in the smaller telecom satellite market by speeding up the production and testing processes, reducing costs and broadening the range of design options.

For Hispasat 36W-1, OHB System AG is in charge of satellite integration, in-orbit tests and satellite commissioning, before handing over operational responsibility to Hispasat.

Hispasat 36W-1 is the first GEO satellite built by OHB System AG, and the company’s 15th satellite overall to be launched by Arianespace.

Mission Profile:

Countdown and Flight Events:

TIME|EVENTS
T- 05H|Beginning of the meeting for launcher fueling authorization (BTR)
T- 04H 30MN|Launch vehicle fueling begins
T- 01H 35MN|End of fueling operations
T- 01H 10MN|Mobile gantry withdrawal
T- 00H 5MN 10S|Key on start
T- 00H 5MN|Fregat transfer to onboard power supply
T- 00H 2MN 25S|Upper composite umbilical drop-off command
T- 00H 40S|Ground-onboard power transfer
T- 00H 28S|Lower stage umbilical mast retraction
T- 00H 16S|Ignition
T- 00H 14S|Preliminary thrust level
T- 00H 1S|Full thrust level
Liftoff!|00:00
T+ 00H 1MN 58S|Jettisoning of boosters
T+ 00H 3MN 33S|Jettisoning of fairing
T+ 00H 4MN 47S|Separation of central core (second stage)
T+ 00H 9MN 23S|Separation of 3rd stage
T+ 00H 10MN 23S|First Fregat burn
T+ 00H 28MN|Fregat shut-down and beginning of ballistic phase
T+ 00H 32MN 10S|Hispasat 36W-1 separation
T+ 02H 4MN 59S|End of the Arianespace mission

Gallery:

December 22, 2016: Hispasat 36W-1 during its initial processing at the Spaceport.