Luch-5B Arrives at Orbital Slot
December 15, 2012
The second Russian SBAS satellite, Luch-5B, has now been positioned at its designated orbital slot of 16 degrees […]
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The second Russian SBAS satellite, Luch-5B, has now been positioned at its designated orbital slot of 16 degrees […]
The EGNOS SES-5 geostationary satellite launched July 9 has arrived at its orbital sot. Meanwhile, India’s GAGAN satellite GSAT-10 arrives at its spaceport for launch.
Luch-5B, the second of a set of three geostationary satellites being launched to reactivate Roscosmos’s Luch Multifunctional Space Relay System, has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It arrived together with the Yamal-300K satellite in a single shipping container aboard an Antanov An-124-100 Ruslan flight from Krasnoyarsk.
News courtesy of CANSPACE Listserv. Luch-5B, the second of a set of three geostationary satellites being launched to […]
Luch-5A, the Russian geostationary communications satellite that carries a System for Differential Correction and Monitoring (SDCM) transponder, has started transmitting GPS corrections according to Javad Ashjaee, CEO of Javad GNSS. He has reported that L1 signals using PRN code 140 have been received by Javad receivers today and used to compute code-differential positions. Only GPS corrections are being received currently, no GLONASS corrections.
The SES-5 geostationary communications satellite (also known as Sirius 5 and Astra 4B) was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 9 at precisely 18:38:29.994 UTC. After a number of manoeuvres by the various rocket stages, the satellite was released from the Breeze-M upper stage into its geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) at 03:50:15.150 UTC on July 10.
According to tracking information supplied by NORAD/JSpOC, spacecraft controllers have adjusted the orbit of the Russian SBAS satellite, Luch-5A. The satellite has been repositioned so that its sub-satellite longitude is 95 degrees east.
According to tracking information supplied by NORAD/JSpOC, spacecraft controllers have adjusted the orbit of the Luch-5A relay satellite. Luch-5A is the first of a set of three geostationary satellites being launched to reactivate Roscosmos’s Luch Multifunctional Space Relay System. The system will be used to relay communications and telemetry between low-Earth-orbiting spacecraft, such as the Russian segment of International Space Station, and Russian ground facilities.
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