Quetzsat 1 Successfully Launched!

[Scott Greczkowski]

Thats good news! That was very fact turn around!

 

[nelson61]

Anik at nasaspaceflight.com (reliable source) has been told Quetzsat 1 has been scheduled for Nov 14.

 

[TheKrell]

Unbelievable. Reminds me of the time we suffered a failure at Mars because somebody was using English instead of metric units for the probe altitude.

 

[nelson61]

This is what happens when the old engineers that slogged thru the calculations and then threw in a hefty safety margin retire. The new guys delight in optimizing with their new super computers and forget that that big fat safey factors cover a lot of sins.

 

[navychop]

Wow!

After all these years, someone can still make a big mistake. Not enough time was provided for a gyroscope to stabilize during the burn cycle.

The hold on Proton launches has been lifted and we can still expect to see Quetzsat 1 launched this fall.

ILS Breeze Failure Press Report

Well that's good news. And should stop the talk of leaving the ISS unmanned.

Might want to fix that link.

 

[Voyager6]

Well that's good news. And should stop the talk of leaving the ISS unmanned.

Might want to fix that link.

That was the other failure of a Soyuz rocket that was on a resupply mission to the ISS. Report: Russia Identifies Cause of Rocket Launch Failure | Soyuz Rocket & Progress 44 Spacecraft Crash | Russian Space Accident Investigation | Space.com

 

[rocatman]

Anik is now showing the launch as September 30th. There is another Proton launch scheduled for September 14th so it won't be the first launch after the failure.

 

[JSheridan]

Any word on the Viasat1 Proton launch?

 

[rocatman]

Any word on the Viasat1 Proton launch?

October 15th or middle of November.

NASASpaceFlight.com Forum - Index

(Look under Russian launcher section)

 

[JSheridan]

October 15th or middle of November.

NASASpaceFlight.com Forum - Index

(Look under Russian launcher section)

Thanks.

 

[nelson61]

08/09/2011
Press-service of Russian Federal Space Agency and KC "Southern"

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome continues preparations for the launch of space rocket "Proton-M" with the upper stage "Briz-M" spacecraft and telecommunications QuetzSat-1.
Today at the launch site planned transportation booster "Briz-M" of the assembly and test facility area 92A-50 rocket at a gas station (AP) site 31. After delivery of the booster to the work site and connect to it, filling systems, calculations and TsENKI Khrunichev Khrunichev for September 9 and 10 hold tanks of high pressure gas station "Breeze" with propellant components and compressed gases.
Active work on preparation for the launch go to the launch complex "Proton" rocket on a platform 200. Experts TsENKI perform testing gas lines.

At the same time foreign specialists in the finishing chamber assembly and test facility area 92A-50 rocket continues autonomous tests of the satellite QuetzSat-1

Booster "Proton-M", designed to run the spacecraft ready for launch and is in storage.

 

[nelson61]

Anik has updated launch date to September 29

 

[nelson61]

Anik has posted the launch time: Sept 29 18:32 UTC or 12:32 PM Mountain Daylight

 

[nelson61]

Sept 12 2011

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome, work continues in preparation for the launch of telecommunications spacecraft (SC) "Quetzsat-1".
Today in the assembly and testing facility 92-A50 representatives of foreign clients had a refueling spacecraft "Quetzsat-1" and oxidant are currently engaged in work on his preparation for the refueling of fuel components.
Russian specialists are continuing to prepare an autonomous booster (RB) "Breeze-M", which will be used for launching into orbit of the spacecraft. During the September 9 and 10 specialists and TsENKI GKNPTs them. Khrunichev spent filling the tanks of high pressure booster. September 11 filled the upper stage was moved from a technical service station at the MIC and installed on the workstation for final checks.
Valves and transient fairing system, through which a spacecraft "Quetzsat-1" will be installed at the RB "Briz-M", ready for assembly in the space head part.
Booster "Proton-M", designed to run the spacecraft ready for launch and is in storage.

Press Service of the Russian Space Agency

 

[Voyager6]

Let's hope that the engineers programmed the correct parameters this time.

 

[jerryez]

I see that SC Fuel loading is complete.

Commercial Launch | QuetzSat-1 | Proton Rocket | Mission Control | International Launch Services

 

[nelson61]

Let's hope that the engineers programmed the correct parameters this time.

The failure details have finally surfaced in the press - ouch!.

Seems they did not routinely run simulations after entering data.

Proton M/Breeze M Launch Failure Human Error | AVIATION WEEK M/Breeze M Launch Failure Human Error

 

[nelson61]

Anik has posted the launch time: Sept 29 18:32 UTC or 12:32 PM Mountain Daylight

We have second source confirmation for Sept 29 launch date.

Lockheed Martin has filed with FCC for ground station communication with Quetzsat for September 29 launch.

Lockheed Martin FCC filing

 

[nelson61]

Satbeams.com found this great photo of Space Loral's Viasat satellite and forwarded to me. Wow! Every kid's dream to build something like this.

It looks like it is a sound room. Must be how they test them.

http://www.ssloral.com/images/pressrel/viasat_catr.jpg

 

[Laddyboy]

Do they not have anyone that writes English there? All the releases read like Google translations.