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CHRONOLOGY OF ACTIVITIES
| July
9, 1999 |
Rocket Segment personnel starts to perform launch procssing
work at Home Port. |
| July
9 -September 4, 1999 |
Zenit-2S Launch Vehicle modifications, annual maintenance,
preparation for mating. |
| July
24 -September 3, 1999 |
Block DM-SL Upper Stage modifications, pneumatic
tests and electrical tests.
|
| September
4, 1999 |
Start of Block DM-SL Upper Stage parallel processing
for next launch.
|
| September
4-6, 1999 |
Block DM-SL Upper Stage loading with high-boiling
propellant components.
|
| September 7-19,
1999 |
ILV
assembly (mating of Zenit-2S , Block DM-SL Upper Stage
and Payload Unit with Direc TV SC). |
| September
19, 1999 |
Transfer of Zenit-3SL Integrated Launch Vehicle with
Direc TV SC from the Assembly-Command Ship to the
Launch Platform.
|
September
23-25, 1999 |
Integrated
tests of systems and equipment together with ILV under
the ILV Dry Roll-Out program, ILV critical launch readiness
checklist is performed. |
| September
26, 1999 |
Start
of Launch Platform and Assembly-Command Ship transit
to the Equator. |
| October
6, 1999 |
Launch
Platform and Assembly-Command Ship have come to the
launch site. |
| October
7, 1999 |
Start
of activities at the launch site under the first launch
day program. Check of the technical state of Rocket
Segment systems and equipment, preparation for ILV roll-out
to the launch pad. |
| October
8, 1999 |
ILV
roll-out and erection on the launch pad. Critical launch
readiness checklist. |
| October
10, 1999 |
ILV
loading with propellant components, nominal launch readiness
checklist.At 7:28 A.M. Moscow Time (October 9, 1999
Pacific Time) is carried out the first commercial launch
under the Sea Launch Program. |
LAUNCH RESULTS
The Direc TV-1R spacecraft is placed into the calculated
geosynchronous orbit to a high accuracy:
Perigee altitude,
km |
Apogee altitude,
km
|
Inclination,
deg.
|
Perigeeargument,
deg.
|
|
2800,0
|
35786,0
|
0,55
|
358,24
|
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