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CHRONOLOGY OF ACTIVITIES
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May 26, 2003
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LP departure from the Home Port for transit to the
launch site.
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| May
29, 2003 |
ACS departure from the Home Port for transit to the
launch site. |
May
26, 2003 -
June 6, 2003 |
LP and ACS transit to the launch site. Conducting
integrated rehearsals of the pre-launch processing
with support from MCC at Korolev.
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| June
7, 2003 |
Activities of the first launch day: readying the
rocket segment systems for launch site operations,
ILV processing. Review of the Sea Launch system readiness
for launch site operations and launch of ILV Zenit-3SL
No.SL16 with Thuraya 2D SC.
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| June
8, 2003 |
Activities of the second launch day: bringing LP
orientation into the launch position, moving ACS into
its nominal position relative to the LP, ILV roll-out
to the launch pad, test run of the launch readiness
poll.
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| June
9-10, 2003 |
Activities of the third launch day (on Long Beach
time):
- 22:40 (06/09/03) the launch crew is delivered
to the LP by helicopter;
- 00:00-01:00 (06/10/03) evacuation from LP by helicopter
of the personnel who are not involved in the launch
operations;
- 00:56 the implementation of the "L-6 hours"
command;
- 01:56 the implementation of the "Program
start" command; start of the actual run of
the launch readiness poll and ILV fuelling;
- 02:16 - 03:40 the final evacuation by helicopter
from the LP of the rocket segment and maritime segment
personnel;
- 03:51 evacuation of the "Red Team" from
the LP;
- 06:55:59 Lift-off signal received (13:55:59 GMT).
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June 10, 2003
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At 13 hrs 55 min 59.16 sec GMT ((17 hrs 55 min 59.16
sec Moscow Time) the ninth launch from the Odyssey
launch platform under the Sea Launch program was accomplished.
At 15 hrs 36 min 58.02 sec SC separation was detected.
In 6 minutes after separation reception of the signal
from the SC was confirmed. Thuraya D2 spacecraft was
inserted into its target orbit.
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June 10, 2003
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Post-launch
operations on-board LP and ACS. The start of the ACS
sea transit to the Home Port. |
| June
11, 2003 |
The
start of the LP sea transit to the Home Port. |
LAUNCH RESULTS
Thuraya D2 spacecraft has been put into its target geotransfer
orbit.
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target |
actual
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accuracy |
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required
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actual
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Perigee altitude,
km |
1200
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1200
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+/-10
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-0.007
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Apogee altitude,
km |
35786
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35796.9
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+/-80
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10.9
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Inclination,
deg. |
6.3
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6.3
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+/-0,2
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0.00
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The launch of ILV Zenit-3SL #SL16 has demonstrated the
feasibility of launching a 6-6.1 ton payload into a geotransfer
orbit (in place of the 5.2-ton capacity available earlier).
RSC Energia has implemented the measures which provided
about a half of the achieved increase in performance.
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