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CHRONOLOGY OF ACTIVITIES
| December
21, 2004 - February 1, 2005 |
Home Port activities:
- SC fueling, tests, ILV integration
- ILV transfer and "dry roll-out"
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| February
2, 2005 - February 14, 2005 |
ACS and LP sea transit to the launch site |
| February
15-18, 2005 |
Pre-launch processing
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| February
19, 2005 |
A decision was made to return ILV to hangar because
of bad weather forecast.
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| February
21-23, 2005 |
Pre-launch processing was resumed based on a good
weather forecast
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| February 23,
2005 |
The
countdown was aborted at 7 min 8 sec before scheduled
lift-off due to an off-nominal situation on the Zenit-2S. |
| February
23, 2005 - February 28, 2005 |
Activities
to analyze and correct the causes and effects of the
off-nominal situation on the LV |
| March
1, 2005 |
At 6 hours 51 min. Moscow Time (February 28, 2005
at 19 hours 51 mn. Pacific Time) the 15th launch
from the launch platform Odyssey was accomplished.
XM Radio-3 spacecraft was put into its target orbit.
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| Post-launch
operations, the start of the sea transit to the Home
Port. |
LAUNCH RESULTS
XM Radio-3 has been put into its target orbit:
Perigee altitude,
km |
Apogee
altitude,
km |
Inclination,
deg. |
2468 |
35786 |
0 |
This launch resulted in the most precise orbital insertion
of a spacecraft in the entire history of the Sea launch
program. |
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