D* Satellite Launch Info

[vurbano]

I think you may be right http://dev.space.com/spacenews/militaryspace/Syracuse_042805.html

"[font=Arial, Helvetica]In the latest example of the headaches involved in juggling two different Ariane 5 rocket variants launch vehicles and the need to launch two satellites at a time, Arianespace will put DirecTV’s Spaceway F2 direct-broadcast television satellite and Indonesia’s Telkom-2 telecommunications spacecraft on an Ariane 5 ECA rocket for a flight to occur in late June at the earliest."[/font]

 

[charper1]

Nice links for those that have not seen them.

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bss/factsheets/702/spaceway/spaceway.html

http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/spaceway.htm

http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/space1.html
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[vurbano]

Well SP2 is listed behind a June30th launch and labeled late June. I can only guess that that means June 30th?

http://www.orbireport.com/Logs/Log05/Log2005-06.html

It is also currently missing from Spaceflightnow schedule.

 

[Curtis0620]

June 25th,

http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/releases/05_6_1_release_index.html

 

[vurbano]

http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/releases/05_6_1_release_index.html

Evry, June 1st, 2005

Arianespace: Next launch scheduled for the night of Friday, June 24 to Saturday, June 25, 2005

On the night of Friday, June 24 to Saturday, June 25, 2005, Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA to launch the Spaceway 2 and Telkom 2 spacecraft. The launch window will open:


from 09:03 pm to 09:36 p.m., Kourou time, on Friday, June 24,
from 02:03 am to 02:36 a.m., Paris time, on Saturday, June 25.

Spaceway 2 (6,116 kg at liftoff) will be launched for the American operator DirecTV and will provide direct television services for the United States.

Telkom 2 (1,975 kg at liftoff) will be launched for the Indonesian operator PT Telkom Indonesia and will provide telecommunications services to Indonesia.

 

[moonman]

Thursday , June 2, 2005

BREAKING NEWS
DIRECTV Reveals Launch Date
The third satellite in DIRECTV's arsenal to deliver more programming services to its customer base within the next couple years has been set for launch June 24 from Kourou, French Guiana . Spaceway 2, a Ka-band satellite is designed to help DIRECTV deliver more than 1,500 local and 150 national high-definition channels by 2007.

 

[charper1]

DirecTV8 is now showing up on LYNGSAT, however, Spaceway1 which was launched 1 month earlier is not. Does any one know if their was a problem with Spaceway1?

 

[kc8txw]

Its there

it just not in its orbit yet. you have to go to there satellite page to veiw it.

 

[charper1]

Neither is DirecTV8 but it shows in the DB, that's why I asked about SW1 thats was 1 month earlier.

 

[moonman]

Not yet in geo orbit...
http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/space1.html

 

[Spin]

It's here

http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/america.html

 

[charper1]

Not yet in geo orbit...
http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/space1.html

OK thats what i was looking for, thx!

 

[Curtis0620]

Spaceway 2 delayed?

http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/releases/05_6_6_release_index.html

 

[CWS_kahuna]

Hopefully not, the article says 1 of the 2 satellites. Any chance it's the "other" satellite? If spaceway is delayed it's only a couple weeks but that probably means that much longer until we hear the "big update" we've all been waiting for.

 

[vurbano]

Spaceway F2 Likely Delayed

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Arianespace reorganizes its mission schedule: The next launch is set for the night of July 7-8, 2005

Evry, France, June 6, 2005 - A technical problem with one of the two satellites slated for launch on the night of June 24-25 has resulted in a reordering of Arianespace's mission scheduling.

The next launch is now set for the night of Thursday, July 7 to Friday, July 8, 2005, using an Ariane 5 Generic vehicle to orbit the IPStar satellite for Thailand's Shinsat telecommunications operator.

If "the next" launch is July 7th how can there be any launch on June 24-25?

 

[vurbano]

I bet its a dual launch. Ariane5 is capable of that.

http://www.arianespace.com/site/launcher/future_sub_index.html

"This performance ensures that Ariane 5 will be able to loft the heaviest telecom satellites in production or on the drawing boards, and enables Arianespace to match up most spacecraft for highly efficient dual launches – a capability of that has been proven by the company in Ariane missions since the 1980s. "


one payload is holding up the other.

 

[silversurfer]

Lets keep any launch info in one thread....Thanks!

 

[moonman]

Hopefully not, the article says 1 of the 2 satellites. Any chance it's the "other" satellite? If spaceway is delayed it's only a couple weeks but that probably means that much longer until we hear the "big update" we've all been waiting for.

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From Skyreport........
A DirecTV spokesperson said the company is in discussions with Arianespace about the re-scheduling development, and that the company's goal is to launch Spaceway 2 in July. The delay is not tied to an issue aboard the Spaceway satellite, which has been ready for launch for two months.

 

[vurbano]

i-Newswire, - In order to adequately diagnose and fix the TELKOM-2 satellite, Orbital Sciences Corporation, the manufacturer of the spacecraft, is immediately returning the spacecraft to its facility in Dulles, VA, USA.
DirecTV’s Spaceway 2 satellite, manufactured by Boeing, has successfully completed all pre-flight testing and is now ready for fueling. Spaceway 2 will be placed on standby.
Arianespace is studying all available options to execute the launch as early as possible.
About Arianespace

Arianespace is the commercial launch services leader, holding more than 50 percent of the international market for satellites launched to geostationary transfer orbit ( GTO ). Created in 1980 as the world’s first commercial space transportation company, Arianespace has signed contracts for the launch of more than 260 satellite payloads. For further information, see the Arianespace Web site at www.arianespace.com .

 

[Tonedeaf]

Bummer for Telkom-2. Glad it wasn't Spaceway that was the problem.

Now, to get that sucker up in space....