Cronología de Lanzamientos Espaciales
Año 2004
Recopilación de datos Ing. Eladio Miranda Batlle. Los textos, imágenes y tablas fueron obtenidos de la National Space Science. Data Center. NASA NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Query Results
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Maps Spacecraft Name NSSDC ID Launch Date New/Updated Data Amazonas 2004-031A 2004-08-04
Lunar/Planetary Events AMC 10 2004-003A 2004-02-05 AMC 11 2004-017A 2004-05-19 AMC 15 2004-041A 2004-10-14 AMC 16 2004-048A 2004-12-17 Amsat 2004-025K 2004-06-29 Anik F2 2004-027A 2004-07-18 Aura 2004-026A 2004-07-15 Celestis 04/SL-24 2004-025B 2004-06-29 Cosmos 2405 2004-020A 2004-05-28 Cosmos 2406 2004-021A 2004-06-10 Cosmos 2407 2004-028A 2004-07-22 Cosmos 2408 2004-037A 2004-09-23 Cosmos 2409 2004-037B 2004-09-23 Cosmos 2410 2004-038A 2004-09-24 Cosmos 2411 2004-053A 2004-12-26 Cosmos 2412 2004-053C 2004-12-26 Cosmos 2413 2004-053B 2004-12-26 DEMETER 2004-025C 2004-06-29 Demosat 2004-050A 2004-12-21 DirecTV 7S 2004-016A 2004-05-04 Double Star 2 2004-029A 2004-07-25 Edusat 2004-036A 2004-09-20 ESSAIM 1 2004-049C 2004-12-18 ESSAIM 2 2004-049D 2004-12-18 ESSAIM 3 2004-049E 2004-12-18 ESSAIM 4 2004-049F 2004-12-18 Estrela Do Sul 2004-001A 2004-01-11 Eutelsat W3A 2004-008A 2004-03-15 Express AM-11 2004-015A 2004-04-26 Express AM1 2004-043A 2004-10-29 Fengyun 2C 2004-042A 2004-10-19 FSW 3-3 2004-039A 2004-09-27 FSW-3 2 2004-033A 2004-08-29 Gravity Probe B 2004-014A 2004-04-20 Helios 2A 2004-049A 2004-12-18
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Huygens 1997-061C 2004-12-25 Intelsat 10-02 2004-022A 2004-06-16 Latinsat-C 2004-025G 2004-06-29 Latinsat-D 2004-025A 2004-06-29 MBSat 2004-007A 2004-03-13 MESSENGER 2004-030A 2004-08-03 Mikron 2004-052C 2004-12-24 Molniya 1-T 2004-005A 2004-02-18 Nanosat 1 2004-049B 2004-12-18 Navstar 54 2004-009A 2004-03-20 Navstar 55 2004-023A 2004-06-23 Navstar 56 2004-045A 2004-11-06 Naxing 1 2004-012B 2004-04-18 PARASOL 2004-049G 2004-12-18 Philae PHILAE 2004-03-02 Progress M-49 2004-019A 2004-05-25 Progress M-50 2004-032A 2004-08-11 Progress M-51 2004-051A 2004-12-23 Progress M1-11 2004-002A 2004-01-29 Raduga 1-7 2004-010A 2004-03-27 Rocsat 2 2004-018A 2004-05-19 Rosetta 2004-006A 2004-03-02 Saudicomsat 1 2004-025D 2004-06-29 Saudicomsat 2 2004-025E 2004-06-29 Saudisat 2 2004-025F 2004-06-29 Shijian 6A 2004-035A 2004-09-08 Shijian 6B 2004-035B 2004-09-08 Sich 1M 2004-052A 2004-12-24 Soyuz TMA-4 2004-013A 2004-04-19 Soyuz-TMA 5 2004-040A 2004-10-14 Superbird 6 2004-011A 2004-04-16 Swift 2004-047A 2004-11-20 Tansuo 1 2004-012A 2004-04-18 Tansuo 2 2004-046A 2004-11-18 Telstar 18 2004-024A 2004-06-29 Unisat 3 2004-025H 2004-06-29 USA 176 2004-004A 2004-02-14 USA 179 2004-034A 2004-08-31 Ziyuan-2 3 2004-044A 2004-11-06
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Personnel Amazonas
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-031A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Amazonas is a Spanish geostationary communications satellite 28393 that was launched by a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur at 22:32 UT. on 4 August 2004. The 4.5 tonne satellite carries 36 Ku-band, and 27 C-band transponders to provide broad band Facts in Brief video and internet services to the North and South American Launch Date: 2004-08- continents and western Europe after parking over 61 deg-W 04 longitude. Launch Vehicle: Proton-M Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (Spain)
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Personnel AMC 10
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-003A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events AMC 10 (GE 10) is an American geostationary GE 10 communications satellite that was launched by an Atlas 2AS 28154 rocket at 23:46 UT on 5 February 2004. The 1.8 tonne satellite will provide high-definition digital video channels to North America through its 24 C-band, and several direct-to-home Facts in Brief Ku-band transponders, after parking over 135-W longitude. It will replace the current GE Satcom C-4 satellite after a few Launch Date: 2004-02- months of tests. 05 Launch Vehicle: Atlas 2AS Launch Site: null
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Personnel AMC 11
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-017A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events AMC 11, also known as GE 11, is an American geostationary 28252 communications satellite that was launched by an Atlas 2AS rocket from Cape Canaveral at 22:22 UT on 19 May 2004. The 1.8 tonne satellite will enable dozens of television networks in Facts in Brief America to provide HD videos through its 23 C-band Launch Date: 2004-05- transponders after parking over 131 deg-W longitude. 19 Launch Vehicle: Atlas 2AS Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
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Personnel AMC 15
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-041A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events AMC 15, also known as Americom 15 is an American 28446 geostationary communications satellite that was launched by a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur at 21:23 UT on 14 October 2004. The 4.05 tonne satellite carries 24 Ku-band Facts in Brief transponders and 12 spot-beam, Ka-band transponders to Launch Date: 2004-10- provide direct-to-home video, voice, and internet services to 14 North America after parking over 105 deg-W longitude. Launch Vehicle: Proton-M Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (United States)
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Personnel AMC 16
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-048A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events AMC 16 is an American geostationary communications satellite 28472 that was launched by an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 12:07 UT on 17 December 2004. It carries 24 Ku-band transponders to provide direct to home video communications Facts in Brief to all of North America, after parking over 85 deg-W longitude. Launch Date: 2004-12- 17 Launch Vehicle: Atlas V Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
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Personnel Amsat
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-025K Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Amsat, also known as Echo, is an American amateur OSCAR-E communications microsatellite satellite that will relay amateur Echo transmissions. OSCAR 51 Amsat contains an FM repeater with both a 144 MHz and 1.2 28375 GHz uplink and 435 MHz and 2.4 GHz downlinks. Additionally it contains a digital subsystem that transmits TLM on 70 cm and provides complete PACSAT BBS that can be configured Facts in Brief on both V and S band uplinks. There is also a 10 meter PSK Launch Date: 2004-06- uplink. 29 Launch Vehicle: Dnepr Amsat has four VHF receivers, two UHF transmitters, six Launch Site: Tyuratam modems, 56 channels of telemetry. The two UHF transmitters (Baikonur Cosmodrome), are conneced to four antennas, two in right-hand circular Kazakhstan polarization and two in left-hand circular polarization. Mass: 11.14 kg
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Unknown (United States)
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Personnel Anik F2
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-027A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Anik F2 (Anik meaning "little brother" in Inuit language) is a 28378 Canadian geostationary communications satellite that was launched by an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou at 00:44 UT on 18 July 2004. The 5.95 tonne (with fuel), 16 kW, 7.3 m x 3.8 m x Facts in Brief 3.4 m size satellite carries 24 30-W C-band, 40 127-W Ku- Launch Date: 2004-07- band, and 50 90-W Ka-band transponders to provide 18 broadband and telemedicine to northern US states and Launch Vehicle: Ariane Canada after parking over 111.1 deg-W longitude. It carries a 5 xenon ion propulsion system for orbit trims when needed. Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
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Personnel Aura
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-026A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Aura is an American (NASA) remote sensing satellite that was EOS-Aura launched by a Delta 2 rocket from Vandenberg AFB at 10:02 28376 UT on 15 July 2004. The 2.97 tonne, 4.6 kW, 2.7 m x 2.3 m x 6.9 m size satellite will monitor ozone and related molecules in the stratosphere and troposphere, as an extension of the Facts in Brief previous observations by UARS and TOMS missions. It carries four monitoring instruments. More details are available at: Launch Date: 2004-07- 15 http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/instruments Launch Vehicle: Delta II Launch Site: Vandenberg AFB, United States
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States)
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Earth Science
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Name Role Original Affiliation E-mail Dr. Mark R. Project NASA Goddard Space Flight [email protected]
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Personnel Celestis 04/SL-24
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-025B Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Celestis 04/SL-24 is just a monitor that was attached to the 28367 final stage of the Russian Dnieper booster (SL-24) to log the performance of that stage. They were launched by a Dnieper booster at 07:45 UT on 29 June 2004. Facts in Brief Launch Date: 2004-06- 29 Launch Vehicle: Dnepr Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Personnel Cosmos 2405
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-020A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2405 is a Russian military satellite that was launched Cosmos 2407 by a Tsyklon 2 rocket from Baikonur at 06:00 UT on 28 May 28350 2004. It was reported to be a new US-PU satellite of the Legenda (EORSAT) naval reconnaissance and targetting system. Facts in Brief
This satellite was initially erroneously designated as Cosmos Launch Date: 2004-05- 2407. When Molniya 1-T (2004-005A) was properly identified, 28 the Cosmos 2405 name was reassigned to this satellite. Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon-2 Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (Russia)
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Surveillance and Other Military
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Personnel Cosmos 2406
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-021A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2406 is a Russian military satellite that was launched 28352 from Baikonur by a Zenit 2 rocket at 01:28 UT on 10 June 2004. The satellite was reported to be a new Tselina-2 electronic intelligence satellite. Facts in Brief Launch Date: 2004-06- An earlier spacecraft (Raduga 1-7, 2004-010A) had 10 erroneously been assigned the Cosmos 2406 designation at Launch Vehicle: Zenit 2 launch. When this was corrected, this spacecraft was Launch Site: Tyuratam designated as Cosmos 2406. (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (Russia)
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Surveillance and Other Military
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Personnel Cosmos 2407
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-028A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2407 is a Russian military satellite that was launched 28380 by a Cosmos-3M rocket from Plesetsk at 17:46 UT on 22 July 2004. The satellite is reported to be a member of the Parus military navigation system. Facts in Brief Launch Date: 2004-07- 22 Launch Vehicle: Cosmos Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia
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Unknown (Russia)
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Personnel Cosmos 2408
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-037A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2408 is a Russian military satellite that was launched 28419 by a Cosmos-3M rocket from Plesetsk at 15:07 UT on 23 September 2004. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-09- 23 Launch Vehicle: Cosmos Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia
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Unknown (Russia)
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Personnel Cosmos 2409
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-037B Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2409 is a Russian military satellite that was launched 28420 by a Cosmos-3M rocket from Plesetsk at 15:07 UT on 23 September 2004. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-09- 23 Launch Vehicle: Cosmos Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia
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Unknown (Russia)
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Surveillance and Other Military
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Personnel Cosmos 2410
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-038A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2410 is a Russian military satellite that was launched 28396 by a Soyuz-U rocket from Plesetsk at 17:46 UT on 24 September 2004. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-09- 24 Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia
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Unknown (Russia)
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Personnel Cosmos 2411
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-053A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2413 is one of the latest of three Russian satellites to Glonass 796 join the GLONASS fleet of navigational satellites. They were 28508 launched by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur at 01:54 UT on 26 December 2004. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-12- 26 Launch Vehicle: Proton-K Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (Russia)
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Navigation & Global Positioning
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Personnel Cosmos 2412
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-053C Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2412 is one of the latest of three Russian satellites to Glonass 797 join the GLONASS fleet of navigational satellites. They were 28510 launched by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur at 01:54 UT on 26 December 2004. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-12- 26 Launch Vehicle: Proton-K Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (Russia)
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Navigation & Global Positioning
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Personnel Cosmos 2413
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-053B Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Cosmos 2411 is one of the latest of three Russian satellites to Glonass 712 join the GLONASS fleet of navigational satellites. They were 28509 launched by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur at 01:54 UT on 26 December 2004. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-12- 26 Launch Vehicle: Proton-K Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (Russia)
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Personnel DEMETER
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-025C Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Demeter (Detection of ElectroMagnetic Emissions Transmitted Detection of from Earthquake Regions) is a French minisatellite (125 kg) Electromagnetic that monitors the Electromagnetic activity in the ionosphere Emissions Transmittted during and after earthquakes. It was launched by a Dnieper from Earthquake Regions booster at 07:45 UT on 29 June 2004. It carries probes for 28368 electric fields (0-3 MHz) (ICE) and magnetic fields (10 Hz-18 kHz) (IMSC), a plasma analyzer (IAP), a Langmuir probe (ISL), and a particle detector (IDP). Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-06- 29 Launch Vehicle: Dnepr Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan Mass: 130.0 kg
Funding Agency
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France)
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Space Physics
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Questions or comments about this spacecraft can be directed to: Dr. Dieter K. Bilitza.
Other Sources of DEMETER Data/Information
DEMETER Project (CNES) DEMETER Data Server (CNRS)
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Personnel Demosat
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-050A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events USA 181, also named Demosat is a dummy/mockup of an Demosat American military satellite that was launched by a Delta 4- 28500 Heavy (720 tonne, 23-story high) rocket on a maiden flight at 21:50 UT on 21 December 2004. With a mass of 6.1 tonnes, and a cylindrical size of 2 m height and 1.4 m diameter, it has Facts in Brief an outer aluminum skin enclosing sixty 13.7 cm diameter brass rods, both designed to ensure complete burn-out of the craft Launch Date: 2004-12- during reentry. The dummy carried two 15 kg, nano-satellites 21 named 3CSAT 1 (also known as SPARKY) and 3CSAT 2 (also Launch Vehicle: Delta known as RALPHIE) built by Universities in Arizona and IV Colorado states, but their releases from DEMOSAT have not Launch Site: Cape been ascertained so far. The cryogenic upper stage failed to Canaveral, United States inject the satellite into a geostationary orbit. Mass: 6100.0 kg
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Personnel DirecTV 7S
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-016A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events DirecTV 7S is an American geostationary communications 28238 satellite that was launched by a Zenit 3SL rocket from the floating platform, Odyssey moored at 154 deg-W in the equatorial Pacific ocean. The 13 kW satellite will provide direct- Facts in Brief to-home television service to American homes through its 54 Launch Date: 2004-05- transponders and 27 spot-beams or, in another mode, through 04 its 44 transponders and 30 spot-beams after parking over 119 Launch Vehicle: Zenit deg-W longitude. It is the second spot-beam satellite in the 3SL DirecTV fleet, after DIRECTV 4S that was launched in Launch Site: Odyssey November 2001. (Sea Launch Platform), null
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Personnel Double Star 2
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-029A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Double Star 2, also known as Explorer 2 and as Tan Ce 2 (TC Explorer 2 2) , is a European-Chinese (PRC) (ESA-CNSA) satellite that Tan Ce 2 was launched by a Long March 2C rocket from Taiyuan Satellite Launching Center at 07:05 UT on 25 July 2004. This TC 2 joint mission is similar to the equatorial orbiter, Double Star 1, 28382 except that Double Star 2 is a polar orbiter. The Project Scientist for Double Star 2 is Philippe Escoubet of ESA/ESTEC. Details of the mission are available at: Facts in Brief Launch Date: 2004-07- http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=70 25 Launch Vehicle: Long March 2C Launch Site: Taiyuan, Peoples Republic of China
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European Space Agency (International) China National Space Administration (Peoples Republic of China)
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Name Role Original Affiliation E-mail Dr. Christophe Project ESA-European Space Research [email protected] Philippe Escoubet Scientist and Technology Centre
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Personnel Edusat
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-036A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Edusat is an Indian (ISRO) geostationary satellite that was 28417 launched by a GSLV (F04) rocket from Sriharikota (on the east coast) at 10:31 UT on 20 September 2004. It is the fourth launch of the GSLV rocket which carries a Russian made Facts in Brief motor on its cryogenic third stage. The third and final apogee Launch Date: 2004-09- burn on 24 September moved the satellite from the transfer 20 orbit to a geostationary orbit. The 2.0 tonne, 2.0 kW satellite Launch Vehicle: GSLV will provide interactive educational programs to thousands of Launch Site: Sriharikota, schools in different linguistic regions via five spot-beams from India its five Ku-band transponders, and via wider beams from six Extended C-band transponders. It is now slowly drifting to its parking longitude of 74 deg-E. Funding Agency
Unknown (India)
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Personnel ESSAIM 1
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-049C Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events ESSAIM 1 is one of four French military microsatellites, each 28494 of mass 120 kg. They are demonstration models to map the "electro-magnetic environment of the Earth's surface". The design of the next generation ESSAIMs will be based on the Facts in Brief performance of the models. Launch Date: 2004-12- 18 Launch Vehicle: Ariane 5G Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
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Unknown (France)
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Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-049D Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events ESSAIM 2 is one of four French military microsatellites, each 28495 of mass 120 kg. They are demonstration models to map the "electro-magnetic environment of the Earth's surface". The design of the next generation ESSAIMs will be based on the Facts in Brief performance of the models. Launch Date: 2004-12- 18 Launch Vehicle: Ariane 5G Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
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Unknown (France)
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Personnel ESSAIM 3
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-049E Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events ESSAIM 3 is one of four French military microsatellites, each 28496 of mass 120 kg. They are demonstration models to map the "electro-magnetic environment of the Earth's surface". The design of the next generation ESSAIMs will be based on the Facts in Brief performance of the models. Launch Date: 2004-12- 18 Launch Vehicle: Ariane 5G Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
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Unknown (France)
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Personnel ESSAIM 4
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-049F Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events ESSAIM 4 is one of four French military microsatellites, each 28497 of mass 120 kg. They are demonstration models to map the "electro-magnetic environment of the Earth's surface". The design of the next generation ESSAIMs will be based on the Facts in Brief performance of the models. Launch Date: 2004-12- 18 Launch Vehicle: Ariane 5G Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
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Unknown (France)
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Personnel Estrela Do Sul
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-001A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Estrela Do Sul (TELSTAR 14) is a Brazilian geostationary Telstar 14 communications satellite that was launched by a Zenit 3-SL 28137 rocket from the Odyssey platform floating at 154 deg-W longitude on the equatorial Pacific Ocean at 04:13 UT on 11 January 2004. The 4.7 tonne satellite will provide direct-to- Facts in Brief home video and internet services to Brazil and North America through its 41 Ku-band transponders after parking over 63 Launch Date: 2004-01- deg-W longitude. 11 Launch Vehicle: Zenit 3SL Launch Site: Odyssey (Sea Launch Platform), null
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Unknown (Brazil)
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Personnel Eutelsat W3A
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-008A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Eutelsat W3A is a geostationary communications satellite 28187 belonging to that European consortium, and was launched by a Proton-M rocket (with a Breeze-M upper stage) from Baikonur at 23:06 UT on 15 March 2004. The 4.4 tonne Facts in Brief satellite carries a total of 58 Ku-band transponders and a few Launch Date: 2004-03- steerable transmission beams to provide direct-to-home voice, 15 data, and video channels to Europe, Middle East and Africa. It Launch will replace the W3 satellite at 7° E longitude. Vehicle: Proton-M Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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European Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (International)
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Personnel Express AM-11
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-015A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Express AM-11 is a Russian geostationary communications 28234 satellite that was launched from Baikonur by a Proton-K rocket at 20:37 UT on 26 April 2004. It carries many transponders to provide digital television, telephone and broadband internet Facts in Brief links to Russia and its neighbors, Southeast Asia, and Launch Date: 2004-04- Australia, after parking over a suitable longitude. 26 Launch Vehicle: Proton-K Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (Russia)
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Personnel Express AM1
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-043A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Express-AM1 is a Russian geostationary communications 28463 satellite that was launched by a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur at 22:11 UT on 29 October 2004. It will provide digital TV, radio broadcasting, video-conference, and wide-band internet Facts in Brief services to most of Russia. Parking longitude is not available Launch Date: 2004-10- at this time. 29 Launch Vehicle: Proton-M Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan Mass: 570.0 kg Nominal Power: 6000.0 W
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Russian Satellite Communications Company (Russia)
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Personnel Fengyun 2C
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-042A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Fengyun 2C is a Chinese (PRC) geostationary weather 28451 satellite that was launched by a Long March 3A rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province at "09:30 AM" (probably 01:30 UT) on 19 Ocober 2004. The 1.38 tonne Facts in Brief satellite carries imagers in visible and infra-red bands to Launch Date: 2004-10- monitor droplet sizes on cloud tops, ocean temperature, dust 19 storms and forest fires over one-third of the global surface, Launch Vehicle: Long after parking over 105 deg-E longitude March 3A Launch Site: Xichang, Peoples Republic of China
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Unknown (Peoples Republic of China)
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Personnel FSW 3-3
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-039A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events FSW 3 is a Chinese (PRC) recoverable, photo-imaging Fanhui Shei Weixing spacecraft that was launched by a Long March 2D rocket from 28424 Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in northwest China at 08:00 UT on 27 September 2004. FSW stands for Fanhui Shei Weixing. The URL, Facts in Brief
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004- Launch Date: 2004-09- 09/27/content_2029141.htm 27 Launch Vehicle: Long reports that the satellite will be "used in scientific research, March 2D geological surveying, and mapping". This is the 20th launch of Launch Site: Jiuquan, such recoverable satellites. A well-investigated report on the Peoples Republic of China FSW program in China since the 1960's is available in Funding Agency http://www.astronautix.com/craft/fsw.htm Unknown (Peoples Republic of China)
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Personnel FSW-3 2
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-033A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events FSW-3 2 is a Chinese (PRC) recoverable imaging satellite that 28402 was launched by a Long March 2C rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in north-western China at 07:50 UT on 29 August 2004. It is the 19th launch of Facts in Brief such recoverable satellites. It will provide mapping and land Launch Date: 2004-08- surveying data. 29 Launch Vehicle: Long March 2C Launch Site: Jiuquan, Peoples Republic of China
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Unknown (Peoples Republic of China)
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Personnel Gravity Probe B
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-014A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Gravity Probe B launched successfully at 16:57:25.870 UT GP-B (12:57 p.m. EDT) on 20 April.
The Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission is designed to study Facts in Brief certain aspects of Einstein's general theory of relativity through Launch Date: 2004-04- the use of precision gyroscopes in Earth orbit. The probe 20 launched on 20 April 2004 into a near-circular 650 km polar Launch Vehicle: Delta orbit. The scientific objectives of the mission are to test the II prediction of frame dragging, the effect caused by a rotating Launch body slowly dragging space-time around with it and to Site: Vandenberg AFB, measure the geodetic effect, a change in spin direction of the United States gyroscopes caused by the Earth warping space-time.
The probe consists of a 2.7 meter long cylinder shielded by a Funding Agency special iron alloy, wrapped in superconducting lead foil bags, Gravity Probe B and immersed in a large dewer containing 400 gallons of National Aeronautics and superfluid helium at a temperature of 1.8 K. The interior of the Space Administration cylinder is kept at high vacuum and contains a telescope (United States) bonded to a 53 cm long block of fused quartz which holds four gyroscopes and a proof mass. The gyroscopes are 3.8 cm Discipline diameter spheres of uniform fused quartz each coated with a very thin, chemically pure layer of niobium. The gyroscopes Astronomy are within 40 atomic layers (0.8 millionths of a cm) of a perfect sphere. The spheres are levitated electrically within spherical cavities and spun up to 10,000 rpm. The four gyroscopes are Additional aligned parallel to the telescope axis, two spinning clockwise Information and two counterclockwise. Launch/Orbital information for Gravity The proof mass floats within an evacuated cavity near the Probe B spacecraft's center of mass isolated from external accelerations. The mass tends to follow an ideal gravitational PDMP information for orbit, its position is tracked and the spacecraft thrusters Gravity Probe B respond to keep it at the center of the cavity, maintaining the spacecraft in a drag-free trajectory. The mean acceleration on Experiments on Gravity the gyroscopes will be about 10^-9 m/s^2. The telescope is Probe B made of fused quartz and has an aperture of 14.2 cm and a focal length of 381 cm. Data collections from Gravity Probe B After launch and insertion into the 650 km orbit coplanar with the guide star IM Pegasi the gyroscopes were spun up by a stream of helium gas. Full speed was reached in half and hour, Questions or comments after which the gas was pumped out of the probe to a pressure about this spacecraft can of 10^-11 torr. After a 60 day checkout period the science be directed to: Coordinated observations began. The spin direction of the gyroscopes is Request and User Support measured with the Superconducting QUantum Interference Office. Device (SQUID), which can detect a change of 0.1 milliarc- seconds within a few days. The frame-dragging effect on the gyroscopes should amount to about 42 milliarc seconds per year. The telescope is aligned with the spin axis of the http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=2004-014A[16/10/2010 0:06:00] NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details
spacecraft and is pointed towards IM Pegasi. The main structural element of the spacecraft is the dewer. Mounted on the axis of the spacecraft are four solar panel wings. The roll rate of the spacecraft will be 0.1 to 1 rpm, Data downlink will be at 2.5 Mbps.
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Name Role Original Affiliation E-mail Dr. C. W. Mission Principal Stanford University [email protected] Everitt Investigator
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NASA Successfully Launches Gravity Probe B Mission (20 April 2004 Press Release)
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Personnel Helios 2A
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Lunar/Planetary Events Helios 2A is a French, military, photo-reconnaissance satellite 28492 that was launched by an Ariane 5G rocket from Kourou at 16:26 UT on 18 December 2004. It is the first of such satellites to provide the European Union an independent military Facts in Brief intelligence capability. The 4.2 tonne satellite carries imagers Launch Date: 2004-12- in the visible and infrared bands. 18 Launch Vehicle: Ariane 5G Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
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Unknown (France)
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Personnel Huygens
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Lunar/Planetary Events Huygens is an atmospheric probe designed to make in situ Cassini Probe observations of the Saturnian satellite Titan. ESA's contribution Titan Probe to the Cassini mission, Huygens' objectives are to: (1) determine the physical characteristics (density, pressure, temperature, etc.) of Titan's atmosphere as a function of Facts in Brief height; (2) measure the abundance of atmospheric constituents; (3) investigate the atmosphere's chemistry and Launch Date: 2004-12- photochemistry, especially with regard to organic molecules 25 and the formation and composition of aerosols; (4) Launch Vehicle: Titan characterize the meteorology of Titan, particularly with respect IV-Centaur to cloud physics, lightning discharges, and general circulation; Launch Site: Cape and, (5) examine the physical state, topography, and Canaveral, United States composition of the surface. Mass: 319.0 kg Huygens Nominal Spacecraft and Subsystems Power: 250.0 W Huygens consists of two pieces of apparatus: the probe and the probe support equipment (PSE). The probe itself consists Funding Agencies of two elements as well: the aeroshell, which protects the instruments during the high-velocity entry into Titan's European Space Agency atmosphere, and the descent module, which contains the (International) scientific instrumentation. The descent module is enclosed in National Aeronautics and the aeroshell. They are mechanically attached to each other at Space Administration three locations. (United States) The aeroshell is comprised of two parts: a front shield and a back cover. The front shield is a 79 kg, 2.75 m diameter, 60 Discipline degree half-angle coni-spherical surface. Tiles of "AQ60" ablative material (a felt of phenolic resin reinforced by silica Planetary Science fibers) provide protection against the heat of entry into Titan's atmosphere. The supporting structure is a carbon fiber Additional reinforced plastic honeycomb shell, also designed to protect Information the descent module from the heat generated during entry. The tiles were attached to the supporting structure by an adhesive. Launch/Orbital A suspension of hollow silica spheres in a silicon elastomer information for Huygens (Prosial) was sprayed directly on the aluminum structure of the PDMP information for rear surface of the front shield to further insulate the surface. Huygens The back cover, which experiences far less heating during atmospheric entry, carries multi-layer insulation to protect the Telecommunications probe during the cruise phase to Saturn and during the coast information for Huygens phase. A hole in the cover allowed for depressurization during launch and allows for repressurization during entry. It is an Experiments on Huygens 11.4 kg stiffened aluminum shell protected by a 5 kg coating of Prosial. Data collections from Huygens The descent module consists of a forward dome and an after cone which surround the experiment platform. A top platform completes the enclosure. The forward dome and the top Questions or comments platform contain a variety of ports to permit experiment about this spacecraft can sensors access to the atmosphere and to provide a means for http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1997-061C[17/10/2010 23:01:56] NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details
be directed to: Dr. Edwin V. deployment of the parachutes. Bell, II.
The PSE, although a part of the Huygens system, remains attached to the Cassini orbiter. Its purpose is to support the probe and provide power to the probe prior to separation and to provide communications between the probe and orbiter both prior to and after separation. It also provides the spin given to the probe during the separation process.
Power for the Huygens probe after separation is provided with five LiSO2 batteries capable of storing 1600 W-h of energy and can supply about 250 W of power for the planned three hours of probe operation. For thermal control, the probe uses multiple layers of insulation and about 35 W of radioisotope heater units. A power conditioning distribution unit (PCDU) handles the distribution and conversion of orbiter energy and probe battery energy to all experiments and sub-systems of the probe. It also provides arming and firing functions of pyro lines. Prior to separation, all power to the probe is provided by the Cassini orbiter.
Probe events are controlled via both software and hard-wired sequences, including a triply-redundant wake-up timer and a g-switch to detect deceleration of the probe by Titan's atmosphere. Redundant radar altimeters measure altitude from 20 km down, each transmitting 60 mW of power at 15.4 or 15.8 GHz via a 125 x 162 mm planar slot antenna.
Mission Profile During the cruise phase to Saturn, Huygens has been attached to Cassini and, in the main, dormant. Periodic checks of its status have been carried out and its health remains solid.
The first two orbits around Saturn were designed to set up the necessary trajectory for deployment of the Huygens probe on the third orbit. A maneuver took place in December 2004 that placed the paired spacecraft on an intersect course with Titan. The probe was released from the orbiter at 02:00 UTC on December 25, 2004. The two spacecraft separated with a relative velocity of 0.3-0.4 m/s but will remain in the same orbit for about three weeks. At that time, Cassini will execute a deflection maneuver to enable it to fly by Titan at an altitude of 60,000 km and positioning it to receive transmissions from Huygens as it enters Titan's atmosphere, some 2.1 hours prior to Cassini's closest approach. Entry into the atmosphere is expected to occur on January 14, 2005.
The aeroshell surrounding the descent module will decelerate it from 6 km/s at arrival to 400 m/s in about two minutes. A parachute will then be deployed and the aeroshell jettisoned. The probe will float down through the atmosphere making measurements. A swivel on the parachute harness enables the module to spin during descent to provide scan for its camera. Beginning at an altitude of around 40 km, about two hours after entry, the parachute will be released and the probe will free-fall through the lower atmosphere. The duration of the parachute descent is estimated at 120-150 minutes with 3-30 minutes of operation on the surface of Titan, depending on battery power.
The total data return from the probe is anticipated to be 500 MB.
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Selected References
Jaffe, L. D., and L. M. Herrell, Cassini/Huygens science instruments, spacecraft, and mission, J. Spacecr. Rockets, 34, No. 4, 509-521, July-August 1997.
Matson, D. L., et al., The Cassini/Huygens mission to the Saturnian System, Space Sci. Rev., 104, No. 1-4, 1-58, doi:10.1023/A:1023609211620, 2002.
Lebreton, J.-P., and D. L. Matson, The Huygens Probe: Science, payload and mission overview, Space Sci. Rev., 104, No. 1-4, 59-100, doi:10.1023/A:1023657127549, 2002.
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Lunar/Planetary Events Intelsat 10-02 is an geostationary communications spacecraft 28358 in the (recently privatized) American Intelsat fleet that was launched by a Proton-M rocket from Baikonur at 22:27 UT on 16 June 2004. The 3 tonne satellite will provide digital Facts in Brief broadcasting, telephone, and broadband internet access to Launch Date: 2004-06- users in Europe, South America, Africa and the Middle East 16 through its 36 Ku-band, and 70-C-band transponders after Launch parking over 1 deg-W longitude. Vehicle: Proton-M Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Lunar/Planetary Events Latinsat-C, also known as Aprizesat 2, is an Argentinian Aprizesat 2 microsatellite (12 kg) that will relay radio channels from fixed 28372 and mobile transmitters. It was launched by a Dnieper booster from Baikonur at 07:45 UT on 29 June 2004. Facts in Brief
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Lunar/Planetary Events Latinsat-D, also known as Aprizesat 2, is an Argentine Aprizesat 2 microsatellite (12 kg) that will relay radio channels from fixed 28366 and mobile transmitters. It was launched by a Dnieper booster at 07:45 UT on 29 June 2004. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-06- 29 Launch Vehicle: Dnepr Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Unknown (Argentina)
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Lunar/Planetary Events MBSat (Mobile Broadcasting SATellite) is a Japanese-South Mobile Broadcasting Korean geostationary communications satellite that was SATellite launched by an Atlas 3 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 05:40 28184 UT on 13 March 2004. The 4.1 tonne satellite will provide video, CD-quality radio, and data to cellular phones and other portable devices in Japan and South Korea, after parking over Facts in Brief 144° E longitude. Launch Date: 2004-03- 13 Launch Vehicle: Atlas 3 Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
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Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-030A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Mercury Surface, Space Ranging (MESSENGER) mission is designed to study the Environment, characteristics and environment of Mercury from orbit. Geochemistry and Specifically, the scientific objectives of the mission are to Ranging characterize the chemical composition of Mercury's surface, the geologic history, the nature of the magnetic field, the size and state of the core, the volatile inventory at the poles, and Facts in Brief the nature of Mercury's exosphere and magnetosphere over a Launch Date: 2004-08- nominal orbital mission of one Earth year. 03 Launch Vehicle: Delta Mission Profile II 7925 MESSENGER launched on 3 August 2004 at 6:15:56 UT Launch Site: Cape (2:15:56 a.m. EDT) on a Delta 7925H (a Delta II Heavy launch Canaveral, United States vehicle with nine strap-on solid-rocket boosters). The Mass: 485.2 kg spacecraft was injected into solar orbit 57 minutes later. The MESSENGER Nominal solar panels were then deployed and the spacecraft began Power: 450.0 W sending data on its status. One year after launch, on 2 August 2005, MESSENGER flew by Earth at an altitude of 2347 km. On 12 December 2005 at 11:30 UT, MESSENGER fired its Funding Agency large thruster for 524 seconds, changing the spacecraft velocity by 316 m/s and putting it on course for its 24 October National Aeronautics and 2006 Venus flyby at an altitude of 2990 km. The second Venus Space Administration flyby took place on 5 June 2007 at 23:08 UT (7:08 p.m. EDT) (United States) at an altitude of approximately 337 km. The first of three Mercury flybys, all at roughly 200 km altitude, occurred on 14 Discipline January 2008 at 19:04 :39 UT, and the second on 6 October 2008 at 08:40:22 UT. The third will be on 29 September 2009 Planetary Science at 21:54:58 UT at a distance of 228 km. There are also five deep space manuevers. Data collected during the Mercury flybys will be used to help plan the scientific campaign during Additional the orbital phase. Mercury orbit insertion will take place on 18 Information March 2011, requiring a delta-V of 0.867 km/s. The nominal Launch/Orbital orbit is planned to have a periapsis of 200 km at 60 degrees N information for latitude, an apoapsis of 15,193 km, a period of 12 hours and MESSENGER an inclination of 80 degrees. The periapsis will slowly rise due to solar perturbations to over 400 km at the end of 88 days PDMP information for (one Mercury year) at which point it will be readjusted to a 200 MESSENGER km, 12 hour orbit via a two burn sequence. Data will be Telecommunications collected from orbit for one Earth year, the nominal end of the information for primary mission will be in March 2012. Global stereo image MESSENGER coverage at 250 m/pixel resolution is expected. The mission should also yield global composition maps, a 3-D model of Experiments on Mercury's magnetosphere, topographic profiles of the northern MESSENGER hemisphere, gravity field to degree and order 16, altitude profiles of elemental species, and a characterization of the Data collections from volatiles in permanently shadowed craters at the poles. MESSENGER
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Main propulsion is via the 645-N, 317-s bipropellant LVA thruster, four 22-N monopropellant thrusters provide spacecraft steering during main thruster burns, and ten 4-N monopropellant thrusters are used for attitude control. There is also a reaction-wheel attitude control system. Knowledge for attitude control is provided by star tracking cameras, an inertial measurement unit, and six solar sensors. Power is provided by the solar panels, which extend beyond the sunshade and are rotatable to balance panel temperature and power generation, which provides a nominal 450 W in Mercury orbit. The panels are 70% optical solar reflectors and 30% GaAs/Ge cells. The power is stored in a common-pressure-vessel nickel-hydrogen battery, with 11 vessels and 2 cells per vessel.
Communications are in X-band with downlink through two fixed phased-array antenna clusters and uplink and downlink through medium- and low-gain antennas on the forward and aft sides of the spacecraft. Passive thermal control, primarily a fixed opaque ceramic cloth sunshade, is utilized to maintain operating temperatures near the Sun. Radiators are built into the structure and the orbit is optimized to minimize infrared and visible light heating of the spacecraft from the surface of Mercury. Multilayer insulation, low conductivity couplings, and heaters are also used to maintain temperatures within operating limits.
Five science instruments are mounted externally on the bottom deck of the main body: the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS), X- ray Spectrometer (XRS), Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA), and Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS). The Energetic Particle and Plasma Spectrometer (EPPS) is mounted on the side and top deck and the magnetometer (MAG) is at the end of the 3.6 m boom. Radio Science (RS) experiments will use the existing communications system.
Personnel
Name Role Original Affiliation E-mail Dr. Robert W. Mission Applied Physics [email protected] Farquhar Manager Laboratory Mr. Brian Jay Deputy Project Applied Physics [email protected] Anderson Manager Laboratory Dr. Louise Deputy Project Applied Physics [email protected] Prockter Scientist Laboratory Dr. Ralph L. Project Scientist Applied Physics [email protected] McNutt, Jr. Laboratory Dr. Peter D. Project Manager Applied Physics [email protected] Bedini Laboratory
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Image from the second flyby of Mercury
NASA's MESSENGER Spacecraft Returns to Mercury - 2nd Mercury flyby 6 October 2008
First image of the previously unseen side of Mercury
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Mercury Fact Sheet NASA's Discovery Program Mariner 10 - Mission to Mercury (1973) Bepi-Colombo mission to Mercury
Press Release on selection of MESSENGER - 7 July 1999 Press Release on launch of MESSENGER - 3 August 2004 MESSENGER Completes Venus Flyby - 24 October 2006 MESSENGER Completes Second Venus Flyby - 5 June 2007 NASA Reveals New Discoveries From Mercury - 3 July 2008 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft returns to Mercury - 1 October 2008 MESSENGER Reveals More "Hidden" Territory on Mercury - 29 October 2008 MESSENGER Team Prepares for Third Flyby - 16 September 2009 MESSENGER Gains Critical Gravity Assist for Mercury Orbital Observations - 30 September 2009
MESSENGER Project Home Page - JHU APL
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Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-052C Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Mikron, also known as KS5MF2, is a Russo-Ukrainian Earth KS5MF2 surveying mini-satellite that was launched by a Tsyklon 3 28507 rocket from Plesetsk at 11:20 UT on 24 December. It carried imaging instruments to survey the surface environment and locate natural disasters. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-12- 24 Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon-3 Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia
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Lunar/Planetary Events Molniya 1-T was a Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2405 that was launched from Plesetsk by a Molniya-M rocket on 18 28163 February 2004. The two tonne satellite was launched into a highly elliptical orbit. Facts in Brief The spacecraft was initially erroneously designated as Cosmos 2405. The Molniya 1-T name was assigned correctly several Launch Date: 2004-02- months after launch and the Cosmos 2405 name was 18 reassigned to a spacecraft launched at a later date (2004- Launch 020A). Vehicle: Molniya-M Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia Mass: 2000.0 kg
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Lunar/Planetary Events Nanosat 1, a Spanish nanosatellite, is a 15 kg, 20 W craft that 28493 will help maintain contact with the Spanish zone in Antarctica.
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Launch Date: 2004-12- 18 Launch Vehicle: Ariane 5G Launch Site: Kourou, French Guiana
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Unknown (Spain)
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Lunar/Planetary Events Navstar 54, also known as USA 177 and as GPS 2R-11 is an GPS 2R-11 American navigational satellite in the GPS fleet. It was USA 177 launched by a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 17:39 UT on 20 March 2004. It will take Slot 3 in Plane C, replacing the 28190 aging GPS 2A-19. The fleet consists of 24 operational satellites (plus a few spares) located in six (inertial) planes with Facts in Brief four slots in each. Launch Date: 2004-03- 20 Launch Vehicle: Delta II Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
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Unknown (United States)
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Lunar/Planetary Events NAVSTAR 55, also known as USA 178, and as GPS 2R-12, is USA 178 an American navigational satellite in the GPS fleet that was GPS 2R-12 launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket at 22:54 UT on 23 June 2004. The 2.1 tonne satellite will soon be 28361 manuevered into Slot 4 in Plane F to replace the aging GPS 2A-16 that was launched in November 1992. (GPS 2A-16 will Facts in Brief however be repositioned in the same Plane as a backup, till its failue. Links to GPS fleet is available in section C-2 below. Launch Date: 2004-06- 23 Launch Vehicle: Delta II Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
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Lunar/Planetary Events Navstar 56, also known as USA 180 and as GPS 2R-13, is an USA 180 American navigational satellite that was launched by a Delta 2 GPS 2R-13 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 05:39 UT on 6 November 2004. It is part of the 24-element GPS fleet and will replace the 28474 oldest member of the fleet, GPS 2A-11 launched in July 1991. It will be located in Plane D, Slot 1 position. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-11- 06 Launch Vehicle: Delta II Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
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Lunar/Planetary Events Naxing 1 (also reported as Nanosat 1) is a Chinese (PRC) Nanosat 1 satellite that was launched by a Long March 2-C rocket from 28221 Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 16:00 UT on 18 April 2004. The 25 kg satellite will perform "some high-tech experiments". Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-04- 18 Launch Vehicle: Long March 2C Launch Site: Xichang, Peoples Republic of China
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Lunar/Planetary Events PARASOL (Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Polarization and Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from LIDAR) Anisotropy of is a French (CNES) mini-satellite of mass 120 kg that will Reflectances for provide data on the physical properties of clouds and aerosols. Atmospheric Science coupled with Observations from LIDAR 28498
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Lunar/Planetary Events Philae is the landing craft of the Rosetta mission, designed to Rosetta Lander touch down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014. The scientific objectives are to determine the physical properties of the comet's surface and subsurface and their Facts in Brief chemical, mineralogical and isotopic composition. This Launch Date: 2004-03- information will be used in tandem with the data returned by 02 the Rosetta orbiter to characterize the comet. Launch Vehicle: Ariane 5G Spacecraft and Subsystems Launch Site: Kourou, The Philae spacecraft is a partial hexagonal cylinder, French Guiana approximately 1 meter across and 80 cm high, open on one Mass: 100.0 kg end, supported on a long squat tripod and consists of a baseplate, experiment platform and hood. The structure is Philae made of high modulus carbonfiber with an aluminum coating in Funding Agency a polygonal sandwich construction. The landing gear consists of a central telescopic tube connecting lift and torque European Space Agency mechanism located in the cavity of the lander's body (International) connected at the lower end by a kardanic joint to the center of the tripod. The three lander legs are equipped with shock Discipline absorbers to inhibit bouncing in the low gravity. Push-down and hold-down thrusters are used to accelerate descent and Planetary Science impede rebound after touchdown. A harpoon connected to a tether will be fired into the surface of the comet to anchor the lander. Power will be provided by low intensity, low Additional temperature GaAs solar cells mounted on the top panel of the Information lander hood and a 970 Whr and 110 Whr battery. The lander Launch/Orbital will communicate with the Rosetta spacecraft via a 1 W S-band information for Philae transmitter. A flywheel provides 1-axis stabilization during the descent. Total mass of the lander is about 100 kg. Philae will PDMP information for be carried on the side of the Rosetta orbiter until it reaches the Philae comet. Telecommunications information for Philae The Philae surface science package, with a total mass of about 21 kg, includes an alpha-proton-X-ray spectrometer (APXS) to Experiments on Philae determine elemental composition; two gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers: the Cometary Sampling Data collections from and Composition Experiment (COSAC) and Methods Of Philae Determining and Understanding Light elements from Unequivocal Stable isotope compositions (MODULUS/Ptolemy) to study composition, isotopic abundances and to identify complex organic molecules in Questions or comments cometary material; Surface Electrical, Seismic, and Acoustic about this spacecraft can Monitoring Experiments (SESAME) to investigate surface be directed to: Dr. David R. material acoustically, measure dielectric properties of the Williams. environment, and monitor dust impacts; Multi-Purpose Sensors for Surface and Subsurface Science (MUPUS) to study physical properties of the comet; Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment By Radiowave Transmission (CONSERT) to investigate electrical characteristics of the nucleus bulk http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=PHILAE[17/10/2010 23:12:21] NASA - NSSDC - Spacecraft - Details
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Mission Profile Rosetta and Philae were launched at 07:17 UT on 02 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 G+ from Kourou, French Guiana and will rendezvous with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in mid- 2014. The spacecraft will enter a heliocentric drift phase to intercept the comet at a point close enough to allow communication with the Earth in 2014. More details on the journey to the comet can be found in the Rosetta mission description at:
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On Rosetta's arrival at the comet and insertion into orbit, a suitable landing site will be chosen based on the images sent back to Earth. In November 2014, on confirmation that the orbiter is aligned correctly, Philae will be commanded to self- eject, unfold its three legs, and descend towards the surface from an altitude of roughly 1 km. The lander will touch down at less than 1 meter/sec, and the legs and thrusters will prevent the lander from bouncing. The legs can rotate, lift or tilt to return Philae to an upright position. Immediately after touchdown, a harpoon will be fired to anchor Philae to the ground and prevent it escaping from the comet's extremely weak gravity. After touchdown the lander will deploy its instruments. The minimum mission target is one week of operation on the surface, but operations of many months are possible.
Philae is named after the island in the river Nile on which an obelisk was found that had a bilingual inscription including the names of Cleopatra and Ptolemy in Egyptian hieroglyphs. This provided the French historian Jean-Francois Champollion with the final clues that enabled him to decipher the hieroglyphs of the Rosetta Stone and unlock the secrets of the civilisation of ancient Egypt.
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Name Role Original Affiliation E-mail Dr. Helmut R. Project Max-Planck-Institut fur [email protected] Rosenbauer Scientist Aeronomie Dr. Jean-Pierre Project Institut d Astrophysique Spatiale [email protected] Bibring Scientist psud.fr Dr. Stephan Project Deutsche Forschungsenstalt [email protected] Ulamec Manager fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt Prof. Denis Project Italian Space Agency denis.moura@cnes.fr Moura Manager
Selected References
Biele, J., The experiments onboard the Rosetta lander, Earth, Moon, Planet., 90, 445-458, 2002.
Ulamec, S., et al., Rosetta Lander¿Philae: Implications of an alternative mission, Acta Astronaut., 58, No. 8, 435-441, Apr. 2006.
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Artists concept of the Rosetta lander, Philae, with Rosetta in the background Spacecraft images copyright European Space Agency
Rosetta Orbiter Comet and Asteroid Page
Rosetta begins its 10-year journey to the origins of the Solar System (ESA Press Release, 02 March 2004) Rosetta lander named Philae (ESA Press Release, 05 February 2004) New Destination Chosen for Rosetta (ESA Press Release, 28 May 2003) Other NSSDC Resources Comet Fact Sheet Asteroid Fact Sheet
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Lunar/Planetary Events Progress M-49 is a Russian cargo carrier that was launched by 28261 a Soyuz-FG rocket from Baikonur at 12:34 UT on 25 May 2004. It carried 2.5 tonnes of supplies, water, food and fuel to the International Space Station (ISS). It docked automatically Facts in Brief with the ZVEZDA module of the ISS at 13:55 UT on 27 May Launch Date: 2004-05- 2004. In preparation for the docking, the previously docked 25 PROGRESS M1-11 was evacuated on 24 May, carrying all the Launch Vehicle: Soyuz trash from the ISS, and was destined for a controlled burn on 3 FG June. Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Lunar/Planetary Events Progress M-50 is a Russian cargo carrier that was launched by 28399 a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur at 05:03 UT on 11 August 2004. It carried 2.5 tonnes of food, fuel, air and water to the International Space Station (ISS). It docked automatically with Facts in Brief the Zvesda module of the ISS at 05:02 UT on 14 August 2004. Launch Date: 2004-08- In anticipation of the docking, the previously docked 11 PROGRESS-M 49 was undocked on 30 July, carrying a load Launch of trash to deorbit and burn out. Vehicle: Soyuz-U Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Lunar/Planetary Events Progress M-51 is a Russian automatic cargo craft that was 28503 launched toward the International Space Station (ISS) by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur at 22:19 UT on 23 December 2004. It carried 2.5 tonnes of food, water, fuel and equipment Facts in Brief and docked automatically with the Zvezda module of the ISS Launch Date: 2004-12- at 23:31 UT on 25 December 2004. 23 Launch Vehicle: Soyuz-U Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Lunar/Planetary Events Progress M1-11 is a Russian automatic cargo carrier that was 28142 launched at 11:58 UT by a Soyuz-U rocket on 29 January 2004. It carried 2.5 tonnes of food, fuel, and equipment to the International Space Station after docking with the Zvezda Facts in Brief module of the ISS at 13:46 UT on 31 January 2004. In Launch Date: 2004-01- preparation for the docking, the previously docked 29 PROGRESS M-48 was vacated from the port on 28 January, Launch which then reentered the atmosphere to burn out. Vehicle: Soyuz-U Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Lunar/Planetary Events Raduga 1-7 is a Russian geostationary military spacecraft that Cosmos 2406 was launched by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur on 27 March 28194 2004.
The spacecraft was initially erroneously designated as Cosmos Facts in Brief 2406. It was later redesignated and the Cosmos 2406 name was reassigned to a spacecraft launched at a later date (2004- Launch Date: 2004-03- 021A). 27 Launch Vehicle: Proton-K Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
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Lunar/Planetary Events Rocsat 2 is a Taiwanese (ROC) remote sensing satellite that Formosat-2 was launched from Vandenberg AFB by a Taurus XL rocket at 28254 17:47 UT on 19 May 2004. The 750 kg satellite carries imaging instruments to take pictures of crop yields in Taiwan, natural disasters, and oil spills on land and ocean, and to image high Facts in Brief altitude red lightning strokes called sprites. Launch Date: 2004-05- 19 Launch Vehicle: Taurus XL Launch Site: Vandenberg AFB, United States
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Lunar/Planetary Events Rosetta is European Space Agency (ESA) Horizon 2000 International Rosetta cornerstone mission number 3 designed to rendezvous with Mission Comet 67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, drop a probe on the Rosetta Comet surface, study the comet from orbit, and fly by at least one Rendezvous asteroid en route. The principal goals are to study the origin of comets, the relationship between cometary and interstellar Rosetta-Orbiter material and its implications with regard to the origin of the solar system. Its scientific objectives to achieve these goals Facts in Brief are: global characterization of the nucleus, determination of dynamic properties, surface morphology and composition; Launch Date: Rosetta 2004-03- determination of the chemical, mineralogical and isotopic 02 compositions of volatiles and refractories in a cometary Launch Vehicle: Ariane nucleus; determination of the physical properties and 5 interrelation of volatiles and refractories in a cometary nucleus; Launch Site: Kourou, study of the development of cometary activity and the French Guiana processes in the surface layer of the nucleus and the inner Mass: 1200.0 kg coma (dust/gas interaction); global characterisation of Nominal asteroids, including determination of dynamic properties, Power: 850.0 W surface morphology and composition.
Spacecraft and Subsystems Funding Agency Rosetta's design is based on a box-shaped central frame, 2.8 European Space Agency m x 2.1 m x 2.0 m with an aluminum honeycomb main platform. (International) Total launch mass is 3000 kg including the 100 kg lander and 165 kg of scientific instruments. Two solar panels, 32 square meters each, extend outward from opposite sides of the box, Discipline spanning 32 m tip-to-tip. The spacecraft consists of two primary modules, the Payload Support Module (PSM), which Planetary Science holds the scientific instrumentation and two payload boom deployment mechanisms in the top part of the frame, and the Additional Bus Support Module (BSM), which holds the spacecraft Information subsystems in the lower part. A steerable 2.2 m diameter high- gain parabolic dish antenna is attached to one side, and the Launch/Orbital lander will be mounted on the opposite side. The science information for Rosetta instrument panel is mounted on the top and designed to be PDMP information for facing the comet continuously during orbit while the antenna Rosetta and solar panels face the Earth and Sun. Radiators and louvers are mounted on the back and side panels which face Telecommunications away from the Sun and comet. In the center of the spacecraft information for Rosetta protruding from the bottom is a vertical thrust tube made of corrugated aluminum with strengthening rings. Experiments on Rosetta
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be directed to: Dr. David R. liter pressurant tanks. The spacecraft will be three-axis Williams. stabilized and the orientation controlled by 24 10-N thrusters. Attitude is maintained using two star trackers, a Sun sensor, navigation cameras, and three laser gyro packages. Power is supplied by the solar arrays, which will be composed of low intensity, low temperature Si or GaAs solar cells. These will provide 400 W at 5.2 AU and 850 W at 3.4 AU, when comet operations begin. Power will be stored in four 10 Ahr NiCd batteries which will supply the 28 V bus power. Communications will be via the high-gain antenna, a fixed 0.8 meter medium-gain antenna, and two omnidirectional low gain antennas. Rosetta will utilize an S-band telecommand uplink and S- and X-band telemetry and science-data downlinks, with data transmission rates from 5 to 20 kbits/s. Communication equipment includes a 28 W RF X-band TWTA and a dual 5 watt RF S/X band transponder. On-board heaters will keep the instrumentation from freezing during the period the spacecraft is far from the Sun. Total scientific payload mass is roughly 150 kg.
Philae Lander The Rosetta lander, Philae, will be attached to the side of the Rosetta spacecraft and released some time after Rosetta achieves orbit around the comet. For more information on Philae, see:
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Mission Profile Rosetta was launched at 07:17 UT on 02 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 G+ from Kourou, French Guiana. The spacecraft entered heliocentric orbit and will have an Earth flyby and gravity assist in March, 2005. A Mars flyby/gravity assist will follow in March 2007, and two more Earth gravity assists are scheduled for November 2007 and November 2009. In between these Earth flybys, on 5 September 2008 at 18:58 UTC, Rosetta flew within 800 km of asteroid 2867 Steins at a relative velocity of 8.6 km/s. Steins is a main belt E-type asteroid 4.6 km in diameter. After the second Earth flyby the spacecraft will enter the main asteroid belt for the second time and fly by asteroid 21 Lutetia at a distance of 3000 km and a speed of 15 km/s on 10 July 2010. Lutetia is a large asteroid, about 100 km in diameter. The spacecraft will enter a hibernation phase in July of 2011. In January 2014 Rosetta will come out of hibernation and begin its rendezvous manuever for Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in May 2014.
The rendezvous maneuver will lower the spacecraft velocity relative to that of the comet to roughly 25 m/s and put it into the near comet drift phase. Some time after this observations of the comet and the far approach trajectory phase will start. At the end of this ~90 day phase, the relative velocity between Rosetta and the comet will have been reduced to 2 m/s, at a distance of about 300 comet nucleus radii. At this point landmarks and radiometric measurements are used to make a precise determination of spacecraft and comet relative positions and velocities and the rotation and gravity of the comet nucleus to fine-tune the approach. This information is used to start orbit insertion at about 60 comet radii distance at a few cm/s. At about 25 comet radii a capture maneuver will close the orbit. Polar orbits at 5 to 25 comet nucleus radii will be used for mapping the nucleus beginning in August 2014. After global studies of the nucleus are completed, about five areas (500 x 500 m) will be selected for close observation at a distance down to 1 nucleus radius.
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chosen for the Philae lander. The spacecraft will go into an eccentric orbit with a pericenter as low as 1 km over the landing site and an ejection mechanism will separate Philae from the spacecraft with a maximum relative velocity up to 1.5 m/s in November 2014. The lander will touch down on the surface at a relative velocity of less than 1 m/s and will transmit data from the surface to the spacecraft, which will relay it to Earth. Rosetta will remain in orbit about the comet past perihelion passage in August 2015 until the nominal end of mission in December 2015.
Rosetta is funded by the European Space Agency. The total cost of the mission, including launch and operation was about $900 million before the launch delay. The mission was originally to rendezvous with Comet 46 P/Wirtanen. Flybys of two asteroids, 4979 Otawara and 140 Siwa, on the way to the comet were also planned. The mission was delayed due to problems with the Ariane booster. The delay has reportedly cost an extra $70 to $80 million.
Personnel
Name Role Original Affiliation E- mail Dr. Walter F. Program NASA Headquarters Huebner Scientist Mr. Giulio Varsi Program NASA Headquarters Manager Dr. William L. Program NASA Headquarters Piotrowski Manager Mr. John D. Project ESA-European Space Research and Credland Manager Technology Centre
Selected References
Neugebauer, M., and J.-P. Bibring, Champollion, Adv. Space Res., 21, No. 11, 1567-1575, 1998.
Trotignon, J. G., et al., The Rosetta Plasma Consortium: Technical realization and scientific aims, Adv. Space Res., 24, No. 9, 1149-1158, June 1999.
Ferri, P., Mission operations for the new Rosetta, Acta Astronaut., 58, No. 2, 105-111, Jan. 2006.
Montagnon, E., and P. Ferri, Rosetta on its way to the outer solar system, Acta Astronaut., 59, No. 1-5, 301-309, Sept. 2006.
Steins Flyby News Steins: A Diamond in the Sky - First Images
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Image of Asteroid Steins (Credit: ESA)
An exploded view of Rosetta and an artists concept of the Rosetta lander, Philae
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Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (ESA Press Release, 13 November 2009) Rosetta Observes Asteroid at Close Quarters (ESA Press Release, 5 September 2008) Rosetta Spacecraft Meets Asteroid Steins (ESA Press Release, 25 August 2008) Optical Navigation Campaign Off to a Good Start (ESA Press Release, 19 August 2008) Two Asteroid Flybys For Rosetta (ESA Press Release, 11 March 2004) Rosetta begins its 10-year journey to the origins of the Solar System (ESA Press Release, 02
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Lunar/Planetary Events Saudicomsat 1 is a Saudi Arabian communications 28369 microsatellite (12 kg). It was launched by a Dnieper booster from Baikonur at 07:45 UT on 29 June 2004. Facts in Brief
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Lunar/Planetary Events Saudicomsat 2 is a Saudi Arabian communications 28370 microsatellite (12 kg) that was launched by Dnieper booster from Baikonur at 07:45 UT on 29 June 2004. Facts in Brief
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Lunar/Planetary Events Saudisat 2 is a Saudi Arabian communications microsatellite 28371 (35 kg) that was launched by a Dnieper booster from Baikonur at 07:45 UT on 29 June 2004. Facts in Brief
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Lunar/Planetary Events SJ 6A is a Chinese space radiation monitoring satellite that SJ 6A was launched by a Long March 4-B rocket from Taiyuan 28413 Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province in northern China at 23:14 UT on 8 September 2004. Facts in Brief
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Lunar/Planetary Events SJ 6B is a Chinese space radiation monitoring satellite that SJ 6B was launched by a Long March 4-B rocket from Taiyuan 28414 Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province in northern China at 23:14 UT on 8 September 2004. Facts in Brief
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Lunar/Planetary Events Sich 1M is a Russo-Ukrainian Earth surveying mini-satellite 28505 that was launched by a Tsyklon 3 rocket from Plesetsk at 11:20 UT on 24 December 2004. It carried imaging instruments to survey the surface environment and locate Facts in Brief natural disasters. Launch Date: 2004-12- 24 Sich is the Ukrainian name for owl. Launch Vehicle: Tsiklon-3 Launch Site: Plesetsk, Russia Mass: 18700.0 kg
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Lunar/Planetary Events Soyuz TMA-4 is a Russian passenger transport satellite that 28228 was launched by a Soyuz-FG rocket from Baikonur at 03:19 UT on 19 April 2004. It carried three astronauts (a Russian, an American and a Dutch) to the International Space Station (ISS) Facts in Brief and docked with the Zvezda module of the ISS automatically Launch Date: 2004-04- on 21 April at 05:00 UT. Two of its astronauts will remain in the 19 ISS for about six months, while the Dutch astronaut and the Launch Vehicle: Soyuz two astronauts who had inhabited the ISS for several months FG left the ISS on 29 April in the TMA-3 that had remained Launch Site: Tyuratam docked with the ISS, soft landing in Kazakhstan at 00:11 on 30 (Baikonur Cosmodrome), April. Kazakhstan
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Personnel Soyuz-TMA 5
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Lunar/Planetary Events Soyuz-TMA 5 is a Russian automatic passenger transportation 28444 craft that was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Bailkonur at 03:06 UT on 14 October 2004. It carried two Russian and one American astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS). It Facts in Brief docked with the PIRS module of the ISS at 04:25 UT on 16 Launch Date: 2004-10- October with manual control by the captain after it was 14 determined to be approaching the ISS at an excessive speed. Launch Two of the astronauts will spend a 6-month residency at the Vehicle: Soyuz-U station. The third, along with the two astronauts who had spent Launch Site: Tyuratam six months in ISS soft-landed on 24 October in Russia on the (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Soyuz TMA-4 which had remained docked for six months. Kazakhstan
Funding Agency
Unknown (Russia)
Discipline
Human Crew
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Personnel Superbird 6
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-011A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Superbird 6 is a Japanese geostationary communications 28218 satellite that was launched by an Atlas 2AS rocket from Cape Canaveral at 00:45 UT on 16 April 2004. The 3.2 tonne, 4.4 kW satellite was launched into a highly elliptical transfer orbit, Facts in Brief with a period 2,895 min, apogee 120,679 km, perigee 1,138 Launch Date: 2004-04- km, and inclination 25.5 deg. It is reported that this high 16 apogee, with its very low velocity, is conducive to maneuvering Launch Vehicle: Atlas- into geostationary status using much less on-board fuel than 2 AS the usual transfer orbits require. It will become geostationary by Launch Site: Cape 5 May 2004, after six maneuvers. It will provide high data-rate Canaveral, United States transmissions for television and internet access to the Asia- Pacific region through its 23 Ku-band, and four Ka-band transponders, after parking over 158 deg-E longitude. It will be Funding Agency the fifth operational Superbird, after the current list of SUPERBIRD-A, -B2, -C, and -D. Unknown (Japan)
Discipline
Communications
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Personnel Swift
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-047A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer is a three-telescope MIDEX/Swift space observatory for studying gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and Swift Gamma Ray Burst monitoring the afterglow in X-ray, and UV/Visible light at the Explorer location of a burst. The burst detection rate is 100 per year, with a sensitivity ~3 times fainter than the BATSE detector Explorer 84 aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. The Swift 28485 mission was launched with a nominal on-orbit lifetime of two years. Facts in Brief
Swift is a NASA Midex (medium-class Explorer) mission. It was Launch Date: 2004-11- the third to be launched, following IMAGE and WMAP. 20 Launch Vehicle: Delta II Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States Mass: 1470.0 kg Nominal Power: 1040.0 W
Funding Agency
NASA-Office of Space Science (United States)
Discipline
Astronomy
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Name Role Original Affiliation E-mail Mr. Joseph A. Project Manager NASA Goddard Space [email protected] Dezio Flight Center Dr. Neil Mission Principal NASA Goddard Space [email protected] Gehrels Investigator Flight Center
US Active Archive for Swift Information/Data
The Swift Data Archive at HEASARC
Other Sources of Swift Information/Data
Swift Project
Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) Ultraviolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT) X-Ray Telescope (XRT)
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Personnel Tansuo 1
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-012A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events TANSUO 1 (also reported as EXPERIMENTSAT 1) is a Experimentsat 1 Chinese (PRC) satellite that was launched by a Long March 2- 28220 C rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 16:00 UT on 18 April 2004. The 204 kg satellite will provide stereographic maps of land resources in China. Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 2004-04- 18 Launch Vehicle: Long March 2C Launch Site: Xichang, Peoples Republic of China
Funding Agency
Unknown (Peoples Republic of China)
Discipline
Earth Science
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Personnel Tansuo 2
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Lunar/Planetary Events Tansuo 2, also known as Shijan Weixing 2 and as Shijan Weixing 2 Experimental Satellite 2, ia a Chinese (PRC) 300 kg Experimental Satellite 2 minisatellite that was launched by a Long March 2C rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China on 28479 18 November 2004. It will test some technology developments, and will also survey and monitor the geographical Facts in Brief environment. Launch Date: 2004-11- 18 Launch Vehicle: Long March 2C Launch Site: Xichang, Peoples Republic of China
Funding Agency
Unknown (Peoples Republic of China)
Disciplines
Earth Science Technology Applications
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Personnel Telstar 18
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-024A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Telstar18 (Apstar 5) is a Russian communications spacecraft Apstar 5 that was launched by a Zenit 3SL rocket from the Odyssey 28364 platform floating on the equatorial Pacific Ocean at 04:00 UT on 29 June 2004. It was intended to be a geostationary satellite, but due to the premature stoppage of the boost from Facts in Brief the final DM-SL stage, it ended far below the geostationary orbit. Efforts maybe underway to use the trim-maneuver Launch Date: 2004-06- thruster attached to the satellite itself to slowly raise the orbit to 29 an approximately geostationary status. (Fuel use from that Launch Vehicle: Zenit thruster usually impacts adversely on the useful lifespan of a 3SL geostationary.) Launch Site: Odyssey (Sea Launch Platform), null
Funding Agency
Unknown (Russia)
Discipline
Communications
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Personnel Unisat 3
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-025H Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Unisat 3 is an Italian, "scientific" microsatellite (12 kg). It was 28373 launched by a Dnieper booster at 07:45 UT on 29 June 2004.
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Launch Date: 2004-06- 29 Launch Vehicle: Dnepr Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), Kazakhstan
Funding Agency
Unknown (Italy)
Discipline
Engineering
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Personnel USA 176
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-004A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events USA 176, also known as DSP 22, is an American, DSP 22 geostationary military surveillance satellite that was launched 28158 from Cape Canaveral by a Titan 4B rocket at 18:50 UT on 14 February 2004. Like all the 21 earlier DSPs, the 2.4 tonne satellite carries infrared detectors to monitor rocket launches Facts in Brief and nuclear explosions. The parking longitude of a DSP is rarely revealed. Launch Date: 2004-02- 14 Launch Vehicle: Titan 4B Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
Funding Agency
Unknown (United States)
Discipline
Surveillance and Other Military
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Personnel USA 179
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-034A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events USA 179 is an American military (NRO) satellite that was NROL 1 launched by an Atlas 2AS rocket from Cape Canaveral at Nemesis 23:17 UT on 31 August 2004. It is the last flight of the Atlas 2 models which have had 63 flawless launches since 1991. (The 28384 successor models will be Atlas 5.) The satellite is reported to provide relay services to the several low-altitude, high-latitude Facts in Brief photo-reconnaissance satellites, from its high apogee in the northern hemisphere. Launch Date: 2004-08- 31 Launch Vehicle: Atlas 2AS Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
Funding Agency
Unknown (United States)
Discipline
Surveillance and Other Military
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Personnel Ziyuan-2 3
Publications NSSDC ID: 2004-044A Maps Description Alternate Names New/Updated Data
Lunar/Planetary Events Ziyuan-2 3 also known as ZY-2 3 is a Chinese (PRC) Earth ZY-2 3 Resources satellite that was launched by a Long March 4-B 28470 rocket at "11:10 AM" on 6 November 2004 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi province. It is the third in the ZIYUAN-2 series. It is expected to enable Facts in Brief better land surveying, crop yield asessment, and disaster monitoring. Launch Date: 2004-11- 06 Launch Vehicle: Long March 4B Launch Site: Taiyuan, Peoples Republic of China
Funding Agency
Unknown (Peoples Republic of China)
Discipline
Earth Science
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