SPOT 6;PROITERES;mRESINS=PSLV-C21(CA)-9.09.12 08:23 ЛМВ

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http://mskit.ru/short_news/s118831/

SPOT 6 скоро выйдет на орбиту[/size]
13.04.2012 09:55

Запуск первого спутника ДЗЗ нового поколения SPOT 6 будет осуществлен во второй половине 2012 года с помощью индийской ракеты-носителя PSLV. Соответствующее соглашение было заключено в апреле между Astrium Services и национальным космическим агентством Индии ISRO. Спутник массой около 800 кг планируется разместить на полярной орбите высотой 694 км. В ходе предстоящего запуска ракета-носитель PSLV выведет на орбиты еще несколько полезных нагрузок.

Astrium Services создает спутник SPOT 6 и еще один идентичный ему аппарат — SPOT 7 — на собственные средства. Общая стоимость работ, включая расходы на запуск, составляет около 400 млн долл. США. Спутник SPOT 7 планируется запустить в 2014 году и разместить в одной плоскости с SPOT 6 с разносом по фазовому углу на 180°.

Спутники SPOT 6 и SPOT 7 смогут вести съемку Земли с разрешением 1,5 м в панхроматическом режиме и до 6 м режиме многоспектральной съемки. Полоса съемки сохранится прежней как на аппаратах прошлого поколения — 60 км, но возможности использования спутников значительно возрастут благодаря способности управлять положением оптической системы в поперченном направлении в пределах 35° относительно направления в надир и в пределах 45°в направлении вдоль трассы полета.

Также ожидается, что SPOT 6 и SPOT 7 будут использоваться совместно со спутниками Pleiades-1 (запущен в декабре 2011 г.) и Pleiades-2 (запуск намечен на 2013 г.), способными получать изображения с максимальным разрешением до 0,5 м. Разнос между спутниками в такой системе составит 90°. Система позволит делать повторные снимки участков земной поверхности в течение одних суток и обеспечит беспрецедентные для коммерческих систем ДЗЗ возможности по ведению космической съемки в интересах коммерческих и государственных пользователей.

Эксклюзивными правами на получение и распространение на территории России данных с новых спутников SPOT 6 и SPOT 7 обладает ИТЦ «СКАНЭКС». Соответствующее соглашение со сроком действия до 2020 года было подписано с европейской компанией EADS Astrium в сентябре 2010 года.[/size]

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/AndhraPradesh/Risat-1-launched-successfully-from-Sriharikota/Article1-846299.aspx

The next would be another PSLV flight in August, when the rocket could carry six satellites.

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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1204/25pslv/

Officials announced the next PSLV mission will launch in August with the Spot 6 optical observation satellite for Astrium Services.

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/spot-6.htm

SPOT 6, 7[/size]


SPOT 6 [Astrium]

SPOT 6 and 7 (Satellite Probatoire de l'Observation de la Terre) are two agile Earth observation satellites to continue the services of the SPOT 4 and 5 satellites.

Both satellites will offer 2 meter resolution data in a 60 kilometer by 60 kilometer swath, and improved agility with twice the design life of previous SPOT satellites.

The satellites will be coorbital with the high resolution Pl

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http://www.firstpost.com/india/after-risat-1-isro-announces-two-new-missions-289478.html

PSLV C-20 with Indo French satellite SARAL and four small satellites would be launched in October, 2012 and PSLV C-21 with a commercial payload SPOT, a French satellite on earth observation this August, he said.[/size]

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http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=1173.msg891583#msg891583

According to this article:
India to ferry heaviest foreign satellite in August
the co-passenger with Spot-6 on PSLV C21 in August will be a Japanese microsatellite (15kg)
(maybe PROITERES which has a launch mass of 15 kg?)

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Chennai/India-to-ferry-heaviest-foreign-satellite-in-August/Article1-848004.aspx

India to ferry heaviest foreign satellite in August[/size]

IANS
Chennai, April 29, 2012

India will ferry two foreign satellites - French and Japanese - on board its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) rocket in August this year for a price, said a senior official. "The next rocket launch will be in August. We will be sending our PSLV rocket with French satellite
SPOT 6 (800 kg) and a small Japanese satellite weighing around 15 kg. Though the rocket is called PSLV-C21 it will go before PSLV-C20," P.S. Veeraraghavan, director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), told IANS.

The Thiruvananthapuram based VSCC is part of India's space agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

ISRO's commercial arm Antrix Corporation Limited (Antrix) has entered into a commercial Launch Services Agreement with Astrium SAS, a company under EADS, France for launching SPOT-6, an advanced remote sensing satellite.

What is interesting is that the 800 kg SPOT-6 built by Astrium SAS will be the heaviest third party payload that ISRO will be carrying after the 350 kg Italian satellite Agile it carried in 2007, officials said.

As the total luggage will be around 815 kg, ISRO will be using its Core Alone variant of PSLV (rocket without its six strap on motors).

The mission will take ISRO's total tally of ferrying foreign satellites to 29.

ISRO has been carrying foreign satellites since 1999 initially as an add-on luggage to its own satellite.

It was with Agile satellite that ISRO started flying a full commercial rocket.

According to Veeraraghavan, the space agency would launch SARAL satellite - an Indo-French initiative - using PSLV-C20 rocket after the August launch.[/size]

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http://erps.spacegrant.org/uploads/images/images/iepc_articledownload_1988-2007/2011index/IEPC-2011-035.pdf

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/proiteres.htm

PROITERES[/size]


PROITERES [OIT]

A team of students and faculty members of Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) are now developing a small satellite called MicroSat with an electric propulsion rocket engine, which is installed with radio equipment. The project called PROITERES (PRoject of OIT Electric-Rocket-Engine Onboard Small Space Ship) aims to demonstrate powered-flight technology for an ultra-small satellite and to monitor the Kansai District with a high-resolution camera. PROITERES also aims to reduce development costs and shorten the development period drastically by miniaturizing the satellite and its component parts.

The project will focus on:

    Experimental verification of two-way radio signal propagation characteristics using amateur radio-frequency bands.
    Communication tests and their feedback aiming at improvement of satellite communication technology by using off-the-shelf consumer goods.
    Tracking and communicating with our satellite by amateur earth stations all over the world.
    Powered-flight by electric rocket engine.
    Monitoring with a high-resolution camera the Kansai District; especially Osaka, around Yodogawa basin.

Nation:    Japan
Type / Application:    Technology
Operator:    Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT)
Contractors:    Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT)
Equipment:    
Configuration:    Gravity-gradient stabilized cube
Propulsion:    electric propulsion[/size]

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http://www.astrium.eads.net/en/press_centre/astrium-launches-satellite-images-portal.html

Astrium launches satellite images portal[/size]
6 june 2012

Geoinformation Services, Pl

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http://www.eads.com/eads/int/en/news/press.20120723_astrium_spot6.html

Astrium's SPOT 6 ready for launch campaign[/size]
23 July 2012

        The SPOT 6 Earth observation satellite is now ready for launch and will shortly leave Astrium's facility in Toulouse
        SPOT 6 and its twin SPOT 7 will operate until 2024, ensuring continuity from SPOT 5 with a higher level of quality and major improvement in service performance
        The SPOT 6 satellite, its instrument and the entire operational ground system have been developed and qualified by Astrium Satellites and their partners in 3.5 years, a benchmark at this level of quality

SPOT 6, the brand new Earth observation satellite built by Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, is now ready for launch. It will be transferred in the coming days from the Astrium Satellites facility in Toulouse (France) to the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India where it will be integrated with the PSLV launcher that will carry it into orbit.

SPOT 6 is a high resolution optical Earth observation satellite. Like its twin SPOT 7, which is slated for launch early 2014, SPOT 6 will have a 60-km swath width and produce imagery products with a resolution down to 1.5 metres. SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 will ensure service continuity from the SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 satellites, which have been operating since 1998 and 2002 respectively.

Both ground and space segments have been designed for improved performance compared with previous SPOT missions, especially in terms of responsiveness - from satellite tasking to product delivery - and collection capacity. Moreover, SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 are "agile" as they can quickly be aimed at any point within 1500km of their position. The constellation SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 will actually provide a daily revisit everywhere on Earth with a total coverage of 6 million km

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http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=1173.msg932524#msg932524

PSLV-C21 to be launched some time after Aug-15 (India's Independence Day)

No links to provide as the news is not yet in media(will get them as and when available)

Also PSLV-C20(Saffire+SARAL+...) is also getting ready for launch on the other launch pad. Stacking operations have already begun.

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http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=1173.msg935065#msg935065

C21 is planned in 2nd week of Sept now. Refer link (As per the local news paper Eenadu in Telugu)

As per this, 2 new rockets are scheduled in September itself One is C21 - confirmed but other is not mentioned; it must be GSAT-10 but not the C20 (I guess so; because although both C21 & C20 are getting ready on both launch pads in parallel, ISRO needs some 2-4 weeks time for C20 launch, after C21!)

M2 is planned is November.

Here might be the sequence :
1. C21 - Sept 2nd week
2. GSAT-10 - Sept (from Arian)
3. C20 - Oct
4. GSAT 14 (M2) - Nov

Thx
~Prasad

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http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astriums_SPOT_6_ready_for_launch_campaign_999.html

Astrium's SPOT 6 ready for launch campaign[/size]
by Staff Writers
Toulouse, France (SPX) Jul 30, 2012

SPOT 6, the brand new Earth observation satellite built by Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, is now ready for launch. It will be transferred in the coming days from the Astrium Satellites facility in Toulouse (France) to the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India where it will be integrated with the PSLV launcher that will carry it into orbit.

SPOT 6 is a high resolution optical Earth observation satellite. Like its twin SPOT 7, which is slated for launch early 2014, SPOT 6 will have a 60-km swath width and produce imagery products with a resolution down to 1.5 metres.

SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 will ensure service continuity from the SPOT 4 and SPOT 5 satellites, which have been operating since 1998 and 2002 respectively.

Both ground and space segments have been designed for improved performance compared with previous SPOT missions, especially in terms of responsiveness - from satellite tasking to product delivery - and collection capacity.

Moreover, SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 are "agile" as they can quickly be aimed at any point within 1500km of their position. The constellation SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 will actually provide a daily revisit everywhere on Earth with a total coverage of 6 million km" per day.

As soon as they are validated in orbit, SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 will be operated by Astrium Services in coordination with the two Pleiades satellites which will be in the same orbit.

The constellation will offer unique applications, in an unrivalled delivery time, to Astrium Services' customers. Every point on the globe will be able to be seen every day, once in high resolution and also in very high resolution.

In addition while SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 will provide a wide view over a large area, Pleiades 1A and Pleiades 1B will be able to offer, for the same zone, products with a narrower field of view but with an increased level of detail (50cm).

Based on the newly designed Astrium Astrosat 500 MklI platform, SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 offer enhanced performance compared with their predecessors and are also lighter (weighing 720kg against SPOT 5's 3 tonnes), thanks to the use of latest-generation technologies including silicon carbide, a brand-new detector for the instrument, and new avionics for the satellite. Both satellites will have a service life of 10 years.

In addition to the satellites, Astrium has complete responsibility for the design and manufacture of the ground segment, the launch of the satellites, qualification and maintenance of the system, and the satellite command and control operations.

The overall lead time for the whole system, 3.5 years, demonstrates that Astrium's improvement programs have delivered results, reaching benchmark efficiency, putting technology at the service of quality, speeding up manufacture and reducing the level of project risk.

All these improvements have contributed to the success of SPOT 6, from instruments to platforms and satellite assembly, integration and test (AIT), and from ground segment to data processing techniques.[/size]

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http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/hal-delivers-propellant-tank-for-pslv-rocket-374604/

HAL delivers propellant tank for PSLV rocket[/size]
By:   Greg Waldron Singapore
04:53 23 Jul 2012

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has delivered an indigenously-produced fourth stage propellant tank for the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket.

Producing the tank locally resulted in foreign exchange savings of Indian rupees (Rs) 12 million ($217,000), HAL chairman RK Tyagi said in a statement.

"The PS4 tank is a part of the fourth stage of PSLV," added HAL. "It will carry 1.6t of liquid propellant mono-methyl hydrazine (MMH) as fuel and mixed oxides of nitrogen (MON-3) as oxidiser during the flight."

All machining was carried out at HAL, while the welding was carried out at ISRO's liquid propulsion centre and at HAL.

The PSLV has been India's launch vehicle of choice. It is a relatively small but capable launcher that has been used extensively by the Indian government and, in a few cases, to loft payloads for paying foreign customers. Much of the craft, although evolving, has been based on foreign technology.

In April, ISRO announced the signing of a commercial Launch Services Agreement between its commercial arm, Antrix, and the European satellite manufacturer Astrium, for the launch of the European remote sensing spacecraft, Spot 6.

The 800kg Spot 6 spacecraft is being built by Astrium and will be launched by the strap-on-less core alone (CA) variant of ISRO's PSLV during the second half of 2012.Some other undisclosed satellites will also be carried on this flight as co-payloads.[/size]

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http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=1173.msg936354#msg936354

SPOT-6 is reached Sriharikota. Refer link (in Telugu)

Thx
~Prasad

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http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29471.msg937476#msg937476

A newspaper in Telugu indicates a September 6 launch date
(source in Telugu)

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while the FCS French forum points at September 9

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http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article585466.ece

ISRO gets ready for historic 100th mission[/size]

 By PTI - BANGALORE

 08th August 2012 12:45 PM
 Photos
 


 "We have so far put 99 missions (62 satellites and 37 launch vehicles) from the days of Aryabhata (satellite) of 1975", Chairman of Bangalore-headquartered space agency, K Radhakrishnan said. (File/PTI)

The Indian Space Research Organisation is preparing for its 100th mission next month with the commercial launch of two foreign satellites from the spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

 ISRO plans to launch 720-kg SPOT-6 remote sensing satellite from France (built by ASTRIUM SAS) and a 15-kg Japanese spacecraft Protiers on board the home-grown Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C21) in the second week of September, in a major milestone of sorts.

 "We have today (so far) put 99 missions (62 satellites and 37 launch vehicles) from the days of Aryabhata (satellite) of 1975", Chairman of Bangalore-headquartered space agency, K Radhakrishnan told PTI here.

 "PSLV-C21 would be the 100th mission. The launch is basically for commercial purposes".[/size]

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http://www.astrium-geo.com/en/4333-august-2012-spot-6-heading-for-india

SPOT 6 heading for India[/size]
August 2012

SPOT 6 flies out to India on Wednesday 1 August aboard an Air France Boeing 747 freighter aircraft, arriving the next day at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, where it will be mated with the PSLV launcher set to loft it into orbit.

At the end of July, the SPOT 6 satellite was boxed inside its transport container. First, a crane hoisted the satellite onto the container base, to which it was fastened. The container cover was then hoisted over the satellite and secured to the base.
 

 SPOT 6 fastened to its container base.
 

 The container cover is hoisted over SPOT 6.

 

 The container cover is secured to the base.[/size]