thuraya
Sea Launch Past Launches Thuraya
Thuraya-1
Results
of Launch:
Liftoff occurred at 10:51:59 pm PDT, Oct. 20, 2000 (5:51:59
am Oct. 21 GMT). The Zenit-3SL rocket, with equivalent performance
of 5250 kg, delivered the Thuraya-1 satellite to a Geosynchronous
Transfer Orbit one hour, 59 minutes and 7 seconds after
liftoff. All flight parameters were nominal and injection
into orbit was extremely accurate. The signal of the spacecraft
was acquired approximately 2 hours and 21 minutes after
liftoff, as expected.
Thuraya-1
Sea
Launch successfully launched the 5,108 kg (11,260 lb.) Thuraya satellite
into Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit on October 20. Designed for a 12-year
lifespan, the Thuraya satellite will provide regional mobile telecommunications
services to 99 countries in the Middle East, parts of Europe, India,
Africa and central Asia.
Mission
Schedule:
August
7
Delivery
of satellite to Sea Launch Home Port
Sept.
28
Transfer
encapsulated satellite from Payload Processing Facility to Assembly
and Command Ship
Oct.
2
Transfer
of Integrated Launch Vehicle from Ship to Launch Platform
Oct.
3
Lift
Test of Integrated Launch Vehicle on the Launch Pad
Oct.
4/7
Vessels
depart Home Port for the Launch Site on the Equator
Oct.
20
Launch
of Thuraya Satellite
Payload
- Thuraya Satellite:
At
5108 kg. (11,260 lb.), the Thuraya-1 satellite was the largest to launch
on the Zenit-3SL to date, and is the Middle East's first mobile telecommunications
satellite. Beginning in 2001, Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company
will offer regional mobile coverage to 99 countries spanning the Indian
subcontinent, the Middle East, central Asia, north and central Africa
and Europe. The Abu Dhabi-based company is planning cost-effective satellite-based
mobile telephone services using dual-mode handsets and satellite payphones.
Services will include telephone, voice mail, Interactive Voice Response,
data, fax and GPS for more than 1.8 billion people.
Boeing
Satellite Systems (previously, Hughes Space and Communications Company),
the world's largest manufacturer of geosynchronous commercial communications
satellites, built the HS-GEM
(geosynchronous-mobile) model spacecraft in El Segundo, Calif. The
Boeing geomobile satellite system features a 12.25-meter deployable
antenna, and onboard digital signal processing and beamforming. It is
a mobile-communications-supporting satellite system that integrates
a Boeing geosynchronous-orbit satellite with a ground segment and a
user terminal segment. The Thuraya ground segment includes terrestrial
gateways plus a co-located network operations center and satellite control
facility in the United Arab Emirates.
See
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/bss/qtmovies/hsgem_deploy.mov
for deployment sequence animation.
Mission
Profile:
The
Thuraya launch placed a commercial telecommunications satellite into
Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit, with the spacecraft separating from the
upper stage at 1,388 miles above South America.
The
weight of the spacecraft fully fueled at the time of launch, was approximately
11,260 lbs (5,108 kg.). The 45-minute launch window opened at 10:52
pm (PDT). Launching from its equatorial launch site at 154 degrees West
Longitude, Sea Launch inserted the spacecraft directly into the required
6.3 degree inclined orbit, an optimal orbital location for the Thuraya
satellite.
About
two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, the first stage and then the payload
fairing separated. About six minutes later, the second stage separated
from the Block DM, or upper stage. After the first burn of the Block
DM, the spacecraft coasted for 90 minutes, performing thermal maneuvers,
such as a slow roll, to maintain a benign satellite environment. Following
this coast, the Block DM made a second burn and then separated from
the spacecraft about eleven minutes later. About 22 minutes after Block
DM separation Boeing Satellite Systems acquired the signal of the spacecraft
from a ground station in Italy.
Designed
for a 12-year lifespan, the satellite is now positioned in Geosynchronous
Orbit, 35,786 km (22,236 miles) above the Earth, at 44 degrees East
Longitude and inclined at 6.3 degrees. It is among the post powerful
satellites orbited to date, with 13.5 kilowatts. By December, the satellite
had successfully completed its Initial Operational Test phase, during
which the C-band antenna, solar wings and 12-meter-diameter L-band reflector
were deployed and tested.
Daily
Log:
Friday,
October 20 (Day 17)
Bon
voyage, Thuraya ...
Thursday,
October 19 (Day 16)
Work
in Progress ...
Wednesday, October 18 (Day 15)
Need
More Time on Earth
Tuesday, October 17 (Day 14)
Tomorrow
...
Monday,
October 16 (Day 13)
The
skies are ready to split for a moment and let the earthling creation
escape ...
Sunday,
October 15 (Day 12)
The
range is GO for launch...
Saturday,
October 14 (Day 11)
We
seem to be welcome in this eternal world of song and silence...
Friday,
October 13 (Day 10)
Sea
Launch is always ready...
Thursday,
October 12 (Day 9)
Like
the sun, we have pushed through the clouds...
Wednesday,
October 11 (Day 8)
Sea
Launch Commander and Odyssey are now side-by-side...
Tuesday,
October 10 (Day 7)
Launch
rehearsal...
Monday,
October 9 (Day 6)
The
sun spills its gold. Blue billows turn into shimmering dunes...
Sunday,
October 8 (Day 5)
My
name is James Harkins. I am a technician for the payload unit...
Saturday,
October 7 (Day 4)
Today,
the Sea Launch Commander has joined the race to the equator...
Friday,
October 6 (Day 3)
Meet
the Catering Officer on the Launch Platform Odyssey...
Thursday, October 5 (Day 2)
Thuraya
is Arabic for the PLEIADES...
Wednesday, October 4 (Day 1)
And
the evening and the morning were the first day...
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