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"Морской старт" (Sea Launch) / Loral 1(Galaxy 18).
КА Loral 1(Galaxy 18)
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Построенный компанией Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), гибридный космический аппарат Loral 1(Galaxy 18) серии 1300, весом 4642 кгс, на котором установлены 24 ретранслятора С-диапазона и 24 ретранслятора Кu-диапазона, обеспечи-вающие современные телевизионные, информационные и телекоммуникационные услуги в Соединенных Штатах, включая Аляску и Гавайи, в Мексике и Канаде. Промышленный лидер в мощности, производительности и надежности, модель 1300 разработки SS/L является проверенной в космосе платформой, которая поддерживает широкий диапазон спутниковых услуг и является рекордсменкой по надежности работы. Для бесперебойного обеспечения электроэнергией разработаны высокоэф-фективные и легкие солнечные батареи. Хотя этот космический аппарат рассчитан на 15 лет службы, непосредственное его выведение компанией Sea Launch на экваториальную орбиту предполагает дополнительные годы службы. Точка стояния КА Galaxy 18 123 градуса западной широтыдолготы.
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Space Systems/Loral delivers the Galaxy 18 satellite to Sea Launch Home Port. It arrives from the manufacturing plant in Palo Alto, Calif., in a specially designed container on a flat-bed truck. The spacecraft team will remove the satellite from the container and begin processing activities in the Payload Processing Facility, in preparation for mating with a Zenit-3SL vehicle.
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Following testing, fueling and encapsulation of the satellite, it is prepared for transfer to the assembly hall on the Sea Launch Commander, where the completed unit will be integrated with the Zenit-3SL rocket. The Payload Unit leaves the Payload Processing Facility on a specially designed transporter that takes it down the short road to the stern ramp of the ship.
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With the Zenit-3SL rocket fully integrated, the Sea Launch Commander moves around the pier and lines up directly in front of the Odyssey Launch Platform. The ship's stern is rolled out and the process for transferring the rocket from the ship to the platform begins. The platform lowers large yellow brackets on cables extended from the forward end of the platform's hangar. These brackets are attached to points on the first and second stages of the rocket. |
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Once the brackets are fastened and checked out according to procedure, the cranes lift the rocket up 200 feet to the launch deck and then ease it into the hangar, where it rests on the transporter-erector during the transit to the launch site.
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With the Zenit-3SL rocket on the Odyssey Launch Platform, the team rolls it out of the hangar to the launch pad at the stern of the launch deck on the transporter-erector. Then the erector arm lifts the rocket into a vertical position, where a final series of tests are performed Following these tests, the rocket is then lowered back onto the transporter and returned to the hangar, for the transit to the launch site.
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With the completion of all mission preparations, the Odyssey Launch Platform is ready for transit to the launch site on the Equator. |
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Well wishers stream to the end of the pier to bid farewell to the platform and the team onboard. |
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The Odyssey slowly sails past the Payload Processing Facility, and out of the harbor.
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Rob Peckham, president of Sea Launch, congratulates everyone on a job well done in advance of pushing off. Ivan Klychnik (at left) translates. |
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Brian Sing, Intelsat's program manager for launch services, offers comments to the team. |
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Keith Dayton, Sea Launch vice president for launch operations, takes the poll and instructs all leads to respond with gusto! |
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The Sea Launch Commander moves out, with the team waving goodbye to those below on the pier. |
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She makes the turn and leaves the port, past the Payload Processing Facility.
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All systems and personnel are ready for the launch of the Galaxy 18 satellite |
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The vessels are now in launch position.
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The Zenit-3SL is rolled out of its protective hangar on the Odyssey Launch Platform and then raised to a vertical position on the pad. |
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With the rocket erected on the pad, the team performs a series of tests, leading up to the final hours of the countdown.
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