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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: December 28, 2013 11:45:54 AM CST
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The State Commission has decided to start charging and ILV "Soyuz-2.1V"

28.12.2013 11:19 ::

 

December 28, 2013 g at Plesetsk a meeting of the State Commission, which examined the results of repeated tests on the rocket launch complex (ILV) "Soyuz-2.1V." After hearing the reports supervisors readiness RKN and ground-based facilities, the State Commission decided RKN refueling propellants.

 

Launchers calculations troops Aerospace Defense with the participation of specialists of rocket-space industry Russia started operations refueling RKN oxidizer and fuel.

 

Start ILV "Soyuz-2.1V" is scheduled for 14.00 Moscow time on December 28.

 

Roscosmos press service

 

 

 

Was commissioned ILV "Soyuz-2.1V." The program has been fully implemented

28.12.2013 18:18 ::

 

28 December at 16.30 Moscow time from the launch complex of the platform 43 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome starting calculations Forces Aerospace Defense with the participation of specialists of rocket-space industry Russia conducted a successful launch (ILV) "Soyuz-2.1V" with block removal (BV ) "Volga" and SC "Stork".

 

After separation from the regular second stage of the launch vehicle (LV) head unit comprising SC "Stork" and block elimination continued autonomous flight. Inferring the spacecraft to the target orbit was performed by operating the propulsion unit excretion.

 

At 18.10 MSK spacecraft nominally separated from BV "Volga" on the target orbit.

 

"Soyuz-2" Phase 1B - two-stage booster easy class, developed by FSUE "SRP" TsSKB Progress "(Samara). Designed to launch satellites with launch complexes LV "Soyuz-2". Booster developed on the basis of "Soyuz-2" Phase 1B, with the removal of the side blocks, install the central unit of the engine NK-33A engine and steering RD0110R (development of "KBKhA"). Second stage unit borrowed from the block with completion stage 3 "Soyuz-2" stage 1B. With the "Soyuz-2.1V", a block elimination "Volga".

 

Spacecraft "Stork" developed by the Samara State Aerospace University. Korolev and FSUE "SRP" Samara Space Center. " SC is designed for educational, scientific, technical and experimental problems working out means of measuring the geomagnetic field and compensation microgravity environment on board. SC weight - 50 kg.

 

Roscosmos press service

 

 

Interfax

December 28, 2013 17:12

 

Soyuz-2.1v rocket places satellites into interim orbit - Russian Defense Ministry

 

MOSCOW. Dec 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The Soyuz-2.1v launch vehicle has successfully lifted its Volga upper stage and a group of satellites to an interim orbit, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman told Interfax-AVN on Saturday.

 

"The light-weight rocket Soyuz, which blasted off from Plesetsk [Cosmodrome], has successfully placed its upper stage and three satellites into an interim orbit. The satellites are expected to reach their designated orbit in several hours," he said.

 

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ITAR-TASS

 

Soyuz-2.1b successfully launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome

 

December 28, 18:17 UTC+4

 

MOSCOW, December 28, 17:54 /ITAR-TASS/. Russia's Aerospace Defence Forces launched the AIST scientific and education small spacecraft on December 28, the Defence Ministry told Itar-Tass on Saturday.

 

"A unit of Russia's Aerospace Defence Forces successfully launched the Soyuz-2.1b light-class booster with the Volga upper stage and the AIST spacecraft at 4:30 p.m. Moscow time on Saturday, December 28," Defence Ministry deputy spokesman Alexei Komarov said.

 

"The Soyuz-2.1b booster with the AIST spacecraft and the Volga upper stage has been successfully launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome," an official of the Federal Space Agency told Itar-Tass.

 

The launch has been led by commander of Aerospace Defence Forces, Major-General Alexander Golovko.

 

The Volga upper stage successfully separated from the Soyuz-2.1b booster at 4:37 p.m. Moscow time and it was accompanied by land-based facilities of the G.S. Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre, the Defence Ministry told Itar-Tass.

 

Earlier, the state commission took a decision to launch the booster at 2 p.m. Moscow time. So, the launch of the booster was postponed.

 

Initially, the booster's launch was planning to be made at the end of 2012. However, the launch was being delayed. Previously, the launch was postponed to December 23, 2013 due to additional checks.

 

The Soyuz-2.1b is a two-stage light class booster. It can be launched from the Soyuz 2 boosters.

 

The creation of new boosters is conditioned by the tendency towards increasing demand on launching small satellites, ending the use of Tsiklon and Kosmos boosters, as well as the need to double the Rokot boosters.

 

The AIST satellite has been designed by students and young scientists of S.P. Korolev Samara State Aerospace University and specialists of TsSKB Progress. The satellite is designed to develop technology and create microsatellites.

 

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After Series of Delays, Russia Launches New Soyuz Rocket

 

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Soyuz-2.1v carrier rocket, Nov. 23, 2013

© Photo State Research and Production Space Rocket Center "TsSKB-Progress "

18:59 28/12/2013

 

MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – A new Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia on Saturday after numerous delays earlier this week, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

 

The ministry said the launch took place at 16:30 Moscow time (12:30 GMT).

 

The rocket put into designated orbit a small research satellite built by students and young scientists.

 

The new rocket, dubbed the Soyuz-2.1v, is to feature a completely reworked first stage powered by a NK-33 (14D15) rocket engine built by the NK Engines Company in the Russian city of Samara. The rocket lacks the characteristic four boosters that Soyuz and its ancestors have had since the R-7 missile that launched Sputnik in 1957.

 

The launch was originally scheduled for Monday and was delayed first until Tuesday and then until Wednesday due to concern over a possible malfunction of one of the rocket's engines.

 

A Russian defense official, Colonel Dmitry Zenin, said later on Wednesday the launch was postponed again and will take place sometime next year.

 

A state commission that gathered on Saturday morning, decided to launch the rocket at 14:00, but it was also cancelled minutes before the planned blastoff.

 

The Soyuz, the most frequently launched rocket in the world, has undergone more than 1,700 launches since its debut in 1966. It is one of only two rockets worldwide that are capable of sending astronauts into orbit, the other being the Chinese Long March 2F.

 

© 2013  RIA Novosti