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Jonathan's Space Report
No. 598 draft 2008 Jul 3, Somerville, MA
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Kosmos-2440
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According to correspondents on the nasaspaceflight.com site,
the upper stage used to launch Kosmos-2440 was an old 11S861 Blok DM-2,
redesignated DM-3 for reasons that are unclear.
Ariane 5ECA
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Ariane 5 vehicle L541, flight V184 was launched from Kourou on
Jul 7. It carried Protostar 1 and Badr 6 into orbit.
Protostar 1 is an SS/Loral LS-1300 satellite with a mass of 1774 kg
dry 4191 kg fuelled. It is owned by Protostar Ltd. of Bermuda and
its subsidiary Protostar Satellite Systems of San Francisco. I believe
the launch contract is with the US subsidiary, and I am therefore counting
Protostar as a US satellite (I imagine the Bermuda address is just
for some kind of tax reason).
Badr 6 is an Astrium Eurostar 2000+ satellite for Arabsat of Riyadh;
it is also known as Arabsat 4AR, and replaces Arabsat 4A which was lost
in a 2006 Proton launch failure.
Erratum
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Carl Rigg points out that the Zhongxing 9 (Chinasat 9) launch was
Jun 9, not Jun 10.
Table of Recent (orbital) Launches
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Date UT Name Launch Vehicle Site Mission INTL.
DES.
Jun 9 1215 Zhongxing 9 Chang Zheng 3B Xichang Comms 28A
Jun 11 1605 GLAST Delta 7920H Canaveral SLC17B Astronomy 29A
Jun 12 2205 Skynet 5C ) Ariane 5ECA Kourou ELA3 Comms 30A
Turksat 3A ) Comms 30B
Jun 19 0636 Orbcomm CDS-1 ) Kosmos-3M Kapustin Yar LC107 Comms 31
Orbcomm R-1 ) Comms 31
Orbcomm R-2 ) Comms 31
Orbcomm R-3 ) Comms 31
Orbcomm R-4 ) Comms 31
Orbcomm R-5 ) Comms 31
Jun 20 0746 Jason 2 Delta 7320 Vandenberg SLC2W Rem Sens. 32A
Jun 26 2359 Kosmos-2440 Proton-K/DM-3 Baykonur LC81/24 Early Warn 33A
Jul 7 2147 Protostar 1 ) Ariane 5ECA Kourou ELA3 Comms 34
Badr 6 ) Comms 34
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