【インタファクス通信電】打ち上げ延期のニュース Home > Politics Feb 10 2008 10:34AM Launch of Norwegian satellite from Baikonur put off one day http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11963657 BAIKONUR. Feb 10 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - The launch of a Proton-M rocket with the Norwegian telecommunications satellite Thor 2R has been put off until Monday, a source based in Baikonur told Interfax. "The launch has been put off for technical reasons," the source said, but declined to give the details. "The Proton-M launch vehicle with a Briz-M upper stage and the Thor 2R satellite was to blast off from Baikonur at 2:33 p.m., Moscow time, on Sunday. sd
【イタル・タス通信電】打ち上げ延期のニュース RUSSIA Launch of Russia carrier with Norway satellite delayed by one day 10.02.2008, 12.42 http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12353062 MOSCOW, February 10 (Itar-Tass) - The lift-off of a Russian Proton-M launch vehicle with a Norwegian communication satellite from Baikonur was shifted on by one day, Itar-Tass learnt at the southern cosmodrome on Sunday. “The fire-off of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Norwegian telecom satellite T-2R from Baikonur, scheduled for Sunday at 14.33, was shifted on by one day for technical reasons,” a source specified. “According to preliminary data, the shift is attributed to problems that popped up in the land equipment of the launching complex.” Tor-2R was developed on orders of the Norwegian company Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) and is designed to offer space communication services to subscribers in European countries. There was a definite confusion with the name of the spacecraft back before the launch. The Khrunichev space centre explained that “all contract documents registered it as Tor-2R, but in February 2007, TSB decided to rename it as Tor-5. TSB explained that “the name Tor also has a double origin from the name of Tor ? the Norwegian god of Thunder and from the name of well-known Norwegian traveller Thor Heyerdahl. The satellite’s weight ? 1,960 kilos. It will take a working point in orbit one degree western longitude. The guaranteed service life in geostationary orbit ? 15 years. The Federal Space Agency reported that ”following the carrier’s launching, its first stage and the head cone will drop in the Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, the second stage ? in the Altai Republic, Russian Federation, and the third ? in the Pacific”. The Proton-M launch vehicle is a three-stage liquid carrier. Its launching weight ? 700 tonnes.
>>12 続き Proton carriers are sold on the world market by the Russian-American company International Launch Services (ILS). Russia in the company is represented by the Khrunichev centre and the Energia Space Corporation. The coming launching for ILS will be the first in the current year and 44th in general. The peculiar feature of the launch is that Proton will fire off into space, for first time, the American Star-2 platform, on the basis of which the satellite was manufactured.
【ノーボスチ・ロシア通信電】打ち上げ延期のニュース Russia Russia delays Norwegian telecoms satellite launch till Feb. 11 11:32 | 10/ 02/ 2008 http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080210/98851812.html MOSCOW, February 10 (RIA Novosti) - The launch of a Russian carrier rocket with a Norwegian telecoms satellite has been delayed until February 11, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said in Sunday. The launch of a Proton-M rocket with a Thor-5 satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan was originally planned for February 10 but subsequently delayed until 2:34 p.m. Moscow time (11:34 a.m. GMT) February 11 due to technical problems, Roscosmos said. The Thor-5 satellite, produced by the U.S.-based Orbital Sciences Corporation under a contract with Norway's telecoms giant Telenor, is designed for operation in the geostationary orbit for 15 years to cover Northern and Central Europe and the Middle East.
http://www.ilslaunch.com/ils/launch-postponed/ Launch postponed > Posted by Posted by ILS Communications Team, 11:33 a.m. EST on 10 February 2008 > The launch has been postponed. The new launch time is 6:34 a.m. EST Monday, Feb. 11.
●プレスリリース簡易版(スペック、打ち上げた通信衛星の役割など) Press Release Source: International Launch Services ILS Proton to Launch THOR 5 Satellite Saturday February 9, 6:15 am ET http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080209/20080209005003.html