29.04.2010, 07:40
Japan SERVIS-2 Spacecraft Delivered for Rockot Launch
OREANDA-NEWS. April 29, 2010. Japan’s SERVIS-2 spacecraft has arrived in Russia, in preparation for a scheduled June launch aboard a Rockot launch vehicle, reported the press-centre of Khrunichev.
The transport plane with the SERVIS-2 containers landed at Archangelsk airport in Northern Russia.
After customs formalities are completed, the satellite and its ground support equipment will be taken by rail to Plesetsk launch site. The load then will be delivered to integration facility (MIK) used for Rockot launches. The satellite stand-alone operations are expected to begin in several days.
The Khrunichev-built Breeze KM upper stage (the upper, third stage of the Rockot launch vehicle which will be used to insert the spacecraft into orbit) was delivered from Moscow–based Khrunichev’s production facilities to Plesetsk yesterday.
The Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF) of Tokyo, Japan and Eurockot Launch Services GmbH of Bremen, Germany, signed a contract for the launch of the SERVIS-2 spacecraft on a Rockot launch vehicle. Eurockot is the joint venture of EADS Astrium and Russia’s Khrunichev Space Center, and provides Rockot launch services to operators of low earth orbit satellites.
The Space Environment Reliability Verification Integrated System (SERVIS) is being developed by the Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF) under the contract with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The purpose of the project is to establish a parts database, a parts evaluation guideline and an equipment design guideline to utilize commercial-off-the-shelf parts and technologies (COTS) under the space environment so that they can be utilized for space applications.
The SERVIS project has started in 1999 and will continue until 2011. During this period, two verification satellites were to be developed. The first satellite was already launched on Eurockot’s Rockot launch vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in October, 2003 and its two year on-orbit operation was successfully completed.
The launch of the second satellite, SERVIS-2, is scheduled for 2 June, 2010.
The transport plane with the SERVIS-2 containers landed at Archangelsk airport in Northern Russia.
After customs formalities are completed, the satellite and its ground support equipment will be taken by rail to Plesetsk launch site. The load then will be delivered to integration facility (MIK) used for Rockot launches. The satellite stand-alone operations are expected to begin in several days.
The Khrunichev-built Breeze KM upper stage (the upper, third stage of the Rockot launch vehicle which will be used to insert the spacecraft into orbit) was delivered from Moscow–based Khrunichev’s production facilities to Plesetsk yesterday.
The Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF) of Tokyo, Japan and Eurockot Launch Services GmbH of Bremen, Germany, signed a contract for the launch of the SERVIS-2 spacecraft on a Rockot launch vehicle. Eurockot is the joint venture of EADS Astrium and Russia’s Khrunichev Space Center, and provides Rockot launch services to operators of low earth orbit satellites.
The Space Environment Reliability Verification Integrated System (SERVIS) is being developed by the Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer (USEF) under the contract with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The purpose of the project is to establish a parts database, a parts evaluation guideline and an equipment design guideline to utilize commercial-off-the-shelf parts and technologies (COTS) under the space environment so that they can be utilized for space applications.
The SERVIS project has started in 1999 and will continue until 2011. During this period, two verification satellites were to be developed. The first satellite was already launched on Eurockot’s Rockot launch vehicle from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in October, 2003 and its two year on-orbit operation was successfully completed.
The launch of the second satellite, SERVIS-2, is scheduled for 2 June, 2010.
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