saya juga kaget membaca berita ini, ternyata Russia punya 2 sistem rocket, yang kelas atas Soyuz, sedangkan kelas dua-nya Proton-M, ini yg kelas murah, bayar murah cari selamat...hehehe...
--- In [email protected], "Sunny" <ambon@...> wrote: > > http://www.antaranews.com/en/news/83815/indonesian-telkom-3-satellite-lost-in-space-telkom > Indonesian Telkom-3 satellite lost in space: Telkom > Tue, August 7 2012 22:05 | 532 Views > > "We are still coordinating and gathering information about the incident," > Slamet Riyadi, head of Corporate Communications and Affairs (HCCS) at Telkom, > said. > Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Telkom-3 satellite owned by Indonesian > telecommunication services company Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) has been > reported lost, hours after it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in > Kazakhstan at 2:31 AM Jakarta time on Tuesday. > > The company will not be giving detailed information about the incident, > Slamet Riyadi, head of Corporate Communications and Affairs (HCCS) at Telkom > said. > > "We are still coordinating and gathering information about the incident," > Slamet told ANTARA News. > > The Telkom-3 satellite was carried by a Russian-made Proton-M rocket, along > with a Russian Ekspress-MD2 satellite. The Telkom-3 was scheduled to reach > the Briz-M upper stage on Tuesday at 11.44 am, and the Express MD2 stage at > 12.14 pm Jakarta time. > > The Briz-M upper stage involves releasing the rocket's fuel tank along with > the relocation of command instruments towards the center. This phase is aimed > at mitigating shock loads when an additional propellant tank is being > discarded. > > Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos refused to confirm the incident in a > statement, but said that the satellite was still undetected and that it had > run into some trouble at the Briz-M stage during its orbiting journey. > > "The Briz-M booster and the two satellites have not been detected in the > transition orbit. We have however received a signal from the booster from an > interim emergency orbit instead," Roscosmos said in a statement on its > website. > > The Briz-M fired the satellite's engines at the scheduled time, but they > operated for seven seconds, rather than the 18 minutes and five seconds they > have been programmed for. > > The loss of the Telkom-3 satellite has added to the list of failures > encountered during a satellite launch's Britz-M phase. A malfunctioning > Briz-M booster had earlier led to the loss of the Express-AM4 > telecommunication satellite in August 2011. > > The launch of the Indonesian Telkom-3 satellite has been delayed several > times. It was earlier scheduled for the middle of 2011, but was postponed > until the end of 2012. Before it finally blasted off on Tuesday, the launch > had been scheduled for early June. > > This is the first time Indonesia has bought a satellite from the Russian > company Retshesnev. Its previous Telkom-2 satellite used a France Ariane-5 > rocket and was purchased from the ArianeSpace Company in 2005. > > It was originally planned to launch the Telkom-3 with a Yamal-300K satellite, > while the Ekspress-MD2 was to be launched with an Ekspress-AM8. > > In December 2008, Telkom chose ISI Retchesnev, a Russia-based firm, to build > and launch the Telkom-3 satellite, at a cost of US $200 million. Telkom and > Retchesnev signed the contract in February 2009.(*) > Editor: Heru > > COPYRIGHT © 2012 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
