Uppskjutningen av de nya Cubesats med amatörradio ombord gick tyvärr inte bra. Alla satelliter förstördes vid starten.
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 211.01
From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.
July 30, 2006
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-211.01
The anticipated Dnepr night launch of 14 University CubeSats on
26 July only lasted 86 seconds according to a report by the Geocities Space Launch Report.
See: http://www.geocities.com/launchreport/slr.html
About a minute and a half into the flight the main engine shut down causing the rocket and its’ multiple satellite payload to fall back to earth about 25 km south of the launch site. The Cal Poly team after learning the news vowed to press on with their next CubeSat.
This is the first failure of the Dnepr launch vehicle since they were re-commissioned to carry non-military payloads and the first failure of the rocket since 1988. A video clip of the launch can be seen at:
http://polysat.calpoly.edu/DNEPR-BelkA.wmv.
A second launch is planned with ISC Kosmotras on a Dnepr launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan during September 2006. Seven CubeSats will fly as secondary payloads on this mission.
The CubeSats will be deployed after the primary spacecraft has been deployed into a nearly circular, 700 km, polar orbit. Three P-PODs will hold the CubeSats on the launch vehicle and deploy them at the correct point in the deployment sequence.
[ANS thanks the CubeSat Team at CalPoly for the above information]