As it is well known, Chile beginning in 2005 the process for implementation of a satellite earth observation, which was eventually acquired in 2007 in the management of President Michelle Bachelet. The satellite is a platform or AstroSat Myriades-100 and was named SSOT (Earth Observation Satellite System). The initial plan was that the satellite was launched on March 2010, coinciding with the anniversary of the independence of Chile, but for sure there is no definite date of release, despite other AstroSat-100 satellite platforms built at the same time as his twin Algeria, the ALSAT-2 satellite, and was successfully launched on July 12, 2010 by a PSLV rocket from the Sriharikota launch base in India.
SSOT The satellite launch will be by the Arianespace company and its new launch system that is currently under construction and uses a Russian Soyuz-ST rocket from Kourou in French Guyana. The first launch of a Soyuz-ST would be for carry into space the European satellite communications HYLAS-1, and the satellite would be launched bicentennial SSOT only tested after a second launch of the Soyuz-ST, but now the HYLAS-1 will no longer be launched with the Soyuz-ST, but will be released on 25 November in the flight V198 Ariane-5 rocket.
The days keep passing and do not have a final release date, that the best would be in June 2011, ie 15 months of delay, and where it goes from obsolescence the bill to the electronics and hardware of the satellite. Here are some notes on the subject.
Chilean satellite SSOT NOT BE IN ORBIT by March 2011
Ignacio Garcia - Intelligence, Defense and Security. October 25, 2010
SSOT The Chilean satellite project awarded by MINDEF to European manufacturer Astrium, at a cost of U.S.. 72'M and should be put into orbit in early March 2010, will not be released before March 2011, informed sources close to Santiago project. The sources said the Chilean government is demanding payment ASTRIUM financial penalties under the contract. It also indicates that payment of these fines do not fade the deep discomfort of the authorities and the bad rating ASTRIUM as a reliable supplier. Whenever the unjustifiable delay in the launching should be simply because the manufacturer, part of EADS, has unilaterally decided to prioritize the launch of satellites ordered by other customers. The situation led the manufacturer will be excluded from future tenders in Chile.
SSOT SATELLITE SPACE TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER
Chile-Hoy. April 25, 2010
The satellite SSOT Chile's government in 2007 the group bought the European consortium EADS Astrium, with a value of U.S.. 72'M, will be launched into orbit between October and November this year, sources said Santiago. According to sources, it is likely that the launch is made from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
OUR BICENTENNIAL SATELLITE WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL 2011
Innovation. June 23, 2011
The satellite launch Chilean SSOT, it has been delayed to the detriment of the country. France gets in trouble because it built the Bicentennial Commission, which is a milestone. The satellite itself is ready and trained Chilean specialists. But the Russians have not finish building the Soyuz launch base. Would be ready in December 2009, so the launch was delayed until April or May 2010, then October and finally to December. And now said to be in June 2011, but without security.
HYLAS-1 SATELLITE READY TO BE RELEASED FROM THE EUROPEAN SPACE PORT
Astronomic Observatory. October 21, 2010
El satélite de comunicaciones HYLAS-1 ha llegado al puerto espacial de Europa en la Guyana Francesa. Su próximo viaje será al espacio en un lanzador Ariane-5, hacia su órbita a 36,00 kms de altura. El satélite será lanzado el 25 de noviembre a bordo del vuelo Ariane V198, que será el quinto de los seis lanzamientos de Ariane-5 previstos para este año.
(*) Lo sucedido en el proyecto chileno es una experiencia de la que debemos aprender. Como sabemos, un sistema satelital está conformado por el segmento espacial, es decir el satélite, el segmento terrestre conformado por la estación terrena mission control, and complementing this, the training for the operation of space and ground segment and technology transfer, as well as satellite launch. This latter component is vital to the success of the mission, and as we see in the Chilean case, a wrong decision has had an enormous impact on the success of the project, which still has no specific date for the commencement of operations.
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