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Failed Belarusian Earth satellite
BelKA
or
BKA
(an acronym from
Belarusian
:
Бел
аруск?
К
асм?чны
А
парат,
Bel
arusian
C
osmic
A
pparatus) is the first satellite of independent
Belarus
.
First attempt
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It was a
remote sensing
satellite that utilizes the
USP (satellite bus)
, developed by Belarusian researchers and Russian Rocket and Space Corporation
RSC Energia
for National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus as the final customer of the satellite, which had the capacity to take photos of the Earth surface, with a maximum resolution of 2-2.5 meters.
BelKA was launched, along with seventeen other satellites, on July 26, 2006 at 19:43
GMT
, however 86 seconds later, the
Dnepr
rocket
suffered an engine failure and crashed, destroying the satellites.
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The name BelKA is thought to be an allusion to the
Soviet space dog
,
Belka
, who, together with
Strelka
orbited the Earth and returned safely on
Sputnik 5
in 1960.
- Configuration: Victoria bus
- Outcome: Carrier rocket failure, satellite destroyed
Second attempt
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The second launch (
BKA
[
be
]
) was successful. It was launched together with the Russian satellite
Canopus-B
[
ru
]
on the
Soyuz-FG
/
Fregat
launch vehicle from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
on July 22, 2012, after a long delay. Belarus put the plame for the delay onto British software.
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It was planned to be operational until the end of 2021.
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References
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May
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June
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July
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- STS-121
(
MPLM
)
- INSAT-4C
- Genesis I
- Kosmos 2422
- BelKA
,
Baumanets
,
PicPot
,
SACRED
,
ION
,
Rincon 1
,
ICECube-1
,
KUTESat Pathfinder
,
SEEDS
,
nCube
,
HAUSAT-1
,
MEROPE
,
CP-2
,
AeroCube-1
,
CP-1
,
Mea Huaka'i
,
ICECube-2
- Arirang-2
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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- Fengyun 2-05
- WildBlue 1
,
AMC-18
- STS-116
(
ITS P5
,
SpaceHab LSM
,
ANDE-MAA
,
ANDE-FACL
,
RAFT1
,
MARScom
,
MEPSI-2
)
- MEASAT-3
- USA-193
- TacSat-2
,
GeneSat
- Kiku 8
- SAR-Lupe 1
- Meridian 1
- Kosmos 2424
,
Kosmos 2425
,
Kosmos 2426
- CoRoT
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Launches are separated by dots ( ? ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights
are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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January
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February
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March
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April
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May
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June
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July
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- EchoStar XVII
,
MSG-3
- SES-5
- Soyuz TMA-05M
- Kounotori 3
(
Raiko
,
We-Wish
,
Niwaka
,
TechEdSat
,
F-1
)
- Kanopus-V1
,
BelKA-2
,
Zond-PP
,
TET-1
,
exactView-1
- Tianlian I-03
- Gonets-M
No.3,
Gonets-M
No.4,
Kosmos 2481
,
MiR
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August
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September
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- SPOT 6
,
PROITERES
,
mRESINS
- USA-238
,
SMDC-ONE 1.1
,
SMDC-ONE 1.2
,
AeroCube 4
,
AeroCube 4A
,
AeroCube 4B
,
Aeneas
,
Re
,
CSSWE
,
CP5
,
CXBN
,
CINEMA 1
- MetOp-B
- Compass-M5
,
Compass-M6
- Astra 2F
,
GSAT-10
- VRSS-1
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October
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November
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December
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Launches are separated by dots ( ? ), payloads by commas ( , ), multiple names for the same satellite by slashes ( / ).
Crewed flights
are underlined. Launch failures are marked with the † sign. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are (enclosed in parentheses).
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