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Schedule

Schedule from the shipment to the launch will be following.

4th/June	L-26	Export procedure
5th/June	L-25	The first party departure: custom clearance
6th	L-24
7th	L-23
8th	L-22
9th	L-21
10th	L-20	The second party departure: join the first one at Moscow
11th	L-19	Move to Plesetsk
12th	L-18	Satellite and separation system maintenance
13th	L-17
14th	L-16
15th	L-15
16th	L-14	Satellite and separation system mounting
17th	L-13	Final check
18th	L-12
19tn	L-11
20th	L-10
21st	L-9
22nd	L-8
23rd	L-7
24th	L-6
25th	L-5
26th	L-4	The third party departure
27th	L-3
28th	L-2
29th	L-1
30th	L-0	Launch
1st/July	L+1
2nd	L+2
3rd	L+3	Withdrawal from Plesetsk

XI-IV Shipment

XI-IV launch in June/2003 for Russia is reported here.

XI-IV planned orbit

orbital height : 820km+-25km
inclination : 98.7(sunsynchronous orbit)
launch window : 18:00+-15(min)
XI satellite separation : about 1 hour after the launch(when the rocket is above Plesetsk)

Mission Timing

A nominal launch sequence is shown in the following table.

L	Lift Off
L+122sec	1st stage separation
L+171sec	Fairing separation
L+305sec	2nd stage separation
L+307sec	1st Breeze ignition
L+799sec	End of 1st Breeze ignition
L+till 2636sec	Transfer orbit and thermal maneuvers
L+2636sec	2nd Breeze ignition
L+2687sec	End of 2nd Breeze igition
L+2826sec	Separation of MIMOSA
L+5154sec	3rd Breeze ignition
L+5481sec	Separation of MOST
L+5551sec	Separation of XI-IV and CUTE
L+5262sec	Separation of NLS-1,NLS-2
L+606sec1	4th Breeze ignition for deorbiting
L+6111sec	End of 4th Breeze ignition and venting of tanks

Other satellites and the rocket

This time XI-IV is launched by the following rocket
Rocket(by EUROCKOT) : ROCKOT(2stages) + BREEZE(upper stage)
Launch place:Plesetsk,800km north of Moscow

8+1 micro and nano satellites are launched by one rocket.

Satellites CG by EUROCKOT

MONITOR	RUSSIA	Earth observation 500kg class. A mock-up is used.
MIMOSA	Czech Astronomical Institute	Atmosphere density observation, 66kg
MOST	Canadian Space Agency	Space telescope, 51kg
XI	Univ. of Tokyo	CubeSat class, 1kg
CUTE	Tokyo Institute of Technology	CubeSat class, 1kg
CanX-I	University of Toronto	CubeSat class 1kg, loaded in NLS-1
AAU CubeSat	Aalborg University	CubeSat class 1kg, loaded in NLS-1
DTUsat	Danish Technical University	CubeSat class 1kg, loaded in NLS-1
QuakeSat	Stanford University	CubeSat class 3kg, loaded in NLS-2

XI-IV Downlink Information

Call Sign	JQ1YCW
Down link	CW(beacon)	430MHz band
	FM(packet)	430MHz band
First contact from UT ground station	Around 6am 1st/July

You can receive XI data by this way.

XI-IV shipment in 29th/Oct/2002 is reported here.
Shipment from Japan to US, integration with other satellites and tests are detailed.

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