Launch of Gorizont 45 on the First Proton K/Breeze M.

摘要

The first successful launch of a Proton K/Breeze M carrying Russia's Gorizont 45, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 0259Z on 6 June 2000. This was the first non-cooperative, nonhistoric Russian geosynchronous launch since the 5th rev ascending node injection of Cosmos 1940 in 1988. It was also the first non-historic deep space launch since the breakup of the former Soviet Union, and the subsequent commercialization of Russia's launch facilities. A great amount of detailed pre-launch information was available on the World Wide Web, including the date and time of the launch, the fact that the Proton upper stage was the new Breeze M and not the older Block DM, detailed performance characteristics of the Breeze M, and somewhat ambiguous details of the expected launch scenario. Based on this information, we were able to provide sensor tasking information that allowed all relevant sensors to track the payload in all of its orbits up to synchronous orbit.