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Ocean Reconnaissance Launch Surprises West
Space News, April 5-11, 1993, p.2
[Excerpts]
Russia launched its first ocean reconnaissance satellite in 26 months
March 30, confounding Western analysts who had proclaimed the program dead.
The Itar-TASS news agency announced the launch of Cosmos 2238 from
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, but provided little description of the payload's mission.
However, based on the satellite's trajectory, Western observers
identified it as a military spacecraft designed to monitor electronic
emissions from foreign naval ships in order to track their movement.
Geoff Perry of the Kettering Group in England... [said] Western
observers had concluded that no more would be launched. But days after the
last [such] satellite re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, Cosmos 2238 was
launched.
"Cosmos-2238" Satellite Launched for Defense Ministry
Moscow ITAR-TASS World Service in Russian 1238 GMT 30 March 1993
Translated in FBIS-SOV-93-060, p.27
by ITAR-TASS correspondent Veronika Romanenkova
Moscow, 30 March -- The Cosmos-2238 satellite was launched at 1600 Moscow
time today from the Baykonur by a "Tsiklon-M" carrier rocket. An ITAR-TASS
correspondent was told at the press center of Russia's space-military forces
that the satellite was launched in the interests of the Russian Defense
Ministry.
Parameters Given
Moscow ITAR-TASS World Service in Russian 0930 GMT 31 March 1993
Translated in FBIS-SOV-93-060, p.27
Moscow, 31 March -- Another artificial Earth satellite, Cosmos-2238, was
launched on 30 March from the Baykonur cosmodrome.
The satellite carries scientific apparatus for continuing space research.
The satellite has been placed in an orbit with the following parameters:
initial period of revolution--92.8 minutes; apogee--443 km; perigee--413 km;
orbital inclination--65 degrees.
Besides scientific apparatus the satellite carries a radio system for the
precise measurement of orbital elements and a radiotelemetry system for
transmitting to Earth data about the work of the instruments and scientific
apparatus. The apparatus aboard the satellite is working normally.
What would all of you out there in net land think of the big 6 (Martin
Mariatta, Boeing, Mcdonell Douglas, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Rockwell)
getting together, and forming a consortium to study exactly what the market
price pints are for building reusable launch vehicles, and spending say
$3million to do that. Recognizing that most of the military requirements
for launch vehicles are pulled out of a hat somewhere (say, has the shuttle
ever really used that 1200mi crossrange capability? You get the idea, figure
out how many, how often, where to, etc...)
Then taking this data, and forming a sematech type company (bad example, I
know... but at least its an example...) To develop between 3 and 5 craft
designs. Then to take all of those designs, and figure out EXACTLY what
the technologies are, and demonstrate those technologies, in order to
eliminate designs that can't be built today. And lets say that this
portion again funded by the GOV cost about $20 million.
And from here all of these companies went their separate ways, with the
intention of taking all of the market data and the design data to wall
street, and saying "I want to build this vehicle, and here are the numbers
that show %20 ROI, fund me...)
Now many of you think that this is a joke, but I have it on good authority that
just this project is shaping up in the background. It seems that the aerospace
companies have learned that everyone yelling similar but different things
ends up in many programs that do nothing much and get canceled (NASP, NLS,
ALS, DCY?, etc...) They need to work more in the japaneese, and european
spirit of initial cooperation. They have also learned that design requirements
that are phony (I.E. some generals idea of what a space vehicle ought to be)
ends up getting chopped up in congress, because it is not a REAL requirement.
Any feedback?
John.
The following are my thoughts on a meeting that I, Hugh Kelso, and Bob Lilly
had with an aide of Sen. Patty Murrays. We were there to discuss SSTO, and
commercial space. This is how it went...
After receiving a packet containing a presentation on the benifits of SSTO,
I called and tried to schedule a meeting with our local Senator (D) Patty
Murray, Washington State. I started asking for an hour, and when I heard
the gasp on the end of the phone, I quickly backed off to 1/2 an hour.
Later in that conversation, I learned that a standard appointment is 15 minutes.
We got the standard bozo treatment. That is, we were called back by an aide,
who scheduled a meeting with us, in order to determine that we were not
bozos, and to familiarize himself with the material, and to screen it, to
make sure that it was appropriate to take the senators time with that material.
Well, I got allocated 1/2 hour with Sen. Murrays aide, and we ended up talking
to him for 45 minutes, with us ending the meeting, and him still listening.
We covered a lot of ground, and only a little tiny bit was DCX specific.
Most of it was a single stage reusable vehicle primer. There was another
woman there who took copius quantities of notes on EVERY topic that
we brought up.
But, with Murray being new, we wanted to entrench ourselves as non-corporate
aligned (I.E. not speaking for boeing) local citizens interentested in space.
So, we spent a lot of time covering the benifits of lower cost access to
LEO. Solar power satellites are a big focus here, so we hit them as becoming
feasible with lower cost access, and we hit the environmental stand on that.
We hit the tourism angle, and I left a copy of the patric Collins Tourism
paper, with side notes being that everyone who goes into space, and sees the
atmosphere becomes more of an environmentalist, esp. after SEEING the smog
over L.A. We hit on the benifits of studying bone decalcification (which is
more pronounced in space, and said that that had POTENTIAL to lead to
understanding of, and MAYBE a cure for osteoporosis. We hit the education
whereby kids get enthused by space, but as they get older and find out that
they havent a hop in hell of actually getting there, they go on to other
fields, with low cost to orbit, the chances they might get there someday
would provide greater incentive to hit the harder classes needed.
We hit a little of the get nasa out of the operational launch vehicle business
angle. We hit the lower cost of satellite launches, gps navigation, personal
communicators, tellecommunications, new services, etc... Jobs provided

Ocean Reconnaissance Launch Surprises West

Space News, April 5-11, 1993, p.2

[Excerpts]

Russia launched its first ocean reconnaissance satellite in 26 months

March 30, confounding Western analysts who had proclaimed the program dead.

The Itar-TASS news agency announced the launch of Cosmos 2238 from

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, but provided little description of the payload's mission.

However, based on the satellite's trajectory, Western observers

identified it as a military spacecraft designed to monitor electronic

emissions from foreign naval ships in order to track their movement.

Geoff Perry of the Kettering Group in England... [said] Western

observers had concluded that no more would be launched. But days after the

last [such] satellite re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, Cosmos 2238 was

launched.

"Cosmos-2238" Satellite Launched for Defense Ministry

Moscow ITAR-TASS World Service in Russian 1238 GMT 30 March 1993

Translated in FBIS-SOV-93-060, p.27

by ITAR-TASS correspondent Veronika Romanenkova

Moscow, 30 March -- The Cosmos-2238 satellite was launched at 1600 Moscow

time today from the Baykonur by a "Tsiklon-M" carrier rocket. An ITAR-TASS

correspondent was told at the press center of Russia's space-military forces

that the satellite was launched in the interests of the Russian Defense

Ministry.

Parameters Given

Moscow ITAR-TASS World Service in Russian 0930 GMT 31 March 1993

Translated in FBIS-SOV-93-060, p.27

Moscow, 31 March -- Another artificial Earth satellite, Cosmos-2238, was

launched on 30 March from the Baykonur cosmodrome.

The satellite carries scientific apparatus for continuing space research.

The satellite has been placed in an orbit with the following parameters:

initial period of revolution--92.8 minutes; apogee--443 km; perigee--413 km;

orbital inclination--65 degrees.

Besides scientific apparatus the satellite carries a radio system for the

precise measurement of orbital elements and a radiotelemetry system for

transmitting to Earth data about the work of the instruments and scientific

apparatus. The apparatus aboard the satellite is working normally.

What would all of you out there in net land think of the big 6 (Martin

Mariatta, Boeing, Mcdonell Douglas, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Rockwell)

getting together, and forming a consortium to study exactly what the market

price pints are for building reusable launch vehicles, and spending say

$3million to do that. Recognizing that most of the military requirements

for launch vehicles are pulled out of a hat somewhere (say, has the shuttle

ever really used that 1200mi crossrange capability? You get the idea, figure

out how many, how often, where to, etc...)

Then taking this data, and forming a sematech type company (bad example, I

know... but at least its an example...) To develop between 3 and 5 craft

designs. Then to take all of those designs, and figure out EXACTLY what

the technologies are, and demonstrate those technologies, in order to

eliminate designs that can't be built today. And lets say that this

portion again funded by the GOV cost about $20 million.

And from here all of these companies went their separate ways, with the

intention of taking all of the market data and the design data to wall

street, and saying "I want to build this vehicle, and here are the numbers

that show %20 ROI, fund me...)

Now many of you think that this is a joke, but I have it on good authority that

just this project is shaping up in the background. It seems that the aerospace

companies have learned that everyone yelling similar but different things

ends up in many programs that do nothing much and get canceled (NASP, NLS,

ALS, DCY?, etc...) They need to work more in the japaneese, and european

spirit of initial cooperation. They have also learned that design requirements

that are phony (I.E. some generals idea of what a space vehicle ought to be)

ends up getting chopped up in congress, because it is not a REAL requirement.

Any feedback?

John.

The following are my thoughts on a meeting that I, Hugh Kelso, and Bob Lilly

had with an aide of Sen. Patty Murrays. We were there to discuss SSTO, and

commercial space. This is how it went...

After receiving a packet containing a presentation on the benifits of SSTO,

I called and tried to schedule a meeting with our local Senator (D) Patty

Murray, Washington State. I started asking for an hour, and when I heard

the gasp on the end of the phone, I quickly backed off to 1/2 an hour.

Later in that conversation, I learned that a standard appointment is 15 minutes.

We got the standard bozo treatment. That is, we were called back by an aide,

who scheduled a meeting with us, in order to determine that we were not

bozos, and to familiarize himself with the material, and to screen it, to

make sure that it was appropriate to take the senators time with that material.

Well, I got allocated 1/2 hour with Sen. Murrays aide, and we ended up talking

to him for 45 minutes, with us ending the meeting, and him still listening.

We covered a lot of ground, and only a little tiny bit was DCX specific.

Most of it was a single stage reusable vehicle primer. There was another

woman there who took copius quantities of notes on EVERY topic that

we brought up.

But, with Murray being new, we wanted to entrench ourselves as non-corporate

aligned (I.E. not speaking for boeing) local citizens interentested in space.

So, we spent a lot of time covering the benifits of lower cost access to

LEO. Solar power satellites are a big focus here, so we hit them as becoming

feasible with lower cost access, and we hit the environmental stand on that.

We hit the tourism angle, and I left a copy of the patric Collins Tourism

paper, with side notes being that everyone who goes into space, and sees the

atmosphere becomes more of an environmentalist, esp. after SEEING the smog

over L.A. We hit on the benifits of studying bone decalcification (which is

more pronounced in space, and said that that had POTENTIAL to lead to

understanding of, and MAYBE a cure for osteoporosis. We hit the education

whereby kids get enthused by space, but as they get older and find out that

they havent a hop in hell of actually getting there, they go on to other

fields, with low cost to orbit, the chances they might get there someday

would provide greater incentive to hit the harder classes needed.

We hit a little of the get nasa out of the operational launch vehicle business

angle. We hit the lower cost of satellite launches, gps navigation, personal

communicators, tellecommunications, new services, etc... Jobs provided