Цитировать14 сентября - NRO L-36(NOSS-3 6A,NOSS-3 6B), Aeneas, SMDC-ONE 2.1 (Able), SMDC-ONE 2.2 (Baker), Re, CINEMA 1, CSSWE, CXBN, AeroCube 4A, AeroCube 4B, AeroCube 4C, CP 5 - Atlas V 401 - Ванденберг SLC-3E - 01:39 ЛМВ
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Бычки набирают популярность :roll:
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ЦитироватьLooks like an Atlas, and a Centaur are being airlifted to Vandenberg ( http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2012/04/volga-dnepr-airlines-asks-for.html ). Is NROL-36's ride already on site, or is it likely these flights?
I wonder if it is fallout from the Delta Mariner bridge indecent earlier in the year.
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и снова гаечный ключ
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ЦитироватьПредставитель United Launch Alliance обрисовал широчайший спектр возможностей (http://icubesat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/icubesat-org-2012-c-2-1_presentation_szatkowski.pdf) по попутному выводу нагрузок на РН "Атлас" и "Дельта". В простейшем варианте это Aft Bulkhead Carrier (ABC) - 80 кг контейнер, прикрученный к нижнему днищу "Центавра", который ULA готова доставить хоть в точку Лагранжа. Первое испытание ABC состоится в августе сего года, когда в рамках пуска NROL-36 будет выведен микроспутник OUTSat. Есть приспособления и для более крупнотоннажных грузов: схемы, а также расписание "попуток" см в презентации. Похоже ULA решила всерьез закрепиться на этом рынке.
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Схема крепления ABC и радостные создатели OUTSat вместе со своим спутником.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av033/preview.html
ЦитироватьAtlas 5 set for late-night launch from California[/size]
BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: July 29, 2012
Ready to take a classified national security payload and a batch of hitchhiking cubesats into space early Thursday from California, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is in the final days of preparations for blastoff.
The middle-of-the-night launch will occur some time between 12 midnight and 1:30 a.m. local (3:00-4:30 a.m. EDT; 0700-0830 GMT). The actual target liftoff time has not yet been revealed.
(NOTE: On Monday, a liftoff time of 12:40 a.m. local was announced. See our Mission Status Center for the latest)
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File image of an Atlas 5 rocket at VAFB. Credit: Pat Corkery/ULA
The mission will originate from Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 3-East, a "classic pad" with a retractable service gantry and fixed umbilical tower. It stands in contrast to the Atlas 5's launch site at Cape Canaveral that assembles its rockets in an adjacent building and rolls the vehicles out to the spartan pad on a mobile platform.
This will be the fifth Atlas 5 to fly from the West Coast, each occurring successfully in the past four years with a trio of missions for the country's spy satellite agency and one with a U.S. military weather observatory.
Thursday's trip to space will deploy another cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, the secretive government organization responsible for designing and operating the intelligence-gathering surveillance spacecraft for policy makers and military forces.
All details about the payload nestled inside the Atlas rocket's nose cone are kept classified. The agency will say only that the launch is known as NROL-36.
"Any NRO launch is critical to national security, delivering new intel capabilities out to the warfighters," said Lt. Col. Dan Gillen, commander of the 4th Space Launch Squadron that oversees Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rocket operations at Vandenberg. "Even though we are winding down some operations Afghanistan and Iraq, the need for intel is still growing."
Once the primary payload is delivered into its hush-hush orbital destination, the Centaur upper stage will maneuver to a different altitude where 11 miniature satellites built by universities, the military and a national lab will be ejected from 8 deployers all packed into one box-like container. That structure is attached to a bracket on the aft-end of the stage next to the RL10 engine where a helium bottle previously resided.
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An illustration of an Atlas 5 rocket and the secondary payload attach location on the Centaur. Credit: NRO
Available performance on this mission made it suitable to fly the secondary cubesats and deliver them into a useful orbit.
Four are flying through NASA's Educational Launch of Nanosatellite program that works with schools to give students real-life experience in the space business. Institutions launching their scientifically-meaningful hardware on this rocket via ELANA are the University of California, University of Colorado at Boulder, California Polytechnic State University and Morehead State.
In addition, the NRO's Mission Support Directorate is enabling 7 satellites to fly from the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the Aerospace Corp., the University of Southern California and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Objectives of the various spacecraft range from testing future satellite technologies, probing space weather and observing the cosmic X-ray background.
The launch campaign began when the Atlas first stage and Centaur arrived at Vandenberg in April from ULA's production factory in Alabama.
This is the most-basic version of Atlas 5, known as the 401 configuration with a four-meter-diameter payload shroud, no strap-on solid-fuel motors and a single-engine Centaur.
Stacking of the vehicle occurred in May as the bronze first stage, equipped with its kerosene-fed RD-180 main engine, was brought to SLC 3, rotated vertical and set onto the pad. Then the cryogenic Centaur got hoisted into position.
Garrett Skrobot, a NASA manager on the ELANA project, said the cubesats were attached to the Centaur while the rocket was still horizontal in the hangar.
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Payload hoisted into atop the Atlas 5 in July. Credit: ULA
The primary payload was readied for flight elsewhere on base and encapsulated in the nose cone before riding a special transport trailer to the pad to join up with its launcher on July 17.
"These activities we've been planning and prepping for years in advance starting back at the factory. This hardware has been performing remarkably well," Gillen said.
See a photo gallery of the payload going to the pad.
Thursday's launch date has held steady on the calendar with no recent delays for this the Atlas 5 rocket's 32nd flight in the past decade.
"With every mission, we are always anticipating a lot of spectators because it's always a very exciting event," Gillen said. "I know because of the importance of this launch that there's a ton of invites out and I imagine that there will be many VIPs."
The final launch readiness reviews will be held Tuesday to give approval for starting the countdown operations Wednesday afternoon. Retraction of the gantry to unveil the 19-story rocket occurs about four hours before liftoff time and fueling commences about two hours later.
"Things are actually looking really good. We are on track. We are where we would hope to be, where we would expect to be at this point," Gillen said in an interview Friday.
It will be the fourth of four launches for the NRO in 2012. A Delta 4 put a radar-imaging satellite into a retrograde orbit from Vandenberg in April, an Atlas 5 carried a geosynchronous data-relay bird in June from Cape Canaveral, followed by a Delta 4-Heavy with a clandestine cargo also flown from the Cape in late June.
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The logo for this NROL-36 mission. Credit: NRO
As for the Atlas 5 program, the rocket will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its maiden mission on August 21, the same day as rollout at the Cape for launching NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes on August 23 at 4:08 a.m. EDT.
Also coming up later this year is the Oct. 26 deployment of the Pentagon's X-37B orbital spaceplane on its third voyage and launch of NASA's next Tracking and Data Relay Satellite on Dec. 6.
Vandenberg will host launches of the next Landsat Earth-resources spacecraft in February and the commercial GeoEye 2 Earth-imaging satellite in April.
Gillen's squadron at Vandenberg also has a much-anticipated Delta 4-Heavy rocket launch for the NRO slated for next August.
"I'm anticipating a really good ops tempo and expect Team Vandenberg to stay very busy over the next year," he said. Hardware for all three of those 2013 missions will soon begin arriving at the base for processing.
About the author
Justin Ray has been editor of Spaceflight Now since its inception in November 1999. The online website, based at Cape Canaveral, has documented U.S. and international space news with a specialty of live launch coverage.
Prior to that, Justin worked for two years as an aerospace reporter at the Florida Today newspaper and its pioneering Space Online website. He began his career as an intern at Patrick Air Force Base's public affairs office in 1996 and wrote for the Missileer base newspaper.
The Ohio native has covered more than 115 Delta rocket launches, 85 Atlas flights, 65 space shuttle missions and construction of the International Space Station, plus scientific spacecraft such as the Mars rovers and Cassini.
He attended college at the University of Central Florida and now resides in Viera, Florida. [/size]
ЦитироватьAugust 2 - NRO L-36(NOSS-3 6A,NOSS-3 6B)/Aeneas/SMDC-ONE 2.1 (Able)/SMDC-ONE 2.2 (Baker)/Re/CINEMA 1/CSSWE/CXBN/AeroCube 4A/AeroCube 4B/AeroCube 4C/CP 5 - Atlas V 401 - Vandenberg SLC-3E - 07:00-08:30 UTC
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ЦитироватьPayload hoisted atop Atlas for NROL-36[/size]
BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: July 26, 2012
A classified satellite payload already encapsulated in a four-meter-diameter nose cone is delivered to Space Launch Complex 3-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base and hoisted into the pad's mobile gantry for attachment atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.
The bullet-shaped shroud protects the satellite during ascent through Earth's atmosphere and then gets jettisoned to uncover the craft after the threshold the space is reached.
The operation occurred July 17 in preparation for blastoff August 2. The payload is known only as NROL-36 for the National Reconnaissance Office.
See our Mission Status Center for the latest news on the launch.
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На эмблеме три точки. Три крайних НОССа относятся к следующему поколению? Хорошот соответствует идее что в одном поколении 4 штуки.
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ЦитироватьMONDAY, JULY 30, 2012
It's a foggy forecast for the Atlas 5 rocket's Thursday launch opportunity, Air Force meteorologists are projecting, but those conditions won't interfere with the planned 12:40 a.m. local time liftoff.
Vandenberg's trademark marine layer is expected to be in place throughout the launch countdown. There is just a slight 10 percent chance for cumulus clouds from weather to the east that could violate any of the launch weather rules.
At launch time, the outlook calls for overcast stratus clouds at 200 feet with tops at 1,200 feet, some thin high cirrus clouds at 25,000 feet, only a half-mile of visibility with fog, northwesterly winds of 10 to 15 knots and a temperature in the mid 50s F.
If the launch should slip to Friday for some reason, similar weather is expected again.
9:45 a.m. local (12:45 p.m. EDT; 1645 GMT)
The target launch time for Thursday's Atlas 5 rocket has been announced to the public. Liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base is scheduled for 12:40 a.m. local (3:40 a.m. EDT; 0740 GMT).
The exact duration of the daily launch window hasn't been disclosed. But officials previously said the liftoff would not occur after 1:30 a.m. local.
SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2012
Ready to take a classified national security payload and a batch of hitchhiking cubesats into space early Thursday from California, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is in the final days of preparations for blastoff.
The middle-of-the-night launch will occur some time between 12 midnight and 1:30 a.m. local (3:00-4:30 a.m. EDT; 0700-0830 GMT). The actual target liftoff time has not yet been revealed.
UNITED STATES MILITARY MANIFEST (31 Jul 2012)
http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/usmil-man.txt
Интересно, история с FASTSATом повторится?
Цитировать2 августа - NRO L-36(NOSS-3 6A,NOSS-3 6B), Aeneas, SMDC-ONE 2.1 (Able), SMDC-ONE 2.2 (Baker), Re, CINEMA 1, CSSWE, CXBN, AeroCube 4A, AeroCube 4B, AeroCube 4C, CP 5 - Atlas V 401 - Ванденберг SLC-3E - 11:40-12:30 ЛМВ
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Цитировать10:00 p.m. local (1:00 a.m. EDT; 0400 GMT)
T-minus 2 hours and holding. The countdown has just entered the first of the planned holds over the course of the evening that will lead to the 12:40 a.m. PDT (3:40 a.m. EDT) launch of the Atlas-Centaur rocket.
This initial pause lasts 30 minutes, giving the team some margin in the countdown timeline to deal with technical issues or any work that is running behind. The final hold is scheduled to occur at T-minus 4 minutes.
Workers have left the pad area in advance of tonight's propellant loading and launch of the Atlas 5 rocket.
9:56 p.m. local (12:56 a.m. EDT; 0456 GMT)
With all the hands-on work now finished at the pad, technicians are clearing Space Launch Complex 3 for the remainder of the countdown.
9:48 p.m. local (12:48 a.m. EDT; 0448 GMT)
That earlier issue has been resolved with no impact to today's launch operations. Activities continue to press ahead for the 12:40 a.m. PDT liftoff.
9:41 p.m. local (12:41 a.m. EDT; 0441 GMT)
Testing of the vehicle's guidance system is complete.
9:35 p.m. local (12:35 a.m. EDT; 0435 GMT)
The team is talking about a technical issue and how to resolve it, but the countdown is proceeding to tick.
9:17 p.m. local (12:17 a.m. EDT; 0417 GMT)
At this point in tonight's countdown, final preps for the Centaur's liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen systems are underway.
9:01 p.m. local (12:01 a.m. EDT; 0401 GMT)
Completed in the countdown over the past few minutes, engineers conducted checks of the vehicle's internal batteries and finished final preps to the Atlas pneumatics, hydraulics and propulsion systems.
8:56 p.m. local (11:56 p.m. EDT; 0356 GMT)
The pad crew reports the gantry is parked, closed up and ready for launch.
8:40 p.m. local (11:40 p.m. EDT; 0340 GMT)
The mobile service tower is being secured in its launch position. The ground crew will get its doors closed, plus finish the final buttoning up of pad equipment over the next half-hour before all workers clear the pad for the remainder of the countdown.
Today's launch will be the fifth Atlas 5 rocket to fly from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 3-East pad. The site underwent an extensive overhaul, with construction occurring in 2004 and 2005, to accommodate the larger and more powerful Atlas 5 family of rockets. Some of the major modifications included:
30-foot extension to mobile service tower
20-foot exhaust duct depth increase
250-ton Fixed Launch Platform installed
Significant ambient and cryogenic fluid ground system modifications
Complete replacement of the Ground Command/Control/Communication system
New and refurbished Launch Control/Mission Support Centers
This is the 38th Atlas to fly from SLC 3 throughout Vandenberg history.
8:25 p.m. local (11:25 p.m. EDT; 0325 GMT)
Standard countdown tests are getting started on the C-band system used to track the rocket as it flies downrange and the S-band system used for telemetry relay from vehicle.
8:10 p.m. local (11:10 p.m. EDT; 0310 GMT)
Now 4 hours, 30 minutes from blastoff.
Today's mission will deliver to orbit a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that operates the country's fleet of spy satellites. This is the fourth of four launches that the NRO has planned this year, a batch of missions that began in April with the Delta 4 from Vandenberg Air Force Base and continued with an Atlas 5 and a Delta 4-Heavy, both in June from Cape Canaveral.
"Last year we executed the most aggressive launch campaign in over 25 years. We successfully launched six satellites in seven months and this year with the same determination we're scheduled to launch four more in five months," Betty Sapp, now the NRO's director, said in testimony before Congress this spring.
"These successful launches are a very important and visible reminder of the space reconnaissance mission the NRO started over 50 years ago, and continues with such great success today. We are committed to smart acquisition investments and practices to ensure the continued coverage and availability of our vital national security systems and we work tirelessly to deliver these systems on time and within budget."
Last year's remarkable launch surge used various types of Atlas and Delta rockets to launch replacement satellites into virtually all of the NRO's networks of imaging, eavesdropping, surveillance and data-relay spacecraft, plus the small Minotaur booster lofted a research and development payload.
"From launching and operating the most technically-capable systems to continued operations of legacy satellites the NRO remains the premier space reconnaissance organization in the world," said Sapp.
8:05 p.m. local (11:05 p.m. EDT; 0305 GMT)
The tower is clear of the vehicle as it continues to slowly roll away. The structure's internal crane was instrumental in bringing the rocket stages and payload together. And now the fully assembled Atlas 5 has been unveiled for its 32nd launch, the fifth to originate from Vandenberg.
7:56 p.m. local (10:56 p.m. EDT; 0256 GMT)
GO FOR ROLL. At the Space Launch Complex 3 pad, the mobile service gantry has been configured for its retraction away from the Atlas 5 rocket this evening. Approval has been radioed to the team to wheel the 8-million-pound tower to its launch position a short distance from the 19-story-tall booster.
7:40 p.m. local (10:40 p.m. EDT; 0240 GMT)
Now entering the final five hours in this countdown to launch. Centaur's helium bottles have been charged. The flight control preps are complete and the operational test is underway.
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7:25 p.m. local (10:25 p.m. EDT; 0225 GMT)
Preparations for moving the mobile service tower are reported complete, and the pad crew has been given approval to start jacking up the gantry for retraction.
6:40 p.m. local (9:40 p.m. EDT; 0140 GMT)
Six hours from liftoff! Out at Space Launch Complex 3-East, the pad crew is working through its checklist to ready the mobile service tower for rollback later this evening. The gantry is the massive building on wheels that is used for assembling the rocket and payload, provides workers full access to the vehicle during the pre-flight campaign, then retracts a few hours before liftoff time to reveal the Atlas.
6:19 p.m. local (9:19 p.m. EDT; 0119 GMT)
The Atlas first stage and Centaur upper stage have been powered up as the early portion of the countdown activities rolls onward. Guidance system testing is about to begin next.
5:00 p.m. local (8:00 p.m. EDT; 0000 GMT)
COUNTDOWN UNDERWAY! Clocks have begun ticking for tonight's flight by the Atlas 5 rocket from America's western spaceport.
As the countdown gets started, the launch team will power up the rocket to conduct standard pre-flight tests and ready the vehicle for this national security satellite deployment mission.
Rollback of the mobile service tower from around the rocket is expected around 8:45 p.m. local. Once the gantry is removed, crews at the pad will make preparations to systems and equipment before the site is cleared of all personnel for fueling.
A planned 30-minute hold begins when the count reaches T-minus 120 minutes at 10 p.m. local time. With five minutes remaining in the hold, the team will be polled to verify all is in readiness to start loading propellant into the rocket for launch.
Supercold liquid oxygen begins flowing into the Centaur upper stage around 10:45 p.m. local, followed by the Atlas first stage. Liquid hydrogen fuel loading for Centaur will be completed a short time later.
A final hold is scheduled at 12:26 a.m. when clocks hit the T-minus 4 minute mark. That will give the team a chance to finish any late work and assess the status of the rocket, payload, Range and weather before proceeding into the last moments of the countdown.
Liftoff remains targeted for 12:40 a.m. local time (3:40 a.m. EDT; 0740 GMT).
9:45 a.m. local (12:45 p.m. EDT; 1645 GMT)
Launch day has arrived for the NROL-36 mission aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The countdown sequence begins a little less than 8 hours before tonight's 12:40 a.m. PDT launch and rollback of the mobile service tower begins about four hours ahead of liftoff. Watch this page for live updates throughout the evening!
The latest weather forecast is predicting even foggier conditions at launch time, with only a quarter-mile visibility, a solid marine layer at ground-level extending to 600 feet, some high cirrus clouds at 25,000 feet, northwesterly winds of 5 to 10 knots and temperatures in the low 50s F.
At this hour, photographers are out at the launch pad setting up their sound-activated cameras around the complex to capture blastoff, visibility permitting!
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Цитировать11:00 p.m. local (2:00 a.m. EDT; 0500 GMT)
Half of the Centaur liquid oxygen tank has been filled so far.
10:57 p.m. local (1:57 a.m. EDT; 0457 GMT)
To sync up with the new launch time, the built-in hold at T-minus 4 minutes will be extended an extra four minutes, leading to blastoff at the exact moment of 12:44:30 a.m. local.
10:54 p.m. local (1:54 a.m. EDT; 0454 GMT)
The Centaur liquid oxygen tank is nearing a quarter full already.
10:53 p.m. local (1:53 a.m. EDT; 0453 GMT)
NEW LAUNCH TIME. Tonight's liftoff time has been adjusted to 12:44:30 a.m. local (3:44:30 a.m. EDT; 0744:30 GMT).
10:45 p.m. local (1:45 a.m. EDT; 0445 GMT)
And now filling of the Centaur upper stage with about 4,300 gallons of liquid oxygen is beginning at Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 3 following the thermal conditioning of the transfer pipes.
The liquid oxygen -- chilled to Minus-298 degrees F -- will be consumed during the launch by the Centaur's single RL10 engine along with liquid hydrogen to be loaded into the stage a little later in the countdown.
10:44 p.m. local (1:44 a.m. EDT; 0444 GMT)
The conditioning of the systems for the first stage liquid oxygen tank have been completed. And a "go" has been given to begin flowing supercold liquid oxygen into the Atlas 5's first stage.
The Common Core Booster stage's liquid oxygen tank is the largest tank to be filled today. It holds about 50,000 gallons of cryogenic oxidizer for the RD-180 main engine.
10:38 p.m. local (1:38 a.m. EDT; 0438 GMT)
The Centaur liquid oxygen system's pad storage area has been prepped. The next step is conditioning the transfer lines, which is now beginning to prepare the plumbing for flowing the cryogenic oxidizer.
10:30:30 p.m. local (1:30:30 a.m. EDT; 0430:30 GMT)
T-minus 120 minutes and counting! The launch countdown has resumed for this evening's flight of the Atlas 5 rocket following the planned half-hour built-in hold.
Clocks have one more hold scheduled at T-minus 4 minutes. That pause will last 10 minutes during which time the final "go" for launch will be given.
All remains targeted for liftoff at the precise moment of 12:40 and 30 seconds a.m. local time (3:40:30 a.m. EDT; 0740:30 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
10:27 p.m. local (1:27 a.m. EDT; 0427 GMT)
The launch team and all systems are "ready" to proceed with the countdown and begin fueling the Atlas 5 rocket this evening as planned.
Loading of cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the Atlas 5 rocket will be getting underway a short time from now.
10:25 p.m. local (1:25 a.m. EDT; 0425 GMT)
The Atlas launch conductor is briefing his team on procedures before entering into the final two hours of the countdown. A readiness check of the team members is next.
10:10 p.m. local (1:10 a.m. EDT; 0410 GMT)
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Цитировать11:50 p.m. local (2:50 a.m. EDT; 0550 GMT)
The liquid hydrogen tank in the Centaur upper stage just reached the 97 percent level. Topping is now beginning.
11:44 p.m. local (2:44 a.m. EDT; 0544 GMT)
Now 60 minutes from launch. All activities are proceeding smoothly toward a liftoff at 12:44:30 a.m. Pacific Time. The liftoff has been shifted by four minutes by a Collision Avoidance cutout, or COLA, to ensure the rocket is sent on a safe trajectory to orbit.
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11:43 p.m. local (2:43 a.m. EDT; 0543 GMT)
Fast-filling of the first stage liquid oxygen has been completed at the tank's 97.5 percent mark. Topping mode is now underway.
11:42 p.m. local (2:42 a.m. EDT; 0542 GMT)
The Centaur liquid hydrogen tank is half-way loaded so far. The cryogenic propellant will be consumed with liquid oxygen by the stage's Pratt & Whitney-made RL10 engine.
11:35 p.m. local (2:35 a.m. EDT; 0535 GMT)
Now beyond the three-quarters level of liquid oxygen on the first stage.
11:30 p.m. local (2:30 a.m. EDT; 0530 GMT)
Chilldown of the liquid hydrogen system is now complete, allowing the super-cold rocket fuel to begin filling the Centaur upper stage.
11:23 p.m. local (2:23 a.m. EDT; 0523 GMT)
First stage liquid oxygen tank is passing the half-full mark. Chilled to Minus-298 degrees F, the liquid oxygen will be used with RP-1 kerosene by the RD-180 main engine on the first stage during the initial minutes of flight today. The 25,000 gallons of RP-1 were loaded into the rocket earlier.
11:21 p.m. local (2:21 a.m. EDT; 0521 GMT)
Centaur engine chilldown sequence is being initiated.
11:17 p.m. local (2:17 a.m. EDT; 0517 GMT)
Liquid oxygen on Centaur has reached flight level.
11:14:30 p.m. local (2:14:30 a.m. EDT; 0514:30 GMT)
Now 90 minutes from liftoff. There are no reports of technical troubles from the launch team and the weather is within limits for tonight's countdown. Fueling operations remain in work for the new launch time of 12:44:30 a.m. local.
11:12 p.m. local (2:12 a.m. EDT; 0512 GMT)
The Centaur liquid oxygen tank reached the 95 percent level and the topping off process is starting.
11:07 p.m. local (2:07 a.m. EDT; 0507 GMT)
The chilldown conditioning of liquid hydrogen propellant lines is starting to prepare the plumbing for transferring the Minus-423 degree F fuel into the rocket. The Centaur holds about 13,000 gallons of the cryogenic propellant.
11:06 p.m. local (2:06 a.m. EDT; 0506 GMT)
The first stage liquid oxygen loading is switching from slow-fill to fast-fill mode as planned.
Началась прямая трансляция
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Цитировать12:24 a.m. local (3:24 a.m. EDT; 0624 GMT)
Twenty minutes from liftoff now. The countdown clocks are heading to the T-minus 4 minute mark where a planned 14-minute hold will occur. Launch of Atlas 5 remains scheduled for 12:44:30 a.m. PDT.
12:16 a.m. local (3:16 a.m. EDT; 0616 GMT)
The workhorse Centaur upper stage has flown in various configurations for decades and will be making its 203rd mission with NROL-36. For this launch, the stage will use one Pratt & Whitney-built RL10A-4-2 liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen engine that develops a thrust of about 22,300 pounds.
The stage is 41.5 feet in length and 10 feet it diameter. It also houses the navigation unit that serves as the rocket's guidance brain.
12:14 a.m. local (3:14 a.m. EDT; 0614 GMT)
The fuel-fill sequence for the first stage main engine is underway.
12:07 a.m. local (3:07 a.m. EDT; 0607 GMT)
The Atlas 5 rocket's rigid body first stage is known as the Common Core Booster. The CCB replaced the "balloon" pressure-stabilized stage used by previous Atlas vehicles.
It is equipped with the RD-180 liquid-fueled main engine. This liquid oxygen/kerosene powerplant is a two-thrust chamber, two-nozzle engine.
As the CCB's name suggests, the stage is common and is used in all the various configurations of the Atlas 5 family. The booster stage is 106.6 feet long and 12.5 feet diameter.
12:00 a.m. local (3:00 a.m. EDT; 0600 GMT)
Atlas 5 represents the culmination of evolution stretching back several decades to America's first intercontinental ballistic missile. At the dawn of the space age, boosters named Atlas launched men into orbit during Project Mercury and became a frequent vehicle of choice to haul civil, military and commercial spacecraft to orbit.
Topped with the high-energy Centaur upper stage, Atlas rockets have been used since the 1960s to dispatch ground-breaking missions for NASA, including the Surveyors to the Moon, Mariner flights to Mars, Venus and Mercury, and the Pioneers that were the first to visit Jupiter and beyond.
In its newest era, the Atlas 5 rocket sent the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to the red planet in 2005, propelled the New Horizons probe toward Pluto and the solar system's outer fringes in 2006, doubled up with the dual Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and LCROSS impactor to the Moon in 2009, hurled Juno to Jupiter last August and dispatched the car-sized Curiosity rover on the Mars Science Lab mission in November.
Today marks the 32nd flight for Atlas 5, born of the Air Force's competition to develop next-generation Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles. In its previous 31 missions since debuting in August 2002, the tally shows 10 flights dedicated to the Defense Department, 9 commercial missions with communications spacecraft, six with spy satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office and six for NASA.
Цитировать12:31 a.m. local (3:31 a.m. EDT; 0631 GMT)
ULA says a mandatory Range asset is down. Work underway to resolve that issue.
что бы это значило?
Время пуска 8:10:29 UTC (12:10:29 ЛМВ)
Отбой на сутки!
Цитировать1:05 a.m. local (4:05 a.m. EDT; 0805 GMT)
The team will set up for another launch attempt in 24 hours.
1:04 a.m. local (4:04 a.m. EDT; 0804 GMT)
SCRUB! Time has run out to resolve the Range equipment trouble and launch the Atlas 5 rocket on NROL-36 today.
Статья от Уильяма Грэма (William Graham) на NSF
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2012/08/uatlas-v-launch-nrol-36-vandenberg/
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Launch.shtml#/30/
3 августа в 11:27 ЛМВ.
Похоже еще один перенос на сутки...
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28638.msg936406#msg936406
ЦитироватьNow Saturday:
Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. (Aug. 2, 2012) – The launch of an Atlas V carrying the National Reconnaissance Office NROL-36 payload has been delayed to Saturday, Aug. 4 to provide additional time for resolution of a range instrumentation issue that developed during the initial launch attempt Aug. 2. There are no issues with the Atlas V vehicle or the NROL-36 space vehicle. The Aug. 4 launch will proceed pending resolution of the range instrumentation item and the launch window open time is 12:13 a.m. PDT. The forecast for Aug. 4 shows a 90 percent chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch.
4 августа, 11:13 ЛМВ.
Отсрочка на 2 суток дает сдвиг времени старта на 27 минут. Т.е. 13.5мин/сутки. Хорошо согласуется с НОССом.
Изменили тоже:
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Launch.shtml#/30/
Да, пуск отложен как минимум до 14 августа...
http://spaceflightnow.com/:
ЦитироватьFixing troubles with a mandatory piece of Range equipment that scrubbed Thursday morning's initial attempt at launching the Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California will delay the booster from flying its satellite-deployment mission for the National Reconnaissance Office until at least Aug. 14.
Теперь не ранее 30 августа.
Кубосатики внизу Центавра.
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/PhotoGallery/Photo_gallery.shtml
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Мы уже в декабре летим? :wink:
В августе или сентябре :)
6 сентября:
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Launch.shtml#/30/
July 30, 2012 - NROL-36 Auxiliary Payloads Release
http://www.nro.gov/news/press/2012/2012-09.pdf
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видать бюджетный кризис дошел и до гордецов НРОшников, если и они занялись подвозом кубасатиков.
Уже 13-го.
+11
Ок, переименовал :wink:
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123317312
ЦитироватьAtlas V rocket scheduled for afternoon launch
Posted 9/10/2012 Updated 9/10/2012
Release Number: 010912
9/10/2012 - VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office payload is scheduled to be launched by team Vandenberg from Space Launch Complex-3 here Thursday at 2:39 p.m.
The launch, originally scheduled for Aug. 2, was postponed when a range instrumentation issue developed during countdown. The issue has been resolved and the range is ready to support a safe and successful launch.
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Note to Editors: Media planning to cover the event should RSVP by calling 2nd Lt. Kaylee Ausbun at 805-606-4884 or by e-mail at kaylee.ausbun@us.af.mil by noon Wednesday. A media escort will depart the Vandenberg Main Gate Visitor's Center for the media viewing site Thursday at 1 p.m.
Remote Camera Set-up: A media escort will depart Vandenberg's South Base gate for remote camera setup Wednesday at 8:30 a.m.
For questions about the booster please contact Jessica Rye with United Launch Alliance at 321-693-6250 or at jessica.f.rye@ulalaunch.com.
Webcast: http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Multimedia_Webcast.shtml
Live Broadcast:
BEGIN TRANSMISSION (BARS AND TONE) - 1:45 P.M. (SEPTEMBER 12)
BROADCAST START - 2:19 P.M. (SEPTEMBER 13)
SATELLITE: AMC 1
CARRIER: SES Americom
TRANSPONDER: C15
BAND: C-Band Analog
ORBITAL POSITION: 103 degrees west
BANDWIDTH: 36 MHz (Full Transponder)
UPLINK FREQ: 6225 MHz Vertical
DOWNLINK FREQ: 4000 MHz Horizontal[/size]
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=28638.msg952160#msg952160
ЦитироватьNavigational warning
ЦитироватьNAVAREA XII 247/2012(18,21). (080950Z SEP 2012)
EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
MISSILES.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 2008Z TO 2309Z DAILY
13 THRU 17 SEP IN AREAS BOUND BY:
A. 34-27N 120-29W, 34-26N 120-31W,
34-38N 120-36W, 34-39N 120-34W.
B. 15-46N 108-34W, 13-32N 113-09W,
16-06N 114-30W, 18-22N 109-53W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 180009Z SEP 12.
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Начало трансляции через 25 минут:
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Webcast.shtml
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av033/status.html
Цитировать2:14 p.m. local (5:14 p.m. EDT; 2114 GMT)
The workhorse Centaur upper stage has flown in various configurations for decades and will be making its 204th mission with NROL-36. For this launch, the stage will use one Pratt & Whitney-built RL10A-4-2 liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen engine that develops a thrust of about 22,300 pounds.
The stage is 41.5 feet in length and 10 feet it diameter. It also houses the navigation unit that serves as the rocket's guidance brain.
2:13 p.m. local (5:13 p.m. EDT; 2113 GMT)
The fuel-fill sequence for the first stage main engine is underway.
2:04 p.m. local (5:04 p.m. EDT; 2104 GMT)
The Atlas 5 rocket's rigid body first stage is known as the Common Core Booster. The CCB replaced the "balloon" pressure-stabilized stage used by previous Atlas vehicles.
It is equipped with the RD-180 liquid-fueled main engine. This liquid oxygen/kerosene powerplant is a two-thrust chamber, two-nozzle engine.
As the CCB's name suggests, the stage is common and is used in all the various configurations of the Atlas 5 family. The booster stage is 106.6 feet long and 12.5 feet diameter.
1:59 p.m. local (4:59 p.m. EDT; 2059 GMT)
This flight builds on the legacy of the Atlas vehicle's 401 configuration, which has flown over a dozen times in the past decade with the combination of a four-meter payload fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage.
Depending on a payload's weight and desired orbit, mission planners add strap-on solid boosters to the United Launch Alliance-made rocket to incrementally increase the vehicle's performance.
But this cargo, a hush-hush cargo for the NRO known only as the NROL-36 mission, is satisfied with the lifting power of the basic Atlas 5 design.
The vehicle will fly south-southeastward away from Vandenberg, according to the notice to mariners issued today to warn the public of the impending rocket flight over the Pacific. Details about the ascent, its duration and the number of Centaur fairings are not revealed given the secretive payload, which appears to be targeting an orbital inclination tilted 63 degrees to the equator based on the flight path in the NOTAMs.
The Russian RD-180 first stage main engine will ignite at T-minus 2.7 seconds, roaring to full power while undergoing a check to ensure its vital signs are healthy.
Rising off the pad in a slow, majestic fashion, the 19-story Atlas vehicle will deliver nearly a million pounds of ground-shaking thrust for the middle-of-the-night departure.
Information about the launch will be available though the first stage of flight, initial ignition of the Centaur and jettison of the nose cone about five minutes after liftoff. At that point, the mission will go into the now-standard news blackout for NRO launches.
Watch this page for live updates during the count and launch!
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1:48 p.m. local (4:48 p.m. EDT; 2048 GMT)
The liquid hydrogen tank in the Centaur upper stage just reached the 97 percent level. Topping is now beginning.
1:43 p.m. local (4:43 p.m. EDT; 2043 GMT)
Fast-filling of the first stage liquid oxygen has been completed at the tank's 97.5 percent mark. Topping mode is now underway.
1:40 p.m. local (4:40 p.m. EDT; 2040 GMT)
The Centaur liquid hydrogen tank is half-way loaded so far. The cryogenic propellant will be consumed with liquid oxygen by the stage's Pratt & Whitney-made RL10 engine.
1:39 p.m. local (4:39 p.m. EDT; 2039 GMT)
Now 60 minutes from launch. All activities are proceeding smoothly toward a liftoff at 2:39 p.m. Pacific Time.
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1:33 p.m. local (4:33 p.m. EDT; 2033 GMT)
Now beyond the three-quarters level of liquid oxygen on the first stage.
1:28 p.m. local (4:28 p.m. EDT; 2028 GMT)
Chilldown of the liquid hydrogen system is now complete, allowing the super-cold rocket fuel to begin filling the Centaur upper stage.
1:23 p.m. local (4:23 p.m. EDT; 2023 GMT)
First stage liquid oxygen tank is passing the half-full mark. Chilled to Minus-298 degrees F, the liquid oxygen will be used with RP-1 kerosene by the RD-180 main engine on the first stage during the initial minutes of flight today. The 25,000 gallons of RP-1 were loaded into the rocket earlier.
1:19 p.m. local (4:19 p.m. EDT; 2019 GMT)
Centaur engine chilldown sequence is being initiated.
1:16 p.m. local (4:16 p.m. EDT; 2016 GMT)
Liquid oxygen on Centaur has reached flight level.
1:11 p.m. local (4:11 p.m. EDT; 2011 GMT)
The Centaur liquid oxygen tank reached the 95 percent level and the topping off process is starting.
1:09 p.m. local (4:09 p.m. EDT; 2009 GMT)
Now 90 minutes from liftoff. There are no reports of technical troubles from the launch team and the weather is within limits for today's countdown. Fueling operations remain in work for the launch time of 2:39:00 p.m. local.
1:06 p.m. local (4:06 p.m. EDT; 2006 GMT)
The first stage liquid oxygen loading is switching from slow-fill to fast-fill mode as planned.
1:05 p.m. local (4:05 p.m. EDT; 2005 GMT)
The chilldown conditioning of liquid hydrogen propellant lines is starting to prepare the plumbing for transferring the Minus-423 degree F fuel into the rocket. The Centaur holds about 13,000 gallons of the cryogenic propellant.
1:04 p.m. local (4:04 p.m. EDT; 2004 GMT)
The Centaur liquid oxygen tank is 75 percent full now.
12:59 p.m. local (3:59 p.m. EDT; 1959 GMT)
Half of the Centaur liquid oxygen tank has been filled so far.
12:55 p.m. local (3:55 p.m. EDT; 1955 GMT)
The Centaur liquid oxygen tank is nearing one-third full already.
12:45 p.m. local (3:45 p.m. EDT; 1945 GMT)
The conditioning of the systems for the first stage liquid oxygen tank have been completed. And a "go" has been given to begin flowing supercold liquid oxygen into the Atlas 5's first stage.
The Common Core Booster stage's liquid oxygen tank is the largest tank to be filled today. It holds about 50,000 gallons of cryogenic oxidizer for the RD-180 main engine.
12:43 p.m. local (3:43 p.m. EDT; 1943 GMT)
Filling of the Centaur upper stage with about 4,300 gallons of liquid oxygen is beginning at Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex 3 following the thermal conditioning of the transfer pipes.
The liquid oxygen -- chilled to Minus-298 degrees F -- will be consumed during the launch by the Centaur's single RL10 engine along with liquid hydrogen to be loaded into the stage a little later in the countdown.
12:34 p.m. local (3:34 p.m. EDT; 1934 GMT)
The Centaur liquid oxygen system's pad storage area has been prepped. The next step is conditioning the transfer lines, which is now beginning to prepare the plumbing for flowing the cryogenic oxidizer.
12:29 p.m. local (3:29 p.m. EDT; 1929 GMT)
T-minus 120 minutes and counting! The launch countdown has resumed for today's flight of the Atlas 5 rocket following the planned half-hour built-in hold.
Clocks have one more hold scheduled at T-minus 4 minutes. That pause will last 10 minutes during which time the final "go" for launch will be given.
All remains targeted for liftoff at 2:39:00 p.m. local time (5:39:00 p.m. EDT; 2139:00 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
12:26 p.m. local (3:26 p.m. EDT; 1926 GMT)
The launch team and all systems are "ready" to proceed with the countdown and begin fueling the Atlas 5 rocket this afternoon as planned.
Loading of cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen into the Atlas 5 rocket will be getting underway a short time from now.
12:24 p.m. local (3:24 p.m. EDT; 1924 GMT)
The Atlas launch conductor is briefing his team on procedures before entering into the final two hours of the countdown. A readiness check of the team members is next.
12:20 p.m. local (3:20 p.m. EDT; 1920 GMT)
Atlas 5 represents the culmination of evolution stretching back several decades to America's first intercontinental ballistic missile. At the dawn of the space age, boosters named Atlas launched men into orbit during Project Mercury and became a frequent vehicle of choice to haul civil, military and commercial spacecraft to orbit.
Topped with the high-energy Centaur upper stage, Atlas rockets have been used since the 1960s to dispatch ground-breaking missions for NASA, including the Surveyors to the Moon, Mariner flights to Mars, Venus and Mercury, and the Pioneers that were the first to visit Jupiter and beyond.
In its newest era, the Atlas 5 rocket sent the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to the red planet in 2005, propelled the New Horizons probe toward Pluto and the solar system's outer fringes in 2006, doubled up with the dual Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and LCROSS impactor to the Moon in 2009, hurled Juno to Jupiter last August and dispatched the car-sized Curiosity rover on the Mars Science Lab mission in November.
Today marks the 33rd flight for Atlas 5, born of the Air Force's competition to develop next-generation Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles. In its previous 32 missions since debuting in August 2002, the tally shows 10 flights dedicated to the Defense Department, 9 commercial missions with communications spacecraft, seven for NASA and six with spy satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office.[/size]
Пошла трансляция!
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av033/status.html
Цитировать2:29 p.m. local (5:29 p.m. EDT; 2129 GMT)
Here's a look at some stats about today's mission. This will be:
The 615th launch for Atlas program since 1957
The 204th mission for the Centaur upper stage
The 181st use of Centaur by an Atlas rocket
The 289th Atlas to occur from Vandenberg AFB since 1959
The 38th Atlas to use Space Launch Complex 3
The fifth Atlas 5 to occur from Vandenberg
The 33rd launch of an Atlas 5 since 2002
The 53rd Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle flight
The 25th Atlas 5 under United Launch Alliance
The 11th Atlas 5 launch overseen by the Air Force
The 22nd 400-series flight of the Atlas 5
The 14th Atlas 5 to fly in the 401 configuration
The 14th Atlas launch for the National Reconnaissance Office
The 7th Atlas 5 launch for the NRO
The fifth Atlas launch of 2012
2:28 p.m. local (5:28 p.m. EDT; 2128 GMT)
Weather conditions are acceptable for liftoff at 2:39 p.m. PDT. It is very foggy and misty at Space Launch Complex 3, but there are no constraints for winds and clouds.
2:26 p.m. local (5:26 p.m. EDT; 2126 GMT)
All three cryogenic tanks are reported at flight level.
2:25 p.m. local (5:25 p.m. EDT; 2125 GMT)
T-minus 4 minutes and holding. The countdown has entered the planned hold to give the launch team a chance to review all systems before pressing ahead with liftoff. Today's launch time is aimed for 2:39:00 p.m. PDT.
2:24 p.m. local (5:24 p.m. EDT; 2124 GMT)
T-minus 5 minutes. Standing by to go into the final built-in hold that will last for 10 minutes.
2:22 p.m. local (5:22 p.m. EDT; 2122 GMT)
Upper level wind conditions are within allowable limits for launch.
2:19 p.m. local (5:19 p.m. EDT; 2119 GMT)
Twenty minutes from liftoff now. The countdown clocks are heading to the T-minus 4 minute mark where a planned 10-minute hold will occur. Launch of Atlas 5 remains scheduled for 2:39 p.m. PDT.[/size]
Улетела! :wink:
Цитировать2:41 p.m. local (5:41 p.m. EDT; 2141 GMT)
T+plus 2 minutes, 30 seconds. The vehicle is right on course.
2:41 p.m. local (5:41 p.m. EDT; 2141 GMT)
T+plus 2 minutes, 20 seconds. Atlas now weighs half of what it did at liftoff.
2:40 p.m. local (5:40 p.m. EDT; 2140 GMT)
T+plus 1 minutes, 45 seconds. The RD-180 main engine continues to fire normally, burning a mixture of highly refined kerosene and liquid oxygen.
2:40 p.m. local (5:40 p.m. EDT; 2140 GMT)
T+plus 95 seconds. Now passing through the region of maximum aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle as its accelerates through the dense lower atmosphere.
2:40 p.m. local (5:40 p.m. EDT; 2140 GMT)
T+plus 85 seconds. Mach 1. All looks good aboard the 19-story-tall rocket.
2:40 p.m. local (5:40 p.m. EDT; 2140 GMT)
T+plus 60 seconds. One minute into this afternoon ascent by the Atlas 5 from the Central Coast of California.
2:39 p.m. local (5:39 p.m. EDT; 2139 GMT)
T+plus 30 seconds. Pitch, yaw and roll maneuvers have been performed, putting Atlas 5 on the proper heading. The rocket is riding atop 860,000 pounds of thrust from the RD-180 main engine.
2:39 p.m. local (5:39 p.m. EDT; 2139 GMT)
T+plus 15 seconds. The launcher is maneuvering to its southerly trajectory to deliver a secret surveillance payload into orbit and dispatch 11 tiny cubesats.
2:39 p.m. local (5:39 p.m. EDT; 2139 GMT)
LIFTOFF! Liftoff of the Atlas 5 rocket for the National Reconnaissance Office,[/size]
Есть отделение первой ступени!
Цитировать2:44 p.m. local (5:44 p.m. EDT; 2144 GMT)
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket has flown into a pre-arranged news blackout following jettison of the rocket's payload shroud. The veil of secrecy surrounding the launch of this clandestine satellite cargo means no further information about the progress of the ascent, upper stage engine firings or release of the payload will be announced in real-time.
2:43 p.m. local (5:43 p.m. EDT; 2143 GMT)
T+plus 4 minutes, 45 seconds. The two halves of the four-meter-diameter Atlas 5 rocket nose cone encapsulating the spacecraft have separated.
2:43 p.m. local (5:43 p.m. EDT; 2143 GMT)
T+plus 4 minutes, 25 seconds. Centaur has ignited! The RL10 engine is up and running at full thrust to power the vehicle into orbit.
2:43 p.m. local (5:43 p.m. EDT; 2143 GMT)
T+plus 4 minutes, 12 seconds. The Atlas 5's Common Core Booster has been jettisoned, completing the first stage of flight, and the Centaur upper stage's liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen systems are being readied for engine start.
2:43 p.m. local (5:43 p.m. EDT; 2143 GMT)
T+plus 4 minutes, 4 seconds. BECO. Booster Engine Cutoff is confirmed as the RD-180 powerplant on the first stage completes its burn. Standing by to fire the retro thrusters and separate the spent stage.
2:42 p.m. local (5:42 p.m. EDT; 2142 GMT)
T+plus 3 minutes, 45 seconds. Atlas now weighs just a quarter of what it did at liftoff.
2:42 p.m. local (5:42 p.m. EDT; 2142 GMT)
T+plus 3 minutes, 30 seconds. Vehicle performance remains nominal.
2:42 p.m. local (5:42 p.m. EDT; 2142 GMT)
T+plus 3 minutes. The main engine is burning well as the rocket climbs away from the planet.[/size]
Конец трансляции.
Видео пуска
http://youtu.be/eR9Ad_m0BRY
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Ну и туман, смотреть смысла мало было =)
ЦитироватьНу и туман, смотреть смысла мало было =)
фигасе мало!
Там такая красота перед отделением 1й ст.
Мне вот интересно: а как бы наш народ реагировал, если бы пуски ракет у нас вот так вот переносили "в последний момент"?
Long-delayed NRO Satellite Launched from VandenbergЦитироватьWASHINGTON -- A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket successfully launched a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Sept. 13 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., after a delay of more than a month, the company announced.
The NROL-36 mission was originally scheduled for Aug. 2 but had to be postponed due to a malfunction of launch monitoring data displays, according to U.S. Air Force Col. David Hook, commander of the 30th Operations Group at Vandenberg. Service officials took weeks to identify the problem and make sure they understood it before declaring the range ready to support the mission, he said.
The problem was with the new Mission Flight Control Center delivered to Vandenberg in January, Hook said in a Sept. 10 interview. Officials were initializing the system when a computer became overloaded and prevented screens from coming up for the displays, Hook said.
The control center, developed by Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems of Santa Maria, Calif., manages launches to ensure the protection of life and property near the launch site.
Meanwhile, the NRO utilized excess capacity on the Atlas 5 to make NROL-36 the agency's first rideshare mission. Seven cubesats -- cube-shaped satellites that measure 10 centimeters on each side -- intended to demonstrate new technology accompanied the primary satellite to orbit, the NRO said in a July 30 press release. The launch will pave the way for future NRO rideshares, the agency.
http://www.spacenews.com/launch/120914-long-delayed-nro-satellite-launched-from-vandenberg.html
ЦитироватьЦитироватьНу и туман, смотреть смысла мало было =)
фигасе мало!
Там такая красота перед отделением 1й ст.
на визуализатор из винампа похоже =)
NROL-36 Press Release
http://www.nro.gov/news/press/2012/2012-11.pdf
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Появились 13 объектов: USA-238, 11 мелкоспутников и ступень. Все без TLE. Для ступени нет данных по затоплению.
38758 USA 238 2012-048A
38759 SMDC ONE 1.2 2012-048B
38760 AENEAS 2012-048C
38761 CSSWE 2012-048D
38762 CXBN 2012-048E
38763 CP5 2012-048F
38764 CINEMA 2012-048G
38765 RE 2012-048H
38766 SMDC ONE 1.1 2012-048J
38767 AEROCUBE 4.5A 2012-048K
38768 AEROCUBE 4.5B 2012-048L
38769 AEROCUBE 4 2012-048M
38770 ATLAS CENTAUR R/B 2012-048N
Что, история с кодьяковским пуском повторяется?
ЦитироватьПоявились 13 объектов: USA-238, 11 мелкоспутников и ступень. Все без TLE. Для ступени нет данных по затоплению.
38758 USA 238 2012-048A
38759 SMDC ONE 1.2 2012-048B
38760 AENEAS 2012-048C
38761 CSSWE 2012-048D
38762 CXBN 2012-048E
38763 CP5 2012-048F
38764 CINEMA 2012-048G
38765 RE 2012-048H
38766 SMDC ONE 1.1 2012-048J
38767 AEROCUBE 4.5A 2012-048K
38768 AEROCUBE 4.5B 2012-048L
38769 AEROCUBE 4 2012-048M
38770 ATLAS CENTAUR R/B 2012-048N
Радиолюбители пишут про мелкоспутники здесь (http://www.uk.amsat.org/9277#more-9277) и далее по ссылкам. Например:
Aeneas
1 99992U 00000 12258.03370370 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 0002
2 99992 64.6663 40.2440 0221030 289.3403 154.8615 14.78211518000000
480х790 км, i=64.666
А наборы тулайнов на все эти объекты пока все еще нет, как я понял. Кстати, искал я вчера и позавчера при помощи бинокля USA 238 и его ступень по предварительным наборам, но безрезультатно.
ЦитироватьПоявились 13 объектов: USA-238, 11 мелкоспутников и ступень. Все без TLE. Для ступени нет данных по затоплению.
Второй NOSS скрывают? :)
ЦитироватьА наборы тулайнов на все эти объекты пока все еще нет, как я понял.
Официальных тулайнов и не будет, скорее всего.
ЦитироватьКстати, искал я вчера и позавчера при помощи бинокля USA 238 и его ступень по предварительным наборам, но безрезультатно.
Есть подозрение, что ступень могла утопиться.
ЦитироватьВторой NOSS скрывают? :)
Обычная практика. Дадут каталожный номер чуть погодя.
ЦитироватьTurning to the NOSS launch, Russell Eberst observed the Centaur, as did Scott Tilley, who also observed both payloads.
In the meantime, USSTRATCOM published its catalogue entries for most of the objects. Bob Christy has a nice listing
(bottom of page):
http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Launches/Launches.php?year=2012
As Bob points out, the Outsat payload deployer and the second NOSS have yet to be catalogued. For 3rd generation NOSS
launches, it has been standard operating procedure to misrepresent the second NOSS as a piece of debris. Apparently this
futile game is to continue, in which case the second NOSS will be designated P or Q. I have gone with P, for now.
NOSS 3-6 (A) 1011 X 1202 km
1 38758U 12048A 12259.51349376 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06
2 38758 63.4386 37.6467 0127783 180.8342 179.2489 13.40427114 07
Arc 20120914.4-0915.52 WRMS resid 0.013 totl 0.009 xtrk
NOSS 3-6 (P) 1011 X 1202 km
1 79603U 12048P 12259.51341618 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01
2 79603 63.4386 37.6469 0127783 180.8342 179.2489 13.40427114 03
Arc 20120915.52-0915.52 WRMS resid 0.007 totl 0.006 xtrk
Initially, "A" is the trailer, but it could eventually become the leader, as I recall was the case with NOSS 3-5. If
there is preference to assign "A" to the leader, I am supportive, but let's wait until any significant initial
manoeuvres have been made.
NOSS 3-6 r 473 X 760 km
1 38770U 12048N 12259.50065756 .00061826 00000-0 51277-2 0 03
2 38770 64.7188 35.7196 0205050 294.1350 63.8435 14.83582098 05
Arc 20120914.16-0915.51 WRMS resid 0.024 totl 0.014 xtrk
The decay term of the Centaur seems far too high; perhaps due to outgassing or observational/analytical error. The
situation will become clear as additional observations are made.
Ted Molczan
ЦитироватьЕсть подозрение, что ступень могла утопиться.
Все может быть. Завтра утром снова попробую поискать эти объекты.
TLE для кубиков от DK3WN:
AENEAS
1 90030U 0 12261.90074626 +.00001887 +00000-0 +18755-3 0 00071
2 90030 064.6720 028.4050 0218729 288.3303 221.6042 14.78810081000571
CSSWE
1 90031U 0 12261.82383910 +.00001382 +00000-0 +14187-3 0 00101
2 90031 064.6714 028.6390 0218654 288.2530 172.9518 14.78858418000563
CXBN
1 90032U 0 12261.90031138 +.00000995 +00000-0 +10633-3 0 00092
2 90032 064.6731 028.4041 0219386 288.2575 222.2971 14.79018423000574
CP5
1 90033U 0 12261.89068582 +.00002179 +00000-0 +21181-3 0 00090
2 90033 064.6748 028.4259 0219577 288.0416 171.7274 14.79053921000574
Вот еще немного тулайнов от DK3WN:
NROL-36 - let the TLE lottery begin :
ObjectA
1 90029U 0 12262.64030355 +.00001594 +00000-0 +16184-3 0 00116
2 90029 064.6748 026.1388 0217498 287.9609 198.7911 14.78802808000683
ObjectB
1 90030U 0 12262.56951910 +.00001646 +00000-0 +16584-3 0 00086
2 90030 064.6723 026.3562 0218713 288.1393 181.9451 14.78811905000678
ObjectC
1 90031U 0 12262.64027699 +.00001232 +00000-0 +12842-3 0 00112
2 90031 064.6714 026.1386 0218583 288.0248 199.5530 14.78860193000681
ObjectD
1 90032U 0 12262.64071729 +.00000964 +00000-0 +10353-3 0 00101
2 90032 064.6732 026.1355 0219367 288.0487 204.5437 14.79020004000687
ObjectE
1 90033U 0 12262.63835822 +.00001328 +00000-0 +13585-3 0 00108
2 90033 064.6751 026.1367 0219562 287.8303 192.7513 14.79053956000688
ObjectF
1 90034U 0 12262.56832880 +.00000900 +00000-0 +97618-4 0 00073
2 90034 064.6747 026.3561 0219522 288.1709 180.0760 14.79085106000510
ObjectG
1 90035U 0 12262.56851347 +.00000804 +00000-0 +89094-4 0 00109
2 90035 064.6721 026.3531 0219277 288.1368 181.1714 14.79089565000679
ObjectH
1 90036U 0 12262.56823630 +.00000889 +00000-0 +96618-4 0 00130
2 90036 064.6727 026.3525 0219510 288.0733 179.8987 14.79097998000679
ObjectI
1 90037U 0 12262.56792538 +.00000618 +00000-0 +72563-4 0 00103
2 90037 064.6728 026.3532 0219157 287.9500 178.4253 14.79101206000675
ObjectJ
1 90038U 0 12262.63905324 +.00001592 +00000-0 +15906-3 0 00100
2 90038 064.6724 026.1314 0219166 287.8782 198.8353 14.79202470000682
ObjectK
1 90039U 0 12262.56872360 +.00000504 +00000-0 +62055-4 0 00094
2 90039 064.6708 026.3463 0219733 288.0324 184.6733 14.79227768000678
USA 238 DEB 2012-048P 38773
ЦитироватьЕсть подозрение, что ступень могла утопиться.
Похоже, что летает. Наблюдатели ее видят.
National Reconnaissance Office Innovation Campaign: The CubeSat Program (http://www.nro.gov/about/innovation/2013-05.pdf) - 296KB