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ЦитироватьMay 5 Minotaur • TacSat 3
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia
The Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket will launch the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat 3 advanced technology research spacecraft. The four-stage rocket uses U.S. government-supplied Minuteman 2 motors and Pegasus rocket stages. Delayed from December, March 15, June 25, Aug. 14 and Sept. 14 and October. [March 24]
http://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/8035/2/SSEC_SD4_ppt.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TacSat-3
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Computer model of TacSat-3
ЦитироватьOrganization AFRL
Major contractors Raytheon
Mission type Technology demonstrator
Satellite of Earth
Launch date May 5, 2009
Carrier rocket Minotaur I
Launch site Wallops Flight Facility
Mass 400 kg (882 lb)
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Malfunctioning_Component_Delays_Satellite_Launch_999.html
ЦитироватьMalfunctioning Component Delays Satellite Launch
The satellite originated five years ago to address military requirements for responsible, flexible and affordable spacecraft operating in the cosmos.
by Michael Kleiman
377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jan 16, 2009 Air Force officials here are delaying the launch of Tactical Satellite-3 until repairs to a spacecraft avionics component, critical to the system's operational capability, are complete.
Although scheduled to launch in late January, the program team is working with the manufacturer to resolve the problem.
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate here administers the satellite program, known as TacSat-3. When ready, the TacSat-3 launch will occur at NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va.
"We're very disappointed in the delay, but the fix is necessary to assure the on-orbit performance of the satellite," said Thom Davis, a TacSat-3 program manager.
"Had we not discovered and corrected this problem, we would have had a potential catastrophic mission failure."
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The satellite originated five years ago to address military requirements for responsible, flexible and affordable spacecraft operating in the cosmos.
It consists of three pioneering experiments: the Raytheon Company-constructed Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer hyperspectral imager; the Office of Naval Research's satellite communications package; and AFRL's space avionics experiment.
The trio of payloads will offer real-time imagery (within 10 minutes of collection), sea-based information transmitted from ocean buoys and plug-and-play avionics to support the warfighter in keeping one step ahead of the adversary.
Project partners include AFRL's Sensors Directorate, NASA, the Department of Defense's Operationally Responsive Space office, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Space Development and Test Wing, Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Air Force Space Command, the Office of Naval Research, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
http://www.afmc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123141387
ЦитироватьLaunch date established for Tactical Satellite-3
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Tactical Satellite-3 program logo. (Air Force graphic)
by Michael Kleiman
377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
3/25/2009 - KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. -- Let the countdown begin.
Lift off for Tactical Satellite-3 has been scheduled for May 5, 2009, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallops Island Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va.
The program recently encountered challenges with some of the spacecraft's components, but the required repairs have been made and the system has been given the green light for its year-long experimental mission.
"Our program team never gave up, and establishment of the launch date serves as a testimony to their dedication, determination and duty to making TacSat-3's mission a success," said Dr. Thomas Cooley, TacSat-3 program manager. "Obviously, the project has much to do in these next few weeks leading up to lift off, but we now have a firm end date to get on orbit and begin the fun experiment phase."
Led by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate here, the less than 880-pound satellite, originated in 2004 to address military needs for responsible, flexible, and affordable spacecraft operating in the cosmos, consists of three innovative experiments: the Raytheon Company-built Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer hyperspectral imager, the Office of Naval Research's Satellite Communications Package, and the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Avionics Experiment.
The trio of trials will provide real-time imagery (within 10 minutes of collection); sea-based information transmitted from ocean buoys; and plug-and-play avionics to advance the technology of rapid spacecraft integration and help enable the responsive space vision.
Program participants include the AFRL's Sensors Directorate, Dept. of Defense's Operationally Responsive Space office, the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Space Development and Test Wing, Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and the Office of Naval Research.
http://www.kirtland.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070404-104.pdf
http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/tacsat-3.htm
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Попутные нагрузки:
http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/risat-1.htm
ЦитироватьPharmaSat 1
HawkSat 1
CP 6
AeroCube 3
http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/risat-1.htm
ЦитироватьPharmaSat 1
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PharmaSat 1 [NASA]
PharmaSat 1 is the first mission in NASA MicroSat Free Flyer (µSat-FF) Project, a progressive, 4 mission, 5 year effort that is targeted towards developing and demonstrating autonomous nanosatellite space platforms and technologies to support multidisciplinary science investigations. The µSat-FF project is enabled by the GeneSat-1 and GeneBox projects, in which 5 Kg Nanosatellites, organized in the 3U Cubesat configuration, were flown in 2006 in both the autonomous satellite and attached payload configurations, aboard the USAF Minotaur (TacSat 2) and Bigelow Aerospace Genesis missions, respectively. The overall goal of the initial µSat-FF Mission, PharmaSat-1, is to test and validate autonomous, in-situ bioanalytical and sample management technologies to implement a Principal Investigator defined science experiment to evaluate the efficacy of an antifungal drug agent on a biological specimen.
PharmaSat will be in a low earth orbit at 40 degrees inclination. The orbit should be nearly circular with an altitude of 390 km at the start of the mission, degrading to 200km after approx 250 to 300 days, at which time it would de-orbit. The satellite is a triple CubeSat with a mass of approx 4kg.
http://microsatellitefreeflyer.arc.nasa.gov/docs/PharmaSat_1.pdf 100 КБ
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/meetings/S07/presentations/8_McGinnis_TSGC.pdf 300 КБ
Информация по остальным:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/pdf/326337main_Cubesat%20backgrounder.pdf
http://www.hawkspace.org/welcome.html
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http://www.lenta.ru/news/2009/04/29/nasa/
ЦитироватьNASA запустит микроспутник с колонией дрожжей
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Американское космическое агентство запустит на орбиту микроспутник с колонией дрожжей на борту, сообщается в пресс-релизе, опубликованном на сайте агентства. Целью аппарата, который получил наименование PharmaSat, будет изучение особенностей воздействия лекарств в невесомости. Вес спутника - около пяти килограммов, а по размерам он не превосходит батон хлеба.
Запуск намечен на 5 мая 2009 года. Планируется, что на расчетную орбиту высотой около 460 километров над поверхностью Земли спутник будет выведен ракетой Minotaur 1. Ракета-носитель отправится в космос с космодрома, расположенного в штате Вирджиния.
В рамках опыта, который будет продолжаться в течение 96 часов, исследователи будут изучать воздействие лекарственных препаратов на колонию дрожжей внутри спутника. Для этого внутренность аппарата снабжена большим количеством датчиков, а также системой видеонаблюдения. Данные со спутника будут передаваться на Землю.
По мнению специалистов, использование подобных микроспутников в будущем может служить дешевой альтернативой проведению экспериментов в невесомости на МКС.
Это далеко не первая подобная миссия NASA. Так, в 2006 году агентство запустило микроспутник GeneSat-1, передатчики которого продолжают работать до сих пор. Целью миссии было изучение генетических изменений, возникающих в бактериях кишечной палочки под воздействием условий открытого космоса.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html
ЦитироватьMay 5 Minotaur • TacSat 3
Launch time: 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. EDT
Launch site: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia
The Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket will launch the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat 3 advanced technology research spacecraft. The four-stage rocket uses U.S. government-supplied Minuteman 2 motors and Pegasus rocket stages. Delayed from December, March 15, June 25, Aug. 14 and Sept. 14 and October. [April 24]
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/tacsat3/preview.html
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U.S. military's experimental tactical satellite to launch
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: May 3, 2009
A military satellite designed to demonstrate inexpensive user-friendly space technologies is being readied for launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore on Tuesday night.
An artist's concept of the TacSat 3 spacecraft. Credit: U.S. Air Force
TacSat 3 is tucked inside the pointy end of a Minotaur 1 booster, a space launcher formed by combining the two lower stages of a retired Minuteman missile and the two upper stages of the Pegasus and Taurus rockets built by Orbital Sciences Corp.
The 69-foot-tall rocket is scheduled to blast off at 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday. The launch window extends for three hours.
It will be the third Minotaur launch since 2006 from pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Va.
Around 50 workers have spent more than a month at Wallops preparing the solid-fueled launcher and its payloads for liftoff, according to Jack Vieira, the TacSat 3 project manager at the launch site.
The Minotaur is also loaded with a small NASA biology research satellite and three tiny CubeSat payloads.
Another 400 official guests are expected to flood the Eastern Shore by launch day, Vieira said.
Officials are not working any major issues this weekend, but it has been a long road to launch for TacSat 3.
Engineers examined the Minotaur's payload fairing to make sure Tuesday's $88 million launch would not suffer the same fate as the February flight of a Taurus rocket that was brought down when its nose cone failed to jettison.
The fairing protects the payload as the rocket accelerates through the lower atmosphere. The structure separates in two halves a few minutes after launch.
"Certainly there was a reason to go look at that," said Air Force Col. Scott Handy, mission director for the launch.
As it turns out, the Minotaur fairing shares very little in common with hardware on the Taurus.
Officials exonerated the fairing's frangible rails in the Taurus failure. A similar system is used by the Minotaur 1.
"Those particular rails go along the base of the fairing as well as around the exterior so that the two fairing halves can actually separate at the time during the mission," Handy said.
Orbital and NASA, the customer for the doomed February launch, are still reviewing the Taurus mishap, but the investigators briefed the Minotaur team on their interim results to help clear TacSat 3 for launch.
"We have no reason to doubt the expected separation of the fairing as designed," Handy said.
Conceived in 2004 and originally scheduled to launch in 2007, TacSat 3 has endured several years of delays due to problems with spacecraft equipment, including the satellite's star tracker, flight software and avionics system.
The 880-pound satellite is managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. It is part of the Department of Defense's Operationally Responsive Space program, which aims to develop, test and integrate low-cost space technologies onto tactical battlefields.
"We hope to chart a fundamentally new paradigm of space support for the military," said Tom Cooley, TacSat 3 program manager.
TacSat 3 will be the second TacSat payload to launch. TacSat 2, launched from Wallops in 2006, completed more than a year of operations last year.
"The TacSat program is a stepping stone for delivering operationally relevant space capabilities to joint force commanders, all the while inserting mature technologies that support our national security interests," said Peter Wegner, director of the ORS office.
Partners in the TacSat 3 project include AFRL, ORS, the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the Office of Naval Research, and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
TacSat 3's primary instrument is a high-resolution hyperspectral imager called ARTEMIS, which stands for the Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer.
Military leaders envision instruments like ARTEMIS will eventually be fielded in operational war theaters, allowing lower-ranking tactically-minded commanders to rapidly request and receive information on enemy troops and equipment.
The instrument was built by Raytheon Co.
Precursor hyperspectral imagers have flown on airborne and satellite platforms. The Hyperion instrument was launched in 2000 aboard NASA's Earth Observing 1 remote sensing test satellite.
Hyperion was designed for scientific and civilian applications.
ARTEMIS includes about 400 spectral bands, while Hyperion can convert incoming light into 220 bands.
Hyperspectral sensors work by breaking light into its components, which allows analysts or software programs to map the chemicals or minerals in an image.
Officials are not disclosing the spatial resolution of the ARTEMIS imager, but managers said the instrument will be able detect ground features as subtle as specific types of paint.
The satellite will participate in Army exercises later this year to showcase its ability to receive commands from the battlefield, gather imagery, and downlink the results to soldiers in the field, officials said.
"When the satellite breaks the horizon, the commander is able to uplink the location that they're interested in. The satellite autonomously calculates how to make that collection with the best advantage, collects it, processes the data on board, and compares the data that's collected to spectra that the Army is interested in," Cooley said.
Programmers will load the spectra, or the signature of light reflected from objects on the ground, on the satellite's computers so they can automatically compare target information to files stored on-board.
"There is a library of spectra that are pre-loaded on the satellite. They might say, for instance, they're looking for a particular type of paint. We have the spectra of that paint on the satellite," Cooley said.
Commanders on the ground will receive raw imagery or a text message with the latitude and longitude of the object's location, according to Cooley.
TacSat 3 should be able to complete these activities in less than 10 minutes during a single pass of the satellite as it circles more than 250 miles overhead.
Military officials believe agile satellites with high-resolution imagers could provide crucial information on target detection and identification, battlefield preparation and combat damage assessments.
The exercises will help officials determine the military usefulness of highly responsive space systems, which could be implemented in large satellite constellations in the future to provide global coverage.
"We'll just basically sit back and watch how useful it was to them and what the impact was," Wegner said.
The military expects TacSat 3 will operate for at least a year.
The satellite also carries the Navy's Satellite Communications Package and an Air Force plug-and-play avionics package called the Space Avionics Experiment.
The communications payload will gather observations from sea buoys and transmit the information to a ground station to be relayed to warfighters.
"By the end of that first year, we're going to have a really good assessment of the operational utility of this kind of system," Wegner said.
The Army has long been pushing for a satellite with tactical direct-tasking capability, but TacSat 3 must prove its usefulness before the Pentagon orders an operational satellite, Cooley said.
"Our goal is that the technology will be of sufficient interest that the DOD will elect to move forward and transition this type of technology into their toolbox, but that remains to be seen," Cooley said.
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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/tacsat3/update.html
ЦитироватьMinotaur rocket set for launch from Virginia
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: May 4, 2009
Weather is the only thing standing in the way of Tuesday evening's scheduled launch of a Minotaur 1 rocket with a technology demonstration satellite for the U.S. Air Force, officials said Monday.
Forecasters are predicting a 50 percent chance weather will prohibit the 69-foot-tall rocket from blasting off between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday from Wallops Island, Va.
"There's a front that's over the top of us, so we'll get rain and low cloud ceilings off an on all day tomorrow," said Keith Koehler, spokesperson for NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, which is hosting the launch.
Koehler said iffy weather is expected through at least Thursday, but the launch team is hopeful skies will clear long enough Tuesday for the Minotaur to safely lift off.
The Minotaur 1 is carrying an 880-pound tactical research satellite called TacSat 3 and a small NASA biology laboratory named PharmaSat. Three other secondary payloads will also be launched for academic and industrial institutions.
Officials say the launch, scheduled for just a few minutes after sunset, could be visible across the mid-Atlantic region from North Carolina to New Jersey.
Engineers completed their final readiness review Saturday to close out a few minor issues before clearing the $88 million mission for launch.
"The satellite is in good shape and the rocket and the range are ready," Koehler said. "We're just waiting to see what the weather is going to do."
The Minotaur will launch from pad 0B at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, a privately-operated facility at Wallops that has been used for two previous space launches since 2006.
Orbital Sciences Corp., the prime contractor for the Minotaur 1 booster, is modifying a nearby launch pad to be the home of their new Taurus 2 rocket.
The Taurus 2 will begin launching a new cargo-carrying freighter to the international space station by early 2011.
During Tuesday's launch, the Minotaur 1's first stage will ignite to propel the solid-fueled rocket southeast away from the launch pad.
The stage, which will burn for about one minute, is a M55A1 motor taken from stockpiles of retired Minuteman ballistic missiles.
A Minuteman second stage will take over a minute after liftoff at an altitude of about 20 miles and a downrange distance of about 14 miles. The second stage skirt will be jettisoned a few seconds later.
After reaching an altitude of more than 75 miles in barely two minutes of flight, the Minotaur's Minuteman heritage will give way to components built for Orbital's Pegasus and Taurus rockets.
The Orion 50XL third stage motor will fire for 75 seconds to continue the push toward orbit.
The Minotaur's enlarged 61-inch-diameter titanium payload fairing will be let go during the third stage burn.
After consuming the third stage consumes its solid propellant, the rocket will coast upward for more than five minutes, soaring to nearly 300 miles above Earth to reach the mission's injection altitude.
The Orion 38 will ignite for about 69 seconds to reach a targeted orbit about 290 miles high with an inclination of 40.5 degrees.
Separation of the TacSat 3 spacecraft is scheduled for T+11 minutes, 58 seconds above the central Atlantic Ocean.
After another coast period and a collision avoidance maneuver to move itself away from TacSat 3, the fourth stage will begin releasing the flight's secondary payloads with PharmaSat at T+22 minutes, 2 seconds.
See our launch timeline for more details.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/tacsat3/timeline.html
ЦитироватьT-00:00 Liftoff
The first stage's decommissioned Minuteman 2 M55A1 solid rocket motor ignites to begin the Minotaur 1 rocket's mission. Pitch and roll commands two seconds later will put the rocket on the proper trajectory.
T+00:37.2 Max Q
Aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle reaches its peak as the Minotaur 1 accelerates through the lower atmosphere.
T+01:01.3 Stage 1 Sep./Stage 2 Ignition
At an altitude of more than 20 miles, the rocket's first stage exhausts its supply of solid fuel and is jettisoned. The second stage's SR19 motor ignites to continue the flight toward space.
T+01:17.9 Stage 2 Skirt Jettison
The second stage's aft skirt is jettisoned at an altitude of 32 miles.
T+02:13.4 Stage 2 Separation
After a 72-second burn, the Minotaur rocket's second stage separates at an altitude of more than 75 miles as the vehicle is traveling more than 6,100 mph.
T+02:15.6 Stage 3 Ignition
Components from the Pegasus rocket program take over as the Alliant Techsystems, Inc. Orion 50XL motor begins its 75-second firing.
T+02:23.7 Fairing Jettison
The 61-inch titanium payload fairing that protected the satellites during the ride through the lower atmosphere is jettisoned as the rocket ascends into space at an altitude of 83 miles.
T+03:30.3 Stage 3 Burnout
The Orion 50XL motor completes its burn and the Minotaur 1 enters a coast period lasting more than five minutes, during which the vehicle's altitude will soar from 135 miles to about 288 miles, the missionХs orbital injection altitude.
T+08:38.8 Stage 3 Separation
The Minotaur's third stage is released to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
T+08:49.8 Stage 4 Ignition
The Orion 38 solid rocket motor is ignited to complete the job of placing the payloads into orbit.
T+09:58.4 Stage 4 Burnout
The fourth stage uses up its propellant and burns out as it enters the targeted orbit at an altitude of about 290 miles and an orbital inclination of 40.5 degrees.
T+11:58.3 TacSat 3 Separation
The Air Force's TacSat 3 satellite is deployed from the Minotaur 1 rocket's fourth stage.
T+22:02.3 PharmaSat Separation
NASA's tiny PharmaSat spacecraft is released from a P-POD deployment system built by California Polytechnic State University.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=16645.30
ЦитироватьFrom NASA:
ЦитироватьWe have canceled tonight's launch attempt of the Minotaur 1 rocket because of poor weather conditions. A decision on the next launch attempt will be made later tonight.
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=16645.30
ЦитироватьNext attempt will be on 8 May (GMT), same window.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html
ЦитироватьMay 7 Minotaur • TacSat 3
Launch time: 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. EDT
Launch site: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia
The Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket will launch the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat 3 advanced technology research spacecraft. The four-stage rocket uses U.S. government-supplied Minuteman 2 motors and Pegasus rocket stages. Delayed from December, March 15, June 25, Aug. 14 and Sept. 14 and October. Scrubbed May 5 due to bad weather. [May 6]
2 с половиной часа.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 17:05:30 EDT
5 p.m. T-3 hours and counting. The launch team has completed vehicle test steps in the countdown. Next up is the final arming of the launch vehicle and vehicle closeout. We did have an issue with the telemetry system at our tracking site in Coquina,NC, but that has now been resolved. Surveillance plane scehduled to depart in 20 minutes to begin locating boats off Wallops Island. Latest forcast shows 70% probability of acceptable weather for launch.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 16:01:03 EDT
4 p.m., T-4 hours and counting. 60% probability of acceptable weather for launch. Shelter moved away from the Mid-Atlantic Spaceport launch pad.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 15:01:15 EDT
At 3 p.m. we are at T-5 hours and counting. All of the launch team is on station. The checkout of the Wallops support systems has been completed and we are beginning the final process to prepare the Minotaur rocket and TacSat-3 satellite for launch. Fog rolling in.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 14:01:05 EDT
At 2 p.m. EDT we are at T-6 hours and counting for the launch of the Air Force Minotaur rocket. The launch window is 8 to 11 p.m. The forecast shows a 60% probability of acceptable weather for launch.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-06 at 17:56:45 EDT
The next launch attempt for the TacSat-3 mission using the Minotaur 1 rocket is set for Thursday, May 7. The launch window is 8 to 11 p.m. The weather forecast has a 55% probablity of acceptable weather for launch. The webcast will begin at 1 p.m. EDT on May 7.
Трансляция: http://mfile.akamai.com/18569/live/reflector:59445.asx?bkup=32644
А погодка хороша!
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 19:09:56 EDT
T - 1 hour 15 minutes and holding.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 19:06:29 EDT
Storms expected at Wallops around 7:30 p.m. Gantry moved back over rocket.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 18:11:40 EDT
6 p.m. T-2 hours and counting. Final arming of the launch vehicle continues. No issues being worked for the rocket,spacecraft or range. Severe weather predicted shortly for tracking site in N.C.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 20:00:27 EDT
8 p.m. T-1 hour 15 minutes and holding.Beginning process to remove the gantry from around the rocket.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 20:28:32 EDT
Resetting the countdownclock to T- 1 hour and holding. Evaluating the weather for the surveillance aircraft to depart Wallops and fly out over the ocean to locate any ships that would be downrange of the rocket flight path.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 21:08:03 EDT
9 p.m. Still at T-1 hour. Plane has not departed. Another line of storms getting ready to come through the area.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 20:41:31 EDT
Expect the surveillance aircraft to be ready soon to take off.
Все. Не в этот раз.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-07 at 22:00:26 EDT
We have scrubbed tonight's launch attempt because of weather issues.
Сегодня ночью попробуют ещё раз:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html
ЦитироватьMay 8 Minotaur • TacSat 3
Launch time: 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. EDT
Launch site: Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia
The Orbital Sciences Minotaur rocket will launch the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat 3 advanced technology research spacecraft. The four-stage rocket uses U.S. government-supplied Minuteman 2 motors and Pegasus rocket stages. Delayed from December, March 15, June 25, Aug. 14 and Sept. 14 and October. Scrubbed May 5 and May 7 due to bad weather. [May 7]
Во сколько это по нашему?
ЦитироватьВо сколько это по нашему?
Стартовое окно с 04:00 до 07:00 ЛМВ завтра.
P.S.: Вы хоть в название темы посмотрите, если уж лень самому вычислить. :)
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 19:57:34 EDT
Launch support equipment problem appears to be corrected and is now being tested.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 19:30:37 EDT
Continuing hold.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 19:04:03 EDT
7:04 p.m. Boat in the avoidance is expected to be cleared in about 20 minutes.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 18:50:27 EDT
Holding the clock at T-45 minutes. A launch support equipment issue is being worked.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 18:35:07 EDT
6:35 p.m. T-1 hour and counting. Launch pad area is clear of support personnel. Vehicle, spacecraft, and range are all green for launch. Working to clear one boat from the avoidance area.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 18:05:07 EDT
6:05 p.m. T- 1 hour 30 minutes and counting. Surveillance aircraft is out over the ocean scanning for boats that may be underneath the flight path of the rocket. Weather looking favorable. Shelter has been removed from around the rocket.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 17:35:11 EDT
T-5:35p.m. T- 2 hours and counting. Expect to begin moving the shelter from around the rocket in next 30 minutes.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 16:35:11 EDT
4:35 p.m. T-3 hours and counting. No issues reported with launch vehicle, spacecraft or the launch range.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 15:53:24 EDT
New launch time of 7:35 p.m. This to take advantage of the expected better weather early in the window.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 15:28:19 EDT
Latest forecast has a 50% probability of acceptable weatherfor launch tonight.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 15:01:22 EDT
We are at T- 5 hours and counting for the launch of the Minotaur 1 rocket. Could launch as early as 7:30 p.m. Window closes at 11 p.m. All launch personnel are on station. The weather for this evening is expected to be somewhat like we had for the last 2 attempts -- scattered storms moving through with low clouds. However, the forecast looks the best for the beginning and end of the launch window.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 21:00:11 EDT
9 p.m.Countdown clock reset to T-50minutes and holding. Continuing to work equipment problem.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 20:30:09 EDT
8:30 p.m. Continuing to hold for the launch support equipment problem.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 21:38:04 EDT
New launch time is 10:40 p.m.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 21:35:28 EDT
Range readiness poll shows the range is ready to proceedwith the final countdown.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 21:30:05 EDT
9:30 p.m.T-50 minutes and holding. Equipment problem has been fixed.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:00:05 EDT
10 p.m. T-40 minutes and counting. No issues being worked. Weather looks good for launch.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 21:42:31 EDT
In the final phase of the countdown
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:14:57 EDT
10:15 p.m. T-25 minutes and counting.No issues being worked.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:25:05 EDT
T-20 minutes and counting. New launch time is 10:45 p.m.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:20:00 EDT
Holding the count to verify wind data. This is a short hold.
Отбой.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:50:49 EDT
We have scrubbed the launch for tonight
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:43:08 EDT
Hold
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:42:02 EDT
T-3 minutes Range green
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:39:59 EDT
T-5 minutes go for launch
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:36:44 EDT
T-8 minutes and counting Range is go for launch
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:32:56 EDT
Note that there is about a 30 second delay in the webcast video and actual events.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-08 at 22:28:20 EDT
All stations report go for launch
Carlos, поражаюсь Вашему мужеству! :wink:
Две ночи без сна!
Спасибо!
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=16645.330
Цитировать« Reply #338 on: Today at 02:50 AM »
Scrubbed tonight. Low ATC levels in the FSO.
Цитировать« Reply #346 on: Today at 03:02 AM »
May 19th is the next earliest opportunity, pending clearances.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/tacsat3/status.html
ЦитироватьBY STEPHEN CLARK
0330 GMT (11:30 p.m. EDT Fri.)
Tonight's launch of a technology demonstration satellite was scrubbed after a controller noticed a voltage parameter was out of limits and ordered a hold about two minutes before liftoff.
The low voltage was detected by the flight safety officer shortly after powering up a component affiliated with the flight termination system. The countdown clock was ticking toward a liftoff at 10:45 p.m. EDT (0245 GMT), near the end of a three-hour launch window that was marred by lengthy troubleshooting of support equipment at the launch pad.
Managers decided to scrub the launch because there was not enough time to resolve the voltage issue in the time remaining in the launch window.
Officials have confirmed they will not try again Saturday, and the launch team was told the next attempt may not be until May 19.
The Minotaur 1 rocket has been trying to get off the ground all week, but persistent bad weather along Virgina's Eastern Shore thwarted attempts Tuesday and Thursday. The weather was acceptable for launch tonight.
The launch was to deliver the U.S. Air Force's TacSat 3 satellite into orbit to begin one year of technology trials.
Назначены новая дата и время:
ЦитироватьA new launch date has been scheduled for the Minotaur I rocket from Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore, according to spokesman at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.
The launch, which has been postponed twice, is scheduled for May 19 and could happen any time between 7:35 and 11:30 p.m. The backup date is May 20.
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/05/new-date-set-eastern-shore-launch-minotaur-i-rocket
Попытка номер... три? Кажется?
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 15:35:00 EDT
3:35 p.m. T-4 hours and counting.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 15:19:34 EDT
Beginning to remove shelter from around the rocket.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 15:04:58 EDT
T-4 hours 30 minutes and counting.The target launch time is 7:35 p.m. The launch window is 7:35 to 11:30 p.m. Latest forecast at launch is nearly skies, temperature will be 51 degrees, and winds at 13 knots out of the east. Probability of good weather for launch is near 100%.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 14:41:46 EDT
Programming note: When watching the webcast video/audio, be aware that there is about a 20 second delay from what you see on your computer screen and what is taking place at Wallops.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 14:35:12 EDT
T-5 hours and counting. The launch team is beginning rocket and spacecraft preparations.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 13:36:58 EDT
We are T-6 hours and counting for the Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket. The range personnel are currently checking out support systems including radar,safety and telemetry. The rocket and spacecraft personnel will begin their launch preparations at the T-5 hour mark.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 10:09:22 EDT
The launch team is "GO" for launch this evening. The Wallops range team reports at 11:30 a.m. to begin preparations for launch.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-18 at 16:00:39 EDT
The launch team received permission today to proceed towards the launch attempt of the TacSat-3 mission on May 19. The launch window is 7:35 to 11:30 p.m. Today's afternoon forecast shows a 90% probability of acceptable weather for launch. There is one issue that we are following. There is a possibility of a conflict with the air space we need for the launch. If there is a conflict, we will move the launch to Wednesday, May 20. We should know the status of this issue early Tuesday morning.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-13 at 13:31:09 EDT
The new launch date for the TacSat-3 mission on an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket from Wallops Island has been set for May 19 with a backup day of May 20. The launch window for both days is 7:35 to 11:30 p.mn. EDT.
Трансляция: http://mfile.akamai.com/18569/live/reflector:59445.asx?bkup=32644
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:39:53 EDT
T-15 minutes and counting.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:34:24 EDT
New launch time is 7:55 p.m.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:28:26 EDT
Recalculating new launch time. It may take longer than expected for ship to move.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:26:28 EDT
New launch time is 7:45 p.m.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:20:27 EDT
7:20 p.m. T-15 minutes and holding. Boat in the range.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:05:01 EDT
7:05p.m. T-30 minutes and counting. No issues for range,rocket or spacecraft. Range is clear.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 18:35:25 EDT
6:35 p.m. We are T-60 minutes and counting for launch of the Air Force Research LabTacSat-3 satellite on an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket from Wallops Island. The Coast Guard is clearing some boats in the avoidance area. The target launch time is 7:35 p.m. The launch window runs to 11:30 p.m.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 18:11:03 EDT
An alternate source has been found for the needed surveillance data. Radar on Coast Guard ships supporting the mission will be used.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 18:05:08 EDT
6:05 p.m. T-90 minutes and counting. One issue. Problem with a range surveillance radar. Rocket and spacecraft are green for launch.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 17:36:55 EDT
One issue being worked. We are having problems with a radar that is used for surveillance.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 17:35:09 EDT
5:35 p.m. T-2 hours and counting. Everything still looks good for launch. No issues being worked.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 17:05:14 EDT
5:05 p.m. We are T-2 hours 30 minutes and counting for launch of an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket from Wallops Island. The target launch time is 7:35 p.m. The launch window runs to 11:30 p.m. Final vehicle and site preparations are underway.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 16:35:26 EDT
4:35 p.m. T-3 hours and counting.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 15:43:44 EDT
The delay between the webcast video and actual events is now down to about 6 seconds.
ЦитироватьPosted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 20:10:57 EDT
This concludes tonight's coverage of the TacSat-3/Minotaur 1 mission.
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 20:08:41 EDT
TacSat-3 deployed
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 20:04:18 EDT
systems nominal
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 20:04:03 EDT
4th stage ignition
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:58:54 EDT
all systems nominal 3rd stage burnout
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:58:20 EDT
3rd stage burn
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:54:59 EDT
launch
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:54:31 EDT
30 seconds
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:54:09 EDT
50 seconds
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:53:00 EDT
T-2 minutes
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:50:04 EDT
7:50 T-5 minutes and counting.Go for launch
Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:45:05 EDT
7:45 T-10 minutes and counting
Улетело, в общем.
Спасибо! :wink:
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Космическое командование ВВС США зарегистрировало пока 4 объекта от этого пуска:
35001 OBJECT A 2009-028A
35002 OBJECT B 2009-028B
35003 OBJECT C 2009-028C
35004 OBJECT D 2009-028D
По идее должно бы быть 6. :roll:
Подтверждено отделение НАСАвского PharmaSat-1. Про три кубсата пока ничего не известно.
ЦитироватьPharmaSat was deployed 22 minutes after liftoff from a self-contained deployment system called a P-POD. The bread loaf-sized satellite contacted a ground station later Tuesday night, confirming it was in good shape following the launch.
ЦитироватьThe Minotaur also carried three tiny CubeSats: CP6 for California Polytechnic State University, HawkSat 1 for the Maryland-based Hawk Institute for Space Sciences, and AeroCube 3 for the Aerospace Corporation.
The status of the CubeSats could not be confirmed late Tuesday night.
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/tacsat3/
Видео пуска:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEf9trI1Hf8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2009/09-52AR.html
ЦитироватьNASA Flight Facility Successfully Launches Nanosatellite
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 4:55 p.m. PDT on May 19 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island, Va. PharmaSat rode to orbit aboard a four-stage Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket. Also aboard were the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-3 satellite and other NASA CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments, which include three four-inch cubed satellites developed by universities and industry.
PharmaSat will investigate the effects of antifungal agents on the growth of yeast in microgravity. This research could improve understanding of how microbes may become resistant to the drugs used to treat sick astronauts on long-duration space missions.
"After a spectacular launch as a hitchhiker on the Tacsat-3 mission, we made contact with PharmaSat and confirmed that the spacecraft deployed successfully," said Bruce Yost, PharmaSat mission manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "The PharmaSat mission and science teams are now preparing to complete the experiment on the yeast cultures."
Approximately 20 minutes after launch, PharmaSat separated from the Minotaur 1 rocket and entered low Earth orbit at an altitude of approximately 285 miles. About an hour after launch, NASA spaceflight engineers made contact with PharmaSat. After a spacecraft checkout period, ground controllers will command PharmaSat to initiate its biological experiment, which will last approximately 96 hours.
Now that PharmaSat is activated and has begun transmitting radio signals to ground control stations at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., and Santa Clara University in California, it will send mission data to the NASA Mission Management Team at NASA's Ames Research Center. The nanosatellite could transmit data for as long as six months.
The TacSat-3 launch was the third Minotaur vehicle launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's launch pad 0B on the southern end of Wallops Island. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center's Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland AFB, N.M., has overall management of the mission.
The Exploration Technology Development Program in NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington funded the PharmaSat project.
А по остальным пока тишина... :roll:
Добавился еще один объект: 35005, 2009-028E. Учитывая, что два объекта от пуска Меридиана получили номера 35008 и 35009 - выходит, что для пуска Минотавра зарезервированы еще два номера (35006 и 35007). Если так - тогда всего их будет 7. Таксат-3, ступень, Фармасат, три кубсата и еще какой-то фрагмент.
По-прежнему пять объектов от этого пуска. Маловато будет!
Полагаешь, что по крайней мере один из "кубсатов" не отделился?
Фиг его знает. Таксат + Фармасат + (3 х кубсат) + ступень = 6.
А номеров зарезервировано вроде как 7... А каталогизировано объектов 5. Про успешное отделение Таксата и Фармасата сообщения были.
Такая вот арифметика. :roll:
Вообще хорошая мысль: "Давай посмотрим..." :) Давно пора уже было посмотреть, все лень-матушка.
http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/
Цитировать3 Minotaur Launched CubeSats Contacted
PharmaSat, CP6 and AeroCube3 have been contacted. Congrats!
Т.е. HawkSat где-то затерялся.
Знать бы еще, в каком порядке они в контейнере сидели...
Не обязательно "в контейнере": параметры орбит по ряду элементов запуска не будут выданы до тех пор, пока они не разойдутся на достаточное расстояние. Даже с их "см"...
Это-то понятно. Но с кубсатами идентификацию проводить намного проще радиотехническими средствами. На каждом стоит УКВ-пищалка, частоты пищалок на разных аппаратах различные, и они известны. В результате хозяева спутников часто идентифицируют свой аппарат задолго до того, как Космическое командование разберется "кто есть кто".
Так вот про прием сигнала с Фармасата, СР6 и Аэрокуба было. А про ХаукСат чего-то молчок.
ЦитироватьВ результате хозяева спутников часто идентифицируют свой аппарат задолго до того, как Космическое командование разберется "кто есть кто"
Кстати об операторах:
на слушаниях в сенатском комитете по делам вооруженных сил Конгресса глава Тихоокеанского командования ВС США адмирал Тимоти Китинг заявил:
Цитироватьамериканским военным следует более активно взаимодействовать с операторами гражданских спутников и "получать необходимую информацию от них, а не добывать ее самим"
http://www.vesti.ru (по следам столкновения Иридиума-33 и Космоса-2251). Таким образом, сложилась бы схема, когда в обмен на эти данные опреаторы получали бы сообщения об опасных сближениях (кстати вопрос: как поступят в этом случае с закрытыми КО, среди которых полно мусора). Было это 19 марта 2009...
Про радиотехнику понято, но и http://www.space-track.org на тот момент элементы орбит еще не выдал. Кстати:
Цитировать35001 TACSAT 3 2009-028A 93.58 40.46 467 432
35002 OBJECT B 2009-028B 93.54 40.47 466 429
35003 AEROCUBE 3 2009-028C 93.52 40.47 467 427
35004 OBJECT D 2009-028DS 93.51 40.46 467 426
35005 OBJECT E 2009-028E 93.52 40.48 466 428
35006 MINOTAUR R/B 2009-028F 93.51 40.47 466 427
35001 TACSAT 3 2009-028A
35002 PHARMASAT 2009-028B
35003 HAWKSAT 1 2009-028C
35004 CP6 2009-028D
35005 AEROCUBE 3 2009-028E
35006 MINOTAUR R/B 2009-028F
Пишут, что первый месяц эксплуатации завершен успешно.
http://www.spacemart.com/reports/TacSat_3_Completes_Successful_First_Month_Of_Operations_999.html
Tac Sat-3 completes groundbreaking experimental mission (http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123208742)
Raytheon Space Sensor Tasked for First-Of-Its-Kind Military Use (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Raytheon-Space-Sensor-Tasked-prnews-2756551077.html/print?x=0)
http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=52316842
June 07, 2011
ATK... Above + Beyond Life Expectancy (Satellite)
[SatNews] Continuing its hyperspectral imagery missions, this satellite is performing beyond original expectations...
ATK (NYSE: ATK) joins the U.S. Air Force Space Command in observing the two year anniversary on-orbit for the Tactical Satellite-3 (TacSat-3). Originally designed for six months of operation with a one year goal, the spacecraft successfully transitioned from experimental to operational status last year, outliving its design life and surpassing original mission requirements. Launched in May 2009, TacSat-3's mission is to demonstrate capability to conduct hyperspectral imaging that is responsive to the needs of U.S. warfighters. Since then, the spacecraft has delivered more than 2,100 images and demonstrated the ability to transmit processed data to a ground station within ten minutes. The spacecraft is a pioneer of the emerging Operationally Responsive Space program, which was designed to meet the growing need of U.S. forces for flexible, affordable and responsive satellite systems.
ATK, as the spacecraft bus prime contractor, provided the complete bus system, which included the onboard command and data handling system, solar arrays, spacecraft bus primary structure, and interfaces to the launch vehicle and payload. Built and designed in just 15 months, ATK's spacecraft bus met the TacSat-3 program goals of being operationally responsive, low-cost and with expected performance. The spacecraft also featured first generation modular bus technology designed to provide flexibility for future small satellite missions. "TacSat-3's longevity and robustness shows that our innovative bus technology was a key factor in the success of this mission," said Tom Wilson, vice president and general manager, Spacecraft Systems and Services, a division of ATK Aerospace Systems. "We are already applying and enhancing our flexible, modular bus platforms for future small satellite missions that include the ORS-1 spacecraft. This technology is also well-suited for commercial and international missions where affordability, high performance, and a short turnaround are necessary."
Like TacSat-3, the Operationally Responsive Space-1 (ORS-1) mission focuses on the quick deployment of small satellites with innovative sensor technologies to provide operationally responsive ISR support to commanders in the battlefield. ORS-1 is due to be launched later this year. The TacSat-3 program is managed by the Air Force Space Command with collaboration from the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate and the Army Space and Missile Defense Command
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