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Цитировать (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg) Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 38 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/950810517270036480)

SpaceX, via a media accreditation notice, place the Falcon 9 launch from SLC-40 at the Cape, with Hispasat 30W-6, in a mid-February placeholder.
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Spain

Communication

Hispasat

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L)

48 Ku-band transponders, 6 Ka-band transponders, 1 Ka-BSS-band transponder, 1 C-band transponder

SSL-1300 (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sat/ssloral-1300.htm)

?, 4 × SPT-100 plasma thrusters

2 deployable solar arrays, batteries (11.5 kW)

15 years

6092 kg

GEO

ЦитироватьCall sign: S2969
Launch mass (kg): 6092
Dry mass (kg): 2623
Position: 30° W (30° W)
48 Ku-band transponders, 6 Ka-band transponders, 1 Ka-BSS-band transponder, 1 C-band transponder (to replace Hispasat 1D)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67521.jpg)Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1) 25m ago (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/964100737960734725)

Updates to launch schedule: Hispasat 30W-6 launch on Falcon 9 rocket slips three days to Feb. 25 ...https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/ ... (https://t.co/NrskL6V5dZ)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 9h ago (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/964270126446018563)

Still two SpaceX launches close together as the manifest aligns with Range Approved NET dates.

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Feb 20: Falcon 9 (Hispasat 30W-6/1F) Static Fire Test.
Feb 25: Falcon 9 (Hispasat 30W-6/1F) launch.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 9m ago (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/965928704458280960)

SpaceX Falcon 9 (Hispasat 30W-6) rollout for a Static Fire test at the Cape's SLC-40.

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This is pretty much what will become the norm.

ЦитироватьChris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 14m14 minutes ago (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/965962244168273921)

Chris B - NSF Retweeted Abby Garrett

The Cape Falcon 9 Cape (B1044.1) is *supposed* to be lofting a spacecraft so heavy it negates a safe landing of the booster, but visual observations note fins and landing legs. Could be another "very high retrothrust landing" test: Technical overview:

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 6m ago (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/966000708809052161)

And Falcon 9 B1044.1 is now seen as erect on SLC-40! Two Falcon 9's are up on their pads right now.

Static Fire article going on shortly for the East Coast rocket. ...

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 22m ago (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/966086623019618309)

...the window is 1800 to midnight local!

ЦитироватьNAVAREA IV 153/2018 (11,26)

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 250530Z TO 250830Z FEB,
   ALTERNATE 260530Z TO 260830Z FEB
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 28-36N 080-38W, 28-38N 080-36W,
   28-38N 080-00W, 28-35N 079-30W,
   28-33N 079-30W, 28-30N 080-00W,
   28-31N 080-36W.
   B. 28-27N 075-01W, 28-30N 074-16W,
   28-37N 072-06W, 28-17N 071-56W,
   27-46N 072-08W, 27-50N 073-10W,
   28-21N 074-58W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 260930Z FEB 18.

( 201028Z FEB 2018 )

ЦитироватьSpaceX‏ @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) · 49m (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/966187350740127744)

Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting February 25 launch of Hispasat 30W-6 from Pad 40 in Florida.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 6m ago (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/966370990237339650)

Recovery action on the Cape side! GO Searcher is leaving Port Canaveral. Will need to wait a bit to confirm for sure, but this likely has to do with the Hispasat launch. GO Searcher can be used to support fairing recovery testing or first stage recovery.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 1h ago (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/966414254831259649)

GO Searcher appears to be heading back to port. It headed several miles out and then turned around. Not clear what it was doing.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 21m ago (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/966425087363645445)

OCISLY is on the move at Port Canaveral!!! #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) will look to perform one of the most ambitious landing attempts to date Sunday morning. The Hispasat communication satellite weighs over 6,000 kilograms. The #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) will have to work with limited fuel to return safely.
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19m ago (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/966425712012988416)

I have visually confirmed that OCISLY is in tow.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 24m ago (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/966425748448915456)

Hot damn, ASDS Of Course I Still Love You is heading out of Port Canaveral. Timing is right for it to be leaving to try to catch the #HispaSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HispaSat?src=hash) core this weekend, previously thought to be expendable! #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 13h ago (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/966456650667319296)

GO Quest just left Port Canaveral to support OCISLY. Hawk (pulling OCISLY) continues to head in the predicted direction. This is going to be one exciting launch and landing!

12h ago (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/966460760925851650)

GO Pursuit has now left the port as well. It will either assist OCISLY or fairing recovery testing. It is not outfitted with the equipment needed to catch a fairing like Mr. Steven. This will mark GO Pursuit's first ever recovery assignment for SpaceX.

ЦитироватьSpaceX fires up Falcon 9 rocket for weekend launch from Florida
February 21, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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A view of the Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday, awaiting the attachment of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite for launch Sunday. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

A Falcon 9 rocket booked to launch a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat, a Madrid-based telecom company, fired its nine main engines late Tuesday night at Cape Canaveral for a pre-flight hold-down test.

The static fire test is a major step in SpaceX launch campaigns, and launch crews at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad planned to remove the Falcon 9 rocket from the pad and roll it back to a nearby assembly hangar Wednesday.

Liftoff is set for Sunday during a two-hour window opening at 12:35 a.m. EST (0535 GMT), less than three days after another Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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Both missions are slated to deploy Spanish-owned satellites in orbit: Paz, a radar observation craft, will launch from California; Hispasat 30W-6, a geostationary telecom satellite, will blast off from Florida.

SpaceX's bi-coastal launch manifest will continue next month with the launch of 10 Iridium voice and data relay satellites from Vandenberg, followed in April by additional missions from both launch sites.

Tuesday night's hold-down firing lasted several seconds and occurred after a countdown rehearsal that included loading of the Falcon 9 rocket with super-chilled, densified RP-1 kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants.

The propellants were drained from the rocket after the test-firing.

Once the Falcon 9 is back in the hangar at Complex 40, technicians will install the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite and the rocket's payload fairing to finish assembly of the two-stage launcher.

The rocket will return to the pad and go vertical ahead of Sunday's early morning launch attempt.

Built by SSL in Palo Alto, California, the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite hosts communications transponders and beams in three bands.

From its final operating position in geostationary orbit — more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator at 30 degrees west longitude — Hispasat 30W-6 will connect customers across the Americas, Europe and North Africa.

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Artist's concept of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite in orbit. Credit: SSL

The spacecraft carries 40 Ku-band transponders, 10 C-band transponders and seven Ka-band beams targeting users across its coverage zone.

Hispasat 30W-6, formerly known as Hispasat 1F, will focus its coverage on trans-Atlantic communications traffic passing between Europe and the Americas, along with C-band capacity aimed at the southern United States, the Caribbean and South America. The Ka-band payload aboard Hispasat 30W-6 will expand broadband offerings in Spain, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Northwest Africa, and Southern and Central Europe, according to a Hispasat fact sheet on the satellite.

SpaceX has not confirmed whether it will try to recover the Falcon 9's first stage on Sunday's flight, but the company's drone ship was observed departing Port Canaveral on Wednesday.

Long-distance views of the Falcon 9 rocket standing on the Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday revealed its first stage booster — newly-manufactured for the Hispasat mission — is fitted with titanium grid fins used for steering during descent back to Earth.

The presence of landing legs at the base of the booster could not be confirmed Wednesday.

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ЦитироватьSpaceX - Hipasat 30W-6 - Static Fire Test 02-20-2018

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220769.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5hWqb0u1eKgYmVryCEyJYA) USLaunchReport (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5hWqb0u1eKgYmVryCEyJYA)

Опубликовано: 21 февр. 2018 г.

Цитировать SpaceX @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) · 33m (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/967270883713679360)

Standing down from this weekend's launch attempt to conduct additional testing on the fairing's pressurization system. Once complete, and pending range availability, we will confirm a new targeted launch date.

ЦитироватьSpaceX отложила запуск Falcon 9 из-за проведения дополнительных тестов
НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 24 февраля. /ТАСС/. Компания SpaceX отложила намеченный на воскресенье старт ракеты Falcon 9, которая должна вывести на орбиту испанский телекоммуникационный спутник Hispasat 30W-6. Об этом компания объявила в субботу в своем Twitter.
"Отменяем намеченную на эти выходные попытку запуска для того, чтобы провести дополнительные тесты системы герметизации головного обтекателя", - говорится в сообщении. Как отметили в SpaceX, как только проверки будут завершены, компания объявит новую дату запуска.
Старт Falcon 9 с испанским спутником должен был состояться с базы ВВС США близ космодрома на мысе Канаверал (штат Флорида) в воскресенье в 00:35 по времени восточного побережья США (08:35 мск).
Hispasat 30W-6 весом около 6 тонн предназначен для передачи телекоммуникационного сигнала на страны Европы, Северной Африки, а также Северной и Южной Америки. Спутник, произведенный американской компанией SSL для испанского оператора Hispasat, должен заменить устаревший аппарат Hispasat 1D, который был запущен в 2002 году.
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ЦитироватьSpaceX postpones Falcon 9 launch over payload fairing concerns
February 24, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX officials have postponed the launch of a Spanish-owned telecommunications satellite from Cape Canaveral planned for this weekend to conduct additional testing on the Falcon 9's payload fairing pressurization system, the company announced Saturday.

SpaceX did not set a new launch date, but the mission was expected to be pushed back multiple days from its previous Sunday launch target.

Спойлер

"Standing down from this weekend's launch attempt to conduct additional testing on the fairing's pressurization system," SpaceX said in a statement posted on Twitter. "Once complete, and pending range availability, we will confirm a new targeted launch date."

The Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled to lift off during a two-hour window opening at 12:35 a.m. EST (0535 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad.

The launch time is not expected to significantly change with a delay of a few days.

The mission will be the fifth for SpaceX this year, and the fourth with a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX's most recent launch was Thursday, a mission that delivered a Spanish Earth observation satellite and two broadband test craft to orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

The payload aboard the next Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral is Hispasat 30W-6, a communications satellite heading for a perch in geostationary orbit nearly 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) over the equator.

Owned by Hispasat, a Madrid-based satellite operator, Hispasat 30W-6 will begin a 15-year mission. The satellite was manufactured by SSL in Palo Alto, California.

The Falcon 9 rocket will place Hispasat 30W-6 into an elliptical transfer orbit around a half-hour after launching from Cape Canaveral. The satellite's own propulsion system will boost it into a circular geostationary orbit a few weeks later, when the satellite is expected to enter commercial service later this spring at 30 degrees west longitude.

Hispasat 30W-6 will provide C-band, Ku-band and Ka-band telecom services to customers in Europe, North Africa and Latin America, including video, data and broadband connectivity to rural communities, ships and rail travelers.

SpaceX is expected to attempt a recovery of the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage booster on a ship positioned in the Atlantic Ocean for inspections and potential reuse. The first stage slated to launch Hispasat 30W-6 is a new vehicle.

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ЦитироватьЗловредный пишет:
Не больше двух запусков в месяц и сплошные переносы. Не тот уже Маск, совсем не тот...  :(  

ЦитироватьFarEcho пишет:
творчески разовьют вашу печаль в публикации о закате SpaceX

ЦитироватьChris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 50m50 minutes ago (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/968117586989867010)

Current schedule:
JAXA H-IIA - IGS Optical 6 - 27 Feb - 04:34 UTC.
SpaceX Falcon 9 - HispaSat 30W-6 - 1 March - 05:34 UTC
ULA Altas V 541 - GOES-S - 1 Mar - 22:02 UTC

Falcon 9 is "Range Pending". 18 hour separation between Falcon 9 and Atlas V is possible thanks to AFTS,.

ЦитироватьFarEcho пишет:
творчески разовьют вашу печаль в публикации

ЦитироватьЗловредный пишет:
Не больше двух запусков в месяц и сплошные переносы. Не тот уже Маск, совсем не тот...  :(

ЦитироватьCape Canaveral could see two launches in one day Thursday
February 27, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX

Two launch pads at Cape Canaveral could host a pair of satellite launches separated by fewer than 17 hours Thursday, a rapid-fire turnaround made possible by an automated range safety mechanism and other upgrades to cut the time between missions at the Florida spaceport.

A spokesperson for Hispasat, which owns a communications satellite set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, told Spaceflight Now on Monday that the mission is scheduled for liftoff shortly after midnight Thursday, Florida time.

The Falcon 9's two-hour launch window opens at 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT) Wednesday, pending final approval from the U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing, which runs the Eastern Range at Cape Canaveral, a network of communications, tracking and safety installations used by every launch from Florida's Space Coast.

Assuming Air Force officials grant SpaceX's request for a launch date Wednesday, it would be the first of two blastoffs from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in a span of around 16-and-a-half hours.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is on track for launch Thursday during a two-hour launch window beginning at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT).

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The Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 rockets will blast off from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 and Complex 41 launch pads, two former Titan rocket launch facilities built in the 1960s a mile-and-a-half (2.4 kilometers) apart a few thousand feet from the Atlantic coastline.

The payload aboard the Falcon 9 rocket is Hispasat 30W-6, a Spanish-owned commercial video, data and broadband relay satellite heading for a perch in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator.

Built by SSL in Palo Alto, California, Hispasat 30W-6 will replace an aging telecom satellite launched from Cape Canaveral in September 2002 aboard an Atlas 2AS booster.

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SpaceX officials delayed the launch of Hispasat 30W-6, previously scheduled for early Sunday, to complete additional inspections on a pressurization system on the Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing.

The Atlas 5 mission, which has had its March 1 reservation on the Air Force range for months, is set to deploy NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite, an advanced, new-generation observatory destined to help forecasters track storms and wildfires across the western United States and the Pacific Ocean.

The range typically operates on a first-come, first-served basis, so if Air Force officials find a scheduling conflict between the missions, the Atlas 5 launch is expected to receive priority.

Спойлер

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A view of the Atlas 5 rocket and the GOES-S weather satellite inside the Vertical Integration Facility at the Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Glenn Benson

Ground crews are set to roll out the Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad Wednesday morning, followed by filling of the first stage's RP-1 kerosene fuel tank in the afternoon. The countdown will commence Thursday morning.

The Falcon 9 slated to launch with Hispasat 30W-6 completed a hold-down test-firing of its nine Merlin main engines last week. Technicians returned the rocket to its hangar to install the Hispasat telecom satellite and payload fairing. The next step before launch is to return the booster to the launch pad for final countdown preps.

The quick turnaround is primarily enabled by the introduction of an autonomous self-destruct mechanism to SpaceX's Falcon rockets, an addition that cuts the workload and manpower for each launch from the Air Force and its contractors.

The on-board safety system relies on Global Positioning System satellite navigation data, replacing decades-old radars and tracking equipment that required military officers to manually send commands to destroy errant boosters, and their human and robot passengers, before they could threaten people and property.

The switch is expected to save millions of dollars in infrastructure costs and allow for more launches from Air Force-run ranges at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials said.

The Autonomous Flight Safety System became operational on SpaceX's Falcon rocket family last year, after several flights in a backup "shadow" mode to allow engineers to check its performance and reliability.

"Implementing AFSS on future launch operations allows us to increase our flexibility, adaptability and efficiency while providing more launch opportunities and greater public safety without having to add additional people," said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, commander of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, in a statement last year. "These changes will not only simplify ground support requirements thereby increasing launch on-time probability, but substantially reduce launch costs."

Like the manual flight termination system used since the dawn of the Space Age, the on-board safety computer tracks the trajectory of the rocket, ensuring it remains within a predefined corridor and meets other parameters.

With the previous safety system, a Mission Flight Control Officer on the ground in Florida or California would issue the command activate pyrotechnic charges on the rocket if it strayed off course. In the case of the automated safety system, the command comes from a computer aboard the rocket.

The military is still responsible for other support functions for launches from Florida and California, such as weather monitoring, maritime and airspace patrols, and base security.

Air Force and industry officials last year heralded the new automated destruct system, saying that the technology would permit launches from different pads at Cape Canaveral on the same day, an improvement over the minimum 48-hour resets practiced in recent decades.

That claim may become reality this week.

Assuming Air Force managers give their blessing for the back-to-back launches, and if both rockets take off as scheduled, it would be the quickest turnaround between liftoffs at Cape Canaveral since September 1967.

A Delta G booster launched the Biosat 2 recoverable satellite with multiple biological research experiments on the evening of Sept. 7, 1967, followed less than 10 hours later by the blastoff a few miles away of NASA's robotic Surveyor 5 lunar lander aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket, according to a mission log maintained by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks global space activity.

Rockets lifted off from Cape Canaveral less than two hours apart on four occasions in 1966.

Unpiloted Agena vehicles launched by Atlas rockets were used as docking targets for NASA's two-man Gemini capsules. The Agena targets launched approximately 100 minutes before the Gemini spacecraft took off on top of Titan 2 rockets with two astronauts on-board.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/29262.jpg)Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust) 4 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/968556057604829190)

Col. Walt Jackim, vice commander of the 45th Space Wing, says at a 45th Space Congress talk a goal for the Eastern Range is to perform two launches in 24 hours. That could happen this week, with Falcon 9/Hispasat 30W-6 and Atlas 5/GOES-S

3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/968556320902336513)

Jackim said later a final decision hasn't been made yet, but he seemed open to doing so various technical, personnel, and other issues can be worked out.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg)Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 9 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/968565952269996032)

The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with a Spanish communications satellite is expected to slip after the liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 booster Thursday with a US weather observatory. https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/27/falcon-9-atlas-5-hispasat-goes-schedule/ ... (https://t.co/qdW7YO5v9S)

Цитировать  (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly) Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly)
Update on #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) #Hispasat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hispasat?src=hash) launch: SpaceX did request early Thursday for the range but has not yet been approved, according to Tim Dunn, NASA launch director. Mentioned during #GOESS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOESS?src=hash) pre-launch conference.

ЦитироватьAtlas 5 launch on track for Thursday, SpaceX mission expected to slip
February 27, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Upd ated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) and 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) Tuesday.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is set to roll to its launch pad Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, a day before liftoff with a new-generation NOAA weather satellite. The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Spanish communications satellite is expected to be shuffled after the Atlas 5 flight in a rapid-fire launch sequence at the Florida spaceport this week.

SpaceX hoped to deliver the Spanish-owned Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite to orbit from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad just after midnight Thursday, Florida time, around 16-and-a-half hours before liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from the nearby Complex 41 launch pad.

The back-to-back missions appeared to be on track Monday, but Air Force officials have not approved SpaceX's request to the 45th Space Wing, the military unit that oversees the Eastern Range, a network of communications, tracking and safety installations used by every launch from Florida's Space Coast.

Air Force managers have heralded in recent months a new capability to support rapid turnarounds between launches, thanks to an automated range safety mechanism and other upgrades to the cut the time between missions at the Florida spaceport.

But the Atlas 5 mission with NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite, which has held to its March 1 target launch date for nearly a year, is expected to take priority on the Cape Canaveral launch schedule this week, officials said.

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The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket is se t to roll out of ULA's Vertical Integration Facility around 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) Wednesday for a quarter-mile trip to the nearby Complex 41 launch pad. Once at the pad, the rocket will be connected to ground propellant and electrical supplies, and its first stage will be loaded with RP-1 kerosene fuel.

The "clean pad" layout at Complex 41 does not offer shelter to the Atlas 5 rocket once its in position on the launch mount, and officials were concerned about exposing the launcher and sensitive optics on its weather satellite payload to exhaust plumes from the Falcon 9 rocket as it blasts off from the nearby Complex 40 launch pad.

Managers also studied whether the Atlas 5 rocket and the GOES-S satellite would be at risk of damage on the pad if the Falcon 9 rocket had a mishap during launch.

SpaceX intended to launch with the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite early Sunday, but the company postponed the mission to complete additional inspections on a pressurization system on the Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing.

"Due to the fact that they didn't launch, they had requested the early morning of March 1 (on the Eastern Range)," said Tim Dunn, NASA's launch director for the GOES-S mission. "We understand that has not been approved by the range, so we're clear for our opportunity on the 1st."

ULA also has a backup launch opportunity on Friday afternoon, if necessary.

"We were doing initial assessments of being in an exposed condition," Dunn said. "Obviously, we need some time to take a look at that to assess all the risks that would be incurred on GOES-S as well as the Atlas 5 rocket. We're not in that condition right now, and we look forward to launch on Thursday afternoon."

The Atlas 5's two-hour launch window opens at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) Thursday.

A new target launch date for the Falcon 9 flight has not been confirmed. The Hispasat mission has a daily launch window that opens at approximately 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT).

Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral blast off from two former Titan rocket launch facilities built in the 1960s a mile-and-a-half (2.4 kilometers) apart a few thousand feet from the Atlantic coastline.

The Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite awaiting launch on the Falcon 9 rocket is a Spanish-owned commercial video, data and broadband relay craft heading for a perch in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator.

Built by SSL in Palo Alto, California, Hispasat 30W-6 will replace an aging telecom satellite launched from Cape Canaveral in September 2002 aboard an Atlas 2AS booster.

The Atlas 5 mission is se t to deploy NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite, an advanced, new-generation observatory destined to help forecasters track storms and wildfires across the western United States and the Pacific Ocean.

The range typically operates on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Falcon 9 slated to launch with Hispasat 30W-6 completed a hold-down test-firing of its nine Merlin main engines last week. Technicians returned the rocket to its hangar to install the Hispasat telecom satellite and payload fairing. The next step before launch is to return the booster to the launch pad for final countdown preps.

The Air Force says quicker turnarounds between launches from Cape Canaveral will be primarily enabled by the introduction of an autonomous self-destruct mechanism to SpaceX's Falcon rockets, an addition that cuts the workload and manpower for each launch from the Air Force and its contractors.

The on-board safety system relies on Global Positioning System satellite navigation data, replacing decades-old radars and tracking equipment that required military officers to manually send commands to destroy errant boosters, and their human and robot passengers, before they could threaten people and property.

The switch is expected to save millions of dollars in infrastructure costs and allow for more launches from Air Force-run ranges at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials said.

The Autonomous Flight Safety System became operational on SpaceX's Falcon rocket family last year, after several flights in a backup "shadow" mode to allow engineers to check its performance and reliability.

"Implementing AFSS on future launch operations allows us to increase our flexibility, adaptability and efficiency while providing more launch opportunities and greater public safety without having to add additional people," said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, commander of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, in a statement last year. "These changes will not only simplify ground support requirements thereby increasing launch on-time probability, but substantially reduce launch costs."

Like the manual flight termination system used since the dawn of the Space Age, the on-board safety computer tracks the trajectory of the rocket, ensuring it remains within a predefined corridor and meets other parameters.

With the previous safety system, a Mission Flight Control Officer on the ground in Florida or California would issue the command activate pyrotechnic charges on the rocket if it strayed off course. In the case of the automated safety system, the command comes from a computer aboard the rocket.

The military is still responsible for other support functions for launches from Florida and California, such as weather monitoring, maritime and airspace patrols, and base security.

Air Force and industry officials last year heralded the new automated destruct system, saying that the technology would permit launches from different pads at Cape Canaveral on the same day, an improvement over the minimum 48-hour resets practiced in recent decades.

Launches on the same day from Florida were somewhat common in the 1960s, and the last time two orbital flights lifted off from Cape Canaveral within a 24-hour span was in April 1978, when an Atlas-Agena D rocket launched with the Aquacade 4 military signals intelligence satellite, followed around 21 hours later by the takeoff of a Delta 2914 booster with the Japanese BSE, or Yuri 1, communications craft, according to a mission log maintained by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks global space activity.

Rockets lifted off from Cape Canaveral less than two hours apart on four occasions in 1966.

Unpiloted Agena vehicles launched by Atlas rockets were used as docking targets for NASA's two-man Gemini capsules. The Agena targets launched approximately 100 minutes before the Gemini spacecraft took off on top of Titan 2 rockets with two astronauts on-board.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185659.jpg)James Dean‏Подлинная учетная запись @flatoday_jdean (https://twitter.com/flatoday_jdean) 15 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/flatoday_jdean/status/968598047700725762)

As of now, Eastern Range planning to support only one rocket launch Thursday: Atlas V/GOES-S. SpaceX F9/Hispasat date still TBD.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186040.jpg)Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) 1 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/968661761024057344)

SpaceX e-mail to the media notes Falcon 9 is now ready for launch, but that they are currently waiting for a launch date to be approved by the Eastern Range for the Hispasat 30W-6 mission.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 1 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/969224522820997123)

Update on #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) and Hispasat: The #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) recovery fleet has been called back to Port Canaveral. They had been out for over a week, so this is understandable. If SpaceX still intends to recover the first stage, the earliest the launch could take place is next week.

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000149454500/c2e974df2f92ce57b2c8db329f5da805_bigger.png)Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly) сейчас38 минут назад (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/969562861201776641)

SpaceX #Hispasat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hispasat?src=hash) update: Now targeting #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) for Monday into Tuesday from LC 40. Airspace closure in effect from 2230 Monday to 0330 Tuesday (0330 to 0830 UTC)

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ЦитироватьEmre Kelly ‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly сейчас38 минут назад (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/969562861201776641)

SpaceX #Hispasat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hispasat?src=hash) update: Now targeting #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) for Monday into Tuesday from LC 40. Airspace closure in effect from 2230 Monday to 0330 Tuesday (0330 to 0830 UTC)

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000149454500/c2e974df2f92ce57b2c8db329f5da805_bigger.png)Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly) 8 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/969601674150137856)

В ответ @baserunner0723 (https://twitter.com/baserunner0723) @murphypak (https://twitter.com/murphypak)

Confirmed by range: 12:33 a.m.

Цитировать(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000149454500/c2e974df2f92ce57b2c8db329f5da805_bigger.png)Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly) сейчас34 минуты назад (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/969990697674735617)

L-3 weather forecast for SpaceX #Hispasat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hispasat?src=hash) mission: 90% "go" for 0033 Tuesday launch from LC 40. Window open until 0233 (0533 to 0733 UTC).

ЦитироватьSpaceX launch with Spanish satellite planned for early Tuesday
March 3, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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SpaceX aims to launch its next mission, the 50th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, just after midnight Tuesday from Cape Canaveral with a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat.

The two-hour launch window opens at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT).

Спойлер

The Hispasat 30W-6 telecom craft will ride a 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket from the Complex 40 launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The commercial mission was supposed to lift off last month, but SpaceX delayed the flight to complete additional testing on a pressurization system on the Falcon 9's payload fairing, the shroud that will shield the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite during the first few minutes of launch.

SpaceX said earlier this week that the pressurization system concern was resolved, but United Launch Alliance had Thursday and Friday reserved on the U.S. Air Force's Eastern Range for an Atlas 5 mission with a NOAA weather satellite.

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SpaceX requested a launch opportunity from the Air Force for early Thursday, around 16-and-a-half hours before the Atlas 5 launch. The Air Force was prepared to support both launches Thursday, a rapid same-day turnaround capability not demonstrated at Cape Canaveral in nearly 40 years.

But ULA and NASA officials, which had responsibility for launching the NOAA weather satellite, were concerned the Atlas 5 rocket and sensitive optics on its GOES-S meteorological payload would be exposed to the Falcon 9's exhaust plume as it fired into space.

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The Atlas 5 and Falcon 9 pads are located about a mile-and-a-half apart at Cape Canaveral, and both facilities are built with a "clean pad" design without a protective gantry to protect rockets after they roll out in preparation for liftoff.

Officials were also studying whether the Atlas 5 and the GOES-S weather satellite might be endangered by a potential mishap during the Falcon 9 launch.

SpaceX ultimately delayed the Hispasat flight to Tuesday, and a drone ship expected to recover the Falcon 9's first stage booster returned to Port Canaveral, presumably for rest and refueling before heading back out to sea ahead of next week's mission.

The Atlas 5 rocket successfully delivered the GOES-S weather satellite to orbit Thursday.

The Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite awaiting launch on the Falcon 9 rocket is a Spanish-owned commercial video, data and broadband relay craft heading for a perch in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator.

Built by SSL in Palo Alto, California, Hispasat 30W-6 will replace an aging telecom satellite launched from Cape Canaveral in September 2002 aboard an Atlas 2AS booster.

Its telecom payload will serve customers in Spain, other parts of Europe, North Africa and Latin America.

"Hispasat 30W-6 is the fourth satellite that SSL has provided to our company," said Carlos Espinós, chief executive officer at Hispasat. "SSL has been a flexible and reliable partner in working with us on technological advances that make satellite communications more cost effective and enable next generation space systems and missions. We look forward to using Hispasat 30W-6 to expand our service offerings and capacity in the covered regions."

The weather outlook for Tuesday is favorable, with a 90 percent probability of conditions acceptable for liftoff.

The only slight concern is with thick clouds, but mostly clear skies are expected, with east-southeast winds of 10 to 15 mph, and a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the official weather outlook issued Saturday by the Air Force's 45th Space Wing.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186350.jpg)Julia‏ @julia_bergeron (https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron) 14 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/970353627343749121)

GO Searcher, GO Pursuit and GO Quest in @PortCanaveral (https://twitter.com/PortCanaveral) today. OCISLY is photobombing in the background while GO Hawk is a little more shy. #SpaceXFleet (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceXFleet?src=hash)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/33572.png)NWS Melbourne‏Подлинная учетная запись @NWSMelbourne (https://twitter.com/NWSMelbourne) 10 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/NWSMelbourne/status/970412578450132992)

A buoy about 120 nautical miles east of Cape Canaveral just reported seas of ~21 feet! These swells will move toward the east coast of Florida tonight & generate large pounding surf of 9 to 11 feet, dangerous rip currents, and significant beach erosion. STAY OUT OF THE WATER!

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185874.jpg)Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight) 3 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/970516387448983552)

LAUNCH ALERT! @13ericralph31 (https://twitter.com/13ericralph31) has confirmed that the media have been alerted for a 12:33 AM EST launch on Tuesday morning of the #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) with Hispasat. As the recovery ships are still at the port, this will be an expendable mission.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 40 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/970642209803513856)

Good morning on #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash)'s launch day. The mission will loft #HispaSat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HispaSat?src=hash) tonight in a 2hr window from 00:33-02:33 EST (0533-0733 UTC). Weather remains extremely favourable for launch. No landing attempt now due to high seas in the recovery zone. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) @NASASpaceflight (https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight)

ЦитироватьLive coverage: Hispasat communications craft set for launch on Falcon 9 rocket
March 5, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

03/05/2018 19:09 Stephen Clark

Forecasters from the U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing continue to predict a 90 percent chance weather conditions at Cape Canaveral will be favorable during the Falcon 9 rocket's two-hour launch window early Tuesday.

Lighter winds are expected on Florida's Space Coast today, with increasing cloudiness ahead of the opening of the launch window at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT).

Спойлер

"Winds will be lighter and gradually shift to the northeast today, then easterly and southeasterly overnight," forecasters wrote in an official launch weather outlook issued this morning. "Mid-level cloudiness associated with a frontal boundary pushing into the Gulf Coast will filter in over the Space Coast during the day. These clouds are the primary weather concern. Max upper-level winds will be from the northwest at 85 knots near 45,000 feet."

During the launch window, meteorologists expect a few clouds at 2,500 feet and scattered clouds at 12,000 feet, east-southeast winds at 8 to 12 mph, good visibility and a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

If something prevents the Falcon 9 from launching with the Hispasat 30W-6 telecom satellite Tuesday, weather conditions are predicted to deteriorate in advance of a backup launch opportunity early Wednesday.

An approaching cold front will bring more clouds and a chance of rain to Central Florida, so the forecast for Wednesday's early morning launch window calls for a 60 percent probability of weather prohibiting liftoff due to thick clouds and cumulus clouds.

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HISPASAT 30W-6 MISSION

SpaceX is targeting a Falcon 9 launch of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Tuesday, March 6 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The two-hour launch window opens at 12:33 a.m. EST, or 5:33 UTC, with a two-hour backup launch window opening on Wednesday, March 7 at 12:33 a.m. EST, or 5:33 UTC.

The Hispasat 30W-6 satellite will be deployed approximately 33 minutes after launch. SpaceX will not attempt to land Falcon 9's first stage after launch due to unfavorable weather conditions in the recovery area off of Florida's Atlantic Coast.

You can watch the mission live below, and find out more about the mission in our press kit. (http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hispasat30w6_presskit.pdf)

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spacex.com/webcast (http://www.spacex.com/webcast)

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youtube.com/watch?v=Kpfrp-GMKKM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpfrp-GMKKM)

ЦитироватьEmre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly) 17 мин.17 минут назад (https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/970704530559119361)
Confirmed: No booster recovery for SpaceX #Hispasat (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hispasat?src=hash) mission launching from LC40 tonight due to weather in the Atlantic. Weather at Cape 90% "go" for tonight, but plummets to 40% "go" if launch slips 24 hours. Window runs from 0033 to 0233 ET (0533 to 0733 UTC). #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/185946.jpg)Elon Musk‏Подлинная учетная запись @elonmusk (https://twitter.com/elonmusk) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/970747812311740416)

Falcon 9 flight 50 launches tonight, carrying Hispasat for Spain. At 6 metric tons and almost the size of a city bus, it will be the largest geostationary satellite we've ever flown.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 7 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/970750784169238529)

Tonight is:
- 50th #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) flight
- 51st F9 mission (Amos6 counts as mission, not flight)
- 5th Falcon-family flight of year out of ~30 planned
- 6th Block 4 variant flight
- 2nd to last new Block 4 booster (B1044)
- 7th F9 booster flight of 2018
- 3rd SLC-40 flight of year. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash)

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/31566.jpg)Brady Kenniston‏ @TheFavoritist (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist) 15 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/TheFavoritist/status/970764381574311938)

Looks like B1044's titanium grid fins are going in the drink. (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125493.png) Image via SpaceX's website.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 2 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/970771503624015872)

Falcon 9 and Hispasat 30W-6 are vertical on Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Weather is 90% favorable for the two-hour launch window, which opens at 12:33 a.m. EST, 5:33 UTC. http://spacex.com/webcast  (https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 4 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/970903737085542400)

Successful deployment of Hispasat 30W-6 to a geostationary transfer orbit confirmed.
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/69029.jpg)SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) 3 ч.3 часа назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/970903737085542400)

Successful deployment of Hispasat 30W-6 to a geostationary transfer orbit confirmed.

ЦитироватьMARCH 05, 2018

HISPASAT 30W-6 MISSION

On Tuesday, March 6th at 12:33 a.m. ET, SpaceX successfully launched the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The Hispasat 30W-6 satellite, weighing about six metric tons, is the third largest geostationary satellite SpaceX has flown to date. The satellite was deployed to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) approximately 33 minutes after launch. SpaceX did not attempt to land Falcon 9's first stage after launch due to unfavorable weather conditions in the recovery area off the Atlantic Coast.

You can watch a replay of the launch below and find more information about the mission in our press kit (http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hispasat30w6_presskit.pdf).

ЦитироватьHISPASAT 30W-6 Mission

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Трансляция началась 5 часов назад

ЦитироватьSpaceX Falcon 9 launches Hispasat 30W-6 satellite

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Опубликовано: 5 мар. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьHispasat 30W-6 satellite deployment

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Опубликовано: 5 мар. 2018 г.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67521.jpg)Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1) 3 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/970912461372248064)

Hispasat confirms its newest satellite is alive in orbit, and engineers are in contact with Hispasat 30W-6 following tonight's launch.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67530.jpg)Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) 3 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/970912016385953792)

The Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite is sending telemetry back to Earth, a sign the spacecraft is healthy following launch from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 5 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/970905921391087617)

Achievement unlocked: #Hispasat30W6 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hispasat30W6?src=hash). #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash) #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash)
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ЦитироватьMidnight-Hour Falcon 9 Launch Sends Hispasat 30W-6 to Orbit, Weather Prevents Stage 1 Recovery
March 6, 2018 (http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-hispasat-30w-6/falcon-9-launches-hispasat-30w-6/)

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SpaceX's 50th Falcon 9 rocket lit up the sky over Florida's Space Coast after a midnight-hour liftoff fr om Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, blasting into orbit on a heavy-loaded mission with the Hispasat 30W-6 multi-purpose communications satellite. Falcon 9 – forced to switch from a planned Drone Ship Recovery into fully expendable mode on short notice – lifted off at 5:33 UTC, 12:33 a.m. local time on its second-heaviest Geostationary Transfer Orbit mission to date.

Departing Florida to the east, Falcon 9 fired its factory-new first stage, Booster 1044, for the first two minutes and 35 seconds of the flight before it dropped away and headed toward a watery grave in the Atlantic Ocean as SpaceX's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship was forced to sit this mission out in port due to rough seas in the recovery area.

Спойлер

After the single-use first stage fell away, Falcon 9 relied on its MVac engine for the boost into a Preliminary Parking Orbit followed by a critical re-start to send the six-metric-ton Hispasat spacecraft off into its desired elliptical transfer orbit 33 minutes after liftoff for a 15-year mission delivering telecommunications to Europe and the Americas.

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Putting the check-mark behind its 50th mission on Tuesday, SpaceX's Falcon 9 reached this notable milestone earlier than a number of other U.S. launch vehicles including the Space Shuttle and Falcon's primary rival Atlas V. Tuesday's mission came less than eight years after the first Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies from the very same Cape Canaveral launch pad in June 2010 with a Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit to pave the way toward operational orbital resupply missions and eventual crewed flight.

However, Tuesday's mission employed a very different animal than the 2010 flight as the Falcon 9 Full-Thrust version represents the third major revision of the Falcon 9 design, leaving little resemblance to the original v1.0 version with its tic-tac-toe engine arrangement and parachute-based booster recovery system that never worked as intended. SpaceX is currently working on bringing the final iteration of the partially reusable Falcon 9 rocket, known as the Block 5, to the launch pad to begin flying in a frozen design in order to receive human launch certification from NASA.[

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Tuesday's launch marked SpaceX's fifth mission of 2018, following up on three flights of the Falcon 9 and the long-awaited debut of the heavy-lift Falcon Heavy rocket. (http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-heavy-demo/) It also marked the second SpaceX mission in a row for a Spanish satellite endeavor, coming after the February 22 mission with the PAZ radar satellite (http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-paz/) operated by Hisdesat for which Hispasat is the largest shareholder.

Founded in 1989, Hispasat operates a fleet of satellites in Geostationary Orbit to deliver telecommunications services to Europe and the Americas via two prime orbital locations at 30 and and 61 degrees West. Tuesday's launch brought Hispasat's current GEO fleet to eight satellites plus leased capacity on three third-party satellites to deliver the full spectrum of communication services.

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Hispasat ordered the 30W-6 satellite, back then named Hispasat 1F, from California-based satellite builder Space Systems Loral in July 2014 to provide replacement and expansion coverage for a pair of aging satellites: the 18-year old Hispasat 1C  and Hispasat 1D launched in 2002, both all-Ku-Band satellites operated from the 30°W orbital slot for European & American coverage. Owed to the use of modern-day communications technology, Hispasat 30W-6 can provide full replacement coverage for the two heritage satellites plus expansion capacity for Hispasat's markets in the Andean Region as well as the company's transatlantic connectivity.

The 6,092-Kilogram Hispasat 30W-6 satellite will operate alongside 30W-5 that launched in 2010, delivering direct-to-home television broadcasting, Internet connectivity and corporate networking via a powerful multi-band communications payload.

>> Hispasat 30W-6 Satellite Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-hispasat-30w-6/hispasat-30w-6/)

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Image: SS/L / Hispasat

Hispasat 30W-6 hosts 40 Ku-Band transponders delivering capacity to two major coverage zones over Europe and the Americas, ten C-Band transponders provide coverage to the Caribbean Sea, the United States and South America, six high-throughput Ka-Band beams support data-intensive services across the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa and Central Europe, and a Ka-Band broadcasting beam is focused on Spain and Portugal.

Hispasat 30W-6, leveraging the flight-proven SS/L-1300 satellite platform, is set for a mission of at least 15 years, holding 3,469 Kilograms of propellant for its climb into Geostationary Orbit and stationkeeping maneuvers, assisted by an electric propulsion system that may enable the satellite to operate beyond its planned service life if systems health permits.

The Hispasat 30W-6 launch was originally set for February 25, but had to be pushed – first due to additional time needed for pressurization testing on the rocket's payload fairing and then due to a conflict on the Eastern Range with the Atlas V rocket launching NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite last Thursday.[

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Atlantic Wave Heights on Monday – Credit: stormsurfing.com

This put SpaceX in the undesirable situation of having a recoverable Falcon 9 rocket ready for launch while the company's Drone Ship was sitting moored up in Port Canaveral, unable to deploy to the landing zone due to sea swells in excess of six meters caused by a powerful Atlantic low.

SpaceX made a decision late on Sunday to press ahead with Tuesday's launch to get the Falcon 9 off the pad even if that meant throwing away the rocket's Block 4 first stage and along with it a perfectly good set of titanium grid fins SpaceX CEO Elon Musk noted were expensive and difficult to manufacture. Factoring into SpaceX's decision-making process was the week's weather forecast, predicting deteriorating conditions after Tuesday's launch slot plus the low probability of success of the booster's planned landing given the extremely tight propellant margins of this particular mission with a 6.1 t satellite headed to GTO.

Without sufficient time to remove the landing hardware on the first stage or change the flight profile, SpaceX decided to fly the mission as is – considering the fins and legs a total write-off while also not providing additional benefits to Hispasat 30W-6 in the form of a higher-energy injection.

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Towering 70 meters above the grounds of Space Launch Complex 40, Falcon 9 entered countdown operations Monday afternoon, starting with a multi-hour checkout campaign while teams at the launch pad buttoned up all ground systems before evacuating the danger zone for propellant loading. With pristine weather conditions forecast for Falcon's nighttime launch window and no technical issues whatsoever, SpaceX Launch Controllers opted to press for the opening of the window and transitioned the countdown to automatic mode at the T-70-minute mark.

As computers took control, Falcon 9 began loading up on hydrocarbons, receiving some 155 metric tons of chilled Rocket Propellant 1. Sub-cooled Liquid Oxygen began flowing into the rocket's first stage at T-35 minutes and 15 minutes later into the second stage to fill Falcon 9 with around 360 metric tons of oxidizer. The pace of countdown events accelerated at the T-7 minute mark when Hispasat 30W-6 had already transferred to internal power and Falcon 9 entered the chilldown of its nine Merlin 1D engines to condition them for ignition.

Over the final minutes of the count, Falcon 9 reached flight levels on all tanks, the Strongback was primed for its rapid kickback at the moment of hold-down release, the rocket transitioned to internal power and the Autonomous Flight Termination System was armed for launch. The green flash of Falcon's TEA-TEB igniter mixture erupted from the engines at T-3 seconds as the nine Merlins throttled up to a collective launch thrust near 700 metric ton-force to lift the 550-ton Falcon 9 off the ground.

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Falcon 9 took flight at precisely 5:33:00 UTC and pierced into crystal clear night skies over Cape Canaveral as it ascended vertically before pitching over onto a departure taking it east-south-east on the standard route to GTO. Consuming 2,450 Kilograms of propellant per second, Falcon 9 passed the speed of sound just over a minute into the flight and the nine engines entered a brief throttle-down around the point of Maximum Dynamic Pressure, marked at T+78 seconds into the flight.

The first stage shut down its nine Merlin engines at T+ two minutes and 35 seconds after boosting the vehicle to a speed of 2.29 Kilometers per second – close to record MECO speed for a Falcon 9 flight with ASDS recovery margin. Four pneumatic pushers sent the two Falcon 9 stages on their opposite ways two seconds after MECO, passing an altitude of 70 Kilometers.

Because the flight profile for Tuesday's mission remained unchanged, the first stage went through the motions of its recovery sequence – targeting the coordinates wh ere SpaceX's OCISLY ship would have been stationed in calmer weather. Following separation, the booster remained on a ballistic arc, re-orienting to an engines first position for the Entry Burn that began at T+6 minutes and 35 seconds and ran for 22 seconds to create a manageable re-entry toward the splashdown point.

>> Falcon 9 FT Overview (http://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-ft/)

Because SpaceX had no recovery ships in the area, the live telemetry link with the first stage ended when the booster disappeared below the horizon as seen from Cape Canaveral.

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However, a Gulfstream jet belonging to Elon Musk was circling over the landing location – possibly in a bid to either visually observe the booster coming down or capture telemetry to gain additional data on the performance of the titanium grid fins and the do-or-die three-engine landing maneuver in performance-limited missions.

For Stage 2, the mission continued with a six-minute boost into a Low Earth Parking Orbit by the 95,000kgf MVac engine and the stage dropped the payload fairing three minutes and 40 seconds into the flight when crossing 110 Kilometers in altitude. A good Parking Orbit was confirmed by SpaceX mission controllers as the second stage headed into 18 minutes of passive coasting to cross the Atlantic Ocean and perform the apogee boost around the equator to properly position the high point of the resulting orbit.

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Re-start of the MVac engine was called out at T+26 minutes and 46 seconds and the burn appeared to run for 54 seconds with the second stage actively throttling toward the end of the burn to maintain an acceleration of 5Gs. A very accurate orbit was confirmed by SpaceX and the second stage went into a transverse spin-up before sending Hispasat 30W-6 on its way at T+33 minutes to mark another success for SpaceX.

Completing the fifth mission of its busy 2018 manifest, SpaceX will now begin a three-campaign effort at all of the company's current launch pads. SLC-4E at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base is expected to host the fifth launch in support of the Iridium-NEXT constellation on March 29; Cape Canaveral's SLC-40 will next host the Dragon CRS-14 mission, currently tracking a five-minute launch window on April 2nd and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center has been converted back to support Falcon 9 and will be called up for the first Falcon 9 Block 5 launch with the Bangabandhu-1 communications satellite for Bangladesh, penciled in for No Earlier Than April 5.

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ЦитироватьHefty Hispasat satellite rides SpaceX rocket into orbit
March 6, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/) | Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off fr om Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Tuesday. Credit: SpaceX

A Spanish-owned, U.S.-built commercial communications satellite climbed into orbit early Tuesday fr om Cape Canaveral on the 50th flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launching on a 15-year mission to relay video, data and broadband signals across the Americas, Europe and North Africa.

Heading for a post in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator, the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite took off at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) Tuesday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad.

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A 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket, firing nine Merlin 1D main engines with 1.7 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust, cleared the seaside launch complex and arced to the east from Cape Canaveral, aligning on a heading to place its powerhouse payload into orbit.

The Falcon 9's first stage switched off its main engines around two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, and the booster detached for a controlled descent into the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX's rocket recovery ship was not in position in the downrange recovery zone because of rough seas, preventing the booster from making an intact landing for the company to reuse on a future flight.

A single Merlin engine on the Falcon 9's upper stage ignited to head into orbit, and the rocket shed its nose cone around three-and-a-half minutes into the mission, once the fairing structure was no longer needed to protect the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite.

The upper stage engine accomplished a six-minute firing to reach a preliminary parking orbit, then the rocket coasted across the Atlantic before reigniting the engine over Africa for a planned 55-second burn to raise the orbit's apogee, or high point, to an altitude near the Hispasat 30W-6 spacecraft's final operating location nearly 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) above Earth.

An engineer on SpaceX's launch team confirmed an on-target orbital insertion on the company's commentary loop, and a live video feed from the rocket showed the Hispasat 30W-6 spacecraft deploying from the Falcon 9 upper stage after the vehicles flew into an orbital sunrise.

An official from Madrid-based Hispasat, the satellite's owner, said ground controllers received initial telemetry signals from the spacecraft shortly after its release from the Falcon 9 rocket.

Built by Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, Hispasat 30W-6 is one of the heaviest geostationary communications satellites to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket.

With a launch weight of more than 13,400 pounds — approximately 6.1 metric tons — Hispasat 30W-6 carries a tri-band communications payload with broad reach from the Americas and the Caribbean, to North Africa, to Europe and the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Spain and Portugal.

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Artist's illustration of the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite with its solar panels and antennas unfurled in space. Credit: SSL

"This new satellite will allow us to meet the growing connectivity demand detected in the market," said Carlos Espinós, CEO of Hispasat. "In the hyperconnected world in which we live, access to quality broadband is an essential need for economic, social and even personal development, and this satellite fulfils this need in places other technologies cannot reach. Hispasat 30W-6 allows us to broaden capacity and services, while completing the current phase of the company's growth plan."

Forty Ku-band transponders on Hispasat 30W-6 will focus on two coverage areas in Europe and North Africa, and in the Americas, stretching from Canada to Patagonia. Ten C-band transponders will support communications services in the southern United States, the Caribbean and South America.

Hispasat 30W-6 also adds Ka-band capacity to the company's portfolio, carrying seven high-throughput beams covering Spain, Portugal, other regions in Europe, plus North Africa. The Ka-band payload will distribute Internet connectivity to rural areas in Spain and Morocco through a partnership between Hispasat and Eurona Wireless Telecom, a Spanish communications company.

With the combination of Hispasat 30W-6 and another Hispasat spacecraft launched last year, more than 30,000 homes in Spain and parts of Morocco will have access to high-speed Internet services via satellite, officials said.

Hispasat 30W-6, formerly known as Hispasat 1F, will also enable connectivity on ships and trains in the Caribbean and Mediterranean regions.

The spacecraft also hosts a Spanish-designed experiment using photonics technology in an on-board Ka-band receiver, demonstrating an advancement that could reduce the mass and volume of future communications satellites.

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An overview of Hispasat 30W-6's coverage. Credit: Hispasat

Hispasat 30W-6 began extending its power-generating solar panels soon after its launch Tuesday, officials said, and the craft's main thruster will fire several times in the coming weeks to maneuver into a circular geostationary orbit, wh ere its velocity will keep pace with Earth's rotation.

The new satellite will hover over the equator at 30 degrees west longitude, wh ere it will replace the aging Hispasat 30W-4 spacecraft, which launched in September 2002 from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas 2AS rocket.

The launch of Hispasat 30W-6 was scheduled for Feb. 25, but SpaceX delayed the mission to conduct extra testing on a pressurization system on Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing. A range conflict with a previously-scheduled launch of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral last week kept the Falcon 9 flight grounded until Tuesday, SpaceX said.

Tuesday's launch marked the 50th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and the fourth Falcon 9 flight of 2018. SpaceX has also logged one launch of the powerful triple-body Falcon Heavy rocket this year, bringing the company's tally for 2018 to five missions.

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SpaceX's launch schedule has 30 missions on the calendar for this year, an increase from 18 in 2017.

Up to six Falcon 9 missions from three launch pads are planned over the next two months, beginning with a flight March 29 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a batch of 10 Iridium voice and data relay satellites.

SpaceX's next resupply flight to the International Space Station is set for takeoff no earlier than April 2 from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, followed no sooner than April 5 by a Falcon 9 launch from nearby pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center with Bangladesh's first communications satellite.

A NASA astronomy satellite designed to search for planets circling other stars is being prepped for blastoff April 16 on a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, and five more satellites for Iridium's upgraded mobile communications network could launch as soon as April 28 from Vandenberg in tandem with two U.S.-German probes to map Earth's gravity field.

A high-power all-electric telecom satellite owned by SES could be ready for launch from Cape Canaveral in late April or early May.

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 5 ч.5 часов назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/970904711846088704)

Hispasat 30W-6 has successfully separated from the second stage, completing another Falcon 9 mission. The second stage will probably remain in geotransfer orbit

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186259.jpg)John Kraus‏ @johnkrausphotos (https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos) 6 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/970899144788381698)

Falcon 9 streaks toward orbit for the 50th time, carrying the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite.
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ЦитироватьCommercial Satellite Built by Maxar Technologies' SSL Successfully Begins On-Orbit Operations, Demonstrating Leadership in New Space Economy

Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite begins post-launch maneuvers according to plan following its launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

Palo Alto, Calif. - SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today that the advanced Hispasat 30W-6 satellite, previously called Hispasat 1F, was launched yesterday and is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan, demonstrating Maxar's leadership in the new space economy. The satellite deployed its solar arrays on schedule following its launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It will begin firing its main thruster tomorrow to propel toward its final geostationary orbit. The satellite incorporates technical innovations that will help reduce mass and improve performance, resulting in an enhanced business case for satellite communications.

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"The advances on Hispasat 30W-6 represent our strong commitment to providing customers with next-generation spacecraft flexibility, reliability, and value," said Dario Zamarian, group president, SSL. "Thanks to the teams at HISPASAT, SpaceX, and SSL for making this mission a success."

SSL and Hispasat worked together to include key developments on Hispasat 30W-6, which has a primary mission of providing communications services in Europe the Americas and north of Africa. It carries a state-of-the-art photonics receiver, which will prove the value of using the advanced technology for photonic frequency conversion and routing of radio frequency signals within the communications satellite. The photonics receiver demonstration, provided under technology partnership between SSL and DAS Photonics, replaces traditional microwave components with optical, solid-state components to demonstrate an integrated photonic solution. In the future, this technology will enable enhanced payload performance, greater architecture flexibility, and very high throughput satellite solutions.

"Hispasat 30W-6 is the fourth satellite that SSL has provided to our company, and expands our services offerings and capacity in the covered regions," said Carlos Espinós, chief executive officer at HISPASAT. "SSL continues to deliver reliable satellite solutions with cutting edge advances that improve our business case and help to enable future space systems and missions."
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Цитироватьпоц пишет:
Бредовые статейки и доблестные отчёты эт конечно замечательно, но что скажет наш доблестный NORAD? Приз - в студию...

ЦитироватьTwo objects related to today's #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) launch tracked in a sub-GTO orbit, as was expected based on the performance figures for this mission: 2018-023A: 184 x 22,261 km, 26.97° 2018-023C: 186 x 22,215 km, 26.92° SS/L reports Hispasat 30W-6 is healthy and executing on-orbit ops

ЦитироватьPirat5 пишет:
Но вроде бы ступень изначально планировалась одноразовой из-за тяжёлой ПН.

ЦитироватьAstro Cat пишет:
Безобразие! Даже первую ступень не посадили!

ЦитироватьВасилий Ратников пишет:
страшный ветер (с) наконец выпрыгнул из за угла.

ЦитироватьIn terms of trends, Shotwell sees a trend of a bifurcation in the market. She says there are a couple of satellite providers making their satellites bigger. "Some of that is basically putting a giant satellite on Falcon 9 with a lot of propellant, which would normally be a very heavy satellite, even potentially hard for Falcon 9 to throw. But when you put so much propellant on that satellite, they can get themselves to orbit even from a sub-synch. A couple of manufacturers are doing that ... [sending] an over 7-ton satellite on Falcon 9 to GTO. We are seeing a number of satellite manufacturers come around and do that just because of the value proposition presented by Falcon 9." But SpaceX is also seeing a lot of smaller satellites that are really a half bay Falcon 9 capability. "Spaceflight services, for one, is trying to match folks for us and fly on Falcon 9s. We are seeing a little bit more of that this year than we have in the past," she adds.

ЦитироватьPirat5 пишет:
Так были ли ножки? Судя по патчу – они есть.
Но вроде бы ступень изначально планировалась одноразовой из-за тяжёлой ПН.
Где-нибудь были более подробные фотки ступени днём?

ЦитироватьPhotos: Falcon 9 rocket lights up the night with launch for Hispasat
March 6, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

SpaceX's 50th Falcon 9 rocket flight took off from Florida's Space Coast shortly after midnight Tuesday with the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite, firing into a moonlit night sky with 1.7 million pounds of thrust.

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Nine Merlin engines steered the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket eastward from Cape Canaveral, and the SpaceX-built launcher's upper stage delivered the Hispasat 30W-6 communications craft to a geostationary transfer orbit around 33 minutes after liftoff.

The Falcon 9 blasted off from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) Tuesday.

Read our full story (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/06/hefty-hispasat-satellite-rides-spacex-rocket-into-orbit/) on the launch for details.

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ЦитироватьUP-CLOSE 50th Falcon 9 Launches Hispasat 30W-6

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220308.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/user/AmericaSpace)  AmericaSpace (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLYgjjg_-fyQwR-XgQ0JAXQ)

Опубликовано: 6 мар. 2018 г.

ЦитироватьPirat5 (http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/user/16106/) пишет:
Так были ли ножки?

Цитироватьtnt22 пишет:
НОРАД идентифицировал объекты запуска. Номер 43229 - ???

ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589)

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В ответ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)

Actually 43230 is 23C, so 43229 is an as yet unidentified 23B, presumably a previously unknown second payload?

ЦитироватьSpaceX Falcon 9 Liftoff in Slow Motion [480fps / 20x slower than real-time] - Test 002 of (RSR) v1.0

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220657.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/user/LearnTimeLapse)  LearnTimeLapse (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh3jrub_0od3EFoUtiIG4jQ)

Опубликовано: 7 мар. 2018 г.

Test 002 of Rocket Slowmo Rig (RSR) v1.0 Nine Merlin engines push Hispasat 30W-6 to a geostationary transfer orbit, the largest GTO satellite that SpaceX has flown to date. Liftoff: March 6th, 2018 12:33 a.m. EST (5:33 a.m. UTC)

Footage and edit by Ryan Chylinski

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 8 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/971805108626444289)

It appears the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite had an attached experimental subsatellite, the NovaWurks PODSAT, ejected from it after insertion into orbit.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 24 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/971820830685614083)

The fact that the gap was left for object B and has now been filled may indicate that the ejection only happened today. (and @Skitt0608 (https://twitter.com/Skitt0608) knew about it in advance) .. or that it was only tracked today because it was small and in a high orbit.

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 5 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/971945606796234752)

Hmm: TLEs for 43228 prior to Mar 8 appear to be for PODSAT not Hispasat . Would suggest that PODSAT separated from Hispasat immediately after orbit insertion.
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5 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/971946083185319936)

Other possibility is that Hispasat ejected Podsat yesterday and then boosted its own perigee a bit. But Space-Track indicates NORAD ID 43229 was changed to 43228, which supports the former suggestion

Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/186343.jpg)Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF) 3 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/972145327233994752)

CONFIRMED: There was a ride-share on Tuesday morning's #Falcon9 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Falcon9?src=hash) launch with #HispaSat30W6 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/HispaSat30W6?src=hash). Here's the statement to me from Wendy Lewis, Director of Communications with Space Systems Loral. #SpaceX (https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpaceX?src=hash)
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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/34512.jpg)Gunter Krebs‏ @Skyrocket71 (https://twitter.com/Skyrocket71) 40 мин. назад (https://twitter.com/Skyrocket71/status/972198709365739520)

And here is, what i have now collected on the PODSAT-1 satellite: It is a combination of a SSL POD chassis withe four Novawurks satlets

ЦитироватьNovaWurks HISat-based Services

(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/220725.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWbFz6Z_rFULHnYUCpp2Phg)  NovaWurks (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWbFz6Z_rFULHnYUCpp2Phg)

Опубликовано: 28 дек. 2015 г.

Changing the paradigm for building space systems

ЦитироватьSpaceX's most recent launch carried a secret military-funded experiment
March 12, 2018 (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/) Stephen Clark (https://spaceflightnow.com/author/stephen-clark/)

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Artist's illustration of a Payload Orbital Delivery System accommodation on a Space Systems/Loral-built telecom satellite. Credit: SSL

A previously-undisclosed payload funded by a U.S. military research agency rode into orbit with a Spanish communications satellite on SpaceX's most recent Falcon 9 rocket launch March 6, officials said Friday.

The small spacecraft was fastened inside the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite, then ejected soon after the Falcon 9's primary payload deployed in orbit following liftoff from Cape Canaveral.

Officials from Space Systems/Loral and NovaWurks, two companies involved in the project, acknowledged the existence of the secret secondary satellite after publicly-available orbital data published by the U.S. military registered an unexpected object attributed to Tuesday's launch named PODSat.

The companies declined to release details about the secondary satellite's mission or design, and a spokesperson for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, did not respond to multiple requests for information regarding the PODSat mission.

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"SSL's innovative secondary payload release system was successfully tested on Hispasat 30W-6," said Wendy Lewis, a spokesperson for SSL, based in Palo Alto, California. "This was an R&D (Research and Development) mission not related to the ongoing operation of the Hispasat satellite. Rideshare arrangements such as this are becoming more common as they help defray the cost of launch and drive innovation for our industry."

"We are not disclosing further details about the secondary payload at this time but we are optimistic about its potential as part of the SSL future R&D roadmap," Lewis said in a written statement in response to Spaceflight Now questions.

SSL provided a ride for the PODSat testbed satellite built in partnership with NovaWurks, headquartered in Los Alamitos, California. According to its website, NovaWurks specializes in assembly of small spacecraft using "satlets," cellular components that engineers can connect together to create custom and conformable payloads.

James Greer, chief operating officer at NovaWurks wrote in an email Friday that the PODSat spacecraft is functioning according to plan, but he declined to answer questions on the satellite's mass, design, or purpose.

"We are very pleased with the successful launch and deployment of PODSat over that past several days. Everything is going well and we continue to receive positive data with each pass," Greer said.

"However, as this is a DARPA project, we are not at liberty to discuss any specifics or details relative to the mission, except as approved by DARPA," Greer said.

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NovaWurks developed what it calls the Hyper-Integrated Satlet, or HISat, architecture with funding from DARPA's Phoenix program, chartered to find lower-cost ways of building satellites and delivering them to space. Each HISat cell is a self-contained spacecraft, and engineers can connect multiple HISats to expand capability based on a mission's specific requirements.

DARPA's Phoenix program also backed development of SSL's Payload Orbital Delivery System, or PODS, the mechanism which held the PODSat spacecraft inside the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite during launch.

The Phoenix initiative was originally established by DARPA to use satlets to harvest components from a disused satellite, but officials changed the aim of the program to focus on satellite servicing, inspection and low-cost manufacturing.

According to documents posted on SSL's website, the standard PODS accommodation on a telecom satellite like Hispasat 30W-6 can carry a secondary satellite with a mass as high as 200 pounds, or 90 kilograms. The housing is built into the host satellite inside unused battery bays, big enough to carry a deployable payload measuring 3.3 feet (1 meter) by 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) by 1.3 feet (40 centimeters).

SSL's brochure on the rideshare capability suggests the host satellite can provide video of the secondary payload's release.

The PODS mechanism could support missions in space situational awareness and Earth observation, tech demo test craft, satellite servicing platforms, and scientific missions, such as space telescopes or interplanetary probes, according to SSL.

SSL says it has identified at least six launch opportunities for PODS secondary payloads per year. In 2016, there were 11 SSL-built communications satellites launched with space available for PODS-type secondary payloads, according to the company's PODS user's guide.

The PODSat satellite was described in a paper presented by NovaWurks engineers at the 2016 SmallSat Conference in Utah.

PODSat was expected to fly with four HISat cells assembled into a "PODS chassis," according to the paper.

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SSL's secondary Payload Orbital Delivery System mechanism can be positioned on several locations on the company's SSL 1300-series satellite bus. Credit: SSL

The PODS chassis is likely a reference to a PODS spacecraft bus, or platform, offered by SSL. The PODS spacecraft bus, which SSL says is built with an electric propulsion system, is designed to be compatible with the PODS bay on an SSL-built communications satellite.

PODSat was expected to test the performance of the HISat cells in combination with a standard satellite structure — the PODS chassis, NovaWurks engineers wrote in the SmallSat Conference paper.

NovaWurks' first satellite — named Satlet Initial Mission Proofs and Lessons, or SIMPL — launched with six HISat cells in 2015 that were assembled by astronauts on the International Space Station. The spacecraft was released from the space station last year to begin standalone experiments.

PODSat is the second mission to test out NovaWurks' satlet concept in orbit. A third satlet demonstrator, incorporating 14 HISat cells, is scheduled for blastoff later this year on a rideshare mission arranged by Spaceflight Industries for launch on a Falcon 9 rocket.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket placed the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite in a "sub-synchronous" transfer orbit ranging in altitude between 115 miles (185 kilometers) and 13,285 miles (22,250 kilometers) above Earth, inclined approximately 27 degrees to the equator.

Hispasat 30W-6 deployed PODSat in the same orbit before beginning maneuvers to raise its altitude toward geosynchronous orbit nearly 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) over the equator.

Read our earlier coverage (https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/06/hefty-hispasat-satellite-rides-spacex-rocket-into-orbit/) of the launch for details on the Hispasat 30W-6 mission.

"The potential benefits to payload designers are obvious," NovaWurks wrote in the SmallSat paper. "HISats provide an app-based, open-source approach" to provide simple user-created software to coordinate spacecraft hardware.

"This enables HISats to be aggregated together informationally so that satlet resource exposure and sharing is transparent to the operation of the system. This critical resource-sharing software provides for basic capability that tailors performance by varying the number of HISats interoperating without skipping a beat."

Talbot Jaeger, founder and chief technologist at NovaWurks, described the satlet concept in a promotional video released by the company.

"A spacecraft provides a way of carrying a payload in space," Jaeger said. "A payload can be a telescope, a transceiver, or some other device. It's typically built to fit the spacecraft, but at NovaWurks, we believe that a designer should be free to build his payload to meet his needs, while we add the support required for space operations."

With the HISat design, "a spacecraft that actually conforms to the payload, not the other way around," he said. "Its advantages are it's easily configurable and flexible. It's rapidly developed and deployed from order-to-orbit, and it's cost-efficient because from the heart of it, it's mass-produceable."

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Цитировать(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/67516.jpg)Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 (https://twitter.com/planet4589) 5 ч. назад (https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/973749242207653889)

On Mar 12, Hispasat 30W-6 completed raising its initially subsync apogee to GEO height; on Mar 13 it began perigee raising/inc lowering, now in 5524 x 35905 km x 13.8 deg

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Fleet operator @Hispasat (https://twitter.com/Hispasat) says Hispasat 30W-6 sat, @sslmda (https://twitter.com/sslmda) -built, @SpaceX (https://twitter.com/SpaceX) -launched March 6, passed in-orbit checkout & ready for service at 30 deg W. 40 Ku, 7 Ka-, 10 C-band beams + demo photonic receiver from DAS Photonics/@TryoGroup (https://twitter.com/TryoGroup).

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ЦитироватьEl satélite H30W-6 llega a su posición orbital y entra en servicio operacional
June 26, 2018

The satellite is located in the 30º West position and has satisfactorily passed the trial period in orbit.
 The H30W-6 has arrived to expand the capacity in the Ka band over Spain and Morocco to offer excellent high speed internet access. It also has transponders in the Ku band, and incorporates a new beam in the C band over America.

 The Hispasat 30W-6 was launched this past March fr om the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

MADRID, 26 June 2018. The Hispasat 30W-6 (H30W-6) satellite is now in its definitive orbital position at 30º West and will begin to offer the telecommunications services that it was designed for in the next few days, after having successfully passed the exhaustive tests conducted in space. This satellite was launched on 6 March from the Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex in Florida, on board a Falcon 9 launch vehicle made by SpaceX.

With a useful life of 15 years, the H30W-6 will offer video contribution and cellular backhaul services, as well as business solutions and broadband internet in its coverage areas: Europe, North-east Africa and the American continent. Specifically, this new satellite expands the operator's offer in the Ka and Ku bands and incorporates a new beam in the C band with Pan-American coverage. With this configuration, the Hispasat 30W-6 will contribute to reducing the digital divide in Spain, North Africa, and Latin America.

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Services in the Ka band: greater browsing speed

This satellite's Ka band beams cover Spain and Morocco and will provide internet access at 30 Mbps in rural areas, thus opening the doors to the Information Society in places wh ere it has not been possible to do so with other telecommunications infrastructures. This new satellite offers high-quality connectivity thanks to the Ka band, which is much more powerful than other frequency bands, which allows internet users to have a greater browsing speed.

On the other hand, the Hispasat 30W-6 will reinforce the distribution of audiovisual contents in Latin America, allowing access to more than 50 million users through its audiovisual distribution platforms, while also offering connectivity on high speed trains, as well as maritime services in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, among other places.

More innovation to improve satellite performance

The Hispasat 30W-6 carries a receiver demo in the Ka band based on photonic technology whose modules have been designed by two Spanish companies, DAS Photonics and TRYO Aerospace. With similar features to the receivers currently available on the market, the application of photonic technology to these components will significantly reduce their mass and volume and improve the payload's performance.

On the other hand, this satellite has been launched with a new innovative antenna tower (an element which constitutes the structural support for the assembly of different pieces of equipment) made with elements created through 3D printing, in which the solid traditional panels have been replaced by much lighter polymer and metal tubes which have contributed to significantly decreasing the mass. 3D printing has accelerated the manufacturing process and reduced production periods. It spurs innovation in the satellite sector and provides solutions which improve satellite performance, simplify their construction and make them more competitive.

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