Цитата: ULAATLAS V TO LAUNCH STP-3
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• Rocket: Atlas V 551
• Mission: Space Test Program-3
• Launch Date and Time: 1st Quarter 2021
• Launch Location: Space Launch Complex-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Mission Information: A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket will launch the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force. Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The STP-3 mission consists of the STPSat-6 satellite that hosts the National Nuclear Security Administration's Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System-3 (SABRS-3) package and NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) experiment. The launch also includes a propulsive secondary payload adapter carrying additional small science and technology missions.
Launch Notes: This will be 143rd mission for United Launch Alliance and our 90th in service to U.S. national security. It is the 87th Atlas V launch and the 12th in the 551 configuration.
ЦитироватьStarliner test flight next on ULA's launch schedule after military mission delay
January 25, 2021 Stephen Clark
The U.S. Space Force has decided to delay the planned late February launch of two military satellites aboard a ULA Atlas 5 rocket to "evaluate readiness" of one of the payloads, giving officials a window to move forward the liftoff of an unpiloted test flight of Boeing's Starliner crew capsule to no earlier than March 25.
The launch of the military's Space Test Program-3, or STP-3, mission was previously scheduled Feb. 26 on an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The STP-3 mission will deliver two military spacecraft into a geosynchronous orbit more than 20,000 miles over the equator.
A spokesperson for the Space and Missile Systems Center said the STP-3 launch has been delayed to "evaluate readiness" of one the military satellites, named STPSat6, and "ensure mission success of the primary payload."
STPSat 6 hosts several payloads and experiments, including the National Nuclear Security Administration's Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System-3 payload, which is designed to detect nuclear detonations from orbit. NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration experiment and several more payloads are also flying on the STPSat 6 spacecraft.
A smaller satellite named LPDE 1 will ride into orbit with STPSat 6. The LPDE 1 spacecraft is designed to accommodate experimental payloads and small satellites, which could be deployed from the parent satellite in orbit.
The STP-3 mission is also a milestone mission for ULA because it will be the first Atlas 5 launch with U.S.-built payload fairing. The 5.4-meter-diameter (17.7-foot) shroud is identical in size to payload fairings that flew on previous Atlas 5 flights, but those were built by RUAG Space in Switzerland.
But the new fairings are built by RUAG technicians inside ULA's rocket factory in Decatur, Alabama, using updated manufacturing techniques. The same fairing design is intended to fly on ULA's next-generation Vulcan Centaur rocket.
The Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center said the STP-3 mission does not have a new target launch date.
With the STP-3 mission out of the way, ULA's first launch of 2021 will carry Boeing's Starliner spacecraft into orbit on a test flight to the International Space Station.
The unpiloted demonstration mission, named Orbital Flight Test-2, is a repeat of Boeing's OFT-1 test flight in December 2019. Software problems on the OFT-1 mission prevented the Starliner spacecraft from docking with the space station, forcing a premature landing under parachutes at White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico.
ЦитироватьJune 23 Atlas 5 • STP-3
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch the STP-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force. The STP-3 rideshare mission will launch the STPSat 6 satellite and several small satellites. STPSat 6 hosts several payloads and experiments, including the National Nuclear Security Administration's Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System-3 (SABRS-3) payload, and NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) experiment. The rocket will fly in the 551 vehicle configuration with a five-meter fairing, five solid rocket boosters, and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. Delayed from Feb. 26.
ЦитироватьMedia Invited to NASA's Laser Communications Demonstration Launch
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Northrop Grumman personnel examine the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6) at its facility in Dulles, Virginia, prior to its shipment to Florida for final launch processing. Seen on the front of the spacecraft is NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration instrument, the first long-duration laser communications mission that will validate advanced relay operations for future missions.
Credits: Northrop Grumman
U.S. media accreditation has opened for an upcoming rocket launch with a NASA payload that aims to enhance communications capabilities for the agency's future missions, including the potential to increase bandwidth 10 to 100 times more than radio frequency systems.
NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will fly as a payload on STPSat-6, the primary spacecraft of the third Space Test Program (STP-3) mission for the Department of Defense. STP-3 is scheduled to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket Wednesday, June 23, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Members of the media who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and interested in covering the launch must submit a media access application and registration form to Space Launch Delta 45 at: 45swpa@us.af.mil. Requests should be submitted no later than 5 p.m. EDT Friday, June 11. Applicants will be notified of acceptance Tuesday, June 15. NASA subject matter experts will be available for interviews the day before launch.
LCRD represents a significant step toward making operational laser, or optical, communications a reality. The payload's microwave-oven-size optical modules will send and receive data over infrared lasers – not visible to the human eye – at 1.2 gigabits per second from geosynchronous orbit to Earth. At that rate, it's possible to download a two-hour movie in about 20 seconds.
Engineers will beam data between LCRD and optical ground stations located in Table Mountain, California, and Haleakalā, Hawaii, once it is positioned more than 22,000 miles above Earth. Experiments will allow engineers to refine the transmission process, study different operational scenarios, and refine tracking systems. LCRD will generate essential data and information to prepare laser communications systems for operational missions, as engineers cannot replicate the same conditions with ground tests.
Later in its mission, LCRD will conduct optical communications relay services with a future terminal on the International Space Station, which is expected to launch on a commercial resupply services mission in 2022. These operations could prove the viability of using laser communications in future crewed missions to the Moon and Mars.
The LCRD mission is led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Partners include NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. LCRD is funded through NASA's Technology Demonstration Missions program, part of the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate, and the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program within the agency's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.
STP-3 is a co-manifested spacecraft launch mission managed by the U.S. Space Force's (USSF) Space and Missile Systems Center. The STP-3 mission matures technology and reduces risk for the Department of the Air Force, USSF, and defense and civil partners. The primary spacecraft on STP-3 is STPSat-6 and the rideshare spacecraft is the Long Duration Propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) -1, or LDPE-1. Northrop Grumman built both spacecraft.
Цитата: undefinedЗапуск ракеты ULA #AtlasV 551 с миссией #STP3 для @SpaceForceDOD @USSF_SMC был отложен для оценки готовности ракеты-носителя. Мы работаем с нашим клиентом, чтобы определить следующую доступную возможность запуска.https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1400800541198934017 (https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1400800541198934017)
Цитата: undefinedТе, кто смотрел прямую трансляцию, возможно, заметили некоторое звяканье (ringing) (видимо вибрацию, прим мое) - нового удлиненного карбонового (carbon) сопла RL10s. Хотя он сделал свою работу, повысив производительность RL10 еще немного, мы хотим убедиться, что полностью понимаем это поведение, прежде чем снова запускать эту конфигурацию.https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1400804500215042054 (https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1400804500215042054)
ЦитироватьNASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which will be the premier observatory of the next decade, remains on schedule for a launch readiness date no earlier than Oct. 31, 2021.
Webb will ship to the launch site in August with little to no schedule margin; launch processing will take two months. The observatory has completed all the post-environmental testing deployments, and it is in its final integration and folding stages. Final stow, closeout, and pack and ship are imminent. We are working closely with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace on establishing the launch date. We will launch approximately four months after the first launch of the Ariane 5 this year, which is scheduled for late July. Webb has no launch date constraints; hence, it can launch almost any day of the year...
Цитата: tnt22 от 12.12.2020 11:36:36https://www.ulalaunch.com/missions/next-launch/atlas-v-stp-3Обновление
ЦитироватьATLAS V TO LAUNCH STP-3
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket will launch the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force. Liftoff will occur from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
Launch date: Nov. 22, 2021
ЦитироватьULA @ulalaunch
The launch of a ULA #AtlasV 551 rocket carrying the #STP3 mission for the @SpaceForceDOD's @USSF_SSC was delayed due to a space vehicle processing issue. The new launch date is Dec. 4, 2021. http://bit.ly/av_stp3
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The Centaur upper stage was hoisted atop the #AtlasV (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtlasV?src=hashtag_click) 551 rocket today as preparations continue for our next launch dedicated to U.S. national security, the complex #STP3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/STP3?src=hashtag_click) mission lifting two satellites to geosynchronous orbit on Dec. 4.
Learn more: https://blog.ulalaunch.com/blog/stp-3-atlas-v-readied-to-launch-research-mission... (https://t.co/cerESGVDQc?amp=1)
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LIVE: Hear about our Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) satellite, slated to launch Dec. 4 to test @NASA_Technology (https://twitter.com/NASA_Technology) that could give future space missions a faster way of "talking" with Earth: http://nasa.gov/live (https://t.co/z1RgZwQkWS?amp=1)
Have questions? Use #AskNASA (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AskNASA?src=hashtag_click).
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The launch of a ULA #AtlasV 551 rocket carrying the #STP3 mission for the @SpaceForceDOD @USSF_SSC is delayed due to inclement weather during launch vehicle processing. The new launch date is Dec. 5, 2021. http://bit.ly/av_stp3
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Launch date: Dec. 5, 2021
Launch window: 4:04 - 6:04 a.m. EST (0904-1104 UTC)
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On Dec 5 a @ulalaunch (https://twitter.com/ulalaunch)#AtlasV (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtlasV?src=hashtag_click) rocket (https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125166.svg)will launch the #STP3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/STP3?src=hashtag_click) mission for the U.S. @SpaceForceDoD (https://twitter.com/SpaceForceDoD). The rocket includes, for the first time, our Out-of-Autoclave (OoA) 5.4m-diameter (17.7-foot) payload fairing (the top of the rocket(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125084.svg)). More: https://blog.ulalaunch.com/blog/stp-3-two-satellites-placed-atop-atlas-v-for-launch... (https://t.co/e6kth9hjLv?amp=1) (c) ULA
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Launch of NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration — LCRD Official Launch Coverage
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Watch the liftoff of our Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The two-hour launch window opens Dec. 5, 2021 at 4:04 a.m. EST.
Laser communications offer data rates higher than traditional radio frequency systems, allowing more data per transmission. Once in orbit, LCRD will demonstrate the benefits of using infrared lasers to communicate information from space, including reduced size, weight, and power requirements for a communications system on a spacecraft. A smaller size means more room for science instruments. Less weight means a less expensive launch. Less power means less drain on the spacecraft's batteries. All of this enables further exploration.
LCRD is a NASA payload aboard the Department of Defense's Space Test Program Satellite-6 (STPSat-6). STPSat-6, part of the Space Test Program 3 (STP-3) mission, will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. STP is operated by the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command.
For more information on LCRD, visit https://nasa.gov/lasercomms
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ULA Launch Director James Whelan has given final approval to begin the rollout. Pre-roll preps are complete and the weather is acceptable to move the 196-foot-tall rocket on its Mobile Launch Platform a third-of-a-mile north to the launch pad. http://bit.ly/av_stp3 (https://t.co/LEV7vitjDL)
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#AtlasV (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtlasV?src=hashtag_click) rollout continues as the rocket completes the first 1,800 feet on its journey to send #STP3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/STP3?src=hashtag_click) into space. This will be the 90th flight of the rocket, which has a demonstrated record of success for @USSF_SSC (https://twitter.com/USSF_SSC), @NASA_LSP (https://twitter.com/NASA_LSP), @NatReconOfc (https://twitter.com/NatReconOfc) and commercial customers.
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This #AtlasV (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtlasV?src=hashtag_click) rocket, designated AV-093, stands 196 feet (59.7 meters) tall and will weigh 1,295,695 pounds (587,717 kg) once fully fueled for liftoff. It features five side-mounted solid rocket boosters for max liftoff thrust.
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#AtlasV (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtlasV?src=hashtag_click) is atop its pad for Sunday's launch to deliver two satellites directly into geosynchronous orbit for technology missions in the fields of space domain awareness, space weather sensing and laser communications, plus operational nuclear detection. http://bit.ly/av_stp3 (https://t.co/LEV7vitjDL)
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Good morning from the Kennedy Space Center where Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 rockets are standing on their launch pads undergoing pre-launch preparations. https://youtu.be/GyUYAPpfFzo (https://t.co/aInyJC5AME)
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Atlas V STP-3 Mission Profile
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket will launch the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC).
Learn more: bit.ly/av_stp3
ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman @northropgrumman
STPSat-6 and LDPE-1 launch tomorrow aboard a @ULAlaunch Atlas V supported by 5 GEM 63 solid rocket boosters from Kennedy Space Center! Join us at 3:30 a.m. EST.
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Dec. 5 Live Broadcast: Atlas V STP-3
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Watch live on Sun. Dec. 5, 2021 as ULA's Atlas V rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the Space Test Program (STP)-3 mission for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC).
Launch is scheduled for 4:04 a.m. EST (0904 UTC). Broadcast is scheduled for 3:30 a.m. EST.
Live blog: bit.ly/av_stp3
ЦитироватьSpaceflight Now @SpaceflightNowУтечка керосина в наземке.
United Launch Alliance has delayed the launch from Cape Canaveral of an Atlas 5 rocket from Sunday until no earlier than Monday at 4:04am EST (0904 GMT).
ULA says a leak was found in the kerosene fuel ground storage system at the pad.
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Вашингтон. 5 декабря. ИНТЕРФАКС - Запуск ракеты-носителя Atlas V со спутниками в интересах Космических сил США и NASA, который планировался в воскресенье, перенесен на сутки из-за возникших технических проблем, сообщила компания United Launch Alliance (ULA). "Запуск ракеты Atlas V с миссией STP-3 в интересах Космических сил отменен. Во время подготовительных операций была обнаружена утечка в системе подачи ракетного топлива с наземного хранилища. Запуск теперь планируется осуществить в понедельник, 6 декабря в 04:04 по времени Восточного побережья США (в 12:04 мск)", - говорится в сообщении. |
Цитата: azeast от 05.12.2021 09:48:49https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=561708&lang=RUТам же
ЦитироватьВ рамках миссии Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) ракета, в частности, должна вывести на геостационарную орбиту высотой 35,4 тыс. км экспериментальный военный спутник STPSat-6 с системой Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System-3 для отслеживания космических и атмосферных взрывов, который создан Национальным управлением ядерной безопасности США (NNSA).
Он обеспечивает обнаружение ядерных взрывов и отслеживание данных о космической среде и предназначен для дополнения детекторов ядерной детонации на борту современных космических аппаратов GPS.
Ракета также выведет на орбиту в интересах NASA экспериментальный спутник LCRD - демонстратор ретранслятора лазерной космической связи (Laser Communications Relay Demonstration). По данным американского космического агентства, на аппарате будет апробирована технология инфракрасной лазерной ретрансляции, которая позволит спутникам передавать данные двухсторонней связи между Международной космической станцией и Землей с геосинхронной орбиты на Землю со скоростями порядка 1.2 Гбит. Помимо этого, система лазерной связи позволит значительной уменьшить вес, габариты и энергопотребление по сравнению с другими аппаратами связи. Спутник должен будет проработать на орбите два года.
Кроме того, ракета несет адаптер полезной нагрузки LDPE-1, предназначенный для развертывания малых военных спутников, и еще шесть аппаратов космического слежения в интересах Пентагона, технические данные которых засекречены.
Все космические аппараты будут выведены на орбиту примерно через семь часов после старта ракеты.
Двухступенчатая ракета-носитель Atlas V создана компанией ULA, которая является совместным предприятием корпораций Boeing и Lockheed Martin, осуществляющим запуски в интересах Пентагона и американского разведывательного сообщества. Она имеет несколько конфигураций, которые отличаются количеством твердотопливных ускорителей и забрасываемой на орбиту полезной нагрузкой.
На ее первой ступени используются двухкамерный жидкостный ракетный двигатель РД-180 производства российской компании НПО "Энергомаш".
ЦитироватьULA @ulalaunch
The launch of a ULA #AtlasV 551 rocket carrying #STP3 for the @SpaceForceDOD @USSF_SSC has been scrubbed. The team repaired the ground storage system but will require additional time to verify the sample integrity of the fuel prior to tanking operations.
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Launch is now scheduled for Tues., Dec. 7 at 4:04amEST. http://bit.ly/av_stp3
ЦитироватьНЬЮ-ЙОРК, 6 декабря. /ТАСС/. Старт ракеты-носителя Atlas V со спутником связи Космических сил США вновь отложен. Как сообщила в воскресенье пресс-служба американского консорциума United Launch Alliance (ULA), запуск перенесен с 6 на 7 декабря из-за необходимости проведения дополнительных проверок.
"Команда починила наземную систему хранения топлива, но потребуется дополнительное время, чтобы удостовериться в чистоте образца топлива перед тем, как начинать операции по заправке [ракеты]. Запуск теперь запланирован на вторник, 7 декабря, в 4:04 по времени Восточного побережья США [12:04 мск]", - говорится в сообщении...
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(https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/125180.svg) Weather is currently 80% favorable for the launch of the Space Test Program 3 mission, which hosts @NASA (https://twitter.com/NASA)'s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD)! Liftoff is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 4:04am ET. Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/3rGE69l (https://t.co/2MoE3TdWBF)
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In the day's first briefing, Launch Weather Officer Jessica Williams says the forecast for launch of #AtlasV (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AtlasV?src=hashtag_click) #STP3 (https://twitter.com/hashtag/STP3?src=hashtag_click) launch has improved to greater than a 90% chance of favorable conditions. Patchy fog may develop overnight but would not be a constraint. http://bit.ly/av_stp3 (https://t.co/LEV7vitjDL)
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Цитата: Чебурашка от 07.12.2021 17:13:15Походу, в 2021 году идём на рекорд по количеству запусков ракет-носителей космического назначения за всю историю космонавтики. ;DДа врятли. Там под 139 было в 67-м, если верит Вики.
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Atlas V launches STP-3
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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 launch vehicle launched the Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission for the U.S. Space Force's (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC), from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on 7 December 2021, at 10:19 UTC (05:19 EST). The primary spacecraft is STP Satellite (STPSat)-6 and the rideshare spacecraft is the Long Duration Propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) (LDPE) – 1. STPSat-6 carries nine payloads including the Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System 3 (SABRS-3), NASA's Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload and several Department of Defense Space Experiments Review Board space weather and situational awareness payloads.
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The Atlas 5's STP-3 mission will last seven hours and 10 minutes from launch until separation of the second of two military tech demo satellites in geosynchronous orbit. That's the longest Atlas rocket flight in the program's more than 60-year history. https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/06/ula-to-set-rocket-endurance-record-on-next-launch/... (https://t.co/Sk5gCBaImv)
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ЦитироватьULA @ulalaunch
MECO-3! The third burn by the Centaur upper stage is complete, finishing powered flight for the launch of #STP3 aboard the #AtlasV rocket. Standing by for the first payload deployment.
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Separation confirmed! The United Launch Alliance #AtlasV rocket has released the STPSat-6 satellite into space for the U.S. @SpaceForceDoD and @NASALaserComm.
ЦитироватьULA @ulalaunch
With the successful release of the first payload, Centaur will coast for another 35 minutes before deploying the LDPE-1 spacecraft.
ЦитироватьULA @ulalaunch
Separation confirmed! #AtlasV has deployed LDPE-1, an innovative platform that carries experimental payloads intended for rapid risk reduction efforts to inform future programs. http://bit.ly/av_stp3
ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell @planet4589
TLEs now out for the STP-3 launch: STPSAT-6, LDPE-1 in 36096 x 36112 km x 0.1 deg orbits, Centaur AV-093 made a depletion burn to 36126 x 38655 km x 0.1 deg
ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell @planet4589
A new object cataloged from the STP-3 launch in super-sync orbit of 35990 x 36117 km x 0.1 deg, presumably a payload ejected from LDPE-1. @AFResearchLab is this ASCENT, or something else?
ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell @planet4589
A new object cataloged from the LDPE-1 launch, 2021-118E. Unclear so far if another debris object or one of the payloads deploying from LDPE-1 (guessing will be the latter)
ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell @planet4589
The object 2021-118E ejected from LDPE-1 on Jan 25 is confirmed by Space-Track to be AFRL's ASCENT satellite.