AEHF-5 - Atlas V 551 (AV-084) - CCAFS SLC-41 - 08.08.2019, 10:13 UTC

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Цитировать Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 14 мин. назад
ULA confirms they've moved up #AtlasV rollout by 1hr tomorrow (to 9a EDT) to allow #SpaceX and Range the time tomorrow to launch at 18:52 EDT. ULA also says they could have stayed at 10a EDT rollout and still have been far enough ahead to support SpaceX. #AEHF5 #AMOS17



12 мин. назад
ULA does NOT have to clear their pad (SLC-41) for the SpaceX launch off neighboring SLC-40 (which is 1.5 miles away). #AMOS17 #AEHF5 #SpaceX #Falcon9 #ULA



10 мин. назад
More on this, ULA says part of their decision to roll early was also so they can get through some of their RP-1 kerosene tanking ops before weather becomes a forecasted issue at 15:00 EDT. #AEHF5 #ULA #AtlasV


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ЦитироватьSpaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 1 ч. назад
United Launch Alliance and US Air Force teams gave a "go" during a readiness review this morning to continue launch preparations for the planned liftoff from Cape Canaveral of an Atlas 5 rocket with the AEHF 5 military communications satellite Thursday. https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/08/04/two-launches-on-tap-from-floridas-space-coast-this-week/ ...


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ЦитироватьAug 05, 2019 17:46
Launch Readiness Review completed

The launch management team has given a "go" for liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) communications spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.

Liftoff is scheduled for 5:44 a.m. EDT (0944 UTC) on Thursday from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The Launch Readiness Review, chaired by Lou Mangieri, ULA's AEHF-5 launch director, was completed this morning at the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center. Managers from ULA and the Air Force assessed the readiness of the rocket, payload and mission assets, discussed the status of pre-flight processing work, heard technical overviews of the countdown and flight, and previewed the weather forecast.

The weather outlook, according to the 45th Weather Squadron, calls for 70 percent chance of favorable conditions for launch, with a few low- and scattered mid-level clouds, good visibility, southwesterly winds of 10 knots and a temperature near 78 degrees F. The only concern for a launch weather rule violation will be anvil clouds from thunderstorms along a weak frontal boundary over north Florida.

At the conclusion of the meeting, senior leaders were polled and gave a unanimous ready status for launch. Officials then signed the Launch Readiness Certificate.

AEHF-5 is a sophisticated satellite built to provide the highest levels of protection for our nation's most critical users. It features encryption, low probability of intercept and detection, jammer resistance and the ability to penetrate the electro-magnetic interference caused by nuclear weapons, all essential when communications can be the top priority.

United Launch Alliance will offer live reports from the Atlas Spaceflight Operations Center in our automatically-refreshing blog during the Atlas V's rollout to the launch pad on Tuesday, plus provide comprehensive countdown coverage beginning at 10:45 p.m. EDT (0245 UTC) on Wednesday and continuing commentary all the way to the spacecraft separation nearly six hours after liftoff.

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Цитировать Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 21 мин. назад
Air Force spokesperson confirms they have approved the Falcon 9/Amos 17 mission on the range for tomorrow. Launch window opens at 6:53pm EDT, followed by Atlas 5 launch 1.5 miles away, with a window opening at 5:44am EDT Thursday.


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https://spacenews.com/upcoming-atlas-5-mission-will-launch-air-force-cubesat-before-it-releases-main-payload/
ЦитироватьUpcoming Atlas 5 mission will launch Air Force cubesat before it releases main payload
by Sandra Erwin — August 5, 2019


United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 booster sits on the mobile launch platform at the Vertical Integration Facility adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket will launch the fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-5) protected communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force. Credit: ULA

The Air Force integrated a 12U cubesat on the Centaur's aft bulkhead carrier.

WASHINGTON — A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket scheduled to launch a $1.1 billion military communications satellite on Thursday will carry an experimental cubesat as a rideshare payload on the back of the Centaur, the Atlas' upper stage.

The main payload is the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite, or AEHF-5. For this mission, the Air Force integrated a 12U cubesat on the Centaur's aft bulkhead carrier. The rideshare payload will be separating before the primary payload separates, said Col. Shane Clark, AEHF-5 mission director at the Air Force Space and Missile Systems' Center Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate.

"It's the first time SMC separates a rideshare payload prior to the anchor mission," Clark said on Monday during a conference call. The cubesat will be used to test orbital debris tracking technologies.

The Atlas 5 aft bulkhead carrier was originally developed for the National Reconnaissance Office to take advantage of excess capacity on big rocket to put small payloads into orbit. A newly created Launch Enterprise Manifest Office married up the the cubesat with the Centaur for the AEHF-5 mission. Clark said this is the first multi-manifest space vehicle integration executed by the new office.

The mission is on track to lift off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday. The rocket will fly in its most powerful configuration, the Atlas 5 551. The AEHF satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit provide nuclear-survivable, protected communications for strategic command and tactical warfighters. They are used by the U.S. military and international partners Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Clark said the Air Force wants to continue to find ways to use space vehicle capacity as efficiently as possible. "We haven't in the past separated rideshares before the anchor mission," he said. "The mission design of this one allows us to do that." The new manifest office at SMC will be responsible for integrating rideshares "when we have anchor missions that have some excess capability."

Gary Wentz, ULA's vice president for government and commercial programs, said he does not anticipate any further delays to the AEHF-5 mission that was originally scheduled for June 27. The date had to be pushed back after a component failed during final acceptance tests. "The teams removed the suspect hardware from all our launch vehicles," said Wentz. "We are in the process of incorporating some minor changes to the hardware. We have retested and reinstalled the hardware on the vehicle."

AEHF-5 will be ULA's 134th launch since the company was formed in 2006. It will be the ninth for the Atlas 5 in the 551 configuration with five solid rocket boosters.

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Цитировать Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 9 мин. назад
US Air Force officials signed off Monday on a plan for SpaceX and United Launch Alliance, rivals in the launch services market, to fire off Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 rockets from neighboring launch pads at Cape Canaveral on Tuesday evening and Thursday morning. https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/08/05/cape-canaveral-to-host-two-launches-in-36-hours-this-week/ ...





8 мин. назад
According to my survey of the wonderful global launch log maintained by @planet4589, this would be the shortest span between orbital launches at Cape Canaveral since May 1981. Weather permitting, of course.


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Прогноз погоды L-3 на 8 августа

AV-083 AEHF-5 L-3 Forecast 8 Aug Launch

Пусковой день (8.08) - = 70 % GO
Резервный день (9.08) - = 80 % GO

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ЦитироватьAug 06, 2019 15:51
Launch weather now 80% GO

Thursday's launch weather forecast has improved to an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions, according to the 45th Weather Squadron. Anvil clouds drifting into the area remains the primary concern.

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Цитировать ULA‏ Подлинная учетная запись @ulalaunch 2 ч. назад
Welcome to Rollout Day for the United Launch Alliance #AtlasV rocket and the fifth @usairforce Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite #AEHF5 from the Vertical Integration Facility to the pad at Space Launch Complex-41. Launch is planned for 5:44amEDT (0944 UTC) on Thursday.




2 ч. назад
ULA Launch Director Lou Mangieri has given final approval to begin the rollout. Pre- roll preps are complete and the weather is acceptable to move the 197-foot-tall rocket on its mobile launch platform a third-of-a-mile north to the launch pad.


2 ч. назад
The #AtlasV rocket began its rollout at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330) UTC) from the 30-story Vertical Integration Facility to the Space Launch Complex-41 pad at Cape Canaveral to launch the #AEHF5 spacecraft. 




1 ч. назад
The mobile launch platform is traveling to the pad with the help of undercarriage railcars and trackmobile machines that push the entire 1.9-million-pound MLP and rocket along tracks up the hill to the pad.




1 ч. назад
Also visible in the rollout convoy are two boxcars leading the way. They contain critical ground support equipment for the #AtlasV and #AEHF5. At the rear are two trailers that supply conditioned air to the rocket and payload.


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Цитировать ULA‏ Подлинная учетная запись @ulalaunch 1 ч. назад
The #AtlasV is equipped with five powerful solid rocket boosters made by @AerojetRdyne. They will provide nearly three-quarters of the energy at liftoff to propel the #AEHF5 satellite on its way to space.




48 мин. назад
Our #AtlasV rocket has arrived at its Cape Canaveral launch pad for Thursday's 5:44amEDT (0944 UTC) liftoff to send the #AEHF5 strategic communications satellite into space for the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center @usairforce @AF_SMC.


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Прогноз погоды L-2 на 8 августа

AV-083 AEHF-5 L-2 Forecast 8 Aug Launch

Пусковой день (8.08) - ↑ 80 % GO
Резервный день (9.08) - ↑ 90 % GO

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Цитировать Dane Drefke‏ @DaneDrefke 7 мин. назад
Something you don't see every day. ULA Atlas V on the pad far left, Space X Falcon 9 on the pad to the right. Launched within 24 hours of each other. Busy spaceport today!


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ЦитироватьAug 06, 2019 20:08

The MLP was lowered onto the launch pad piers, achieving the "harddown" milestone at 10:53 a.m. EDT (1453 UTC). The team has since transferred the environmental control system from the mobile trailers used during rollout to the ground facilities at the pad to feed conditioned air to the rocket and payload. The ECS trailers are being disengaged from the MLP to make their way back to the VIF right now.

Meanwhile, the Atlas and Centaur stages have been powered up for standard system testing and operations.

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NOTAM на зону полигона

ЦитироватьKZMA

FDC 9/4750 (A1209/19) - FL..AIRSPACE CAPE CANAVERAL FL. TEMPORARY FLT RESTRICTION.
PURSUANT TO 14 CFR SECTION 91.143, FLT LIMITATION IN THE PROXIMITY OF SPACE FLT OPS, OPS BY FAA CERT PILOTS OR U.S.REG ACFT ARE PROHIBITED WI AN AREA DEFINED AS
285116N0804219W (OMN141034.4) TO 290730N0803000W (OMN108033.9) THEN CLOCKWISE VIA A
30 NM ARC CENTERED AT 283703N0803647W (OMN147048.7) TO
281330N0801600W (OMN145078.4) TO 282501N0803029W (OMN149061.9) TO
282501N0803759W (OMN155058.8) TO 282501N0804144W (OMN157057.4) TO
283121N0804349W (OMN157050.9) TO 283801N0804701W (OMN157043.7) TO
284910N0805044W (OMN154032.2) TO 285116N0804714W (OMN148031.8) TO
POINT OF ORIGIN.
SFC-FL180. MIAMI / ZMA / ARTCC, PHONE 305-716-1589, IS THE FAA COORDINATION FACILITY.
THIS AREA ENCOMPASSES R2932, R2933, R2934, AND PORTIONS OF W137F, W137G, W497A. ADDITIONAL WARNING AND RESTRICTED AREAS WILL BE ACT.
PILOTS MUST CONSULT ALL NOTAMS REGARDING THIS OP AND MAY CONTACT ZMA FOR CURRENT AIRSPACE STATUS.
08 AUG 09:14 2019 UNTIL 08 AUG 12:14 2019.
CREATED: 06 AUG 20:04 2019


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NOTAMs
ЦитироватьKZMA

A1207/19 (Issued for KZMA) - EROP A6275 ATTENTION AIRLINE DISPATCHERS, SOME OPS APPEAR TO BE USING THE NOTAM BEGINNING TIME TO START FILING ROUTES AROUND THE LAUNCH OP.
LAUNCH HAZARD AREA TIMES IN THE NOTAM ARE ALT SPECIFIC AND DO NOT AFFECT ALL OPS.
THIS NOTAM CONTAINS A BREAKDOWN OF THE TIMES FOR PRE-LAUNCH AND LAUNCH CLOSURES.
THE FOLLOWING AIRSPACE IS IN USE FOR A MISSILE LAUNCH/SPLASH DOWN.
DURING THESE TIMES KZMA ARTCC/OAC, ZJX ARTCC AND KZNY ARTCC/OAC WILL NOT APPROVE IFR FLT WI 45NM OF THE AFFECTED OCEANIC STNR AIRSPACE RESERVATIONS WEST OF 6000W, 50NM BTN 6000W AND 5500W, AND 60NM EAST OF 5500W OR WI AFFECTED WARNING AREA AIRSPACE.
EFF: 1908080744  1908081214 W497A WEST OF 80 WEST, SFC-5000FT MSL
EFF: 1908080744  1908081214 CAPE ATC ASSIGNED AIRSPACE, SFC-FL180
EFF: 1908080914  1908081214 R2933, 5000FT MSL-UNL
EFF: 1908080914  1908081214 R2934, SFC-UNL
EFF: 1908080944  1908081214
   LAUNCH HAZARD AREA A WI AN AREA DEFINED AS
      2830N08038W TO 2842N08037W TO 2837N07945W TO 2829N07945W TO
      POINT OF ORIGIN, SFC-UNL
   LAUNCH HAZARD AREA B WI AN AREA DEFINED AS
      2837N07945W TO 2835N07857W TO 2827N07857W TO 2829N07945W TO
      POINT OF ORIGIN, SFC-UNL.
   LAUNCH HAZARD AREA C WI AN AREA DEFINED AS
      2754N07138W TO 2809N07135W TO 2739N06711W TO 2726N06714W TO
      POINT OF ORIGIN, SFC-UNL.
   LAUNCH HAZARD AREA D WI AN AREA DEFINED AS
      2401N4946W TO 2415N04938W TO 2335N04722W TO 2321N04727W TO
     POINT OF ORIGIN, SFC-UNL.
THESE AREAS ENCOMPASSE PORTIONS OF R2932, R2933, AND W497A.
IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY, ALL NONPARTICIPATING PILOTS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO AVOID THE ABV AREAS, EXC AS NOTED BLW FOR FLT PLAN FILING PURPOSES.
THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS WILL BE IN EFFECT WI KZMA AND KZNY FIRS.
ALL TRAFFIC REGARDLESS OF ALT MUST BE ESTIMATED TO CLEAR OCEANIC ALTRV AT OR BEFORE 1908080939. KZNY REQUEST ACFT CERTIFIED FOR RNP 4/10 FILE ROUTES TO AVOID HAZARD AREA C BY 25NM, AND NON CRTFY RNP 4/10 ACFT AVOID AREA C BY 45NM AND ALL ACFT AVOID HAZARD AREA D BY 60NM DURING THE HAZARD PERIOD 1908080944-1908081214.
THE FOLLOWING ROUTES WILL BE IMPACTED: AR6, AR15, AR17, AR19, AR21, AR22, L375, L435, L452, L453, L454, L455, L456, M329, M330, M331, M593, M595, Q86, Y185, Y289, Y291, AND Y585. HIBAC TRANS SHIFTY STAR CLSD.
FOR FLTS FILED OVER OMN ON THE FOLLOWING STARS:
FISEL/GISSH/FRWAY/CAYSL EXPECT A REROUTE VIA OMN J79 TRV AND TRV TRANSITION. REROUTES FOR "AR" ROUTES WILL BE CONTAINED IN FAA ATC COMMAND CENTER ADVISORY. BECAUSE OF THE INDEFINITE OPENING TIME, SOME AIRLINE OPS ARE REROUTING FLTS UNNECESSARILY.
EXCEPTING THE KZNY REQUEST ABV ALL FLTS WITH ROUTES THAT WOULD NORMALLY TRANSIT THROUGH OCEANIC OP AREAS DURING OP WINDOW 1908080944 THRU 1908081214 SHOULD FILE THEIR NORMAL ROUTE BUT PLAN ON RECEIVING REROUTE FM ATC.
KZMA WILL REROUTE ONLY THOSE FLTS NECESSARY TO CLEAR THE AFFECTED AREAS WHILE IN USE. EXPECT THE FOLLOWING INTL REROUTES:
L375-435   NON-RNP 4/10 ONLY: DUNIG DCT 2823N06648W DCT BRKZZ
L452      GTK L451 LETON 2800N07240W WILYY L452
L453   MACKI DCT LETON 2800N07240W ALOBI L453
L454   ELMUC L451 LETON 2800N07240W PERDO L454
L455   JANMA M597 THANK L458 TALSU L459 SAVOL L455
L456   THANK L458 TALSU L459 DARUS M329     ZQA CNNOR M328 BDA
M330   ENAMO DCT CNNOR M328 BDA
M331   ACMEE DCT LAMER DCT BRKZZ DCT NUMBR
M593   ZQA DCT RENAH DCT LUCTI DCT AMENO
M595   ENAMO/DUNNO DCT LUCTI DCT AYTTE
Y585.   OMN J79 TRV CVIKK AND REVERSE.
SFC - UNL, 08 AUG 07:44 2019 UNTIL 08 AUG 12:14 2019.
CREATED: 06 AUG 20:04 2019


A1208/19 - STNR ALT RESERVATION CAPE ATC ASSIGNED AIRSPACE ACT FOR A ROCKET LAUNCH.
MIAMI CENTER WILL NOT APPROVE IFR FLIGHTS AND VFR SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS
2847N08050W TO 2847N08021W TO 2847N07950W TO 2825N07950W TO
2825N08030W TO 2825N08041W TO 2831N08044W TO 2838N08047W TO
POINT OF ORIGIN.
THIS ALT RESERVATION ENCOMPASSES PORTIONS OF R2933, R2934, AND W497A.
SFC - FL180, 08 AUG 07:44 2019 UNTIL 08 AUG 12:14 2019.
CREATED: 06 AUG 20:06 2019

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Цитировать Tory Bruno‏ Подлинная учетная запись @torybruno 2 ч. назад
Our team is in place to tank RP1. Stopped yesterday by lightning (bad luck to handle rocket fuel in a thunderstorm). Everyone think non-charged thoughts...  #AEHF5


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ЦитироватьAug 07, 2019 14:49
Atlas RP-1 loading begins

Fueling of the Atlas V first stage is underway at Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41. The launch team is pumping 25,000 gallons of RP-1 fuel, a highly refined kerosene, into the rocket.