Cygnus NG-15 (CRS-15), IT-Spins - Antares-230+ - Wallops FF, MARS LP-0A - 20.02.2021 17:36 UTC

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zandr

Цитировать02/20/2021 20:52  Stephen Clark Stephen Clark
Here's a picture of the Antares launch from a viewing site a couple of miles away.
Credit: Alex Polimeni / Spaceflight Now

zandr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XNTIaGJwPE
Цитироватьhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XNTIaGJwPE 7:21
NG-15 Antares 230+ launches S.S. Katherine Johnson Cygnus

К.А.

У Лебедя хорошее соотношение доставляемого груза к общей массе корабля. Прогресс проигрывает в этом, но у него тоже есть свои плюсики.

Игорь Годунов

Цитата: Сергей Георгиевич Петропавловский от 20.02.2021 20:57:15
Цитата: Игорь Годунов от 20.02.2021 20:54:50А она всегда так вихляет при старте?

Тоже показалось. Обман зрения?
Посмотрел предыдущий пуск, вроде бы чуть меньше, но то же самое. Очевидно маневр увода от СК.

zandr

ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell  @planet4589
13 min after launch of Cygnus, at 1250 UTC, nine small satellites were scheduled to be released from the Antares second stage. Each of these satellites consists of several boxes called ThinSats connected by cables; 30 ThinSats are used in the set of 9 satellites

zandr

ЦитироватьSpaceflight Now  @SpaceflightNow
An Antares launcher rocketed into orbit Saturday from Virginia, deploying a Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship carrying 4.2 tons of cargo to the International Space Station, the the most massive payload ever flown to the outpost on a commercial freighter.

zandr

https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/02/20/antares-rocket-launches-heavy-cargo-load-to-international-space-station/
ЦитироватьAntares rocket launches heavy cargo load to International Space Station
February 20, 2021 Stephen Clark
An Antares launcher rocketed into orbit Saturday from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, deploying a Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply ship carrying nearly 8,400 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station, the the most massive collection of payloads ever flown to the research outpost on a U.S. commercial freighter.
The Antares rocket lit its two Russian-made RD-181 engines and took off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, at 12:36:50 p.m. EST (1736:50 GMT) Saturday. The on-time launch was the 14th flight by an Antares rocket and the 16th mission by a Cygnus cargo ship, which Northrop Grumman named the S.S. Katherine Johnson after the trailblazing NASA mathematician portrayed in "Hidden Figures."
Burning a mix of kerosene and liquid oxygen, the RD-181 engines steered the 139-foot-tall (42.5-meter) Antares rocket over the Atlantic Ocean on a trajectory to line up with the orbit of the space station. Between three and four minutes after liftoff, the Antares shed its first stage and payload shroud, giving way to the rocket's solid-fueled Castor 30XL upper stage to complete a nearly three-minute burn to enter orbit.
The 17,723-pound (8,039-kilogram) Cygnus cargo ship separated from the Antares rocket nearly nine minutes into the mission, ready for its nearly two-day pursuit of the space station.
The Cygnus was scheduled to unfurl its two fan-shaped solar arrays to begin generating electricity a couple of hours after launch. A series of thruster firings will position the cargo freighter near the space station early Monday for a final approach, culminating in capture of the Cygnus with the space station's robotic arm around 4:40 a.m. EST (0940 GMT).
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will operate the station's Canadian-built robotic arm to grapple the Cygnus cargo craft. The space station soared more than 250 miles, or 400 kilometers, over the Wallops launch base minutes before liftoff of the Antares rocket, and Noguchi tweeted a spectacular photo of Virginia's Eastern Shore, showing the region covered by scattered clouds, and a blanket of snow to the west.
Northrop Grumman names its Cygnus supply ships after pioneers in spaceflight. The Cygnus flying on the NG-15 mission is named for Katherine Johnson, a mathematician whose trajectory calculations were critical to the success of NASA's earliest space missions.
"It's our tradition to name each Cygnus after an individual who's played a pivotal role in human spaceflight, and Mrs. Johnson was selected for her hand-written calculations that helped launch the first Americans into space, as well as her accomplishments in breaking glass ceiling after glass ceiling as a Black woman," said Frank DeMauro, vice president and general manager for tactical space at Northrop Grumman.
The NG-15 mission's cargo load adds up to 8,399 pounds, or 3,810 kilograms, including packaging and unpressurized equipment to assist in the deployment of several CubeSats at the end of the flight. That's more than any previous commercial cargo mission to the space station....

zandr

Не очень понятна разница между выведенной ПН 4200 кг (пред-предыдущий пост) и доставляемыми на МКС 3810 кг грузов. 390 кг - многовато для микроспутников!

Theoristos

Цитата: Игорь  Годунов от 20.02.2021 21:49:08Посмотрел предыдущий пуск, вроде бы чуть меньше, но то же самое. Очевидно маневр увода от СК.
Да, предзаклон камер.
Вначале было больше )

Theoristos

Цитата: zandr от 20.02.2021 23:13:02Не очень понятна разница между выведенной ПН 4200 кг (пред-предыдущий пост) и доставляемыми на МКС 3810 кг грузов. 390 кг - многовато для микроспутников!
М-м... топливо?

Гермиона


zandr

ЦитироватьNorthrop Grumman  @northropgrumman
We've confirmed that the solar arrays are fully deployed on the S.S. Katherine Johnson #Cygnus.
СБ раскрылись.

Цитата: zandr от 20.02.2021 23:06:31The Antares rocket lit its two Russian-made RD-181 engines and took off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, at 12:36:50 p.m. EST (1736:50 GMT) Saturday. The on-time launch was the 14th flight by an Antares rocket and the 16th mission by a Cygnus cargo ship, which Northrop Grumman named the S.S. Katherine Johnson after the trailblazing NASA mathematician portrayed in "Hidden Figures."

Ракета Antares, стартовавшая на  двух двигателях РД-181 российского производства, взлетела с Среднеатлантического регионального космодрома на острове Уоллопс, штат Вирджиния, в 12:36:50 (по московскому времени 20:36:51) в субботу. Запуск был 14-м полетом ракеты Antares и 16-й миссией грузового корабля Cygnus, который Northrop Grumman назвал S.S. Katherine Johnson в честь первопроходца математика НАСА, изображенного в «Скрытых фигурах».

Наши, наши "движочки"!
1. Поддерживаю ВКС, Армию и Флот России!
2.  Создание КРК Ангара -доказывает, что Россия  способна на многое.

zandr

ЦитироватьJonathan McDowell  @planet4589
Note that J-SSOD-16 with Guaranisat (Paraguay), Maya-2 (Phillippines) and Tsuru (Kyutech) also aboard

triage

Цитата: zandr от 20.02.2021 23:13:02Не очень понятна разница между выведенной ПН 4200 кг (пред-предыдущий пост) и доставляемыми на МКС 3810 кг грузов. 390 кг - многовато для микроспутников!
возможно
Цитата: undefinedOther hardware inside the Cygnus supply ship includes ... and tanks of air to recharge the breathable atmosphere inside the space lab.


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Several small nanosatellites are stowed aboard the Cygnus cargo craft for release into orbit in the coming months.

The Gunsmoke-J technology demonstration satellite is a 3U CubeSat for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, which aims to prove the usefulness of an Earth-imaging payload for tactical use by military combat troops.

"This science and technology effort will provide new and advanced capabilities to the tactical warfighters in a small satellite that is about the size of a loaf of bread," the Army said in a press release last year. "The effort will also help inform future acquisition decisions."

The Gunsmoke-J satellite and two other small satellites for unspecified U.S. government customers launched inside the Cygnus spacecraft's pressurized module. Before the craft departs the International Space Station later this year, astronauts will place the satellites on rail deployer on the Cygnus hatch for separation after the freighter leaves the complex.

Spaceflight, the Seattle-based rideshare launch broker, arranged launch services for the Gunsmoke-J and the two other U.S. government satellites.

Several other CubeSats are also aboard the Cygnus cargo freighter.

One is named IT-SPINS, and it will collect images of the ionosphere over the night side of the Earth during a six-month research mission. The IT-SPINS CubeSat, about the size of a toaster oven, was developed at Montana State University.

A CubeSat named DhabiSat was developed by students at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. Students developed the CubeSat with help from Yahsat, a communications satellite company in Abu Dhabi, and Northrop Grumman.

Paraguay's first satellite, a CubeSat known as GuaraniSat 1, also launched Saturday. Paraguay's space agency says the CubeSat was developed in partnership with engineers in Japan and universities and research centers in Paraguay.
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zandr

Цитата: undefinedJonathan McDowell  @planet4589
Initial TLEs for the S.S. Katherine Johnson and the Antares second stage show them in 170 x 320 km  and 184 x 340 km orbits.

zandr

Цитата: triage от 21.02.2021 09:24:06Микроспутники из статьи которые не вошли в копи-пасту
Т.е. 390 кг микроспутников? Или, таки, в доле с топливом?
И, нигде не попалось, сколько же попутчиков ВСЕГО?

triage

Цитата: zandr от 21.02.2021 09:36:03
Цитата: triage от 21.02.2021 09:24:06Микроспутники из статьи которые не вошли в копи-пасту
Т.е. 390 кг микроспутников? Или, таки, в доле с топливом?
там было про воздух который занимает объем, но весит не много.

А микроспутники не были приведены в теме, хотя были в статье.

ЦитироватьИ, нигде не попалось, сколько же попутчиков ВСЕГО?
Не искал.

zandr

#58
Кое-что было #13
Цитата: undefinedA few minutes after releasing the Cygnus spacecraft to fly to the space station, the Antares rocket will deploy 30 tiny student-built "ThinSats" from containers on the second stage. Each ThinSat is about the size of a slice of bread, and were integrated with sensors, transmitters, and circuit boards by students ranging in age from 4th grade to college from 13 states and the District of Columbia.
#44 - или 30 шт., или 9 - как считать?
Они на второй ступени, но возможно, тоже считаются выведенной ПН.

Владимир Юрченко

Цитата: zandr от 20.02.2021 23:13:02Не очень понятна разница между выведенной ПН 4200 кг (пред-предыдущий пост) и доставляемыми на МКС 3810 кг грузов. 390 кг - многовато для микроспутников!

А топливо для маневрирования.