Суборбитальные пуски (научные и экспериментальные)

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ASPIRE 3

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 26 мин. назад

The ASPIRE III mission has successfully lifted off at 9:30 a.m. EDT and the payload has successfully separated.

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ASPIRE 3

Есть подтверждение отделения ПН. Парашют выпущен (правый верхний угол снимков)

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ASPIRE 3

NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 28 мин. назад

Confirmed: The parachute has deployed, wrapping up three successful tests of the ASPIRE mission parachute. A recovery boat has been sent to retrieve the rocket. The parachute will then be closely inspected by research teams.

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ASPIRE 3

Трансляция завершена

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ASPIRE 3

Запись трансляции пуска на UStream (36:06) - 

https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.9040-29/10000000_1120521384777681_1005229175709106176_n.mp4?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InNkIn0%3D&oh=c56602cf27fd71363339e416e2a0171e&oe=5B92B85C

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FOXSI

NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 38 мин. назад

Thanks for following along with us! Stay tuned for photos from our high-speed remote cameras. Our next launch is in just a few hours from White Sands, New Mexico. The FOXSI mission launches at 1:15 p.m. EDT.

17:15 UTC

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ASPIRE 3

Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 41 мин. назад

NASA launched the ASPIRE 3 sounding rocket to test a Mars entry parachute at 1330 UTC Sep 7. The Black Brant 9 rocket flight NASA 36.328NR sent the payload up to 51 km in the mesosphere.

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NASA Wallops‏Подлинная учетная запись @NASA_Wallops 11 мин. назад

We've got a sounding rocket doubleheader today! The ASPIRE III mission successfully conducted a parachute test for future Mars missions, and at 1:15 p.m. EDT, the FOXSI mission will take a look at the Sun with its X-ray vision.
: NASA/Jamie Adkins

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https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2018/feature/mars-parachute-test-launches-from-wallops

Sept. 7, 2018

Mars Parachute Test Launches from Wallops

A parachute test for a possible future mission to Mars was successfully launched on a NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket at 9:30 a.m., Friday, Sep. 7, from the agency's Wallops Flight Facility.


ASPIRE 3 Test was successfully conducted at 9:30 a.m. EDT today.
Credits: NASA/Patrick Black

The rocket carried the rocket carried the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California.

The payload descended by parachute and splashed-down in the Atlantic Ocean 28 miles from Wallops Island. Recovery of the payload is in progress. After recovery it will be returned to Wallops for data retrieval and inspection. The parachute was successfully recovered and returned to Wallops for data retrieval and inspection.

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The payload is a bullet-nosed, cylindrical structure holding a supersonic parachute, the parachute's deployment mechanism, and the test's high-definition instrumentation -- including cameras -- to record data.

ASPIRE is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, with support from NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. NASA's Sounding Rocket Program is based at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility. NASA's Heliophysics Division manages the sounding-rocket program for the agency.

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Image Caption: ASPIRE 3 Black Brant IX stage one separation. Credit: NASA/Patrick Black.

Keith Koehler
NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

Last Updated: Sept. 7, 2018
Editor: Patrick Black

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FOXSI 3

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-funded-rocket-to-view-sun-with-x-ray-vision

UPDATE - 3 p.m., EDT, Sep. 7, 2018: The Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) was successfully launched on a NASA Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket at 1:21 p.m. EDT (11:21 a.m. MDT) from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The payload flew to an altitude of 189 miles before descending by parachute. The payload is being recovered. The science team reported that good data was obtained during the flight.

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FOXSI 3

Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 3 ч. назад

NASA launched flight 36.325US with the U of Minnesota's @foxsirocket3 solar physics payload at 1721 UTC from White Sands.

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ASPIRE 3

ASPIRE 3 launched by Terrier-Black Brant IX

SciNews

Опубликовано: 7 сент. 2018 г.

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FOXSI 3

Black Brant IX onboard camera on NASA's FOXSI mission

SciNews

Опубликовано: 14 сент. 2018 г.

A Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket launched NASA's Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, on 7 September 2018, at 17:21 UTC (13:21 EDT). FOXSI reached an altitude of about 189 miles to search for nanoflares on the Sun using its X-ray vision. The video was filmed by a camera at the bottom of the payload.

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https://ria.ru/science/20180927/1529490318.html

Норвегия запустила в космос первую ракету собственного производства
17:21 27.09.2018


© Фото : Nammo AS

КИРКЕНЕС (Норвегия), 27 сен – РИА Новости. Норвегия в четверг произвела запуск в космос первой полностью разработанной и произведенной в стране ракеты, стоимость которой составляет примерно 10,5 миллионов евро, сообщила телекомпания NRK.

"Первая ракета, полностью разработанная и произведенная в Норвегии, запущена в космос из космического центра Андойя. Запуск произведен успешно", — сообщает телекомпания.

Отмечается, что ракета была запущена в 14.17 по местному времени (13.17 мск), на ней установлен двигатель, созданный норвежской компанией Nammo. Ранее на всех остальных ракетах устанавливались двигатели иностранного производства.

"На первый взгляд, то, что мы видим – что все прошло успешно", — сообщил телекомпании начальник отдела космического центра Кулбьорн Бликс.

Ракета пролетела 107 километров над морем и пересекла границу атмосферы и космического пространства.

"В общей сложности стоимость разработки и запуска ракеты составила 100 миллионов крон (около 10,5 миллионов евро)", — приводит данные телекомпания. Это также первая в Европе ракета с гибридным двигателем, который использует и жидкое, и твердое топливо.

Вес ракеты — 800 кг, длина — 9 метров, однако находиться на орбите она не сможет из-за слишком маленьких размеров. Предполагается, что ракета безопасно упадет в море.

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Ретроспективно к #555

NOTMAR

HYDROARC 231/2018 (43)

NORWEGIAN SEA.
NORWAY.
DNC 21, DNC 22.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   0800Z TO 1600Z DAILY 17 SEP THRU 03 OCT:
   A. IN AREA WITHIN 36 MILES OF 70-42.9N 013-35.9E.
   B. IN AREA BOUND BY
   70-10.3N 014-28.0E, 70-11.7N 014-34.7E,
   69-18.7N 016-04.0E, 69-17.7N 016-01.2E,
   69-17.3N 015-57.0E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 031700Z OCT 18.

( 120849Z SEP 2018 )

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Nammo Nucleus

Andoya Space Center‏ @AndoyaSpace 4 ч. назад

Successful launch of the Nucleus vehicle. Apogee 107 kilometers. Motor and payload performed successfully. Congratulations to the entire launch crew. Launch photo by Trond Abrahamsen, ASC




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Press release from ASC after the successful mission of Nucleus: https://www.andoyaspace.no/2018/09/27/nucleus-successful-mission/ ... Photo by Magnus Nesset, ASC

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Nammo‏ @Nammo 25 сент.

The official mission patch for the #NucleusLaunch @esa @AndoyaSpace

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Nammo Nucleus

ESA‏Подлинная учетная запись @esa 37 мин. назад

Norway's first hybrid rocket reached space today, demonstrating new hybrid #propulsion technology for a cleaner, safer, more flexible method of powering small launch vehicles. Nucleus was designed and built by @Nammo with @esa_sts. Read more: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Transportation/Norway_takes_the_lead_in_hybrid_propulsion ...

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https://www.andoyaspace.no/2018/09/27/nucleus-successful-mission/

Nucleus: Successful Mission
27.09, 2018
 
On Thursday 27 September Nammo successfully completed the first launch of Nucleus, a sounding rocket powered by its new hybrid rocket motor.

Nucleus launched at 14:16, local time, from Andøya Space Center in Northern Norway, and reached an altitude of 107.4 km. That made it not only the first rocket powered by a Norwegian motor design to cross the Karman line, the commonly recognized border to space, but also the first European hybrid rocket motor to do so in more than 50 years.

"This is a tremendous achievement, and we are really proud of the entire space team. We have invested a lot of time and effort in this project, and it was such a great experience to finally watch it take off earlier today" said Morten Brandtzæg, president & CEO of the Nammo Group.

 The launch was also welcomed by the Norwegian government.

"The Nucleus launch is a manifestation of the know-how and technological prowess of Norwegian industry. I congratulate Nammo and Andøya Space Center on bringing Norwegian space technology a huge step forward," said Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr. Torbjørn Røe Isaksen.

The Hybrid Rocket Motor powering Nucleus has been developed by Nammo at Raufoss in Norway, and could potentially power a whole new generation of smaller European launch vehicles.

"Even though hybrid rockets have been around since the thirties, a number of technical challenges have remained. We are proud that we have been able to solve these, and get the concept to work for the first time", said Adrien Boiron, lead engineer on the Nucleus project.

 Nucleus is a sounding rocket, designed to lift scientific instruments into the upper layers of the atmosphere. The hybrid rocket motor propelling it, however, can be scaled up lift a wide range of payload, including small satellites into low earth orbit.

"For this specific flight, Nucleus carried 3 technical experiments aloft. The most important one being the ASC/UiO 4D-SPACE module loaded with its 6 daughter payloads. During flight, the daughters were released 2 at the time when the rocket passes 60 km altitude. They measured small-scale plasma structures and transmitted data back to the main 4D-Space module. In addition we also tested a newly ASC developed pyrotechnical system and an inertial unit (IMU) from Sensor AS", said Kolbjørn Blix, Director of Space Systems at Andøya Space Center.

Nammo is hoping that the new propulsion technology demonstrated with Nucleus will be able to power future launch vehicles for small satellites.

"Over the next few years there are plans to launch thousands of small satellites. The benefit of our new hybrid rocket motor is they can lift them into orbit with the accuracy of a liquid fueled engine, but without the associated risks and costs, making it ideal for smaller European launch sites," said Onno Verberne, Nammo's VP of Business Development for space.

 Today, only a sel ect few nations – Russia, India, China, USA, France and Japan – have the capacity to build launch vehicles for satellites and send them into space fr om home bases. If the technology demonstrated in the Nucleus is successful, Norway has the potential to join them.

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Facts about Nucleus
 The Nucleus rocket was 9 meters long and had a total weight of around 800kg. The motor gave a thrust of 30KN (3 tons). The planned future version of the engine would give 75-100 KN of thrust.

Point of Contact
 Mr Kolbjørn Blix, head of the ASC Space Systems dept.
 kolbjorn@andoyaspace.no
 +47 76 14 44 00
Launch Photos

 



Illustrations
 Nucleus in flight mode
 Annotated illustration of Nucleus during payload deployment
 Release of the 4D daughters
 Illustration of flight events

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