A-ONE: Cygnus Mass Simulator, Dove 1, PhoneSat х3 - Antares-110 - MARS LP-0A - 21.04.2013 21:00 UTC

[SpaceR]

Это уже с учётом задержки из-за урагана?

[Salo]

Свеженькое.

[SpaceR]

"Нэ успэет" (с)
Там ещё ни проливочных не было, ни огневых. А нужно ещё время на анализ их результатов и отчеты для NASA.
Имхо пуск не раньше января.

[Salo]

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/stp/small_satellite_subsystem_tech/phonesat.html

PhoneSat Flight Demonstrations

NASA's Smartphone Nanosatellite


PhoneSat 1.0 design......................PhoneSat 1.0


PhoneSat 1.0......................PhoneSat 1.0 during high-altitude balloon test


PhoneSat 1.0 ground testing......................PhoneSat 1.0 assembly


NASA's PhoneSat project will demonstrate the ability to launch the lowest-cost and easiest to build satellites ever flown in space – capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones to build spacecraft.

A small team of engineers working on NASA's PhoneSat at the agency's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., aim to rapidly evolve satellite architecture and incorporate the Silicon Valley approach of "release early, release often" to small spacecraft.

To achieve this, NASA's PhoneSat design makes extensive use of commercial-off-the-shelf components, including an unmodified, consumer-grade smartphone. Out of the box smartphones already offer a wealth of capabilities needed for satellite systems, including fast processors, versatile operating systems, multiple miniature sensors, high-resolution cameras, GPS receivers, and several radios.

NASA engineers kept the total cost of the components to build each of the three prototype satellites in the PhoneSat project to $3,500 by using only commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and keeping the design and mission objectives to a minimum for the first flight.

NASA PhoneSat engineers also are changing the way missions are designed by rapidly prototyping and incorporating existing commercial technologies and hardware. This approach allows engineers to see what capabilities commercial technologies can provide, rather than trying to custom-design technology solutions to meet set requirements. Engineers can rapidly upgrade the entire satellite's capabilities and add new features for each future generation of PhoneSats.

Each NASA PhoneSat nanosatellite is one standard CubeSat unit in size and weighs less than four pounds. A CubeSat is a miniaturized satellite in the shape of a cube that measures approximately 4 inches (10 cm).

PhoneSat 1.0
Flies low-cost consumer electronics in space

NASA's prototype smartphone satellite, known as PhoneSat 1.0, is built around the Nexus One smartphone made by HTC Corp., running Google's Android operating system. The Nexus One acts as the spacecraft onboard computer. Sensors determine the orientation of the spacecraft while the smartphone's camera can be used for Earth observations. Commercial-off-the-shelf parts include a watchdog circuit that monitors the systems and reboots the phone if it stops sending radio signals.

NASA's PhoneSat 1.0 satellite has a basic mission goal–to stay alive in space for a short period of time, sending back digital imagery of Earth and space via its camera, while also sending back information about the satellite's health.

To prepare for such a mission, NASA has successfully tested PhoneSat 1.0 in various extreme environments, including thermal-vacuum chambers, vibration and shock tables, sub-orbital rocket flights and high-altitude balloons.

PhoneSat 2.0
Additional features, more capabilities

NASA's PhoneSat 2.0 will equip a newer Nexus S smartphone made by Samsung Electronics running Google's Android operating system to provide a faster core processor, avionics and gyroscopes.

PhoneSat 2.0 also will supplement the capabilities of PhoneSat 1.0 by adding a two-way S-band radio to allow engineers to command the satellite from Earth, solar panels to enable longer-duration missions, and a GPS receiver. In addition, PhoneSat 2.0 will add magnetorquer coils – electro-magnets that interact with Earth's magnetic field – and reaction wheels to actively control the satellite's orientation in space.

The Future of PhoneSat

NASA's PhoneSat 2.0 will lay the foundation for new capabilities for small-sized satellites while advancing breakthrough technologies and decreasing costs of future small spacecraft.

By building on NASA's PhoneSat 2.0 architecture, mission designers could more affordably accomplish the following kinds of future missions:

Using distributed sensors to conduct Heliophysics missions.

Expected to launch in 2013, NASA's upcoming Edison Demonstration of Small Satellite Networks mission-part of the Small Spacecraft Technology Program-will demonstrate the possibility of conducting heliophysics measurements using small spacecraft.

Qualifying new technologies and components for space flight
Conducting low-cost Earth observations
Exploring the moon and beyond

Three NASA PhoneSats systems (two PhoneSat 1.0's and one PhoneSat 2.0) are scheduled to launch aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va., later this year.

The PhoneSat project is a small spacecraft technology demonstration mission funded by NASA's Space Technology Program which is managed by the Office of the Chief Technologist. The Space Technology Program develops and matures broadly applicable technology essential for scientific, robotic, and human exploration beyond low Earth orbit, ensures the agency's technology portfolio contains both the near-term mission-driven and long-range transformative technology required to meet our nation's exploration and science goals, and advances revolutionary concepts and capabilities, lowering development costs and reducing risk for NASA missions by engaging NASA Centers, small businesses, academia, industry, other Government agencies and international partners.

[Salo]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/nov/HQ_12-396_PhoneSat_Wins.html

David E. Steitz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1730
david.steitz@nasa.gov
 
Rachel Hoover
Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
650-604-4789
rachel.hoover@nasa.gov
 
Nov. 14, 2012
 
RELEASE : 12-396
 
 
NASA'S Phonesat Wins 2012 Popular Science Best of What's New Award
 
 
WASHINGTON -- NASA's PhoneSat project has won Popular Science's 2012 Best of What's New Award for innovation in aerospace. PhoneSat will demonstrate the ability to launch one of the lowest-cost, easiest-to-build satellites ever flown in space -- capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones.

Each year, Popular Science reviews thousands of new products and innovations, and chooses the top 100 winners across 12 categories for its annual Best of What's New issue. To win, a product or technology must represent a significant step forward in its category. All of the winners will be featured in the December special issue of the magazine.

"NASA's PhoneSat mission will demonstrate use of small satellites for space commerce, educational activities and citizen-exploration are well within the reach of ordinary Americans because of lower cost, commercially available components," said Michael Gazarik, director of NASA's Space Technology Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Thanks to America's continuing investment in space technology to enable NASA missions, we've seen space tech brought down and into our lives here on Earth. With PhoneSat, we're doubling up, and taking those same great technologies back to space."

NASA's PhoneSat 1.0 satellite has a basic mission goal -- to function in space for a short period of time, sending back digital imagery of Earth and space via its camera, while also sending back information about the satellite's health.

NASA engineers kept the total cost of the components to build each of the three prototype satellites in the PhoneSat project to $3,500 by using only commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and establishing minimum design and mission objectives for the first flight.

Each NASA PhoneSat 'nanosatellite' is a 4-inch cube and weighs three pounds. NASA's PhoneSat design makes extensive use of an unmodified, consumer-grade smartphone. Out-of-the-box smartphones offer capabilities needed for satellites, including fast processors, versatile operating systems, multiple miniature sensors, high-resolution cameras, GPS receivers, and several radios.

"NASA PhoneSat engineers are changing the way missions are designed by rapidly prototyping and incorporating existing commercial technologies and hardware," said S. Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., where a small team of engineers developed and built PhoneSat. "This approach allows engineers to see what capabilities commercial technologies can provide, rather than trying to custom-design technology solutions to meet set requirements."

NASA's prototype smartphone satellite, known as PhoneSat 1.0, is built around the Nexus One smartphone made by HTC Corp., which runs Google's Android operating system. The Nexus One acts as the spacecraft's onboard computer. Commercial-off-the-shelf parts include an open-source, micro controller adapted as a watchdog circuit that monitors the systems and reboots the phone if it stops sending radio signals.

NASA's PhoneSat 2.0 will lay the foundation for new capabilities for small-sized satellites, while advancing breakthrough technologies and decreasing costs of future small spacecraft. PhoneSat 2.0 will be equipped with an updated Nexus S smartphone made by Samsung Electronics which runs Google's Android operating system to provide a faster core processor, avionics and gyroscopes.

PhoneSat 2.0 will supplement the capabilities of PhoneSat 1.0 by adding solar panels to enable longer-duration missions and a GPS receiver. In addition, PhoneSat 2.0 also will add magnetorquer coils -- electro-magnets that interact with Earth's magnetic field -- as well as reaction wheels to actively control the satellite's orientation in space.

A beta version of PhoneSat 2.0 will accompany two PhoneSat 1.0 spacecraft aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va., in the coming months.

The PhoneSat project is a technology demonstration mission funded by NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology Program, which is managed by NASA's Space Technology Program. NASA's Space Technology Program is innovating, developing, testing, and flying technology for use in NASA's future missions and by the greater aerospace community.

For more information about PhoneSat, visit:

http://go.nasa.gov/ZoNxpg

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/article/no-antares-flight-until-2013-orbital-nasa-say#.UKdbxWfvqBg

No Antares Flight Until 2013, Orbital, NASA Say

Nov. 16, 2012

Orbital Sciences Corp. likely will wait until after the new year to launch its Antares rocket for the first time, a NASA official said Nov. 15.

[Salo]

Космос-3794 пишет:

No Antares Flight Until 2013, Orbital, NASA Say
By SpaceNews Staff | Nov. 16, 2012
Orbital Sciences Corp. likely will wait until after the new year to launch its Antares rocket for the first time, a NASA official said Nov. 15.Antares' maiden flight, which will carry a ballast payload instead of Orbital's Cygnus space station cargo carrier, is "very tentatively scheduled for December [but] I think it's more likely that will slip into early 2013," Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at NASA headquarters, said at a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council's Human Exploration and Operations Committee. The delay, according to a company source, is due to ongoing cleanup work from Hurricane Sandy, which slammed the U.S. East Coast in late October. The first Antares safely rode out the storm on its launch pad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The pad sustained no damage but got drenched in the storm, Orbital and spaceport officials said. Drying the pad off will add about two weeks to Orbital's schedule, this source said, pushing a 30-second hot-fire test originally scheduled for Nov. 30 into December and likely pushing the maiden flight into 2013.McAlister said that if all goes well on the first flight of Antares, its demonstration flight to the international space station could take place three months later. William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, lauded Orbital for making "significant progress" despite "some hurricane problems."Gerstenmaier added that the delays pose no logistical threat to space station operations because Orbital would be carrying non-essential cargo on its demonstration flight.

http://www.spacenews.com/article/no-antares-flight-until-2013-orbital-nasa-say#.UKdSnIc3bQI

[Salo]

NET December 17 - Cygnus Mass Simulator, Dove 1, PhoneSat v1a, PhoneSat v1b, PhoneSat v1c - Antares-110 - MARS LP-0A (or early 2013)

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/dove-1.htm

Dove 1, 2

The Dove-1 mission is a technology demonstration nanosatellite based on the triple CubeSat form factor:

The goal of the mission is:

    build a low-cost imaging satellite with non-space, COTS components;
    to show that a bus constrained to the 3U cubesat form factor can viably host a small camera payload; and
    demonstrate the ability to design, produce and operate satellites on short schedules and low cost.

Dove-1 will do this by transmitting health and image data to the ground.

The satellite will be launchd as a secondary payload on the maiden flight of the Antares-110 launch vehicle in 2012.

The Dove 2 mission is also an internal company technology demonstration experiment to test the capabilities of a low-cost spacecraft constrained to the 3U cubesat form factor to host a small payload. It will be launched in 2012 as a piggyback payload on a Soyuz-2-1b launch.

Nation:    USA
Type / Application:    Technology
Operator:    Cosmogia Inc.
Contractors:    
Equipment:    
Configuration:    CubeSat (3U)
Propulsion:    none
Power:    Solar cells, batteries
Lifetime:    ~14 days (#1); ~180 days (#2)
Mass:    5.5 kg
Orbit:    280 km × 270 km, 51.6° (#1); 290 km × 575 km, 64.9° (#2)


http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/phonesat-v1.htm

PhoneSat v1

PhoneSat v1 is a technology demonstration mission consisting of three 1U CubeSats intended to prove that a smartphone can be used to perform many of the functions required of a spacecraft bus.

The satellite is built around the Nexus smartphone which will be running the Android operating system and will be enclosed in a standard 1U cubesat structure. The main function of the phone is to act as the Onboard Computer, but the mission will also utilize the phone's SD card for data storage, 5MP camera for Earth Observation, and 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis magnetometer for attitude determination.

One of the nanosatellites, powered by the HTC Nexus One smartphone, will send back pictures of Earth. The other two, running on the Samsung Nexus S, will have two-way S-band radio allowing them to be controlled from Earth.

With a short lifetime of only about one week, the satellites have no solar cells and operate on battery only.

Three of these satellites will be launchd as a secondary payload on the maiden flight of the Antares-110 launch vehicle in 2012.

Nation:    USA
Type / Application:    Technology
Operator:    NASA Ames Research Center
Contractors:    NASA Ames Research Center
Equipment:    
Configuration:    CubeSat (1U)
Propulsion:    none
Power:    Batteries
Lifetime:    7 days
Mass:    1 kg
Orbit:

[Salo]

Dove 1 Satellite Technical Description :
https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=121393&x=.

Cosmogia Dove-1 Orbital Debris Assessment Report (ODAR)
https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.html?id=122025&x=.

[Salo]

http://smdconf.com/Worden%20Morning%20Keynote%20Speaker.pdf

[instml]

Пока что теплится еще надежда на 12.12

[Посторонний]

На официальном сайте американского агентства NASA следующие сведения:

Updated - Dec. 7, 2012 at 3:30 p.m. EST
 

2012 Launches

Date: December 19
 Assembly Flight: 33S
 Mission: Expedition 34/35
 Launch Vehicle: Soyuz TMA-07M
 Launch Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
 Description: Soyuz TMA-07M will carry three Expedition 34/35 crew members to the International Space Station.

 Date: Late 2012
 Mission: Orbital Sciences Corporation Test Flight
 Launch Vehicle: Antares
 Launch Site: Wallops Flight Facility, Va.
 Launch Pad: 0A
 Description: The Antares is scheduled for a test flight under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services agreement with the company.

Возможно, в этом году состоится запуск. Хотя маловероятно. Скорее всего в следующем году, так как "на носу" праздники.

[Salo]

Планы пусков посмотрите.

[Посторонний]

Salo пишет:
Планы пусков посмотрите.  

А с чем связана задержка?

[Salo]

С чем не знаю, но ни ХСИ, ни ОСИ до сих пор не было.

[Salo]

начало января-начало марта - Cygnus Mass Simulator, Dove 1, PhoneSat v1a, PhoneSat v1b, PhoneSat v1c - Antares-110 - MARS LP-0A

[Посторонний]

Salo пишет:
С чем не знаю, но ни ХСИ, ни ОСИ до сих пор не было.

А вдруг вложатся в график в течение двух недель.    С 25 декабря у них начнутся праздники.
Поживём-увидим. Хотя чудес не бывает. Или бывают, но крайне редко.

[Salo]

Пуск примерно через месяц после ОСИ.

[Salo]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=15457.msg991382#msg991382

smith5se пишет:

Tanking test (test 3 of 4) for Antares this weekend, well Friday. :-)

[Атака Гризли]

Кстати, а почему это в пилотируемых полетах?