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

[sychbird]

Поздравления команде поддержки от "Кузнецова".
НК - 33 вывел в космос чужие надежды.    

Южмашевцев тоже можно поздравить.

[Salo]

Нет повода не выпить!

[Salo]

B1_ пишет:
50 лет до успеха....

Скорее сорок.

[sychbird]

Присоединяюсь с энтузиазмом!

[Васил Жеков]

Salo пишет:

B1_ пишет:
50 лет до успеха....

Скорее сорок.

Дата первого испитания НК-15 -- Декабрь 1963 !

[Дем]

Liss пишет:
Анимация + живая телеметрия (ускорение, скорость, высота).

Камера на модуле сдохла, жаль - поэтому картинку с телеметрией и гнали.

По насатв пошли реплеи.

[max_schmurz]

Вот и Dove-1 на орбите следом за Dove-2, спустя всего полторы суток после запуска последнего

[Liss]

B1_ пишет:
Дата первого испитания НК-15 -- Декабрь 1963 !

Коллеги с NSF нашли фотографию AJ26 в цеху Orbital Sciences. Неизвестно, летный это двигатель или стендовый, но если я что-нибудь понимаю в заводских номерах, то он изготовлен в 1971 г.

[Salo]

B1_ пишет:

Salo пишет:

B1_ пишет:
50 лет до успеха....

Скорее сорок.

Дата первого испитания НК-15 -- Декабрь 1963 !

Это немного разные двигатели.

[Андрей Андреев]

Ребят, мне одному показалось, или ракету и правда при старте немного шатнуло в сторону от мачты?

[Salo]

SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013
2116 GMT (5:16 p.m. EDT)
Today's launch marks the first of 10 Antares missions planned over the next three years. Another launch this summer will haul Orbital's Cygnus cargo craft into orbit on a test flight to the International Space Station, then eight operational flights to the space station are planned through 2016.

SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013
2120 GMT (5:20 p.m. EDT)
This was the largest rocket ever launched by Wallops Flight Facility and Orbital Sciences.

[Theoristos]

Андрей Андреев пишет:
Ребят, мне одному показалось, или ракету и правда при старте немного шатнуло в сторону от мачты?

Ага. "Just as planned" :->

[Liss]

Еще один, 1974 года выпуска:

[igorvs]

ПОЗДРАВЛЕНИЯ ВСЕМ!

[Salo]

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/orbitalsciences-index.html

NASA PARTNER ORBITAL SCIENCES TEST LAUNCHES ANTARES ROCKET
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:26:33 AM GMT+0300

RELEASE: 13-114

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences
Corporation Sunday launched its Antares rocket at XX:XX p.m. EDT fr om
the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the agency's Wallops
Flight Facility in Virginia.

The test flight was the first launch from the pad at Wallops and was the
first flight of Antares, which delivered the equivalent mass of a
spacecraft, a so-called mass simulated payload, into Earth's orbit.

"Today's successful test marks another significant milestone in NASA's
plan to rely on American companies to launch supplies and astronauts to
the International Space Station, bringing this important work back to
the United States wh ere it belongs," said NASA Administrator Charles
Bolden. "Congratulations to Orbital Sciences and the NASA team that
worked alongside them for the picture-perfect launch of the Antares
rocket. In addition to providing further evidence that our strategic
space exploration plan is moving forward, this test also inaugurates
America's newest spaceport capable of launching to the space station,
opening up additional opportunities for commercial and government users.

"President Obama has presented a budget for next year that ensures the
United States will remain the world leader in space exploration, and a
critical part of this budget is the funding needed to advance NASA's
commercial space initiative. In order to stop outsourcing American space
launches, we need to have the President's budget enacted. It's a budget
that's good for our economy, good for the U.S. Space program -- and good
for American taxpayers."

The test of the Antares launch system began with the rocket's rollout
and placement on the launch pad April 6, and culminated with the
separation of the mass simulator payload from the rocket.

The completed flight paves the way for a demonstration mission by
Orbital to resupply the space station later this year. Antares will
launch experiments and supplies to the orbiting laboratory carried
aboard the company's new Cygnus cargo spacecraft through NASA's
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.

"Today's successful test flight of Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket from
the spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, demonstrates an additional
private space-launch capability for the United States and lays the
groundwork for the first Antares cargo mission to the International
Space Station later this year," said John Holdren, director of the
Office of Science and Technology Policy. "The growing potential of
America's commercial space industry and NASA's use of public-private
partnerships are central to President Obama's strategy to ensure U.S.
leadership in space exploration while pushing the bounds of scientific
discovery and innovation in the 21st century. With NASA focusing on the
challenging and exciting task of sending humans deeper into space than
ever before, private companies will be crucial in taking the baton for
American cargo and crew launches into low-Earth orbit.

"I congratulate Orbital Sciences and the NASA teams at Wallops, and look
forward to more groundbreaking missions in the months and years ahead."

Orbital is building and testing its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft
under NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.
After successful completion of a COTS demonstration mission to the
station, Orbital will begin conducting eight planned cargo resupply
flights to the orbiting laboratory through NASA's $1.9 billion CRS
contract with the company.

NASA initiatives, such as COTS, are helping to develop a robust U.S.
commercial space transportation industry with the goal of achieving
safe, reliable and cost-effective transportation to and from the
International Space Station and low-Earth orbit. NASA's Commercial Crew
Program also is working with commercial space partners to develop
capabilities to launch U.S. astronauts from American soil in the next
few years.

For more information about the upcoming Orbital test flights, and links
to NASA's COTS and Commercial Crew programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/orbital

For information on Orbital's Antares launch vehicle, visit:

http://www.orbital.com/Antares

[mefisto_x]

видео пуска

[Salo]

[Salo]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/8670073234/in/photostream

[Liss]

Following today's launch of Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket, John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, issued the following statement:

"Today's successful test flight of Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket from the spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, demonstrates an additional private space-launch capability for the United States and lays the groundwork for the first Antares cargo mission to the International Space Station later this year. The growing potential of America's commercial space industry and NASA's use of public-private partnerships are central to President Obama's strategy to ensure U.S. leadership in space exploration while pushing the bounds of scientific discovery and innovation in the 21st century. With NASA focusing on the challenging and exciting task of sending humans deeper into space than ever before, private companies will be crucial in taking the baton for American cargo and crew launches into low-Earth orbit. I congratulate Orbital Sciences and the NASA teams at Wallops, and look forward to more groundbreaking missions in the months and years ahead."                      

Какой такой НК-33? О чем вы все? Orbital велик, а откуда он взял двигатели, это помощнику президента по науке и технике упоминать не по чину.

Впрочем, NASA тоже так торопилось выпустить пресс-релиз за номером 13-114, что даже не проставило время запуска, и уж тем более не произнесло крамольное "НК-33".

Тьфу, да и только!

[Salo]

Игорь, в списке участников проекта Самары нет.
Какой-такой НК-33? Не видишь мы AJ-26 кушаем!