Cygnus Orb-1 (CRS1) - Antares-120 - MARS LP-0A - 09.01.2014 18:07 UTC

[Salo]

https://twitter.com/OrbitalSciences/status/384344688859557888

Orbital Sciences ‏@OrbitalSciences #CRS missions should take about half the time to the #ISS compared to #cotsdemo due to the 10 demos #Cygnus had to perform on this mission.

 29 сентября 13 в 8:51 утра

[Salo]

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/10/cygnus-performing-well-iss-ahead-unberthing/

Pending a review by Orbital and NASA teams, Cygnus will change call signs from being a spacecraft under the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program into the Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract. The next Cygnus – along with its Antares launch vehicle – is already being processed at Orbital's Wallops facility, with a target launch date of December 15, with an available launch window through to December 21 – per L2 information.
This mission will involve a standard three day flight profile to berthing with the ISS, with its launch aided by the Castor 30B second stage upper stage engine – ATK's upgraded variant of the Castor 30A that rode with the ORB-D Cygnus.
For the ORB-1 mission, approximately 1,350 kilograms of cargo are currently manifested to be taken up to the Station, including the first powered payload in Cygnus.

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/37729orbital-moves-cygnus-re-entry-up-a-day-prepares-for-another-cargo-run-in

Orbital Moves Cygnus Re-entry Up a Day, Prepares for Another Cargo Run in December
By Dan Leone | Oct. 16, 2013

WASHINGTON — Orbital Sciences Corp. is planning to end its first cargo delivery mission to the international space station a little early, with the company's now-trash-filled Cygnus spacecraft set for destructive re-entry over the Pacific Ocean Oct. 23, a spokesman said.

"It used to be Oct. 24, but in looking at the orbital mechanics of release, the team updated their burn schedule and Oct. 24 became Oct. 23," Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski said in a phone interview Oct. 16.

Space station crew members will close Cygnus' hatch Oct. 21. Then, around 5 a.m. Eastern time the next day, the craft will separate from the station's Harmony node and maneuver away from the outpost to perform its deorbit burn.

Cygnus launched Sept. 18 from the state-run Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The expendable cargo ship arrived at the station Sept. 29, a few days later than expected after a communications glitch and the arrival of new crew members aboard a Russian-launched Soyuz spacecraft forced Cygnus into a holding pattern.

The same day the first Cygnus plunges through the atmosphere in flames, the service module for the next Cygnus could be on its way from Orbital's Dulles, Va., headquarters to the company's horizontal integration facility at Wallops, Beneski said. There, it will be mated with its Italian-built pressurized cargo module in preparation for a mission that could launch aboard Orbital's Antares rocket as soon as December.

The capsule can be loaded with cargo only once NASA is sure that the initial Cygnus mission was successful, and gives Orbital formal approval to make the December cargo run — the first of eight the company owes NASA under a $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract signed in 2008. Orbital has already received some advance payments on this contract but cannot claim additional fees until after it completes each of the missions it is slated to carry out through 2016.

Meanwhile, whatever effect the government shutdown will have on other aspects of Orbital's business — Beneski said financial analysts are sure to ask about that on a quarterly conference call scheduled for Oct. 17 — the company's space station logistics work appears to have been disturbed only minimally, if at all.

Neither Orbital nor the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority got locked out of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport as a result of the shutdown, meaning that preparations for the tentative December launch continued while more than 95 percent of NASA's roughly 18,000 civil servants were on furlough.

"The first-stage core for this December Antares is at Wallops, the upper-stage rocket motor is there, the fairing is there, the two AJ-26 engines for the core are there," Beneski said. "We have all necessary major components of the Antares rocket onsite. The expectation is on our part that if we're ready to go in December and NASA is ready to receive us, we will go in December."

[che wi]

В составе ПН также намечаются литовские LituanicaSAT-1 и LitSat-1
http://www.ateiviai.lt/lietuviskus-palydovus-skraidinsiantis-kosminis-laivas-cygnus-sekmingai-atgabeno-pirma-krovini-i-tks/

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/article/civil-space/37834orbital%E2%80%99s-cygnus-concludes-first-iss-cargo-run

The day of the first Cygnus' destructive re-entry, the service module for the next Cygnus was shipped from Orbital's Dulles, Va., headquarters to the company's horizontal integration facility at Wallops, the company said in another Twitter message. There, it will be mated with its Italian-built pressurized cargo module in preparation for a mission that could launch as soon as mid-December.
"The first-stage core for this December Antares is at Wallops, the upper-stage rocket motor is there, the fairing is there, the two AJ-26 engines for the core are there," Orbital spokesman Barron Beneski told SpaceNews. "We have all necessary major components of the Antares rocket onsite. The expectation is on our part that if we're ready to go in December and NASA is ready to receive us, we will go in December."
Meanwhile, whatever effect the recently ended government shutdown will have on other aspects of Orbital's business, the company's space station logistics work appears to have been disturbed only minimally, if at all, Beneski said.
Neither Orbital nor the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority got locked out of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport as a result of the shutdown, meaning that preparations for the tentative December launch continued while more than 95 percent of NASA's roughly 18,000 civil servants were on furlough. Space station operations were unaffected by the shutdown.

[Salo]

che wi пишет:
В составе ПН также намечаются литовские LituanicaSAT-1 и LitSat-1
 http://www.ateiviai.lt/lietuviskus-palydovus-skraidinsiantis-kosminis-laivas-cygnus-sekmingai-atgabeno-pirma-krovini-i-tks/

Полетят внутри с последующим запуском с борта МКС из японского модуля.
Попутчики: UAPSAT-1 (Перу), SkyCube и другие.

[Aleksandras]

 спутник один и он называется ,,LituanicaSAT-1" или сокращенно ,,LitSat- 1".
Спутник создан в Каунасе в Каунаском Технологическом Университете
В настоящем времени спутник находится в Хьюстоне на дополнительных проверках и подготовке к запуску 15 декабря.
На нём установлен радиомаяк : 437,275 MHz (позывной LY5N);

FM голосовой ретранслятор: на спутник– 145,950 MHz, со спутника– 435,180 MHz; субтональный ключ (CTCSS/PL) – 67 Hz.

[SFN]

[Salo]

15 декабря ~ 08:41 ЛМВ

[Salo]

Уточнение: 
15 декабря - 08:15 ЛМВ

[Salo]

http://www.nasa.gov/press/2013/november/nasa-opens-media-accreditation-for-december-orbital-sciences-cargo-resupply/#.Un1hKCc2Oc4

Nov. 7, 2013

MEDIA ADVISORY M13-174
NASA Opens Media Accreditation for December Orbital Sciences Cargo Resupply Mission to International Space Station

NASA Opens Media Accreditation for December Orbital Sciences Cargo Resupply Mission to International Space Station

Media accreditation is open for the launch of the first contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station from Virginia.

Following successful demonstration flights of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft earlier this year, Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., will launch the Orbital-1 cargo resupply mission no earlier than Dec. 15 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's Pad-0A at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility along Virginia's east coast.

This will be the first of eight planned cargo resupply missions by Orbital Sciences for NASA under the agency's $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services contract, which ensures a robust national capability to deliver critical science research to orbit, significantly increasing NASA's ability to conduct new science investigations to the only laboratory in microgravity.

International media without U.S. citizenship must apply by Nov. 15 for credentials to cover the prelaunch and launch activities. The application deadline is Dec. 10 for media who are U.S. citizens. Journalists should send their accreditation request to Keith Koehler at keith.a.koehler@nasa.gov.

For questions about accreditation or additional information, contact Keith Koehler by email or at 757-824-1579.

For information about Orbital Sciences, and its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft, visit:

http://www.orbital.com/antares-cygnus

For more information about the International Space Station and Commercial Resupply Services, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

[Salo]

Ещё одно уточнение: 
16 декабря - 07:52 ЛМВ

[Salo]

http://nanoracks.com/nanoracks-completes-flight-integration-cubesats-bound-orb1-iss/

NanoRacks Completes Flight Integration of CubeSats Bound on Orb1 to the ISS
News    //    November 14, 2013    //          
                   
 NanoRacks has completed flight integration of all Customer CubeSats manifested on Orbital Sciences Cargo Resupply Mission 1 "Orb1″ to the International Space Station, "ISS".
The NanoRacks deployer pictured is one of over a dozen deployers to be transported to the US National Lab segment of the international outpost in low-Earth-orbit. The NanoRacks deployers and its customer CubeSats are sealed and transported to the ISS where station astronauts transfer them to the Japanese Experiment Module or "JEM" for later deployment.

Pictured is just one of over a dozen NanoRacks CubeSat deployers with customer CubeSats integrated for flight. These CubeSats are manifested for launch on Orb1 for deployment from the ISS during increment 38. The CubeSats are ejected through the white deployer doors at bottom of the photo. The deployer access panels have been removed showing [Bottom to Top] UAPSat, ArduSat-2, SkyCube, LitSat-1 and LituanicaSAT-1.

Read more about smallsat deployment capabilities.

[Aleksandras]

Литовских спутников ДВА. Один "LituanicaSAT-1" который создан в Вильнюском Университете и "LitSat-1" , который создан в Каунаском Технологическом Университете. Причём первым будет запущен "LituanicaSAT-1", а через 0,2-0,02 сек запустят "LitSat-1". http://g3.dcdn.lt/images/pix/palydovu-paleidimo-schema-63302444.jpg
Поторопился с первым сообщением :oops:

[SFN]

LITSAT-1 из Каунаса

[Aleksandras]

Жаль что неполучается вставить фото обоих спутников. А насчёт путаницы со спутниками: одна команда Вильнюского Университета начала с изготовления спутника "LituanicaSAT-1" в паре с Каунаским ТУ. Но  вскоре между командами возникли разногласия и КТУ вместе с Литовской космической ассациацией начала самостоятельно изготавливать "LitSat-1". И из контейнера первым всё-таки выйдет "LitSat-1" но первым полетит по орбите  "LituanicaSAT-1". Запуск будет против движения МКС

[SFN]

LituanicaSAT-1 имеет телекамеру и большие антенны. Самая большая похожа на гравитационный стабилизатор

[Bizonich]

SFN пишет:
LituanicaSAT-1

Это первые спутники Литвы?

[Старый]

Можно ли вообще кубосаты считать национальными спутниками?

[Bizonich]

Старый пишет:
Можно ли вообще кубосаты считать национальными спутниками?

Первый блин всегда кубом.