Thaicom 6 - 06.01.2014 - Falcon 9 v1.1 - Canaveral SLC-40

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Из плана американских пусков:

August - Thaicom 6 - Falcon 9 v1.1 - Canaveral SLC-40 (or 2014)

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http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/thaicom-6.htm

Thaicom 6 (AfriCom 1)


Thaicom 6 [OSC]

Thaicom announced on May 31 it sel ected satellite builder Orbital Sciences and launch-services provider Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) for the construction and launch of a Thaicom 6 telecommunications satellite following approval of the $160 million project by Thaicom's board of directors.

Thaicom 6, a 3,000 kilograms class satellite, will be operated fr om 78.5° east colocated with Thaicom 5 and will carry 18 C-band and 8 Ku-band transponders.

The launch is scheduled for mid-2013 on a Falcon-9 v1.1 rocket.

Thaicom 6's African capacity, 6 C-band transponders each with 72 MHz bandwidth, is being marketized under the AfriCom 1 designation.

Nation:    Thailand
Type / Application:    Communication
Operator:    Thaicom
Contractors:    Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC)
Equipment:    18 C-band, 8 Ku-band transponders
Configuration:    Star-2.4 Bus
Propulsion:    IHI BT-4
Power:    2 deployable solar arrays, batteries
Lifetime:    15 years
Mass:    ~3000
Orbit:    GEO

[Salo]

Конец июля.

[Salo]

И снова август.

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Видимо сентябрь.

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https://twitter.com/Leone_SN/status/342384957349568513

Dan Leone ‏@Leone_SN

@CSA_ASC says notional launch date for #CASSIOPE space weather satellite is Aug. 14 - little later than expected - on @SpaceX Falcon 9 1.1.

Thaicom 6 в этом случае не ранее октября.

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Видимо ноябрь.

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http://www.orbital.com/NewsInfo/Publications/OrbitalQuarterly_Summer2013.pdf

SES-8 and Thaicom-6 Satellites Delivered to Customers This Summer

Spacecraft Are 33rd and 34th GEOStar Satellites Produced for Customers Around the Globe

In June and July, Orbital delivered the Thaicom-6 GEOStar communications spacecraft to one of Orbital's newest customers, Thaicom PLC of Thailand, and the SES-8 spacecraft to SES of Luxembourg, a repeat GEOStar customer for Orbital. A hybrid Ku- and C-band spacecraft based on Orbital's GEOStar-2 spacecraft bus design, Thaicom-6 will provide a full range of end-to-end satellite communications services over Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, including direct-to-home and digital TV services.
Also based on Orbital's GEOStar-2 design, SES-8 will provide Ku-band communications for South Asia and Indo-China and Ka-band communications for the Asia-Pacific region.
Generating approximately five kilowatts of payload power, the hybrid satellite is the sixth GEOStar satellite to be ordered from Orbital by SES. Both SES-8 and Thaicom-6 are scheduled for launch on Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral, Florida later in 2013.
SES-8 and Thaicom-6 represent the 33rd and 34th GEOStar-based satellites ordered by customers around the globe. Optimized for small- and medium-class satellite missions, Orbital's highly successful GEOStar communications satellites provide up to eight kilowatts of payload power and can accommodate virtually all types of commercial communications payloads. Orbital expects to confirm orders for several new GEOStar communications satellites from new and repeat customers in the coming months.

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Видимо не ранее декабря.

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Первая ступень на пути в МакГрегор:

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http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/joe_science/spacex-alert-loud-test-as-soon-as-saturday/article_a166ada8-2c86-11e3-9180-001a4bcf887a.html

SpaceX alert: Loud test as soon as Saturday
Posted: Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:50 pm | Updated: 6:56 pm, Thu Oct 3, 2013.
By JOSEPH ABBOTT jabbott@wacotrib.com
 
Just got an email fr om SpaceX saying there will be a louder-than-normal test at the McGregor development site — which pretty much means a nine-engine first stage firing — as early as Saturday.
The email followed this from the local office of emergency management:

Waco McLennan Co OEM  @WacoMclennanOEM  Space X test Louder than normal test planned 10/5-10/8. Bluebonnet closed @CaseRd periodically. Fields north, east & west off-lim its
 
 1:30 AM - 4 Oct 2013

Posted in Joe science on Thursday, October 3, 2013 6:50 pm. Updated: 6:56 pm.

[igorvs]

Старт назначен на 12 декабря
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32449.0

[igorvs]

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/10/spacex-realign-falcon-9-missions/

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Pending the successful mission with SES-8, SpaceX will then turnaround their Cape facility for the next Falcon 9 v1.1 launch, realigned to a December 12 NET (No Earlier Than) launch date, per L2 information. This places SpaceX into a stance where they will be launching two missions in the space of a month – a first for the company.

This mission will also be tasked with lofting an Orbital-built satellite, namely the Thaicom-6 spacecraft.

Z3The 3,325 kg (7,330 lb) satellite will be located at 78.5 degrees East Longitude, and carry a hybrid Ku- and C-band payload that will generate approximately 3.7 kilowatts of payload power.

The Ku-band payload will be comprised of eight active transponders providing services to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The C-band payload will feature 12 active C-band transponders providing services via a regional beam to Southeast Asia, and six active C-band transponders providing services via a south Africa beam to southern Africa and Madagascar.

Based on Orbital's GeoStar-2 platform, the satellite is expected to have a service life of 15 years.

Z741Preparations for this launch are in full swing, with a test firing confirmed to have taken place on Friday at SpaceX's Rocket Development and Test Facility in McGregor, Texas.

Following the series of test firings of the first Falcon 9 v1.1 stages, testing the set of nine Merlin 1D engines together as a set, stages for the upcoming launches are expected to enter and depart from Texas at a faster pace, allowing SpaceX to fulfil what is an increasingly busy launch manifest.

Не ранее 12 декабря.

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http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/10/spacex-press-abort-test-raptor-engine/

With the delay to the SES-8 mission, the prospect of the next flight of the F9 v1.1 – carrying the Thaicom-6 satellite – occurring just one month later are all-but gone.
A separation of 30 days between launches is understood to be a hard limit, resulting in the Thaicom-6 mission having to avoid the holiday period and re-target for a launch in the new year.

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http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/11/spacex-crs-3-dragon-spacesuit-relay/

However, upd ated L2 information has noted the WDR was "scrubbed/cancelled", allowing for it to become part of the Static Fire test. This was soon followed by the launch date moving to a preliminary date of November 25.

Reasons for the latest slip are not fully clear. However, it is understood to include working Range approval for pre-launch events surrounding the upcoming MAVEN launch and ongoing work to complete the upgrades to the SLC-40 launch site for the Falcon 9 v1.1,

The following launch, tasked with launching Thaicom-6, was se t to follow one month after the SES-8 mission.

With this minimum separation of one month between launches, the Christmas holidays come into play, resulting in Thaicom-6′s launch highly likely to move into a January launch window. Once again, a new launch date would require the associated approval from the Eastern Range.

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Не ранее 25 декабря, а скорее всего в январе.

[anik]

Salo пишет:
Не ранее 25 декабря, а скорее всего в январе

В Рождество - это оригинально!  

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http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/38144spacex%E2%80%99s-1st-commercial-comsat-launch-slips-three-days

Meanwhile, Shotwell said work is progressing on the Falcon 9 v1.1 that will launch Thailand's Thaicom 6, another communications satellite bound for geostationary transfer orbit.
"The elements [of Falcon 9] are ready and we're going to start shipping them to the Cape right after a static fire test on Nov. 19," Shotwell said. "And we will continue to hold the Thaicom 6 launch date of Dec. 20."

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http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/11/spacex-falcon-9-v1-1-hot-fire-slc-40/

Pending the successful mission with SES-8, SpaceX will then turnaround their Cape facility for the next Falcon 9 v1.1 launch, realigned to a December 20 NET (No Earlier Than) launch date. This places SpaceX into a stance where they will be launching two missions in the space of less than a month – a first for the company.
SpaceX recently confirmed to NASASpaceFlight.com that they remain on track to carry out both missions in this timeframe, despite the previous slip of SES-8 to November 25.