WorldView 4, 7 кубсатов - Atlas V 401 (AV-062) - Ванденберг SLC-3E - 11.11.2016 - 18:30 UTC

[Salo]

http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/07/29/commercial-imaging-observatory-shipped-to-vandenberg-for-launch/

Commercial imaging observatory shipped to Vandenberg for launch             
 July 29, 2016 Justin Ray
 
WorldView 4. Credit: Lockheed Martin

More than three years after its launch was delayed by a corporate merger, a commercial Earth-imaging satellite has finally shipped to its California rocket base for liftoff aboard an Atlas 5 in September.
The WorldView 4 spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was moved this week from its factory in Sunnyvale to Vandenberg Air Force Base located a few hours to the south.
Liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is planned for Sept. 15 at 11:30 a.m. local (2:30 p.m. EDT; 1830 GMT) from the SLC-3E pad on South Base. The day's launch window will remain open for 14 minutes.
Operated by DigitalGlobe of Westminster, Colorado, the sharp-eyed satellite will circle 383 miles above the Earth in polar orbit and snap high-resolution pictures of the world below for customers including the U.S. government, agriculture, oil and gas, scientific researchers and land developers.
But the launch has been on hold for over three years, delaying the original deployment date planned for the spring of 2013. That's because former competitors GeoEye and DigitalGlobe merged their operations and independent fleets of imaging satellites into one company.
While both firms were developing state-of-the-art satellites for launch before the corporate marriage, the new company opted to launch DigitalGlobe's WorldView 3 satellite first since it also provided multiple short-wave infrared bands that could penetrate haze, fog, dust, smoke and other air-born particulates.
That left GeoEye's bird on the ground to await market demand for its launching to effectively double DigitalGlobe's high-resolution imagery collection capacity. The craft, originally built under the name GeoEye 2, was renamed WorldView 4 after the merger.
 
WorldView 4. Credit: Lockheed Martin

"WorldView 4 will help us continue to transform the way we see the world, and advance our mission of keeping our planet and its people safe and secure," said Dr. Walter Scott, founder and chief technology officer of DigitalGlobe.
"Only the DigitalGlobe constellation, with the addition of WorldView 4, offers the highest quality, and most comprehensive global coverage of our changing planet through 2030, so our customers can be confident they will have the information to make critical decisions."
WorldView 4 is designed to see objects as small as 1-foot-wide (31 cm) in panchromatic mode and has a 4-foot resolution (1.24 m) in color. It will image 263,000 square miles (680,000 square km) of the Earth's surface per day, doubling the capacity of WorldView 3 now in service providing the same quality high-res data.
"DigitalGlobe's smart imagery serves hundreds of thousands of end-users charged with the safety and security of nations, and enables the maps and geospatial applications relied on by billions of consumers," said Carl Marchetto, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Commercial Space.
WorldView 3 was launched on Aug. 13, 2014 from Vandenberg aboard another Atlas 5.
The WorldView 4 spacecraft will launch aboard the Atlas 5 originally built to send NASA's InSight lander to Mars earlier this year. The vehicle, designated AV-062, was stacked on the pad awaiting that mission when an instrument problem delayed the launch until 2018, when Earth is again in alignment with the red planet.
Since both InSight and WorldView 4 are using the same rocket configuration — a 401 variant with no solid motors — the passengers could be easily swapped.
After WorldView 4 came out of lengthy storage, Lockheed Martin technicians completed health checks of major systems and tested image collection and downlinking capabilities.
It was trucked by road to Vandenberg on Monday, July 24.
 
WorldView 4 leaves Sunnyvale. Credit: Lockheed Martin

The launch site processing activities will include a final round of testing, the loading of 1,000 pounds of orbital maneuvering propellant and encapsulation within the rocket's 14-foot-diameter nose cone before delivery to the pad in early September for mating to the rocket.
In addition to WorldView 4, the rocket also carries a box of seven cubesats to be deployed into a different orbit from the primary payload. The tiny hitchhikers are being launched from Centaur's Aft Bulkhead Carrier.
It will mark the 15th commercial mission for the Atlas 5 and the rocket's 12th launch from Vandenberg.
The launcher has flown 64 times to date. It has one flight, from Cape Canaveral, lined up before WorldView 4 to launch NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission on Sept. 8.
The DigitalGlobe launch history:
 

[Salo]

DigitalGlobe ‏@DigitalGlobe
#WV4 launch is now scheduled for Sept 16. Visit our microsite for satellite & launch info: http://ow.ly/i20T303LVvS 

  12:33 - 31 авг. 2016 г.

[Salo]

http://www.ulalaunch.com/

Atlas V to Launch WorldView-4
Rocket/Payload: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 configuration rocket will launch the WorldView-4 mission for Digital Globe. The Atlas V is provided by Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services.
Date/Site/Launch Time: Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
Mission Description: WorldView-4, a multispectral, high-resolution commercial imaging satellite owned and operated by DigitalGlobe, will help customers around the world see more of our changing planet. The satellite was built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company and will provide 31-centimeter panchromatic resolution and 1.24-meter multispectral resolution—the same resolution offered by the WorldView-3 satellite. This industry-leading resolution provides the sharpest view of vital details on the ground, to give customers confidence when making critical decisions.
Launch Notes: WorldView-4 marks ULA's 9th launch of 2016 and 112th since the company was founded in 2006. ULA also launched WorldView-3 on Atlas V in 2014.
Launch Updates: To keep up to speed with updates to the launch countdown, dial the ULA launch hotline at 1-877-852-4321 or join the conversation at www.facebook.com/ulalaunch, twitter.com/ulalaunch and instagram.com/ulalaunch. Hashtags #WV4 and #AtlasV.

Go Atlas! Go Centaur! Go WorldView-4!

[che wi]

Spaceflight Now ‏@SpaceflightNow  · 20 minutes ago

Weather forecasters give 70% chance of GO conditions for Friday's Atlas 5 launch of #WorldView4 from California

[Pirat5]

Данные по кубсатам отсутствуют?
нашёл вот что:

pakiet siedmiu sponsorowanych przez NRO nanosatelitów typu CubeSat pod nazwą Enterprise.

7 спутников, названных Энтерпрайзами.

[Waldemar Zwierzchlejski]

Pirat5 пишет:
Данные по кубсатам отсутствуют?
нашёл вот что:

pakiet siedmiu sponsorowanych przez NRO nanosatelitów typu CubeSat pod nazwą Enterprise.

7 спутников, названных Энтерпрайзами.

Prometheus A, Prometheus B, U2U, CELTEE, Aerocube 8C, Aerocube 8D, RAVAN.

[Pirat5]

Вот и автор сайта http://lk.astronautilus.pl/plan.htm Waldemar Zwierzchlejski появился!

Waldemar Zwierzchlejski пишет:
Prometheus A, Prometheus B, U2U, CELTEE, Aerocube 8C, Aerocube 8D, RAVAN

Спасибо за информацию!

[Salo]

Rick Ambrose ‏@RickAmbroseSSC  8 сент.
#WV4 is encapsulated and ready for launch Sept. 16 aboard an #AtlasV! #SeeMore pics: http://bit.ly/2cEPE4D 
 

[Salo]

Много фото:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lockheedmartin/sets/72157670920805846

[Pirat5]

Что-то не видно кубсатов на фотках...

[PIN]

Pirat5 пишет:
Что-то не видно кубсатов на фотках...

Это значит, они полетят на попе Центавра. Там дешевле или вообще бесплатно. На попе-то.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/11/19/ula-says-it-will-launch-some-cubesats-for-free/

[Lesobaza]

Salo пишет:
http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/07/29/commercial-imaging-observatory-shipped-to-vandenberg-for-launch/
 

По фотографиям - прям маленький "Ресурс" )))

[che wi]

10:48 a.m. local (1748 GMT)
The Atlas 5 rocket now stands fully fueled for launch and activities are proceeding toward a liftoff at 11:30:33 a.m. Pacific Time.

http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/15/av062_journal/

[che wi]

Упс...

10:58 a.m. local (1758 GMT)
SCRUB! The launch team is halting today's countdown due to a technical problem.

[Старый]

Lesobaza пишет:

Salo пишет:
 http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/07/29/commercial-imaging-observatory-shipped-to-vandenberg-for-launch/
 

По фотографиям - прям маленький "Ресурс" )))

Ресурс герметичный. 
Однако в этой мысли чтото есть. По схеме все современные аппараты это Янтари. Янтарь оказался неслабым таким родоначальником.

[che wi]

Перенос на сутки.

ULA ‏@ulalaunch  35 seconds ago

#AtlasV WorldView-4 launch is scrubbed for the day. Stay tuned for more details. #WV4

William Harwood ‏@cbs_spacenews  50 seconds ago

A5/WV4: SCRUB! ULA reports small hydrogen leak in a ground system causing an ice build up on an umbilical

[che wi]

Tory Bruno ‏@torybruno  5 minutes ago

Scrub. Very small ground side LH2 leak. Forming an ice ball on the umbilical. Outside our history. Standing down attempt today to resolve.

[Прол]

Ну и ладно, а то как-то зачастили    .
ЗЫ И здесь утечка .

[Lesobaza]

Старый пишет:

Lesobaza пишет:

Salo пишет:
 http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/07/29/commercial-imaging-observatory-shipped-to-vandenberg-for-launch/
 

По фотографиям - прям маленький "Ресурс" )))

Ресурс герметичный.
Однако в этой мысли чтото есть. По схеме все современные аппараты это Янтари. Янтарь оказался неслабым таким родоначальником.

Не-не-не.. Именно Ресурс. Если антенны вокруг крышки бленды были у всех янтарей, то пара БОКЗов, смотрящих вниз под 90 градусов друг к другу - это ресурсная фишка. )))

[Старый]

Lesobaza пишет: 
Не-не-не.. Именно Ресурс. Если антенны вокруг крышки бленды были у всех янтарей, то пара БОКЗов, смотрящих вниз под 90 градусов друг к другу - это ресурсная фишка. )))

При чём тут в пень БОКЗы? Ещё про фотоплёнку что-нибудь вспомните. Вобще вся схема современного спутника ДЗЗ впервые была применена на Янтаре. (если я конечно ничего не упустил из виду). 
 Янтарь оказался спутником века!