Intelsat 35e - Falcon 9 - Kennedy LC-39A - 05.07.2017 23:38 UTC

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 12 мин. назад

What's that? You want more? OK, well pending 39A Shakedown Report, Falcon 9 (Intelsat 35e) Static Fire Test is NET... THURSDAY!

[Max Andriyahov]

"#SpaceX Intelsat детали подтягиваются, static fire 29 Jun launch 2-4 Jul"

[Чебурашка]

Хренасе. Три Флакона за неделю.

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Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 55 мин. назад

Next SpaceX launch from Kennedy Space Center set for no earlier than Sunday, third Falcon 9 flight in nine days. https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/06/27/spacex-will-try-for-third-falcon-9-launch-in-less-than-two-weeks/ ...

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Intelsat‏ @INTELSAT 1 ч назад

We're gearing up for this weekend's IS-35e launch, the 4th #Intelsat #EpicNG #satellite, providing higher efficiency & improved throughput!

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 24 мин. назад

So Static Fire Thursday and a launch Sunday. Cool. It's been a while since we've had a Falcon 9 launch.....


15 мин. назад

For Intelsat 35e, F9 B1037 will be conducting an expendable launch (I know, weird, right!) But the SpaceX Steamroller keeps on rolling.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/06/27/spacex-will-try-for-third-falcon-9-launch-in-less-than-two-weeks/

SpaceX will try for third Falcon 9 launch in less than two weeks

June 27, 2017 Stephen Clark

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File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket inside a hangar at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX

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After back-to-back launches last weekend, SpaceX could launch its next Falcon 9 mission as soon as Sunday fr om NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a high-power Intelsat communications satellite.

Liftoff Sunday will hinge on the ability of SpaceX's launch team to prepare KSC's launch pad 39A for another flight after the successful June 23 blastoff of a Falcon 9 booster with the first Bulgarian-owned communications satellite.

A customary hold-down hotfire test of the Falcon 9's nine Merlin 1D engines is scheduled as soon as Thursday.

An Intelsat spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that Sunday's one-hour launch window will open at 7:36 p.m. EDT (2336 GMT). If the flight takes off Sunday, it will be the third SpaceX launch in a little more than nine days.

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The Boeing-built Intelsat 35e satellite, designed for broadband data delivery, Ultra HD television broadcasts, and services for mobile and government customers, will be the payload on Sunday's mission. Intelsat 35e is the fourth satellite in Intelsat's Epic series featuring a fully digital communications payload that can be reconfigured by controllers on the ground for quick response to market demands.

Intelsat 35e will replace the Intelsat 903 communications satellite at the operator's 34.5 degrees west position in geostationary orbit, wh ere a spacecraft's velocity matches Earth's rotation, allowing a telecom station to remain over a fixed location. Intelsat 903 launched in March 2002 aboard a Russian Proton rocket.

The satellite will provide trans-Atlantic communications links, reaching customers across Latin America, the eastern United States and Canada, Africa and Europe.

SpaceX is coming off a pair of Falcon 9 launches from Kennedy Space Center and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The back-to-back flights, which took off Friday and Sunday, respectively, both included landings of the Falcon 9's first stage booster on a drone ship at sea.

Friday's launch from Florida with the BulgariaSat 1 television broadcasting satellite used a previously-flown Falcon 9 first stage, while Sunday's mission from Vandenberg was powered by an all-new rocket. Intelsat's flight Sunday will also use a newly-manufactured booster.

The heavy weight of the Intelsat 35e satellite is expected to prevent recovery of the first stage Sunday.

SpaceX will take a longer break between launches after the Intelsat flight, with the next Falcon 9 mission scheduled for no earlier than Aug. 10 from Florida with the company's next Dragon resupply craft for the International Space Station.

That will be followed by at least two more Falcon 9s later in August, one more from Florida with the fifth flight of the U.S. Air Force's X-37B spaceplane, and a mission from Vandenberg with Taiwan's Formosat 5 Earth observation satellite.

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[Атяпа]

Это они тоже выводить будут? Или он для Марса?

[Старый]

Атяпа пишет:
 Это они тоже выводить будут? Или он для Марса?

Он для всех остальных РН.

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NOTMAR

LNM: 26/17

ATLANTIC OCEAN - FLORIDA - CAPE CANAVERAL: EASTERN RANGE OP # X4533 FALCON-9 INTELSAT-35
Eastern Range will be conducting hazardous operations surface to unlimited within the following Launch Hazard Areas.

A: From 2840N 8038W
 TO 2839N 8014W
 TO 2838N 8000W
 TO 2834N 7918W
 TO 2832N 7918W
 TO 2832N 8038W to beginning

B: From 2831N 7452W
 TO 2811N 7052W
 TO 2751N 7032W
 TO 2731N 7112W
 TO 2811N 7452W to beginning

Hazard periods for primary launch day and backup launch day;

Primary launch day: 02 / 2330Z thru 03 / 0126Z Jul 17. T-0 is 2335Z.
Backup launch day (1): 03 / 2331Z thru 04 / 0127Z Jul 17. T-0 is 2336Z.
Backup launch day (2): 04 / 2331Z thru 05 / 0127Z Jul 17. T-0 is 2336Z.

[Boris Mekler]

Нифигассе. Я думал что про второе июля - художественный свист a.k.a Elon Time, а они похоже всерьёз собрались запускать...

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Предварительный прогноз погоды на 2017-06-27 - 2017-07-03 (  :|  )
27JUN17.pdf
 

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Intelsat‏ @INTELSAT 1 ч. назад

#Intelsat 35e is the next in line #EpicNG #satellite scheduled for launch this Sunday, 2 July at 7:36 pm ET. Stay tuned! @SpaceX

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 3 ч. назад

SpaceX will also Static Firing Falcon 9 B1037 (for Intelsat 35e) on 39A on Thursday. Window open 4pm Eastern. (Subject to change).

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06/29/2017 17:13
SpaceX's next Falcon 9 rocket rolled out of its hangar at launch pad 39A Thursday for a customary hold-down engine firing ahead of a planned liftoff Sunday with an Intelsat communications satellite.

The two-stage rocket is currently on the ramp leading up to pad 39A and is expected to be lifted vertical later today in preparation for a static fire test as soon as this afternoon.

Liftoff Sunday is scheduled for a 58-minute window opening at 7:36 p.m. EDT (2336 GMT). It will be the 10th Falcon 9 flight of the year, and the eighth this year from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In the hours leading up to the hotfire test, SpaceX's launch team in Florida will check out the newly-built rocket's systems and fill it with super-chilled, densified RP-1 kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants during a practice countdown.

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Прогноз погоды L-3
L-3 Forecast 2 July Launch
 
 

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06/29/2017 17:50  Weather forecast
The first official launch weather forecast for the Intelsat 35e flight has been released by the U.S. Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron.

The weather team predicts a 60 percent chance conditions during Sunday's 58-minute launch window, which opens at 7:36 p.m. EDT (2336 GMT), will prevent liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A.

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"Typical summertime storms are expected in Central Florida each afternoon for the next several days," forecasters wrote in the outlook issued Thursday. "Winds in the low and mid-levels are southwesterly, which will hinder the inland progression of the sea breeze and its associated storms. The same winds will also guide any storms and anvils that develop to the west, back towards the Space Coast.

"Surface winds over the spaceport will still shift southeasterly each afternoon as the sea breeze moves slowly westward," forecasters wrote. "The main weather concerns for launch are lingering cumulus clouds along the sea breeze and anvils from inland storms. Maximum upper-level winds will be from the northwest at 15 knots near 40,000 feet."

Isolated rain showers and thunderstorms are projected to be in the area at launch time Sunday, along with mostly cloudy skies. Winds will be from the southeast at 12 to 17 mph, and the temperature should be around 82 degrees Fahrenheit.

If the launch slips to Monday, the weather team forecasts thunderstorms could move farther inland, reducing the chance of violating the Falcon 9 and range weather criteria to 50 percent.

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Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 8m ago

SpaceX's next Falcon 9 rocket is being raised at launch pad 39A in Florida for a static fire test. Watch live: https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/06/29/falcon-9-intelsat-35e-launch-preps/ ...

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William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews 8m ago

F9/Intelsat: Falcon 9 now vertical at KSC pad 39A for presumed hot-fire test; launch expected 7/2