GOES-S - Atlas V 541 (AV-079) - Canaveral SLC-41 - 02.03.2018

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NOTMAR

NAVAREA IV 167/2018 (11,25,26)  

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   012202Z TO 020036Z MAR, ALTERNATE
   022201Z TO 030035Z MAR
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 28-39N 080-39W, 28-42N 080-34W,
   28-35N 079-42W, 28-31N 078-58W,
   28-23N 078-59W, 28-31N 080-35W.
   B. 27-16N 069-40W, 26-44N 066-30W,
   26-31N 066-34W, 27-01N 069-44W.
   C. 22-50N 051-15W, 22-05N 048-53W,
   21-54N 048-57W, 22-39N 051-19W.
2.  CANCEL THIS MSG 030135Z MAR 18.

( 260926Z FEB 2018 )

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Прогноз погоды L-3

Atlas V AV-077 L-3 Launch Forecast

80% GO

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NOTMAR, зоны A, B, C

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/27/falcon-9-atlas-5-hispasat-goes-schedule/

Cape Canaveral could see two launches in one day Thursday
February 27, 2018 | Stephen Clark


File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX

Two launch pads at Cape Canaveral could host a pair of satellite launches separated by fewer than 17 hours Thursday, a rapid-fire turnaround made possible by an automated range safety mechanism and other upgrades to cut the time between missions at the Florida spaceport.

A spokesperson for Hispasat, which owns a communications satellite set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, told Spaceflight Now on Monday that the mission is scheduled for liftoff shortly after midnight Thursday, Florida time.

The Falcon 9's two-hour launch window opens at 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT) Wednesday, pending final approval from the U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing, which runs the Eastern Range at Cape Canaveral, a network of communications, tracking and safety installations used by every launch from Florida's Space Coast.

Assuming Air Force officials grant SpaceX's request for a launch date Wednesday, it would be the first of two blastoffs from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in a span of around 16-and-a-half hours.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is on track for launch Thursday during a two-hour launch window beginning at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT).

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The Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 rockets will blast off from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 and Complex 41 launch pads, two former Titan rocket launch facilities built in the 1960s a mile-and-a-half (2.4 kilometers) apart a few thousand feet from the Atlantic coastline.

The payload aboard the Falcon 9 rocket is Hispasat 30W-6, a Spanish-owned commercial video, data and broadband relay satellite heading for a perch in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator.

Built by SSL in Palo Alto, California, Hispasat 30W-6 will replace an aging telecom satellite launched from Cape Canaveral in September 2002 aboard an Atlas 2AS booster.

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SpaceX officials delayed the launch of Hispasat 30W-6, previously scheduled for early Sunday, to complete additional inspections on a pressurization system on the Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing.

The Atlas 5 mission, which has had its March 1 reservation on the Air Force range for months, is set to deploy NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite, an advanced, new-generation observatory destined to help forecasters track storms and wildfires across the western United States and the Pacific Ocean.

The range typically operates on a first-come, first-served basis, so if Air Force officials find a scheduling conflict between the missions, the Atlas 5 launch is expected to receive priority.

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A view of the Atlas 5 rocket and the GOES-S weather satellite inside the Vertical Integration Facility at the Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Glenn Benson

Ground crews are set to roll out the Atlas 5 rocket to its launch pad Wednesday morning, followed by filling of the first stage's RP-1 kerosene fuel tank in the afternoon. The countdown will commence Thursday morning.

The Falcon 9 slated to launch with Hispasat 30W-6 completed a hold-down test-firing of its nine Merlin main engines last week. Technicians returned the rocket to its hangar to install the Hispasat telecom satellite and payload fairing. The next step before launch is to return the booster to the launch pad for final countdown preps.

The quick turnaround is primarily enabled by the introduction of an autonomous self-destruct mechanism to SpaceX's Falcon rockets, an addition that cuts the workload and manpower for each launch from the Air Force and its contractors.

The on-board safety system relies on Global Positioning System satellite navigation data, replacing decades-old radars and tracking equipment that required military officers to manually send commands to destroy errant boosters, and their human and robot passengers, before they could threaten people and property.

The switch is expected to save millions of dollars in infrastructure costs and allow for more launches from Air Force-run ranges at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials said.

The Autonomous Flight Safety System became operational on SpaceX's Falcon rocket family last year, after several flights in a backup "shadow" mode to allow engineers to check its performance and reliability.

"Implementing AFSS on future launch operations allows us to increase our flexibility, adaptability and efficiency while providing more launch opportunities and greater public safety without having to add additional people," said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, commander of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, in a statement last year. "These changes will not only simplify ground support requirements thereby increasing launch on-time probability, but substantially reduce launch costs."

Like the manual flight termination system used since the dawn of the Space Age, the on-board safety computer tracks the trajectory of the rocket, ensuring it remains within a predefined corridor and meets other parameters.

With the previous safety system, a Mission Flight Control Officer on the ground in Florida or California would issue the command activate pyrotechnic charges on the rocket if it strayed off course. In the case of the automated safety system, the command comes from a computer aboard the rocket.

The military is still responsible for other support functions for launches from Florida and California, such as weather monitoring, maritime and airspace patrols, and base security.

Air Force and industry officials last year heralded the new automated destruct system, saying that the technology would permit launches from different pads at Cape Canaveral on the same day, an improvement over the minimum 48-hour resets practiced in recent decades.

That claim may become reality this week.

Assuming Air Force managers give their blessing for the back-to-back launches, and if both rockets take off as scheduled, it would be the quickest turnaround between liftoffs at Cape Canaveral since September 1967.

A Delta G booster launched the Biosat 2 recoverable satellite with multiple biological research experiments on the evening of Sept. 7, 1967, followed less than 10 hours later by the blastoff a few miles away of NASA's robotic Surveyor 5 lunar lander aboard an Atlas-Centaur rocket, according to a mission log maintained by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks global space activity.

Rockets lifted off from Cape Canaveral less than two hours apart on four occasions in 1966.

Unpiloted Agena vehicles launched by Atlas rockets were used as docking targets for NASA's two-man Gemini capsules. The Agena targets launched approximately 100 minutes before the Gemini spacecraft took off on top of Titan 2 rockets with two astronauts on-board.

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Atlas V AV-077 L-2 Launch Forecast

80% GO

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/goes/2018/02/27/goes-s-prelaunch-briefings-today/

GOES-S Prelaunch Briefings Today

Linda Herridge
Posted Feb 27, 2018 at 12:11 pm



With only two days remaining until the scheduled launch of NOAA's GOES-S satellite, launch and mission managers are gathering at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to provide briefings on launch status and the science aspects of the GOES-R series of advanced weather satellites. A prelaunch status briefing will be held at 1 p.m., followed by a science briefing at 2:30 p.m. Both briefings will be held at Kennedy's Press Site TV Auditorium and air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Prelaunch news conference participants are:

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• Stephen Volz, director for satellite and information services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Tim Walsh, GOES-R system program director (acting), NOAA
• Sandra Smalley, director, Joint Agency Satellite Division, NASA Headquarters
• Tim Dunn, launch director, NASA, Kennedy Space Center
• Scott Messer, program manager, NASA Programs, United Launch Alliance
• Kathy Winters, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
  

Science briefing participants are:

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• Dan Lindsey, GOES-R senior scientific advisor, NOAA
• Louis Uccellini, director, National Weather Service, NOAA
• George Morrow, deputy director, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Jim Roberts, scientist, Earth System Research Laboratory, Office of Atmospheric Research, NOAA
• Kristin Calhoun, research scientist, National Severe Storms Laboratory, NOAA
  

Meteorologists with the U.S. Air Force 45th Space Wing are predicting an 80 percent chance of favorable weather for liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NOAA's GOES-S satellite. Launch is scheduled for March 1 at 5:02 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. On launch day, the primary weather concern is cumulus clouds.

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Текущий прогноз погоды на пуск

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И прогноз на запасной день

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 11 мин. назад

Col. Walt Jackim, vice commander of the 45th Space Wing, says at a 45th Space Congress talk a goal for the Eastern Range is to perform two launches in 24 hours. That could happen this week, with Falcon 9/Hispasat 30W-6 and Atlas 5/GOES-S

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Jackim said later a final decision hasn't been made yet, but he seemed open to doing so various technical, personnel, and other issues can be worked out.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/27/falcon-9-atlas-5-hispasat-goes-schedule/

Atlas 5 launch on track for Thursday, SpaceX mission expected to slip
February 27, 2018 Stephen Clark

EDITOR'S NOTE: Upd ated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) and 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) Tuesday.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is set to roll to its launch pad Wednesday at Cape Canaveral, a day before liftoff with a new-generation NOAA weather satellite. The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Spanish communications satellite is expected to be shuffled after the Atlas 5 flight in a rapid-fire launch sequence at the Florida spaceport this week.

SpaceX hoped to deliver the Spanish-owned Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite to orbit from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad just after midnight Thursday, Florida time, around 16-and-a-half hours before liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from the nearby Complex 41 launch pad.

The back-to-back missions appeared to be on track Monday, but Air Force officials have not approved SpaceX's request to the 45th Space Wing, the military unit that oversees the Eastern Range, a network of communications, tracking and safety installations used by every launch from Florida's Space Coast.

Air Force managers have heralded in recent months a new capability to support rapid turnarounds between launches, thanks to an automated range safety mechanism and other upgrades to the cut the time between missions at the Florida spaceport.

But the Atlas 5 mission with NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite, which has held to its March 1 target launch date for nearly a year, is expected to take priority on the Cape Canaveral launch schedule this week, officials said.

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The 197-foot-tall (60-meter) Atlas 5 rocket is se t to roll out of ULA's Vertical Integration Facility around 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) Wednesday for a quarter-mile trip to the nearby Complex 41 launch pad. Once at the pad, the rocket will be connected to ground propellant and electrical supplies, and its first stage will be loaded with RP-1 kerosene fuel.

The "clean pad" layout at Complex 41 does not offer shelter to the Atlas 5 rocket once its in position on the launch mount, and officials were concerned about exposing the launcher and sensitive optics on its weather satellite payload to exhaust plumes from the Falcon 9 rocket as it blasts off from the nearby Complex 40 launch pad.

Managers also studied whether the Atlas 5 rocket and the GOES-S satellite would be at risk of damage on the pad if the Falcon 9 rocket had a mishap during launch.

SpaceX intended to launch with the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite early Sunday, but the company postponed the mission to complete additional inspections on a pressurization system on the Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing.

"Due to the fact that they didn't launch, they had requested the early morning of March 1 (on the Eastern Range)," said Tim Dunn, NASA's launch director for the GOES-S mission. "We understand that has not been approved by the range, so we're clear for our opportunity on the 1st."

ULA also has a backup launch opportunity on Friday afternoon, if necessary.

"We were doing initial assessments of being in an exposed condition," Dunn said. "Obviously, we need some time to take a look at that to assess all the risks that would be incurred on GOES-S as well as the Atlas 5 rocket. We're not in that condition right now, and we look forward to launch on Thursday afternoon."

The Atlas 5's two-hour launch window opens at 5:02 p.m. EST (2202 GMT) Thursday.

A new target launch date for the Falcon 9 flight has not been confirmed. The Hispasat mission has a daily launch window that opens at approximately 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT).

Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral blast off from two former Titan rocket launch facilities built in the 1960s a mile-and-a-half (2.4 kilometers) apart a few thousand feet from the Atlantic coastline.

The Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite awaiting launch on the Falcon 9 rocket is a Spanish-owned commercial video, data and broadband relay craft heading for a perch in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator.

Built by SSL in Palo Alto, California, Hispasat 30W-6 will replace an aging telecom satellite launched from Cape Canaveral in September 2002 aboard an Atlas 2AS booster.

The Atlas 5 mission is se t to deploy NOAA's GOES-S weather satellite, an advanced, new-generation observatory destined to help forecasters track storms and wildfires across the western United States and the Pacific Ocean.

The range typically operates on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Falcon 9 slated to launch with Hispasat 30W-6 completed a hold-down test-firing of its nine Merlin main engines last week. Technicians returned the rocket to its hangar to install the Hispasat telecom satellite and payload fairing. The next step before launch is to return the booster to the launch pad for final countdown preps.

The Air Force says quicker turnarounds between launches from Cape Canaveral will be primarily enabled by the introduction of an autonomous self-destruct mechanism to SpaceX's Falcon rockets, an addition that cuts the workload and manpower for each launch from the Air Force and its contractors.

The on-board safety system relies on Global Positioning System satellite navigation data, replacing decades-old radars and tracking equipment that required military officers to manually send commands to destroy errant boosters, and their human and robot passengers, before they could threaten people and property.

The switch is expected to save millions of dollars in infrastructure costs and allow for more launches from Air Force-run ranges at Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials said.

The Autonomous Flight Safety System became operational on SpaceX's Falcon rocket family last year, after several flights in a backup "shadow" mode to allow engineers to check its performance and reliability.

"Implementing AFSS on future launch operations allows us to increase our flexibility, adaptability and efficiency while providing more launch opportunities and greater public safety without having to add additional people," said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, commander of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, in a statement last year. "These changes will not only simplify ground support requirements thereby increasing launch on-time probability, but substantially reduce launch costs."

Like the manual flight termination system used since the dawn of the Space Age, the on-board safety computer tracks the trajectory of the rocket, ensuring it remains within a predefined corridor and meets other parameters.

With the previous safety system, a Mission Flight Control Officer on the ground in Florida or California would issue the command activate pyrotechnic charges on the rocket if it strayed off course. In the case of the automated safety system, the command comes from a computer aboard the rocket.

The military is still responsible for other support functions for launches from Florida and California, such as weather monitoring, maritime and airspace patrols, and base security.

Air Force and industry officials last year heralded the new automated destruct system, saying that the technology would permit launches from different pads at Cape Canaveral on the same day, an improvement over the minimum 48-hour resets practiced in recent decades.

Launches on the same day from Florida were somewhat common in the 1960s, and the last time two orbital flights lifted off from Cape Canaveral within a 24-hour span was in April 1978, when an Atlas-Agena D rocket launched with the Aquacade 4 military signals intelligence satellite, followed around 21 hours later by the takeoff of a Delta 2914 booster with the Japanese BSE, or Yuri 1, communications craft, according to a mission log maintained by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks global space activity.

Rockets lifted off from Cape Canaveral less than two hours apart on four occasions in 1966.

Unpiloted Agena vehicles launched by Atlas rockets were used as docking targets for NASA's two-man Gemini capsules. The Agena targets launched approximately 100 minutes before the Gemini spacecraft took off on top of Titan 2 rockets with two astronauts on-board.

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James Dean‏Подлинная учетная запись @flatoday_jdean 15 мин. назад

As of now, Eastern Range planning to support only one rocket launch Thursday: Atlas V/GOES-S. SpaceX F9/Hispasat date still TBD.

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NASA_EDGE‏ @NASA_EDGE 8 ч. назад

Check out our NASA EDGE: GOES-S Rollout show tomorrow, Wed. Feb. 28 from 10:00-10:30 am EST on NASA TV and Facebook live (http://www.facebook.com/nasaedgefan ). Learn all things about GOES-S with @NOAA, @NASA and @NASA_LSP.

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Atlas V GOES-S Mission Profile

 United Launch Alliance

Опубликовано: 27 февр. 2018 г.

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NOAA GOES-S (GOES-17) - High Definition GOES West!

 NOAASatellites

Опубликовано: 26 февр. 2018 г.

(4:50)

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Atlas V AV-077 L-1 Launch Forecast 
 
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