Hispasat 30W-6 - Falcon 9 - Canaveral SLC-40 - 06.03.2018 05:33 UTC

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 38 мин. назад

SpaceX, via a media accreditation notice, place the Falcon 9 launch from SLC-40 at the Cape, with Hispasat 30W-6, in a mid-February placeholder.

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на текущий момент предполагается, что ядро В1044, ступень - однораз Falcon-9 v1.2(ex)

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/hispasat-1f.htm

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Spain

Communication

Hispasat

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L)

48 Ku-band transponders, 6 Ka-band transponders, 1 Ka-BSS-band transponder, 1 C-band transponder

SSL-1300

?, 4 × SPT-100 plasma thrusters

2 deployable solar arrays, batteries (11.5 kW)

15 years

6092 kg

GEO

https://www.satbeams.com/satellites?id=2555

Call sign: S2969
Launch mass (kg): 6092
Dry mass (kg): 2623
Position: 30° W (30° W)
48 Ku-band transponders, 6 Ka-band transponders, 1 Ka-BSS-band transponder, 1 C-band transponder (to replace Hispasat 1D)

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Stephen Clark‏ @StephenClark1 25m ago

Updates to launch schedule: Hispasat 30W-6 launch on Falcon 9 rocket slips three days to Feb. 25 ...https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/ ...

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 9h ago

Still two SpaceX launches close together as the manifest aligns with Range Approved NET dates.

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Feb 20: Falcon 9 (Hispasat 30W-6/1F) Static Fire Test.
Feb 25: Falcon 9 (Hispasat 30W-6/1F) launch.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 9m ago

SpaceX Falcon 9 (Hispasat 30W-6) rollout for a Static Fire test at the Cape's SLC-40.

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This is pretty much what will become the norm.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 14m14 minutes ago

Chris B - NSF Retweeted Abby Garrett

The Cape Falcon 9 Cape (B1044.1) is *supposed* to be lofting a spacecraft so heavy it negates a safe landing of the booster, but visual observations note fins and landing legs. Could be another "very high retrothrust landing" test: Technical overview:

На первой ступени замечены решетки и ноги (!).

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 6m ago

And Falcon 9 B1044.1 is now seen as erect on SLC-40! Two Falcon 9's are up on their pads right now.

Static Fire article going on shortly for the East Coast rocket. ...

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 22m ago

...the window is 1800 to midnight local!

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NOTMAR

NAVAREA IV 153/2018 (11,26)

WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 250530Z TO 250830Z FEB,
   ALTERNATE 260530Z TO 260830Z FEB
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 28-36N 080-38W, 28-38N 080-36W,
   28-38N 080-00W, 28-35N 079-30W,
   28-33N 079-30W, 28-30N 080-00W,
   28-31N 080-36W.
   B. 28-27N 075-01W, 28-30N 074-16W,
   28-37N 072-06W, 28-17N 071-56W,
   27-46N 072-08W, 27-50N 073-10W,
   28-21N 074-58W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 260930Z FEB 18.

( 201028Z FEB 2018 )

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SpaceX‏ @SpaceX · 49m

Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting February 25 launch of Hispasat 30W-6 from Pad 40 in Florida.

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NOTMAR

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 6m ago

Recovery action on the Cape side! GO Searcher is leaving Port Canaveral. Will need to wait a bit to confirm for sure, but this likely has to do with the Hispasat launch. GO Searcher can be used to support fairing recovery testing or first stage recovery.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 1h ago

GO Searcher appears to be heading back to port. It headed several miles out and then turned around. Not clear what it was doing.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 21m ago

OCISLY is on the move at Port Canaveral!!! #SpaceX will look to perform one of the most ambitious landing attempts to date Sunday morning. The Hispasat communication satellite weighs over 6,000 kilograms. The #Falcon9 will have to work with limited fuel to return safely.


19m ago

I have visually confirmed that OCISLY is in tow.

Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 24m ago

Hot damn, ASDS Of Course I Still Love You is heading out of Port Canaveral. Timing is right for it to be leaving to try to catch the #HispaSat core this weekend, previously thought to be expendable! #SpaceX #Falcon9

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Прогноз погоды L-4

Falcon 9 HispaSat 30W-6 L-4 Forecast

80% GO

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 13h ago

GO Quest just left Port Canaveral to support OCISLY. Hawk (pulling OCISLY) continues to head in the predicted direction. This is going to be one exciting launch and landing!

12h ago

GO Pursuit has now left the port as well. It will either assist OCISLY or fairing recovery testing. It is not outfitted with the equipment needed to catch a fairing like Mr. Steven. This will mark GO Pursuit's first ever recovery assignment for SpaceX.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/02/21/spacex-fires-up-falcon-9-rocket-for-weekend-launch-from-florida/

SpaceX fires up Falcon 9 rocket for weekend launch from Florida
February 21, 2018 Stephen Clark


A view of the Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday, awaiting the attachment of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite for launch Sunday. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

A Falcon 9 rocket booked to launch a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat, a Madrid-based telecom company, fired its nine main engines late Tuesday night at Cape Canaveral for a pre-flight hold-down test.

The static fire test is a major step in SpaceX launch campaigns, and launch crews at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad planned to remove the Falcon 9 rocket from the pad and roll it back to a nearby assembly hangar Wednesday.

Liftoff is set for Sunday during a two-hour window opening at 12:35 a.m. EST (0535 GMT), less than three days after another Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Спойлер

Both missions are slated to deploy Spanish-owned satellites in orbit: Paz, a radar observation craft, will launch from California; Hispasat 30W-6, a geostationary telecom satellite, will blast off from Florida.

SpaceX's bi-coastal launch manifest will continue next month with the launch of 10 Iridium voice and data relay satellites from Vandenberg, followed in April by additional missions from both launch sites.

Tuesday night's hold-down firing lasted several seconds and occurred after a countdown rehearsal that included loading of the Falcon 9 rocket with super-chilled, densified RP-1 kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants.

The propellants were drained from the rocket after the test-firing.

Once the Falcon 9 is back in the hangar at Complex 40, technicians will install the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite and the rocket's payload fairing to finish assembly of the two-stage launcher.

The rocket will return to the pad and go vertical ahead of Sunday's early morning launch attempt.

Built by SSL in Palo Alto, California, the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite hosts communications transponders and beams in three bands.

From its final operating position in geostationary orbit — more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator at 30 degrees west longitude — Hispasat 30W-6 will connect customers across the Americas, Europe and North Africa.


Artist's concept of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite in orbit. Credit: SSL

The spacecraft carries 40 Ku-band transponders, 10 C-band transponders and seven Ka-band beams targeting users across its coverage zone.

Hispasat 30W-6, formerly known as Hispasat 1F, will focus its coverage on trans-Atlantic communications traffic passing between Europe and the Americas, along with C-band capacity aimed at the southern United States, the Caribbean and South America. The Ka-band payload aboard Hispasat 30W-6 will expand broadband offerings in Spain, the Balearic and Canary Islands, Northwest Africa, and Southern and Central Europe, according to a Hispasat fact sheet on the satellite.

SpaceX has not confirmed whether it will try to recover the Falcon 9's first stage on Sunday's flight, but the company's drone ship was observed departing Port Canaveral on Wednesday.

Long-distance views of the Falcon 9 rocket standing on the Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday revealed its first stage booster — newly-manufactured for the Hispasat mission — is fitted with titanium grid fins used for steering during descent back to Earth.

The presence of landing legs at the base of the booster could not be confirmed Wednesday.

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Прогноз погоды L-3

Falcon 9 HispaSat 30W-6 L-3 Forecast

80% GO

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Качество не очень..., но за неимением...

SpaceX - Hipasat 30W-6 - Static Fire Test 02-20-2018

USLaunchReport

Опубликовано: 21 февр. 2018 г.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AfmLztuKCAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AfmLztuKCA (4:42)

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