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

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Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly
Update on #Falcon9 #Hispasat launch: SpaceX did request early Thursday for the range but has not yet been approved, according to Tim Dunn, NASA launch director. Mentioned during #GOESS pre-launch conference.

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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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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 1 мин. назад

SpaceX e-mail to the media notes Falcon 9 is now ready for launch, but that they are currently waiting for a launch date to be approved by the Eastern Range for the Hispasat 30W-6 mission.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 1 ч. назад

Update on #Falcon9 and Hispasat: The #SpaceX recovery fleet has been called back to Port Canaveral. They had been out for over a week, so this is understandable. If SpaceX still intends to recover the first stage, the earliest the launch could take place is next week.

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Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly сейчас38 минут назад

SpaceX #Hispasat update: Now targeting #Falcon9 for Monday into Tuesday from LC 40. Airspace closure in effect from 2230 Monday to 0330 Tuesday (0330 to 0830 UTC)

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Сообщение 45-го КК


ACA и LHA пока не обновлены

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Emre Kelly ‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly сейчас38 минут назад

SpaceX #Hispasat update: Now targeting #Falcon9 for Monday into Tuesday from LC 40. Airspace closure in effect from 2230 Monday to 0330 Tuesday (0330 to 0830 UTC)

Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly 8 ч. назад

В ответ @baserunner0723 @murphypak

Confirmed by range: 12:33 a.m.

2018-03-06 05:33 UTC

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Emre Kelly‏Подлинная учетная запись @EmreKelly сейчас34 минуты назад

L-3 weather forecast for SpaceX #Hispasat mission: 90% "go" for 0033 Tuesday launch from LC 40. Window open until 0233 (0533 to 0733 UTC).

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Прогноз погоды L-3

L-3 Launch Forecast F-9 Hispasat 30W-6

90% GO
Прим. В резервный день лучше не лететь - только 40% GO

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/03/spacex-launch-with-spanish-satellite-planned-for-early-tuesday/

SpaceX launch with Spanish satellite planned for early Tuesday
March 3, 2018 | Stephen Clark



SpaceX aims to launch its next mission, the 50th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, just after midnight Tuesday from Cape Canaveral with a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat.

The two-hour launch window opens at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT).

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The Hispasat 30W-6 telecom craft will ride a 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket from the Complex 40 launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The commercial mission was supposed to lift off last month, but SpaceX delayed the flight to complete additional testing on a pressurization system on the Falcon 9's payload fairing, the shroud that will shield the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite during the first few minutes of launch.

SpaceX said earlier this week that the pressurization system concern was resolved, but United Launch Alliance had Thursday and Friday reserved on the U.S. Air Force's Eastern Range for an Atlas 5 mission with a NOAA weather satellite.

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SpaceX requested a launch opportunity from the Air Force for early Thursday, around 16-and-a-half hours before the Atlas 5 launch. The Air Force was prepared to support both launches Thursday, a rapid same-day turnaround capability not demonstrated at Cape Canaveral in nearly 40 years.

But ULA and NASA officials, which had responsibility for launching the NOAA weather satellite, were concerned the Atlas 5 rocket and sensitive optics on its GOES-S meteorological payload would be exposed to the Falcon 9's exhaust plume as it fired into space.

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The Atlas 5 and Falcon 9 pads are located about a mile-and-a-half apart at Cape Canaveral, and both facilities are built with a "clean pad" design without a protective gantry to protect rockets after they roll out in preparation for liftoff.

Officials were also studying whether the Atlas 5 and the GOES-S weather satellite might be endangered by a potential mishap during the Falcon 9 launch.

SpaceX ultimately delayed the Hispasat flight to Tuesday, and a drone ship expected to recover the Falcon 9's first stage booster returned to Port Canaveral, presumably for rest and refueling before heading back out to sea ahead of next week's mission.

The Atlas 5 rocket successfully delivered the GOES-S weather satellite to orbit Thursday.

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.

Its telecom payload will serve customers in Spain, other parts of Europe, North Africa and Latin America.

"Hispasat 30W-6 is the fourth satellite that SSL has provided to our company," said Carlos Espinós, chief executive officer at Hispasat. "SSL has been a flexible and reliable partner in working with us on technological advances that make satellite communications more cost effective and enable next generation space systems and missions. We look forward to using Hispasat 30W-6 to expand our service offerings and capacity in the covered regions."

The weather outlook for Tuesday is favorable, with a 90 percent probability of conditions acceptable for liftoff.

The only slight concern is with thick clouds, but mostly clear skies are expected, with east-southeast winds of 10 to 15 mph, and a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the official weather outlook issued Saturday by the Air Force's 45th Space Wing.

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Прогноз погоды L-2 

L-2 Launch Forecast F-9 Hispasat 30W-6 
 
90% GO 

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Julia‏ @julia_bergeron 14 мин. назад

GO Searcher, GO Pursuit and GO Quest in @PortCanaveral today. OCISLY is photobombing in the background while GO Hawk is a little more shy. #SpaceXFleet

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Первую ступень в этом запуске вроде бы передумали спасать.

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NWS Melbourne‏Подлинная учетная запись @NWSMelbourne 10 ч. назад

A buoy about 120 nautical miles east of Cape Canaveral just reported seas of ~21 feet! These swells will move toward the east coast of Florida tonight & generate large pounding surf of 9 to 11 feet, dangerous rip currents, and significant beach erosion. STAY OUT OF THE WATER!

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 3 ч. назад

LAUNCH ALERT! @13ericralph31 has confirmed that the media have been alerted for a 12:33 AM EST launch on Tuesday morning of the #SpaceX #Falcon9 with Hispasat. As the recovery ships are still at the port, this will be an expendable mission.

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 40 мин. назад

Good morning on #Falcon9's launch day. The mission will loft #HispaSat tonight in a 2hr window from 00:33-02:33 EST (0533-0733 UTC). Weather remains extremely favourable for launch. No landing attempt now due to high seas in the recovery zone. #SpaceX @NASASpaceflight

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Прогноз погоды L-1

L-1 Launch Forecast F-9 Hispasat 30W-6

90% GO

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/05/falcon-9-hispasat-30w-6-mission-status-center/

Live coverage: Hispasat communications craft set for launch on Falcon 9 rocket
March 5, 2018 | Stephen Clark

03/05/2018 19:09 Stephen Clark

Forecasters from the U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing continue to predict a 90 percent chance weather conditions at Cape Canaveral will be favorable during the Falcon 9 rocket's two-hour launch window early Tuesday.

Lighter winds are expected on Florida's Space Coast today, with increasing cloudiness ahead of the opening of the launch window at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT).

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"Winds will be lighter and gradually shift to the northeast today, then easterly and southeasterly overnight," forecasters wrote in an official launch weather outlook issued this morning. "Mid-level cloudiness associated with a frontal boundary pushing into the Gulf Coast will filter in over the Space Coast during the day. These clouds are the primary weather concern. Max upper-level winds will be from the northwest at 85 knots near 45,000 feet."

During the launch window, meteorologists expect a few clouds at 2,500 feet and scattered clouds at 12,000 feet, east-southeast winds at 8 to 12 mph, good visibility and a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

If something prevents the Falcon 9 from launching with the Hispasat 30W-6 telecom satellite Tuesday, weather conditions are predicted to deteriorate in advance of a backup launch opportunity early Wednesday.

An approaching cold front will bring more clouds and a chance of rain to Central Florida, so the forecast for Wednesday's early morning launch window calls for a 60 percent probability of weather prohibiting liftoff due to thick clouds and cumulus clouds.

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http://www.spacex.com/webcast

HISPASAT 30W-6 MISSION

SpaceX is targeting a Falcon 9 launch of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Tuesday, March 6 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The two-hour launch window opens at 12:33 a.m. EST, or 5:33 UTC, with a two-hour backup launch window opening on Wednesday, March 7 at 12:33 a.m. EST, or 5:33 UTC.

The Hispasat 30W-6 satellite will be deployed approximately 33 minutes after launch. SpaceX will not attempt to land Falcon 9's first stage after launch due to unfavorable weather conditions in the recovery area off of Florida's Atlantic Coast.

You can watch the mission live below, and find out more about the mission in our press kit.