наноспутники Lemur-2 – Electron – Mahia – 11.11.2018 03:50 UTC

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Proxima 1 & 2

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CICERO-10

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NABEO

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Rocket Lab‏Подлинная учетная запись @RocketLab 10 мин. назад

All payloads deployed. It really is Business Time.

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Трансляция завершена

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 10 мин. назад

Mission Success for @RocketLab! Very smooth count and nominal mission.

ARTICLE:
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/11/rocketlab-operational-electron-launch-five-payload/ ...

- by @ChrisG_NSF

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11/11/2018 07:49 Stephen Clark

First deployed from the Curie kick stage was the IRVINE01 CubeSat built by students in Southern California, followed by two ship-tracking and weather data collection craft for Spire Global, two data relay satellites from Fleet Space Technologies, and the CICERO 10 commercial weather satellite for GeoOptics.

The German-built NABEO drag sail will remain on the Curie kick stage and is scheduled to unfurl in around one hour, Rocket Lab says.

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Rocket Lab Electron "It's Business Time" satellites deployment

SciNews

Опубликовано: 10 нояб. 2018 г.

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Официальная запись трансляции пуска

It's Business Time Launch - 11/11/2018

Rocket Lab

Трансляция началась 99 минут назад

Rocket Lab successfully launched 'It's Business Time' at 16:50 NZDT (03:50 UTC), Sunday 11th November.

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НОРАД, похоже, обнаружил БВ Кюри до отделения ПН

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0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 43690U 18088A   18315.20213355  .00000372 -11738-5  00000+0 0  9993
2 43690  85.0339 102.9499 0224293 222.7416 214.1638 15.71130100    06 43690 / 2018-088A : 205 x 507 km x 85.034° на 2018-11-11 04:51:04 UTC

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Peter Beck‏ @Peter_J_Beck 9 мин. назад

Perfect flight. Orbital accuracy was exquisite. Let's do it all again in a few weeks time!

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Rocket Lab‏Подлинная учетная запись @RocketLab 6 мин. назад

The world is waking up to a new normal. Rapid and reliable access to space is now a reality for small satellites.
#ItsBusinessTime

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 2 мин. назад

NABEO drag sail should have been deployed from Curie stage at about 0534 UTC, 45 min ago

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 4 мин. назад

One object from the Electron launch cataloged so far, as 43690. It appears to be the Electron second stage, in a 205 x 507 km x 85.0 deg orbit.

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Proxima I & II  = 2*1,5U
Полетел CICERO-10 вместо CICERO-8
NABEO – grag sail 1,3 kg (со стороной ~1,5м) остаётся на Curie
Irvine 01 – 1U, Technology

что это за пусковой контейнер?

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http://www.rocketlabusa.com/news/updates/rocket-lab-reaches-orbit-again-deploys-more-satellites/

Rocket Lab reaches orbit again, deploys more satellites

Rocket Lab reaches orbit again, deploys more satellites

Auckland, New Zealand. November 11, 2018: Rocket Lab has continued the success of its 2018 orbital launch program with the launch of seven payloads to orbit today. The mission, named 'It's Business Time,' marks Rocket Lab's second successful orbital launch and deployment of customer satellites.

Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle lifted-off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula at 16:50 on 11 November NZDT (03:50 UTC). After first reaching orbit on Electron's second stage, the Curie kick stage successfully separated and circularized its orbit before deploying six satellites for customers Spire Global, Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Fleet Space Technologies and the Irvine CubeSat Stem Program. Curie also carried NABEO, a drag sail technology demonstrator, designed and built by High Performance Space Structure Systems GmbH, to passively de-orbit inactive small satellites and reduce space junk.

Rocket Lab founder and chief executive Peter Beck says the mission marks a new era in access to space.

"The world is waking up to the new normal. With the Electron launch vehicle, rapid and reliable access to space is now a reality for small satellites," says Beck.

"We're thrilled to be leading the small satellite launch industry by reaching orbit a second time and deploying more payloads. The team carried out a flawless flight with incredibly precise orbital insertion. " he says.

Rocket Lab is poised for high-frequency launches in 2019 thanks to production facilities that enable rapid mass Electron production, as well as a private launch complex licensed to launch up to 120 times per year.

"With two orbital launches down for 2018, we're not resting on our laurels. We have a burgeoning customer manifest, so we're moving onto the next mission within a few weeks – the incredibly exciting ELaNa 19 mission for NASA in December."

The full webcast for It's Business Time can be viewed at 

For real-time updates on Rocket Lab activities and upcoming launches, follow Rocket Lab on Twitter @RocketLab

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https://spacenews.com/rocket-lab-performs-first-commercial-launch/

Rocket Lab performs first commercial launch
by Jeff Foust — November 10, 2018


Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifts off from its New Zealand launch site on the "It's Business Time" mission. Credit: Rocket Lab

WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab successfully launched its Electron rocket Nov. 10 on a long-delayed first commercial mission for the small launch vehicle.

The Electron lifted off from the company's Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula at 10:50 p.m. Eastern (4:50 p.m. local time Nov. 11) after a trouble-free countdown. The two-stage rocket released an upper stage, called Curie, into orbit nine minutes after liftoff.

Curie ignited its engines 51 minutes after liftoff to go into a circular 500-kilometer orbit at an inclination of 85 degrees. Three minutes later it released its payload of six small satellites.

Those satellites included two Lemur-2 cubesats for Spire, which operates a constellation of such spacecraft to collect weather data as well as track vessels and aircraft. The Cicero-10 small satellite built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems for weather satellite constellation company GeoOptics was also on the launch, as was IRVINE01, a cubesat built by high school students in Southern California. IRVINE01 features an electric propulsion system developed by Accion Systems, marking the first flight of that company's technology.

Fleet, an Australian company developing a constellation of smallsats for Internet of Things services, added two 1.5-unit Proxima cubesats to the mission in October. The satellites are the first to be launched by the company, ahead of larger 3-unit cubesats that are part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 dedicated rideshare mission scheduled to launch later in November.

An additional payload, called NABEO and developed by High Performance Space Structure Systems GmBH, will remain attached to Curie. It will deploy a sail after the release of the other satellites to test its use as a means of deorbiting satellites. That payload was installed in cooperation with Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation, which announced an agreement with Rocket Lab in August to arrange similar hosted payloads on future Electron missions.

The launch was the third mission for the Electron, and the first since a January test flight that was the first to reach orbit. This mission, dubbed "It's Business Time" by Rocket Lab, marked the beginning of routine commercial operations.

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That mission was originally scheduled for launch in April but postponed because of a motor controller problem in one of the rocket's first stage engines. The company corrected the problem and rescheduled the launch for late June, only to have the problem reappear.

In an August interview, Peter Beck, chief executive of Rocket Lab, said the company decided to make changes to the design of the controller to address the problem. "We made the decision to bite the bullet," he said then. "We'll go in there and make some changes to the hardware, some components of the motor controller."

With this success the company plans to step up the pace of launches. Rocket Lab's next Electron mission is expected to take place in December, carrying a collection of cubesats from NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative under a contract awarded by NASA's Venture Class Launch Services program in 2015.

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Rocket Lab‏Подлинная учетная запись @RocketLab 3 ч. назад

Electron in flight. #ItsBusinessTime

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На текущий момент уже обнаружены три объекта запуска

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0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 43690U 18088A   18315.50671040  .00168958 -11874-5  30203-3 0  9993
2 43690  85.0295 102.7220 0220966 220.9398 136.5331 15.70324256    57

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 43691U 18088B   18315.33476067  .00000039  00000-0  00000+0 0  9993
2 43691  85.0225 102.8270 0007852 307.9004 133.4653 15.18254210    28

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 43692U 18088C   18315.33034144  .00000040  00000-0  00000+0 0  9992
2 43692  85.0292 102.8591 0013913 212.8877 203.8006 15.19928625    07 43690 / 2018-088A : 209 x 507 km x 85.030°
43691 / 2018-088B : 506 x 517 km x 85.023°
43692 / 2018-088C : 496 x 516 km x 85.029°