Spaceflight SSO-A: 64 малых КА - Falcon 9 - Vandenberg SLC-4E - 03.12.2018, 18:34 UTC

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/5806886

19 НОЯ, 06:02
Южная Корея объявила о задержке запуска спутника Next Sat-1 по просьбе компании SpaceX

Специалистам американской компании потребовалось больше времени для предстартовой инспекции ракеты-носителя Falcon 9

СЕУЛ, 19 ноября. /ТАСС/. Республика Корея в понедельник объявила о переносе запуска спутника Next Sat-1 из-за необходимости осмотра ракеты-носителя. Об этом сообщило министерство науки и информационно-коммуникационных технологий.

По его данным, компания SpaceX попросила отложить пуск, поскольку ее специалистам требуется больше времени для предстартовой инспекции ракеты-носителя Falcon 9. Каких-либо подробностей относительно причин задержки не приводится.

Министерство сообщает, что теперь запуск спутника состоится 25 или 26 ноября, либо 1 декабря на базе ВВС США Vandenberg в Калифорнии.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 10:44 - 21 нояб. 2018 г.

Upcoming Vandenberg launch schedule:
- SpaceX SSO-A NET Nov 27th (JRTI)
- ULA NROL-71 NET Dec 7th
- SpaceX Iridium-8 NET Dec 30th (JRTI)

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NOTMAR

NAVAREA XII 513/2018 (18,19,83)

PACIFIC OCEAN.
HAWAII.
CALIFORNIA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   281801Z TO 281945Z NOV, ALTERNATE
   291801Z TO 291945Z AND 301801Z TO 301945Z NOV
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   32-46N 121-01W, 32-02N 120-11W,
   31-09N 120-27W, 30-48N 120-48W,
   30-41N 121-00W, 30-25N 121-31W,
   30-26N 121-56W, 31-10N 122-01W,
   32-14N 122-04W.
2. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, SPACE DEBRIS
   282004Z TO 282105Z NOV, ALTERNATE
   292004Z TO 292105Z AND 302004Z TO 302105Z NOV
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   00-52S 152-42W, 00-20S 155-10W,
   07-06N 158-07W, 15-27N 156-51W,
   19-27N 153-30W, 18-43N 147-59W,
   14-23N 147-19W, 05-35N 149-07W.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 302205Z NOV 18.

( 230807Z NOV 2018 )

Пуск: 28.11.2018.
Резерв: 29 и 30.11.2018.
Пусковое окно: с 18:01 до 19:45 UTC

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 15:04 - 24 нояб. 2018 г.

Targeting November 28 for launch of Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

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Из творчества фанов:

https://img.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/172539.jpg

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Погода не хорошая https://weather.com/weather/5day/l/USCA0629:1:US
Но есть резервные дни

Launch day Nov 28, with backup launch days Nov 29-30 is now confirmed also by issued NOTMAR Launch Hazard Area.

 

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Страница миссии SSO-A SmallSat Express на сайте SPACEFLIGHT: http://spaceflight.com/sso-a/

Пресс-кит от SPACEFLIGHT: http://spaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Spaceflight_SSO-A_Presskit.zip, 138.8 MB, 2018-11-15 23:24:01 UTC

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Deimos Imaging‏ @deimosimaging 0:54 - 27 нояб. 2018 г.

Vandenberg Air Force Base SLC-4 looked great yesterday, Nov. 26, from the orbit of #DEIMOS2! Good luck @SpaceX for tomorrow's launch!
#KazSTSAT #Falcon9

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 Страница «30th Space Wing (Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.)» добавила мероприятие.
22 ч.

Team V is scheduled to support launch of the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E on Wednesday, Nov. 28, with a launch window of 10:32 a.m. PST to 11:01 a.m. PST.

If the weather permits, the public can view this launch from the Hawk's Nest on Azalea Lane off of Hwy 1 just a half mile south of Vandenberg Air Force Base's main gate.

The Hawk's Nest gates will open on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. PST and close at 10:15 a.m. PST. As a reminder the public is asked not to bring or consume alcohol, smoke, nor have any open fires or barbecues. Weapons are not allowed, additionally, the use of small unmanned aerial systems within five miles of any active runway, such as Vandenberg's, is prohibited.


СР, 28 НОЯ В 10:32 PST
SpaceX Falcon 9 SSO-A Launch
SLC-4E, Vandenberg AFB

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Tom McCool‏ @Cygnusx112 37 мин. назад

#SpaceX had the door open to the HIF at 39A this morning showing us a #Falcon9

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https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/a0vjff/rspacex_ssoa_official_launch_discussion_updates/eal5bki/

There is a low pressure weather system moving through the Vandenberg area with excessive high altitude winds. The launch scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until Saturday, 1 December, when weather conditions are forecasted to be more favorable. SpaceX should be making a public announcement today using their twitter feed.

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Marine Exchange‏ @MXSOCAL 12:03 - 27 нояб. 2018 г.

From @AFPAA at Vandenberg: The Falcon 9 SSO-A launch has cancelled for tomorrow the 28th of November; now tentatively scheduled pending approval for the 1st of December with a backup dates 12/2-4. Notification pending upon confirmation of date/time.

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 17:32 - 27 нояб. 2018 г.

Wednesday's launch attempt of Spaceflight SSO-A from Vandenberg Air Force Base is currently no-go due to extreme high-altitude winds that violate Range requirements. Vehicle and payloads are healthy. We will announce a new launch date once confirmed with the Range.

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David Knight‏ @thespacedude 26 нояб.

A fantastic photo taken by good friend Tony Cacciarelli from his Icon A5 of the @SpaceX landing barge, Just Read The Instructions

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 1 ч. назад

How bad are the Upper Level Winds at Vandenberg that caused #SpaceX to preemptively delay launch of the #Falcon9 for several days you ask? Here are the current winds ascending from 14,000 ft (60mph) up through 40,000 ft (134mph). #SSOA

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/27/spacex-postpones-california-launch-to-wait-for-better-weather/

SpaceX postpones California launch to wait for better weather
November 27, 2018 | Stephen Clark


Spaceflight's mission patch for the SSO-A: SmallSat Express flight, with flags representing nations with payloads on the rideshare launch. Credit: Spaceflight

SpaceX has postponed Wednesday's scheduled launch from California's Central Coast with 64 smallsats, electing to keep the Falcon 9 rocket on the ground until at least Saturday to wait for improved weather conditions.

The rideshare launch is set to loft 49 nanosatellites, or CubeSats, and 15 microsatellites from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg on a mission brokered by Spaceflight, a Seattle-based company specializing in multi-payload launch bookings on a variety of rockets worldwide.

"Wednesday's launch attempt of Spaceflight SSO-A from Vandenberg Air Force Base is currently no-go due to extreme high-altitude winds that violate Range requirements," SpaceX tweeted late Tuesday. "Vehicle and payloads are healthy. We will announce a new launch date once confirmed with the Range."

The Air Force's Western Range oversees tracking, communications and safety infrastructure for launches from Vandenberg, a military base around 140 miles (225 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.

Three officials familiar with launch preparations on the SSO-A mission said the next available launch opportunity is Saturday, Dec. 1. The launch is timed for 10:31:47 a.m. PST (1:31:47 p.m. EST; 1831 GMT) each day, with a daily window extending nearly a half-hour.

The launch was previously scheduled for Nov. 19, but payload teams said SpaceX ordered a delay to conduct additional verifications on the Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX did not release information about the reason for the extra inspections.

The 64 payloads on the SSO-A mission, ranging in size from a Rubik's cube to a refrigerator, are owned by a variety of U.S. and international operators, including the U.S. government, research institutions, and commercial companies.

Spaceflight is launching two payload mounting platforms atop the Falcon 9 rocket, which will separate and become "free flyers" after arriving in a 357-mile-high (575-kilometer) sun-synchronous orbit that circles Earth over the poles.

The satellites riding on the flight include 15 microsatellites and 49 CubeSats. Seven CubeSats were not ready in time for a November launch, and technicians replaced them with ballast that will stay aboard Spaceflight's dual deployment modules, ensuring mass and balance calculations for the launch remain unaffected, according to Jeff Roberts, Spaceflight's mission manager for the SSO-A mission.

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File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, before a previous mission. Credit: SpaceX

Four of the larger microsats will deploy from adapter plates attached directly to the Falcon 9 second stage. The other satellites will separate from the free flyers in a programmed sequence lasting around five hours.

The microsatellites and CubeSats come from 17 countries: the United States, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Poland, Canada, Brazil, and India.

Rockets typically launch with one or two primary satellites, and sometimes carry additional secondary payloads to fill unused capacity, but the SSO-A launch follows a different model.

There are no primary payloads on the SSO-A mission. Spaceflight purchased the full capacity of the Falcon 9 launch in 2015, and satellite owners booked their launch contracts with Spaceflight, not with SpaceX.

Spaceflight has brokered rideshare launches on rockets before, including India's PSLV and Russia's Soyuz, but those missions flew on launches carrying bigger satellites in the primary payload slot.

The rideshare arrangement allows satellite owners to divide the cost of a rocket launch, instead of paying for the entire mission.

The upcoming launch is also noteworthy because it will be SpaceX's first flight to reuse the same Falcon 9 first stage booster a third time.

The booster assigned to Spaceflight's SSO-A rideshare mission flew two times from Florida: On May 11 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center with the Bangladeshi Bangabandhu 1 communications satellite, and again Aug. 7 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the Indonesian Merah Putih telecom payload.

On both occasions, the first stage landed on SpaceX's drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean and returned to port for inspections, some limited refurbishment and reuse.

SpaceX has re-launched a previously-flown first stage booster 17 times, most recently on a Nov. 15 launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with Qatar's Es'hail 2 communications satellite. But all of the first stages to date have only flown twice.

That changes with SpaceX's next mission as the company aims to eventually reuse Falcon 9 boosters up to 10 times without refurbishment, and up to 100 times with periodic overhauls. The latest iteration of the Falcon 9 design, commonly known as the "Block 5" version, includes upgrades over earlier designs to make reusing the rockets easier.

SpaceX plans to recover the first stage again aboard its West Coast drone ship in the Pacific Ocean after Spaceflight's multi-satellite launch.

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SpaceX‏Подлинная учетная запись @SpaceX 17:54 - 28 нояб. 2018 г.

Now targeting December 2 for launch of Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

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Space X запустит в космос три спутника HawkEye для перехвата радиосигналов с Земли







Компания Space X запустит 2 декабря три спутника стартапа HawkEye, предназначенных для перехвата радиосигналов с поверхности Земли, сообщает Bloomberg. Издание уточняет, что это первый коммерческий проект такого рода.
Спутники HawkEye смогут помочь правоохранительным органам в поиске морских пиратов, контрабандистов и других преступников. Злоумышленники часто отключают GPS-датчики, чтобы их не отследили, и используют спутниковые телефоны со средневолновыми передатчиками. Готовящееся к запуску оборудование сможет вычислить источники этих сигналов примерно за 30 минут.








Bloomberg отмечает, что в дальнейшем количество таких спутников планируют увеличить до десяти для постоянного покрытия всей поверхности Земли. По данным представителей HawkEye, примерно половину заказов компания получит от Министерства обороны США и разведывательного управления. Однако в основном их спутники будут использоваться спасателями для определения местонахождения аварийных маяков.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/01/all-new-falcon-9-rocket-tested-in-florida-as-spacex-preps-for-back-to-back-launches/

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Meanwhile, a SpaceX team at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is preparing to launch a different Falcon 9 rocket Sunday at 10:31 a.m. PST (1:31 p.m. EST; 1831 GMT) on a commercial flight with 64 smallsats built and owned by companies, governments and institutions from 17 countries. The launch was set for Nov. 19, but SpaceX ordered a delay to conduct additional inspections, and the launch was further pushed back to wait for better weather.

Sunday's launch from California will set a record for the highest number of satellites ever launched on a U.S. rocket. The rideshare mission, arranged by Seattle-based Spaceflight, will also mark the first time SpaceX has flown the same Falcon 9 first stage booster a third time.

SpaceX has re-launched Falcon boosters 17 times since March 2017 — the fruits of a multi-year effort to recover the rockets and cut launch costs — but no Falcon 9 first stage has flown more than twice. That changes Sunday.

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