PSN-6 (Pasifik Satelit Nusantara 6), Beresheet (SpaceIL), S5 - Falcon 9 - CCAFS SLC-40 - 22.02.2019, 01:45 UTC

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Chris G - NSF @ChrisG_NSF · 20 ч

Weather forecast for Thursday's launch of #Falcon9 with #NusantaraSatu & #Beresheet remains unchanged from yesterday. 80% GO forecast for both Thursday & Friday. The launch window opens at 20:45 EST on Thursday (0145 UTC/Friday) and extends for 32 minutes.
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Raul @Raul74Cz · 9 ч

#NusantaraSatu #PSN6 Launch Hazard Areas based on NOTMAR. Planned booster landing 663km downrange. Mr Steven is on the way to the area of Fairing 2.0 recovery attempt.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/02/19/falcon-9-launch-set-for-thursday-at-cape-canaveral/

Falcon 9 launch set for Thursday at Cape Canaveral
February 19, 2019 | Stephen Clark



SpaceX is set to end a two-month launch drought at Cape Canaveral with a blastoff Thursday night carrying a privately-funded Israeli moon lander, an Indonesian communications satellite and a U.S. Air Force surveillance payload into orbit.

A Falcon 9 rocket will lift off during a 32-minute launch window opening at 8:45 p.m. EST Thursday (0145 GMT Friday).

The Falcon 9's liftoff fr om Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad will be the first launch from the Florida Space Coast since Dec. 23, and the first of up to 20 or so orbital-class missions planned from Florida this year.

There is an 80 percent chance of favorable weather during Thursday night's launch window. A nearly full moon will rise minutes after the launch window opens.

Nine Merlin 1D main engines will push the Falcon 9 rocket off the ground with 1.7 million pounds of thrust.

SpaceX plans to recover the Falcon 9's first stage aboard the company's drone ship parked in the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred miles east of Cape Canaveral. Another ship in SpaceX's fleet, Mr. Steven, could try to catch the rocket's payload fairing when it descends back to Earth.

Mr. Steven arrived at Port Canaveral, a few miles south of the Falcon 9 launch pad, earlier this month after a trip from the Port of Los Angeles, through the Panama Canal and the Caribbean Sea, to its new staging base in Florida. The ship is fitted with a giant net suspended between four arms, a setup SpaceX has nicknamed the "catcher's mitt," to catch fairings as they descend under steerable parafoils.

The vessel attempted to catch the fairing after several launches from California, but narrowly missed snagging the Falcon 9's shroud. SpaceX also practiced catching fairings with Mr. Steven in the Pacific Ocean after they were dropped from a helicopter.

Thursday night's mission could mark Mr. Steven's debut on the East Coast.


Mr. Steven, SpaceX's fairing recovery ship. Credit: SpaceX

This week's flight will be SpaceX's second launch of the year overall, following a Jan. 11 flight from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, with 10 Iridium communications satellites.

SpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket Sunday evening, then rolled the launcher back into its hangar for attachment to the mission's payloads.

Three spacecraft will be stowed inside the Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing for launch.

The largest of the group is an Indonesian communications satellite named Nusantara Satu.

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Built by SSL in Palo Alto, California, the Nusantara Satu satellite will provide voice, data and video distribution services throughout Southeast Asia, according to the spacecraft's manufacturer.

The satellite is owned by PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, or PSN, an Indonesian telecom company. Formerly known as PSN 6, the satellite carries C-band and Ku-band transponders, along with a high-throughput payload for broadband services.

"(The) Nusantara Satu satellite is a very important infrastructure for Indonesia," said Adi Rahman Adiwoso, CEO of PSN. "As the first Indonesian High Throughput Satellite, it is another monumental step for PSN to realize its dream and carry on its commitment to provide broadband services across the vast archipelago of Indonesia."

The spacecraft — designed for a 15-year mission — will use electric thrusters to maneuver into a circular geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator from an initial drop-off transfer orbit ranging between an altitude of a few hours hundred miles and approximately 37,000 miles (about 60,000 kilometers), an orbit reachable by the two-stage Falcon 9 rocket.

The Falcon 9 will fire its upper stage Merlin engine two times during Thursday night's mission to reach the targeted supersynchronous transfer orbit around a half-hour after liftoff.

The Israeli Beresheet lunar lander, one of the mission's secondary payloads, will separate from the launcher first. It is attached to the very top of the three-payload stack inside the nose of the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket.

The Beresheet spacecraft, which weighs about 1,300 pounds fully fueled, will use its own thrusters to spiral away from Earth, gradually raising its orbit until it intercepts the moon April 4.

The lander, with a fueled weight of around 1,283 pounds (582 kilograms), was originally developed to compete for the defunct Google Lunar X Prize. When that competition ended last year without a winner, the Israeli team — known as SpaceIL — continued their project, which is billed as the first privately-funded lunar lander.

The Beresheet spacecraft is also the first mission to attempt soft landing on the moon by a non-superpower, following probes sent by the United States, the Soviet Union and China.

Israeli officials say the lunar lander was developed for less than $100 million.

Assuming the craft reaches lunar orbit April 4 as scheduled, touchdown in the moon's Mare Serenitatis region is scheduled for April 11.

The other piggyback payload launching Thursday is the S5 satellite for the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Unlike the Beresheet lander, S5 will remain mounted to the Nusantara Satu spacecraft during the communications satellite's orbit-raising maneuvers.

Nusantara Satu will release the S5 spacecraft into an orbit near geosynchronous altitude, then head to its final orbital position.

S5 was described as a space situational awareness mission in a 2017 press release from Blue Canyon Technologies, a smallsat manufacturer in Colorado.

According to Blue Canyon Technologies, the spacecraft weighs about 132 pounds (60 kilograms), and carries a payload provided by Applied Defense Systems.

The U.S. military has launched several missions in recent years with optical sensors to scan geostationary orbit, wh ere ground-based radars used to track satellites and space junk in low Earth orbit have difficulty detecting objects.

One such mission was SensorSat, which launched from Cape Canaveral in August 2017 to look up toward geostationary orbit from a low-altitude orbit hugging the equator. The Air Force has also launched four space surveillance satellites to rove geostationary orbit, with the ability to approach and inspect objects there.

S5 will demonstrate the capability of a small satellite to find objects in geostationary orbit, allowing the military to update its database, which is relied upon by commercial companies and international space agencies.

"The objective of the S5 mission is to measure the feasibility and affordability of developing low cost constellations for routine and frequent updates to the GEO (geostationary) space catalog," Blue Canyon Technologies said in the 2017 statement.

The launch of the Beresheet moon probe and the military's S5 mission was arranged by Spaceflight, a launch broker and rideshare provider based near Seattle. It will be Spaceflight's first rideshare to geostationary transfer orbit, following numerous missions to low Earth orbit.

Spaceflight secured the rideshare launch service with SSL, which purchased the full capacity of the Falcon 9 rocket.

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SSL @sslmda · 1 ч

Nusantara Satu is launching Thursday night! Thanks @SpaceX for this cool picture of the rocket fairing!

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Chris G - NSF @ChrisG_NSF · 4 ч

L-1 day launch weather forecast. Still calling for an 80% chance of acceptable weather in the 32-minute launch window tomorrow and Friday for the #SpaceX #Falcon9 carrying #NusantaruSatu and #Beresheet.
@TeamSpaceIL

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https://ria.ru/20190221/1551160406.html

Falcon 9 запустит израильский луноход, индонезийский спутник и зонд ВВС США
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ВАШИНГТОН, 21 фев - РИА Новости. Ракета-носитель Falcon 9 осуществит в четверг запуск сразу трех космических аппаратов: индонезийского коммуникационного спутника, израильского лунохода и зонда для ВВС США.

Старт ракеты с космодрома на мысе Канаверал (Флорида) запланирован на 20.45 по времени Восточного побережья США (04.45 мск пятницы 22 февраля). Основной миссией ракеты является запуск индонезийского коммуникационного спутника Nusantara Satu. Аппарат, созданный компанией SSL по заказу индонезийской PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, будет обеспечивать передачу видео и голосовых сигналов, широкополосного интернета и видео контента.

Однако наибольший интерес к предстоящему старту вызывает то, что помимо Nusantara Satu и американского военного спутника S5, частная ракета выведет на орбиту новейший израильский луноход. Аппарат Beresheet, что в переводе с иврита означает "Книга Бытия" ("Genesis") или "зарождение", в случае успешной реализации миссии, станет первым ровером на лунной поверхности, созданным не в рамках государственной программы, а по частной инициативе.

На борту лунохода, который весит около 6 тонн, на поверхность спутника Земли отправятся три диска с описанием его миссии и страны происхождения: Израиль, в случае успеха миссии, станет четвертой страной, аппарат которой достиг Луны после России, США и Китая.

"Beresheet" покинет ракету-носитель последним: он будет выведен на суперсинхронную переходную орбиту, откуда при помощи собственной тяги отправится к Луне. Посадка аппарата на лунную поверхность планируется через два месяца после старта, ориентировочно 11 апреля.

Луноход изначально разрабатывался компанией SpaceIL в рамках организованного компанией Google конкурса, его создание осуществлялось на частные пожертвования. Строительство аппарата взял на себя израильский авиапромышленный концерн Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) и, по информации концерна, его создание обошлось "всего в сто миллионов долларов", что, как отмечают создатели, значительно дешевле аналогичных проектов.

По договоренности с НАСА, как сообщило издание Space Нews в преддверии старта, израильские ученые будут делиться с американскими коллегами полученными с помощью лунохода данными. В свою очередь НАСА оснастило аппарат лазерным ретрорефлектором и будет помогать израильтянам поддерживать связь с луноходом.

Ха 3 разы, ктой-то врот! РИА в своём репертуаре     Beresheet не более шестисот кг

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https://www.spacex.com/webcast

NUSANTARA SATU MISSION

SpaceX is targeting Thursday, February 21 for launch of the Nusantara Satu satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 32-minute launch window opens at 8:45 p.m. EST, or 1:45 UTC on February 22. Falcon 9 will also deliver the Beresheet lunar spacecraft and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) S5 spacecraft to orbit. Deployments will occur at approximately 33 and 44 minutes after liftoff.

A 32-minute backup launch window opens on Friday, February 22 at 8:41 p.m. EST, or 1:41 UTC on February 23.

Falcon 9's first stage for the Nusantara Satu mission previously supported the Iridium-7 mission in July 2018 and the SAOCOM 1A mission in October 2018. Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to land Falcon 9's first stage on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Опубликована брошюра миссии

nusantara_satu_press_kit.pdf — 401 KB, 2 стр

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Emre Kelly @EmreKelly · 1 ч

Mission patch and timeline for Thursday's #SpaceX Nusantara Satu mission. Love the artwork here.

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На сайте SpaceX

https://www.spacex.com/webcast

или на ТыТрубе

youtube.com/watch?v=XS0E35aYJcU

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Michael Baylor @nextspaceflight · 2 ч

The #SpaceX press kit confirms that the booster for Nusantara Satu is B1048.3. It will land on OCISLY following launch. The core previously launched Iridium-7 and SAOCOM-1A from Vandenberg.

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OCISLY с флотом прибывают к точке посадки первой ступени в 663 км от берега. 

 Mr.Steven вышел в океан в район падения половинок обтекателя. Возможна попытка спасения! (офиц. информации на этот счёт нет) 

А до этого Mr.Steven показал использование своей маленькой сети, оказывается она нужна для оперативного извлечения половинки обтекателя из воды 

Напомним запуск Falcon 9 с миссией Nusantara Satu (Nusantara Satu (PSN-VI) / Лунный лендер Beresheet / AFRL S5) состоится 22 февраля в 04:45 по Москве (01:45 UTC) со стартового комплекса SLC-40 базы ВВС во Флориде 

Погода на день запуска - благоприятна на 80%. Стартовое окно - 32 минуты.

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Да уж прям загадка природы (чёт он сумлевается)

Just A. Tinker‏ @John_Gardi 3 ч.3 часа назад


Amazing that a spacecraft weighing a few hundred pounds can carry enough fuel to go from GEO transfer orbit to Lunar orbit to Lunar surface and then make a 500 hop. If this spacecraft & flight profile could scale, it'd be a great method to get cargo to the Moon.

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SpaceX @SpaceX · 2 ч

Liftoff!

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SpaceX @SpaceX · 2 ч

Falcon 9 first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, completing this booster's third launch and landing.

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SpaceX @SpaceX · 2 ч

Successful deployment of the SpaceIL lunar lander confirmed, starting the spacecraft's two-month voyage to the Moon

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SpaceX @SpaceX · 2 ч

Successful deployment of Nusantara Satu to geosynchronous transfer orbit confirmed—completing SpaceX's 70th mission!

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Falcon 9 launches Nusantara Satu mission and Falcon 9 first stage landing

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Опубликовано: 21 февр. 2019 г.

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