Starlink v1.0 (x60) flight 2 - Falcon 9 - CCAFS SLC-40 - 07.01.2020, 02:19 UTC

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Выпущено уведомление на пуск

Зона затопления 2-й ст РН (похоже, на 2-м витке)

NOTAM

YMMM

F3828/19 - ROCKET LAUNCH WILL TAKE PLACE
REVIEW
FLW RECEIVED FROM GOVERNMENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
HAZARDOUS OPS WILL BE CONDUCTED FOR ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY AND SPLASHDOWN OF LAUNCH VEHICLE STARLINK V1.0-L2 AND PARTICIPATING SUPPORT ACFT WI THE FOLLOWING AREAS:
2943S 06007E
2455S 06427E
3845S 08430E
4512S 09945E
4946S 11913E
5042S 13819E
4850S 15644E
5146S 15808E
5442S 14832E
5620S 13103E
5552S 10750E
4911S 08505E
3432S 06413E.
SFC - UNL, 2001040502 TO 2001040620 2001050440 TO 2001050558, 04 JAN 05:02 2020 UNTIL 05 JAN 05:58 2020.
CREATED: 23 DEC 19:56 2019

Пусковой период: с 4 по 5 января 2020 г.

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Опубликовано уведомление мореплавателям (на зону затопления 2-й ст РН)

NOTMAR

HYDROPAC 4291/19

SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN.
DNC 03, DNC 04, DNC 05.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, SPACE DEBRIS
    040502Z TO 040620Z JAN 20, ALTERNATE
    050440Z TO 050558Z JAN 20
    IN AREA BOUND BY
        29-43S 060-07E, 24-55S 064-27E,
        38-45S 084-30E, 45-12S 099-45E,
        49-46S 119-13E, 50-42S 138-19E,
        48-50S 156-44E, 51-46S 158-08E,
        54-42S 148-32E, 56-20S 131-03E,
        55-52S 107-50E, 49-11S 085-05E,
        34-32S 064-13E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 050658Z JAN 20.//

Authority: EASTERN RANGE 231632Z DEC 19.

Date: 301023Z DEC 19
Cancel: 05065800 Jan 20

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Неофициально

 Emre Kelly @EmreKelly 27 дек.

Corrected 45th Space Wing launch hazard area now has #SpaceX on the range for Friday, Jan. 3 liftoff of Starlink V1, launch 2. Launch Complex 40.

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Закрываемые морские зоны в сев. Атлантике

lnm07522019.pdf, стр. 4

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Прогноз погоды L-4 на 3 января 2020 г. (LT)

Falcon 9 StarlingV1.0 L-4

Пусковой день    (3.01) - 40 % GO
Резервный день (4.01) - 90 % GO

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 Raul‏ @Raul74Cz 23 дек.

Issued NOTMAR Launch Hazard Areas of #SpaceX #Starlink v1.0-L2 mission. Droneship landing 629km downrange. Fairing capture attempt approx.730km downrange.. as previous Starlink launch. Stage2 Reentry Debris Area south of Australia on the second orbit. http://bit.do/LHA10

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 Julia‏ @julia_bergeron 2 ч. назад

The Falcon 9 for the Jan. 3rd #Starlink launch will conduct a Static Fire test as an integrated stack again. I have heard murmurs that the test is expected to be only a day or so before launch. Exciting! OCISLY should be leaving in the next 48 hours for the first launch of 2020.

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SpaceXFleet Updates‏ @SpaceXFleet 18 ч. назад

Departure! Of Course I Still Love You is underway for the Starlink-L2 mission. The droneship is heading 629 km downrange.

Max Kalika‏ @maxkalika 11:32 PST - 30 дек. 2019 г.

В ответ @SpaceXFleet

Saw her passing our cruise ship. Fair winds and calm waters!

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Прогноз погоды L-34 на 3 января 2020 г. (LT)

Falcon 9 StarlingV1.0 L-3

Пусковой день    (3.01) - = 40 % GO
Резервный день (4.01) - = 90 % GO

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 SpaceXFleet Updates‏ @SpaceXFleet 1 ч. назад

Recovery technicians are experimenting with a fairing half today. I can also confirm that Ms. Chief will not take part in the upcoming Starlink mission. GO Navigator will recover the fairing half from the water.

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Julia‏  @julia_bergeron    2 ч. назад

The Falcon 9 for the Jan. 3rd  #Starlink  launch will conduct a   Static Fire test     as an integrated stack again  . I have heard murmurs that the   test is expected to be only a day or so before launch  . Exciting! OCISLY should be leaving in the next 48 hours for the first launch of 2020.

Static Fire - многоразовые системы однако   , четвертый старт...

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 Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 37 мин. назад

L-3 day weather forecast unchanged. 60% probability of violation for Friday night and 10% violation potential for Saturday. However, Saturday's POV does not include the upper-level winds, which are EXTREMELY strong.
#SpaceX #Falcon9 #Starlink

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Полигон к пуску готов

 

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Пока неофициально, но становится "доброй" традицией    То кнут сломался, то кучер обо...

 Julia‏ @julia_bergeron 1 ч. назад

It seems we may have to wait a little longer for a Starlink launch. Keeping an eye on the pad and fleet. GO Quest may delay leaving port which will be a good indicator of delay. Still watching LC-40 as a Falcon has yet to appear for static fire. #Starlink

 Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 2 ч. назад

Hearing that the Starlink launch originally scheduled for January 3rd is being postponed a few days. #SpaceX

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О5 же, неофициально

 SpaceXFleet Updates‏ @SpaceXFleet 3 ч. назад

It may be new year's day but the fleet is hard at work! Here's a look at OCISLY's progress since Monday.

The droneship has deviated away towards calmer seas now that the launch date has slipped to NET Jan 7th at 02:19 UTC. There's no requirement to be at the LZ so early.

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SpaceXFleet Updates‏ @SpaceXFleet 27 мин. назад

Departure! GO Quest and GO Navigator are underway for the Starlink L2 mission.

GO Quest will support the droneship landing whilst GO Navigator will recover a fairing half from the water. Ms Chief will not take part in this mission because of minor damage sustained last time out

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 Jetty Park‏ @jettypark 57 мин. назад

*Launch Update* The launch on January 3rd, has now moved to Monday, January 6th, at 9:20pm. Come on out to Jetty Park and enjoy the view and our awesome food trucks!

Пуск 02:20 UTC 07.01.2020

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 Julia‏ @julia_bergeron 11 мин. назад

Assuming @SpaceX wants to do an integrated stack with no rollback for the scheduled 1/6 Starlink launch, we should see a static fire attempt on 1/4 or 1/5 at the latest. The #SpaceXFleet is slowly heading out for recovery in the meantime.
#Starlink

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Практически официальное подтверждение переноса пуска на 7 января (02:20 UTC).

Прогноз погоды L-4 на 6 января 2020 г. (LT)

Falcon 9 StarlinkV1.0 L-4

Пусковой день    (6.01) - >90 % GO
Резервный день (7.01) -   80 % GO

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/02/good-weather-predicted-for-cape-canaverals-first-launch-of-2020/

Good weather predicted for Cape Canaveral's first launch of 2020
January 2, 2020 | Stephen Clark

Forecasters predict near-ideal weather conditions Monday night for the first launch at Cape Canaveral this year, when SpaceX plans to send another 60 Starlink broadband satellites into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

The 60 small satellites will bring the total number of Starlink Internet relay stations launched by SpaceX to 180, giving Elon Musk's space company the world's largest largest fleet of commercial spacecraft.

The launch targeted for Monday, Jan. 6, has been delayed several days, first from Dec. 30 and then from Jan. 3. It will mark the first launch in a packed slate of missions from Cape Canaveral in 2020, which could see more than 30 launches by SpaceX and United Launch Alliance if schedules hold.

The Florida spaceport was the departure point for 16 orbital launches in 2019, plus an atmospheric test flight of NASA's Orion crew capsule to demonstrate the ship's launch abort system.

Liftoff of SpaceX's 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket is set for 9:19 p.m. EST Monday (0219 GMT Tuesday) from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad.

The mission will mark the 78th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010, and the 81st flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 family, which includes three launches by the triple-core Falcon Heavy vehicle.

A pre-launch test-firing of the Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled this weekend at Cape Canaveral.

The weather team at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station predicts a greater than 90 percent chance of acceptable conditions for launch Monday night.

"Strong and gusty northwest winds behind a frontal passage on Saturday will bring cool and dry weather through the weekend and into early next week," meteorologists from the 45th Weather Squadron wrote in a forecast issued Thursday. "Strong high pressure will build across the southeastern U.S. on Sunday, (and) is forecast to be centered across Florida by Monday night. This will bring dry conditions and light northerly flow for the primary launch window."

The only slight weather concern in the forecast Monday night is with the cumulus cloud rule.

Forecasters expect mostly clear skies, good visibility and northerly winds of 5 to 10 mph at launch time Monday night. The temperature should be around 57 degrees Fahrenheit.

If the launch is delayed to Tuesday night, the liftoff time will move around 20 minutes earlier. There is an 80 percent chance of favorable weather Tuesday night, with slightly higher odds of cloudiness that could breach the cumulus cloud rule.


Sixty flat-panel Starlink satellites are seen stacked for launch before a previous SpaceX mission. Credit: SpaceX

The launch Monday will kick off a brisk pace of launches by SpaceX planned for 2020.

Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's president and chief operating officer, said last month the company could perform as many as 35 to 38 launches this year from three launch pads in Florida and California. That figure does not include potential test flights of SpaceX's next-generation Starship vehicle.

The bulk of SpaceX's missions in 2020 will add satellites to the company's Starlink constellation of broadband satellites.

SpaceX plans to operate the initial block of 1,584 Starlink satellites in orbits 341 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth. The company has regulatory approval from the Federal Communications Commission to eventually field a fleet of up to 12,000 small Starlink broadband stations, and has hinted in additional regulatory filings that it could seek to operate up to 42,000 Starlink spacecraft.

In response to concerns from astronomers, Shotwell said one of the 60 satellites set for launch Monday will test a new less-reflective coating designed to reduce the brightness of the spacecraft. The first 120 satellites were brighter than expected, raising worries from scientists that thousands oof Starlink craft could interfere with astronomical observations.

The company says it hopes to begin regional broadband service with the partially-complete Starlink constellation by the middle of this year, once it has launched 12 Starlink missions. Starlink service for Internet consumers worldwide will come after 24 launches, according to Shotwell.

SpaceX has not announced pricing for the Starlink service.

"All I know is you will be far happier with the value of the Starlink service than you are with your current service," Shotwell said in December. "You will, for sure, get way more bandwidth for the same price, or way more bandwidth for less ... You'll be far happier with this. The value will be far greater (than with current Internet service providers)."

She said SpaceX is building about seven Starlink satellites per day at a factory in Redmond, Washington. Low-volume production of SpaceX's ground user terminals is also underway in California, Shotwell said.

SpaceX is still working out its strategy for commencing Starlink commercial services.

"Between now and June ... we're going to have to figure that out," Shotwell said. "We will do presales like Tesla has done. The initial experience will be bumpy. We'll have early customers be part of that journey with us. We're not going to fib and say it's going to be the best thing ever. When you get service, it's going to be great. But it will be bumpy for a while.

The U.S. military has a contract with SpaceX to demonstrate the Starlink network's ability to deliver data to the cockpit of airplanes, the first of what SpaceX hopes will be a lucrative business selling bandwidth to the Defense Department.

"I think we probably will mature as a provider, and it should not be bumpy, really in '21. By '21, I think we probably will have figured out most of the problems."