AFSPC-7/USSF-7: X-37B OTV-6 – Atlas V 501 – CCAFS SLC-41 – 17.05.2020 13:14 UTC

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                                                         Многоразовый космический корабль Boeing Х-37В Военно-воздушных  сил (ВВС) США, который планируют запустить 16 мая с космодрома на мысе  Канаверал на ракете Atlas 5 с российским двигателем РД-180, примет  участие в эксперименте по трансляции энергии космическим аппаратам,  сообщает The Drive.


Американское издание, ссылаясь на инженера  Пола Джаффе из Научно-исследовательской лаборатории Военно-морских сил  (ВМС), отмечает, что тестируемая технология предназначена для  обеспечения практически неограниченного срока службы беспилотных  летательных аппаратов.


The Drive напоминает, что в октябре 2019 года  Научно-исследовательская лаборатория ВМС провела наземный эксперимент, в  ходе которого удалось передать по воздуху энергию c мощностью 2  киловатта на расстояние 300 метров. Согласно изданию, в ходе  эксперимента в космосе энергия будет транслироваться в микроволновом  диапазоне.


В октябре 2018 года гендиректор «Роскосмоса» Дмитрий Рогозин заявил,  что X-37B может быть оружием массового уничтожения. «Мы, соответственно,  будем избегать каких-то публичных заявлений, но при этом прекрасно  понимаем, что такое может быть, и вполне вероятно, что оружие массового  уничтожения, если, не дай бог, оно будет размещено в космосе, может  планировать сверху», — сказал чиновник.





В мае 2016 года опрошенные сайтом Space.com эксперты заявили, что  мини-шаттл X-37B предназначен для отработки уничтожения космических  спутников, а одной из его целей является проверка экономической  эффективности подобных действий по сравнению с ракетными средствами  ликвидации.


Работы над созданием X-37B начались в 1999 году совместными  усилиями НАСА и Boeing. Предполагалось, что многоразовый космический  корабль будет использоваться для ремонта околоземных спутников на  высотах до 700 километров. Однако в 2004 году соответствующая программа  была засекречена и отдана агентству по перспективным оборонным  научно-исследовательским разработкам Пентагона. С тех пор бюджет,  связанный с X-37B, был засекречен. В распоряжении ВВС США, как  считается, имеется два таких мини-шаттла.


Ранее сообщалось, что DARPA создаст многоразовый беспилотный космический аппарат. США открыли эру космических войн, запустив X-37B еще в 2010 году. Позднее этот американский беспилотник провел в космосе больше года.

          
           

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Многоразовый космический корабль Boeing Х-37В Военно-воздушных  сил (ВВС) США, который планируют запустить 16 мая с космодрома на мысе  Канаверал на ракете Atlas 5 с российским двигателем РД-180, примет  участие в эксперименте по трансляции энергии космическим аппаратам,  сообщает The Drive.

Американское издание, ссылаясь на инженера Пола Джаффе из Научно-исследовательской лаборатории Военно-морских сил (ВМС), отмечает, что тестируемая технология предназначена для обеспечения практически неограниченного срока службы беспилотных летательных аппаратов.

В своем релизе spaceforce.mil

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tnt22 написал:
 https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/2177702/next-x-37b-orbital-test-vehicle-scheduled-to-launch
 

Next X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Scheduled to Launch  
  By Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs / Published May 06, 2020  
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The mission will deploy the FalconSat-8, a small satellite developed by the U.S. Air Force Academy and sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory to conduct several experiments on orbit. The FalconSat-8 is an educational platform that will carry five experimental payloads for USAFA to operate. In addition, two National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiments will be included to study the results of radiation and other space effects on a materials sample plate and seeds used to grow food. Finally, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, will transform solar power into radio frequency microwave energy which could then be transmitted to the ground.
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В статье ставится предположение и много-много слов о передаче энергии на объекты находящихся не в космосе

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33339/x-37b-space-planes-microwave-power-beam-experiment-is-a-...

BY BRETT TINGLEYMAY 8, 2020
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According to a Space Force press release, which went out on May 6, another payload aboard the X-37B will be an experimental system designed by the Naval Research Laboratory that is capable of capturing solar power and beaming that energy back to Earth in the form of microwaves.

While the press releases of the Department of Defense and the Space Force are scant on details, the Naval Research Laboratory's head of beamed power has explicitly stated in the past that this system has enormous implications when it comes to long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In addition, it could allow satellites to provide reliable power anywhere on the planet or even to spacecraft or other satellites in orbit.
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Dr. Paul Jaffe, an electronics engineer with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory who is leading the NRL's research into power beaming, says that the technology will open up entirely new frontiers in terms of long-endurance unmanned aircraft. "If you have an electric drone that can fly more than an hour, you're doing pretty well," Jaffe said. "If we had a way to keep those drones and UAVs flying indefinitely, that would have really far-reaching implications. With power beaming, we have a path toward being able to do that." The Navy was granted a patent for a similar system in 2016 invented by Jaffe.
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[tnt22]

ULA @ulalaunch 18 мин. назад

Welcome to Rollout Day of ULA's #AtlasV rocket and the #USSF7 mission for the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41 is planned for Saturday at 8:24amEDT (1224 UTC).
http://bit.ly/av_ussf7

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Прогноз погоды L-2 на 16 мая 2020 г.

Atlas V USSF-7 L-2

Пусковой день    (16.05) - = 40 % GO
Резервный день (17.05) - = 80 % GO

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 16:49
Roll Preps

Final preparations are underway for this morning's rollout of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from its assembly building to the pad at Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41.

The transfer will cover a distance of one-third-of-a-mile and position the rocket for Saturday's countdown and liftoff of the sixth X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission.

A weather briefing from Launch Weather Officer Jessica Williams of the 45th Weather Squadron has verified conditions are favorable for the move, which is expected to begin shortly. Skies are partly, winds are acceptable and there's no threat of heavy rain or lightning this morning.

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 16:58
GO to Roll

Pre-roll preps are complete and the weather is acceptable to move the 197-foot-tall rocket on its Mobile Launch Platform to the launch pad.

A readiness check of systems' status by ULA Launch Conductor Ron McKee has been completed satisfactorily, and ULA Launch Director Paul Aragon has authorized the rollout to begin.

"Stand Engineer, proceed with MLP transport to pad," McKee radioed to Isaac Spence at the VIF.

We are standing by to initiate the roll.

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 17:07


Photo by United Launch Alliance

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 17:10

The MLP convoy is led by two boxcars, called the PVan and GVan. The payload support van houses Starliner ground equipment such as the electrical and communication interfaces between the spacecraft systems and the launch pad throughout the countdown. The ground van supports the launch vehicle with a dedicated set of control electronics.

Bringing up the rear are two portable environmental control system trailers that supply conditioned air to the rocket's compartments during rollout.

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 17:15


Photo by United Launch Alliance


May 14, 2020 17:18

The Atlas V rollout continues as the rocket completes the first 1,800 feet on its journey into space, traveling by rail from the Vertical Integration Facility to the Space Launch Complex-41 pad.

This will be the 84th flight for Atlas V since debuting in August 2002. The vehicle has a 100 percent mission success record for the Defense Department, the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA and commercial customers.


Photo by United Launch Alliance

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 17:45

On the Pad!

The Atlas V rocket has arrived at its Cape Canaveral launch pad for Saturday's liftoff of the United States Space Force-7 (USSF-7)mission for the Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center.


Photo by United Launch Alliance

Over the next few hours today, umbilical connections will be made with launch pad systems, the environmental control system feeding conditioned air to the rocket and payload will be switched to facility supplies to allow the portable trailers used during rollout to be unplugged and moved away, and the first stage will be loaded with 25,000 gallons of RP-1 fuel, a highly refined kerosene.

The seven-hour launch countdown will begin Saturday morning, leading to a liftoff at 8:24 a.m. EDT (1224 UTC).

Our live countdown updates will begin on this page at 1 a.m. EDT.

The live video webcast of the launch starts at 8:04 a.m. EDT (1204 UTC) and will also be viewable on this page.

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 18:15

MLP Secured

The MLP has been lowered onto the launch pad piers, accomplishing the "harddown" milestone at 11:14 a.m. EDT.

This will enable the undercarriages with the attached portable environmental control system trailers to be removed and retreat from the pad later this afternoon.


Photo by United Launch Alliance

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 18:44

Post-rollout operations are continuing at Space Launch Complex-41. Technicians are powering up the Atlas and Centaur rocket stages for today's testing and RP-1 fueling activities.

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 20:00
Weather still 40% GO

The launch weather forecast remains unchanged with a 40 percent chance of acceptable conditions to allow liftoff on Saturday morning. The primary concern is ground winds.

A broad area of low pressure is expected to develop and lift north over the Bahamas and southeast Florida, increasing chances for scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms in the Cape Canaveral area.

"By launch day Saturday, models are still bringing this low close to the Cape as it continues to lift north, but keeps us on the drier west side. Scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm cannot be ruled out as there is still uncertainty in the exact location of where the low is going to develop and track," the launch weather team reports.

The outlook calls for broken low- and high-level clouds, good visibility, easterly winds 18 to 25 knots and a temperature near 76 degrees F.

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May 14, 2020 20:51

The environmental control system has been transfered to the launch pad facilities from the portable trailers used during rollout. The trailers will be removed from the MLP shortly.


May 14, 2020 20:57

The first trailer and undercarriage to be removed from the Mobile Launch Platform for return to the VIF complex.


May 14, 2020 21:05

The second portable environmental control system (PECS) trailer and undercarriage has disengaged and rolled away from the MLP.

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 21:54

Guidance system testing for Rollout Day are reported complete.

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Tory Bruno @torybruno 28 мин. назад

Bird is hard down on the pad, checked out, and ready to tank RP1. #USSF7.

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May 14, 2020 21:57
Atlas RP-1 Loading Begins

Fueling of the Atlas V first stage is underway at Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41. The launch team is pumping 25,000 gallons of RP-1 fuel, a highly refined kerosene, into the rocket for Saturday's flight.

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 23:04

Atlas RP-1 Load Completed

The Atlas V's first stage has been loaded with RP-1 fuel that will power the main engine during the initial phase of the USSF-7 launch. Cryogenic fueling of the rocket with liquid oxygen to the main stage and liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to Centaur occurs during the final two-and-a-half hours of the countdown Saturday.

Launch of the Atlas V with the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle remains scheduled for Saturday from Cape Canaveral at 8:24 a.m. EDT (1224 UTC).


Photo by United Launch Alliance

[tnt22]

May 14, 2020 23:40

The Atlas V rocket is being powered down for the night.


May 14, 2020 23:43

The joint ULA and U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center team is wrapping up the planned activities for Rollout Day. The next event will be starting the launch countdown on Saturday.

The countdown clocks will be positioned at T-minus 6 hours, 20 minutes in anticipation of initiating the countdown.

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Dane Drefke @DaneDrefke 4 ч. назад

Zoom in. Three pads, three rockets. Foreground is SLC-41 and Atlas V. To the left is SLC-40 with a Falcon 9, and farther left (and most distant) is SLC-37 with the Delta IV Heavy.