SpaceX Falcon 1

[duke]

Если и рендер - то качество безупречное, а такое качество очень редко встречается.

Ну, качество-то хорошее. Для фотореалистично отрендереной модели. Но всё-таки это не фото(имхо).

[Peter]

ИМХО - фото нормальное. Только HDR Сам подобными вещами баловался...

[ronatu]

Не ругайте Маска.
Он мужик инновационный...

У него кстати еще два предприятия есть - одно разрабатывает очень перспективный электромобиль "Tesla Motors" http://www.teslamotors.com/ , а другое, "SolarCity", дешевые солнечные батареи  http://solarcity.com/  ...

[KBOB]

http://sefspaceworks.com/?q=node/154

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 (Bernama) -- Astronautic Technology Sdn Bhd is preparing to launch the RazakSAT small satellite by May of 2009 after several multi-year launch delays.

RazakSAT is a Malaysian Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite which was originally called MACSAT. RazakSAT's payload is mainly electro-optical, carrying a Medium-sized Aperture Camera (MAC) with five linear detectors (one panchromatic, four multi-spectral) weighing approximately 50kg. The entire satellite weighs175kg.

Its chief executive officer, Datuk Dr Ahmad Sabirin Arshad, said the original plan was to launch the satellite in 2005, but it was delayed due to problems with the launch vehicle, including the Falcon 1, and with the satellite itself.

"It will be in the April/May time period," Arshad has announced.

The RazakSAT will be launched from Kwajalein of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, he said.

The launch will include two piggybacking payloads, CubeSAT and InnoSAT.

В мае пуск Falcon-1

[Salo]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon/005/090317date.html

SpaceX announces plans for next Falcon 1 launch
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: March 17, 2009

Parts of SpaceX's next Falcon 1 rocket are en route to the booster's remote island launch site for the company's first commercial mission due for liftoff on April 20.


The first stage of the fifth Falcon 1 rocket as seen in the California factory. Credit: SpaceX
 
SpaceX shipped the rocket's first stage last week to Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, according to an update posted on the company's Web site.

The empty stage was trucked from SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., to Long Beach harbor. The 3,000-pound structure was then loaded aboard a transport vessel for the 5,000-mile voyage to Kwajalein.

The Falcon 1's second stage will be shipped to Kwajalein on a cargo plane in the next few weeks, according to SpaceX.

Once at the Kwajalein, the hardware will be moved to Omelek Island, the seven-acre home of the Falcon 1 for the past three years.

Omelek houses an austere launch pad with propellant tanks, a processing hangar and workspace for engineers and technicians. The isle has hosted all four Falcon 1 launches to date.

Officials are targeting a launch date of April 20, U.S. time, the company said. The launch would occur on April 21 at Kwajalein.

RazakSAT, the primary payload for the upcoming mission, is scheduled to fly from Malaysia to Kwajalein this weekend. The 400-pound satellite has been delayed for two years, primarily due to the Falcon's string of early launch failures.

The six-sided, 3.9-foot-tall craft was supposed to fly aboard the Falcon 1's fourth mission last fall, but SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk pulled RazakSAT from the launch after the rocket fell short of orbit on its third flight.

"We always committed to them that we would demonstrate getting to orbit before we flew their vehicle, so we're sticking to that commitment," Musk said after the August failure.

RazakSAT includes a medium-sized aperture camera with black-and-white and color bands. The imager is designed to reach spatial resolutions of about 8.2 feet and 16.4 feet in black-and-white and color modes, respectively.

The images will be used for environmental and crop monitoring, mapping, transportation, and national security applications, according to ATSB, the Malaysian small satellite company that built the satellite.

RazakSAT will circle Earth in a 425-mile-high orbit with an inclination of 9 degrees.

But engineers must first assemble the 70-foot-tall rocket and attach RazakSAT atop the booster inside the Falcon 1 integration building. The rocket will then be rolled out and lifted vertically on the launch pad for the countdown.

SpaceX officials would not say whether the launch team will conduct a brief on-pad engine test to cap off a customary countdown dress rehearsal. All previous Falcon 1 campaigns included such tests a few days before launch.

The Falcon 1 will also carry two small Malaysian secondary payloads bolted to an adapter ring during the ride into space.

[Salo]

Первый коммерческий пуск. Момент истины для Маска.
Шампанское теперь будут пить только в случае успеха и параметры целевой орбиты объявлять заранее.

[Андрей Суворов]

Если верить процитированной заметке, целевая орбита будет в точности такой, как в демо-пуске получилась. 425 "сухопутных" миль - это 680 километров

[Ber]

С Драгоном конечно фото, но смотрится этот чудо все таки как макет в натуральную величину, никакого тзп, клепки какие то смешные. Это не полетит точно, если и полетит, то что то другое.

[bsdv]

С Драгоном конечно фото, но смотрится этот чудо все таки как макет в натуральную величину, никакого тзп, клепки какие то смешные. Это не полетит точно, если и полетит, то что то другое.

Заклепки тут вообще не к месту

[ronatu]

[ronatu]

[TestPilot]

Malaysia's first homegrown, remote-sensing satellite, RazakSAT, will be sent off tomorrow to prepare for its launch into orbit at Kwajalein Island, Republic of Marshall Islands on April 21.

То есть уже сегодня.

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=397712

Немного о спутнике.
Общая масса - 190кг.
масса научных инструментов - 50кг.
Снимает линейными датчиками, всего их пять, один для монохромного режима, и четыре "multi-spectral bands".
 
Ширина полосы съемки - 20км. Разрешение, насколько я понял, от 2.5м(монохромный режим) до 5м(мультиспектр).

Спутник полностью Малазийской разработки/изготовления. И первая проба для этой фирмы. Вообще это будет вторым малазийским спутником.
 
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/technology/rs/ma07309.htm

[Lerm]

На NSF нашли ссылку на старую страницу на сайте SpaceX, на которой описывался первый концепт Falcon-а (еще без номера):
http://www.spacex.com/falcon/
Прямая ссылка на флэшку (чтобы сохранить или посмотреть покрупнее):

[TestPilot]

На NSF нашли ссылку на старую страницу на сайте SpaceX, на которой описывался первый концепт Falcon-а (еще без номера):
http://www.spacex.com/falcon/

Супер! Спасибо!

[ronatu]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Emily Shanklin | Director, Marketing and Communications
media@SpaceX.com
310.363.6733

SPACEX TO LAUNCH ATSB'S RAZAKSAT


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Hawthorne, CA (March 30, 2009) – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces that the launch window for ATSB's RazakSAT on Falcon 1 Flight 5, is currently scheduled to open Monday, April 20th at 4:00 p.m. (PDT) / 7:00 p.m. (EDT).

SpaceX's Falcon 1 launch site is located approximately 2500 miles southwest of Hawaii on Omelek Island, part of the Reagan Test Site (RTS) at United States Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) in the Central Pacific. Due to the location of the launch site, the Kwajalein local date at the opening of the launch window will be April 21st.

RazakSAT was designed and built by Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn Bhd (ATSB), a pioneer and leader in the design and manufacture of satellites in Malaysia. The satellite will be launched aboard the Falcon 1, a two-stage, liquid oxygen/rocket-grade kerosene vehicle, designed from the ground up by SpaceX.

Falcon 1 will place RazakSAT, equipped with a high resolution Medium-Sized Aperture Camera (MAC), into a near equatorial orbit. The payload is expected to provide high resolution images of Malaysia that can be applied to land management, resource development and conservation, forestry and fish migration.

SpaceX will provide live coverage of the Falcon 1 Flight 5/RazakSAT mission via webcast at: www.SpaceX.com. The webcast will begin 20 minutes prior to launch and will include mission briefings, live feeds and launch coverage from the launch site. Post-launch, video footage and photos will be available for download on the Web site.

About SpaceX

SpaceX is revolutionizing access to space by developing a family of launch vehicles and spacecraft intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of both manned and unmanned space transportation, ultimately by a factor of ten. With its Falcon line of launch vehicles, powered by internally-developed Merlin engines, SpaceX offers light, medium and heavy lift capabilities to deliver spacecraft into any altitude and inclination, from low-Earth to geosynchronous orbit to planetary missions. On September 28, 2008, Falcon 1, designed and manufactured from the ground up by SpaceX, became the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to orbit the Earth, demonstrating that low cost and reliability can be coupled in commercial spaceflight.

As a winner of the NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services competition (COTS), SpaceX is in a position to help fill the gap in American spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) when the Space Shuttle retires in 2010. Under the existing Agreement, SpaceX will conduct three flights of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft for NASA, culminating in Dragon berthing with the ISS. SpaceX is the only COTS contender with the capability to return cargo and crew to Earth. NASA also has an option to demonstrate crew services to the ISS using the Falcon 9 / Dragon system.

In addition, NASA recently selected the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft for the ISS Cargo Resupply Services (CRS) contract award. The contract includes 12 flights between 2010 and 2015 and represents a guaranteed minimum of 20,000 kg to be carried to the ISS.

Founded in 2002, the SpaceX team now numbers more than 620 full time employees, located primarily in Hawthorne, California, with additional locations, including SpaceX's Texas Test Facility in McGregor near Waco; offices in Washington DC; and launch facilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and the Marshall Islands in the Central Pacific.

[ronatu]

[Андрей Суворов]

На NSF нашли ссылку на старую страницу на сайте SpaceX, на которой описывался первый концепт Falcon-а (еще без номера):
http://www.spacex.com/falcon/

Видно, что движки уже такие, как летали на первых двух фальконах, а всё остальное сильно отличается - межступенчатый переходник стал углепластиковым, изменилась форма и конфигурация второй ступени, ну и т.д.

[TestPilot]

На NSF нашли ссылку на старую страницу на сайте SpaceX, на которой описывался первый концепт Falcon-а (еще без номера):
http://www.spacex.com/falcon/

Видно, что движки уже такие, как летали на первых двух фальконах, а всё остальное сильно отличается - межступенчатый переходник стал углепластиковым, изменилась форма и конфигурация второй ступени, ну и т.д.

Мне из линка больше всего понравилось про стальные :shock:  баки второй ступени:

2nd Stage Tanks
- Tanks are welded monocoque structures using C250 maraging Steel which provides best strength to weight ratio for 2nd Stage

:twisted:

[Андрей Суворов]

А что такого? она ж на вытесниловке, и внутреннее давление 250 psi, то есть, 17,6 атмосферы. При таких условиях стальные баки запросто могут оказаться легче алюминиевых. Композитные могут выиграть и у тех, и у других, но пока технологии, обеспечивающие работоспособность углепластиков при температуре жидкого кислорода эксклюзивны и дороги, и нет резона применять их на дешёвой ракете.

[Salix]

Очередная попытка пуска 20-го апреля

Launch time: 2300 GMT (7 p.m. EDT)

Источник http://www.spaceflightnow.com/