TacSat-3, GeneSat-2, PharmaSat 1, HawkSat-I, Polysat-CP6 - Minotaur - Wallops MARS - 19.05.2009 23:55

[carlos]

Попытка номер... три? Кажется?

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 15:35:00 EDT
3:35 p.m. T-4 hours and counting.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 15:19:34 EDT
Beginning to remove shelter from around the rocket.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 15:04:58 EDT
T-4 hours 30 minutes and counting.The target launch time is 7:35 p.m. The launch window is 7:35 to 11:30 p.m. Latest forecast at launch is nearly skies, temperature will be 51 degrees, and winds at 13 knots out of the east. Probability of good weather for launch is near 100%.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 14:41:46 EDT
Programming note: When watching the webcast video/audio, be aware that there is about a 20 second delay from what you see on your computer screen and what is taking place at Wallops.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 14:35:12 EDT
T-5 hours and counting. The launch team is beginning rocket and spacecraft preparations.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 13:36:58 EDT
We are T-6 hours and counting for the Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket. The range personnel are currently checking out support systems including radar,safety and telemetry. The rocket and spacecraft personnel will begin their launch preparations at the T-5 hour mark.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 10:09:22 EDT
The launch team is "GO" for launch this evening. The Wallops range team reports at 11:30 a.m. to begin preparations for launch.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-18 at 16:00:39 EDT
The launch team received permission today to proceed towards the launch attempt of the TacSat-3 mission on May 19. The launch window is 7:35 to 11:30 p.m. Today's afternoon forecast shows a 90% probability of acceptable weather for launch. There is one issue that we are following. There is a possibility of a conflict with the air space we need for the launch. If there is a conflict, we will move the launch to Wednesday, May 20. We should know the status of this issue early Tuesday morning.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-13 at 13:31:09 EDT
The new launch date for the TacSat-3 mission on an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket from Wallops Island has been set for May 19 with a backup day of May 20. The launch window for both days is 7:35 to 11:30 p.mn. EDT.

[carlos]

Трансляция: http://mfile.akamai.com/18569/live/reflector:59445.asx?bkup=32644

[carlos]

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:39:53 EDT
T-15 minutes and counting.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:34:24 EDT
New launch time is 7:55 p.m.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:28:26 EDT
Recalculating new launch time. It may take longer than expected for ship to move.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:26:28 EDT
New launch time is 7:45 p.m.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:20:27 EDT
7:20 p.m. T-15 minutes and holding. Boat in the range.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:05:01 EDT
7:05p.m. T-30 minutes and counting. No issues for range,rocket or spacecraft. Range is clear.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 18:35:25 EDT
6:35 p.m. We are T-60 minutes and counting for launch of the Air Force Research LabTacSat-3 satellite on an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket from Wallops Island. The Coast Guard is clearing some boats in the avoidance area. The target launch time is 7:35 p.m. The launch window runs to 11:30 p.m.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 18:11:03 EDT
An alternate source has been found for the needed surveillance data. Radar on Coast Guard ships supporting the mission will be used.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 18:05:08 EDT
6:05 p.m. T-90 minutes and counting. One issue. Problem with a range surveillance radar. Rocket and spacecraft are green for launch.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 17:36:55 EDT
One issue being worked. We are having problems with a radar that is used for surveillance.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 17:35:09 EDT
5:35 p.m. T-2 hours and counting. Everything still looks good for launch. No issues being worked.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 17:05:14 EDT
5:05 p.m. We are T-2 hours 30 minutes and counting for launch of an Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket from Wallops Island. The target launch time is 7:35 p.m. The launch window runs to 11:30 p.m. Final vehicle and site preparations are underway.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 16:35:26 EDT
4:35 p.m. T-3 hours and counting.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 15:43:44 EDT
The delay between the webcast video and actual events is now down to about 6 seconds.

[carlos]

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 20:10:57 EDT
This concludes tonight's coverage of the TacSat-3/Minotaur 1 mission.

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 20:08:41 EDT
TacSat-3 deployed

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 20:04:18 EDT
systems nominal

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 20:04:03 EDT
4th stage ignition

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:58:54 EDT
all systems nominal 3rd stage burnout

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:58:20 EDT
3rd stage burn

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:54:59 EDT
launch

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:54:31 EDT
30 seconds

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:54:09 EDT
50 seconds

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:53:00 EDT
T-2 minutes

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:50:04 EDT
7:50 T-5 minutes and counting.Go for launch

Posted by RCC on 2009-05-19 at 19:45:05 EDT
7:45 T-10 minutes and counting

[carlos]

Улетело, в общем.

[Salo]

Спасибо! :wink:

[carlos]

Космическое командование ВВС США зарегистрировало пока 4 объекта от этого пуска:
35001     OBJECT A    2009-028A
35002    OBJECT B    2009-028B
35003    OBJECT C    2009-028C
35004    OBJECT D    2009-028D
По идее должно бы быть 6.  :roll:

[carlos]

Подтверждено отделение НАСАвского PharmaSat-1. Про три кубсата пока ничего не известно.

PharmaSat was deployed 22 minutes after liftoff from a self-contained deployment system called a P-POD. The bread loaf-sized satellite contacted a ground station later Tuesday night, confirming it was in good shape following the launch.

The Minotaur also carried three tiny CubeSats: CP6 for California Polytechnic State University, HawkSat 1 for the Maryland-based Hawk Institute for Space Sciences, and AeroCube 3 for the Aerospace Corporation.

The status of the CubeSats could not be confirmed late Tuesday night.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/tacsat3/

[Salo]

Видео пуска:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEf9trI1Hf8&feature=player_embedded

[Salo]

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2009/09-52AR.html

NASA Flight Facility Successfully Launches Nanosatellite  
 
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA's PharmaSat nanosatellite successfully launched at 4:55 p.m. PDT on May 19 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport located at Wallops Island, Va. PharmaSat rode to orbit aboard a four-stage Air Force Minotaur 1 rocket. Also aboard were the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-3 satellite and other NASA CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments, which include three four-inch cubed satellites developed by universities and industry.

PharmaSat will investigate the effects of antifungal agents on the growth of yeast in microgravity. This research could improve understanding of how microbes may become resistant to the drugs used to treat sick astronauts on long-duration space missions.

"After a spectacular launch as a hitchhiker on the Tacsat-3 mission, we made contact with PharmaSat and confirmed that the spacecraft deployed successfully," said Bruce Yost, PharmaSat mission manager at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "The PharmaSat mission and science teams are now preparing to complete the experiment on the yeast cultures."

Approximately 20 minutes after launch, PharmaSat separated from the Minotaur 1 rocket and entered low Earth orbit at an altitude of approximately 285 miles. About an hour after launch, NASA spaceflight engineers made contact with PharmaSat. After a spacecraft checkout period, ground controllers will command PharmaSat to initiate its biological experiment, which will last approximately 96 hours.

Now that PharmaSat is activated and has begun transmitting radio signals to ground control stations at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., and Santa Clara University in California, it will send mission data to the NASA Mission Management Team at NASA's Ames Research Center. The nanosatellite could transmit data for as long as six months.

The TacSat-3 launch was the third Minotaur vehicle launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's launch pad 0B on the southern end of Wallops Island. Air Force Space Command's Space and Missile Systems Center's Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland AFB, N.M., has overall management of the mission.

The Exploration Technology Development Program in NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington funded the PharmaSat project.

А по остальным пока тишина... :roll:

[carlos]

Добавился еще один объект: 35005, 2009-028E. Учитывая, что два объекта от пуска Меридиана получили номера 35008 и 35009 - выходит, что для пуска Минотавра зарезервированы еще два номера (35006 и 35007). Если так - тогда всего их будет 7. Таксат-3, ступень, Фармасат, три кубсата и еще какой-то фрагмент.

[carlos]

По-прежнему пять объектов от этого пуска. Маловато будет!

[Брабонт]

Полагаешь, что по крайней мере один из "кубсатов" не отделился?

[carlos]

Фиг его знает. Таксат + Фармасат + (3 х кубсат) + ступень = 6.
А номеров зарезервировано вроде как 7... А каталогизировано объектов 5. Про успешное отделение Таксата и Фармасата сообщения были.

Такая вот арифметика.  :roll:

[carlos]

Вообще хорошая мысль: "Давай посмотрим..." Давно пора уже было посмотреть, все лень-матушка.
http://cubesat.atl.calpoly.edu/

3 Minotaur Launched CubeSats Contacted

PharmaSat, CP6 and AeroCube3 have been contacted. Congrats!

Т.е. HawkSat где-то затерялся.
Знать бы еще, в каком порядке они в контейнере сидели...

[Кир]

Не обязательно "в контейнере":  параметры орбит по ряду элементов запуска не будут выданы до тех пор, пока они не разойдутся на достаточное расстояние. Даже с их "см"...

[carlos]

Это-то понятно. Но с кубсатами идентификацию проводить намного проще радиотехническими средствами. На каждом стоит УКВ-пищалка, частоты пищалок на разных аппаратах различные, и они известны. В результате хозяева спутников часто идентифицируют свой аппарат задолго до того, как Космическое командование разберется "кто есть кто".
Так вот про прием сигнала с Фармасата, СР6 и Аэрокуба было. А про ХаукСат чего-то молчок.

[Кир]

В результате хозяева спутников часто идентифицируют свой аппарат задолго до того, как Космическое командование разберется "кто есть кто"

Кстати об операторах:
на слушаниях в сенатском комитете по делам вооруженных сил Конгресса глава Тихоокеанского командования ВС США адмирал Тимоти Китинг заявил:

американским военным следует более активно взаимодействовать с операторами гражданских спутников и "получать необходимую информацию от них, а не добывать ее самим"

http://www.vesti.ru (по следам столкновения Иридиума-33 и Космоса-2251). Таким образом, сложилась бы схема, когда в обмен на эти данные опреаторы получали бы сообщения об опасных сближениях (кстати вопрос: как поступят в этом случае с закрытыми КО, среди которых полно мусора). Было это 19 марта 2009...

Про радиотехнику понято, но и http://www.space-track.org на тот момент элементы орбит еще не выдал. Кстати:

35001     TACSAT 3     2009-028A       93.58     40.46     467     432           
35002    OBJECT B    2009-028B         93.54    40.47    466    429
35003    AEROCUBE 3    2009-028C    93.52    40.47    467    427
35004    OBJECT D    2009-028DS         93.51    40.46    467    426
35005    OBJECT E    2009-028E         93.52    40.48    466    428    
35006    MINOTAUR R/B    2009-028F        93.51    40.47    466    427

[carlos]

35001     TACSAT 3     2009-028A
35002    PHARMASAT    2009-028B
35003    HAWKSAT 1    2009-028C
35004    CP6                    2009-028D
35005    AEROCUBE 3    2009-028E
35006    MINOTAUR R/B    2009-028F

[carlos]

Пишут, что первый месяц эксплуатации завершен успешно.
http://www.spacemart.com/reports/TacSat_3_Completes_Successful_First_Month_Of_Operations_999.html