Cygnus NG-12 (CRS-12), ELaNa 25A, +... – Antares-230+ – MARS LP-0A – 02.11.2019, 13:59:47 UTC

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Jonathan McDowell✔@planet4589 9:01 AM - Feb 1, 2020

Seven cubesats were deployed tonight from the @nanoracks NRCSD-E deployer on Cygnus NG-12. I don't have the deployment times though - can anyone share?


9:03 AM - Feb 1, 2020

Planned deploy time of Huskysat I and Swampsat-II was 2230 UTC Jan 31

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Jonathan McDowell✔@planet4589 7:15 PM - Feb 1, 2020

The Cygnus NG-12 is deploying the Slingshot SEOPS-2 payloads: EdgeCube, CIRiS and a 6U cubesat for DARPA


7:18 PM - Feb 1, 2020

A rare pic of the Slingshot deployers on the Cygnus hatch

Ben Lamm✔@federallamm 12:43 AM - Feb 1, 2020

A big day for @Hypergiant! Our #cubesats are poised to deploy this weekend. @NASA @ISS_CASIS @SpaceflightInc @Astro_Christina @Astro_Jessica

7:19 PM - Feb 1, 2020

Looks like deployment time for CiRiS was around 1600 UTC and no  later than 1610 UTC.


Geoff Richards@GeoffRichards6 9:00 PM - Feb 1, 2020

DARPA sat is VPM (VLF Propagation Mapper) built by AFRL and carrying a receiver for VLF transmissions injected into the magnetosphere by the DSX satellite.


Spaceflight@SpaceflightInc 10:48 PM - Feb 1, 2020

Another successful deployment! Successful deploy of ORCA at 14:43:13. #SEOPS2 @hypergiant

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НОРАД обнаружил 5 объектов запуска с борта Лебедя-12

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0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 45113U 19071C   20032.81212060 -.00000378  00000-0  00000+0 0  9997
2 45113  51.6415 303.3594 0012021 285.5472 195.1382 15.32728823   161

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 45114U 19071D   20032.81282501  .00002847  00000-0  10000-3 0  9992
2 45114  51.6392 303.3520 0011297 277.7226 206.9640 15.32814794   160

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 45115U 19071E   20032.80963991  .00002845  00000-0  10000-3 0  9999
2 45115  51.6387 303.3757 0012406 281.6995 185.4556 15.32784999   145

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 45116U 19071F   20032.80232506  .03379048  00000-0  92059-1 0  9998
2 45116  51.6406 303.4018 0011383 285.9215 141.1777 15.33072316   197

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 45117U 19071G   20032.80952942  .00002863  00000-0  10000-3 0  9995
2 45117  51.6377 303.3690 0010449 296.7674 170.5149 15.32985181   158

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Spaceflight@SpaceflightInc 12:45 AM - Feb 2, 2020

Successful EdgeCube deployment at 16:15 EST! #SEOPS2 @hypergiant

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Jonathan McDowell✔@planet4589 2:35 AM - Feb 2, 2020

Five objects cataloged (45113-45117) in 459  x 476 km x 51.64 deg orbit deployed from Cygnus; probably 5 of the 7 sats thought deployed from the @nanoracks NRCSD-E on NG-12.

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Nanoracks✔@Nanoracks 4:44 AM - Feb 1, 2020

Tonight marks a huge milestone at Nanoracks! We have officially deployed our 250th satellite (& then some!) from #ISS, #Cygnus, and #PSLV.

Aerocube 14 A/B & 15 A/B, SwampSat-II, Huskysat-I, & Orbital Factory-2 have been released into orbit from our #Cygnus #CubeSat deployer!

[zandr]

http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/53155/

С борта Cygnus NG-12 запущен ряд микроспутников
 С борта находящегося в автономном полете грузового корабля Cygnus NG-12 запущен ряд микроспутников.
31 января (точное время неизвестно) были отделены микроспутники Aerocube-14A [Impact-2A], Aerocube-14B [Impact-2B], Aerocube-15A [Rogue Alpha] и Aerocube-15B [Rogue Beta].
Эти четыре космических аппарата разработаны компанией The Aerospace Corporation и предназначены для проведения разнообразных технологических экспериментов. Масса первой пары по 3,5 кг каждый, второй пары – по 3,7 кг.
31 января приблизительно в 22:30 UTC (1 февраля около 01:30 ДМВ) от Cygnus были отделены спутники SwampSat-2 и HuskySat-1 [HS-1].
КА SwampSat-2 создан специалистами Университета штата Флорида, а HuskySat-1 – специалистами Университета штата Вашингтон. Оба аппарата также предназначены для проведения технологических экспериментов.
Еще один спутник был отделен поздно вечером 31 января (в ночь на 1 февраля по московскому времени) – КА Orbital Factory-2 [OF-2]. Его создали специалисты Университета штата Техас. Он также предназначен для проведения технологических экспериментов.
1 февраля приблизительно в 16:00 UTC (около 19:00 ДМВ) был запущен экспериментальный спутник CIRiS [Compact Infrared Radiometer in Space], созданный в Университете штата Юта. Его масса 6 кг. На орбиту его доставил корабль Dragon CRS-19 в декабре минувшего года.
1 февраля в 19:43:13 UTC (22:43:13 ДМВ) был запущен технологический спутник ORCA-2, созданный в Департаменте перспективных исследований Министерства обороны США. На Мкс он прибыл вместе с кораблем Dragon CRS-18 в середине прошлого года.
Наконец, 1 февраля в 21:15 UTC (2 февраля в 00:15 ДМВ) был запущен экспериментальный спутник Государственного университета Сонома (шт. Калифорния) EdgeCube. Аппарат массой 1 кг займется изучением земной экосистемы.
А.Ж.

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5 найденных объектов запуска внесены в каталог (в статусе TBA)

 

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Когда затопление Лебедя?

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Александр Репной написал:
Когда затопление Лебедя?

В конце февраля. Появление NOTAM или NOTMAR на зону затопления, или сообщение NorthropGrumman укажут более точную дату/время...

P.S. Появилась новая инфа - 29 февраля с.г.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2020/01/31/iss-daily-summary-report-1312020/

Northrop Grumman 12 (NG-12) Departure:
... Cygnus ... destructive re-entry ... is planned for February 29th.

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http://nanoracks.com/nanoracks-deploys-250th-satellite/

Nanoracks Deploys 250th Satellite, Eighth Cygnus Mission
February 3, 2020 



Feb 3, 2020 – Dulles, Virginia – Friday evening, Nanoracks successfully completed the Company's eighth CubeSat deployment mission from Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft. Cygnus (S.S. Alan Bean) departed the International Space Station on January 31, 2020 and performed a number of on-orbit activities, including yet another historic Nanoracks deployment.

Nanoracks' External Cygnus Deployment mission released seven CubeSats into a circular orbit of 465km beginning at approximately 4:00 pm ET/9:00 PM GMT. The CubeSats deployed were: Aerocube 14 A/B & Aerocube 15 A/B (Aerospace Corporation), SwampSat II (University of Florida), Orbital Factory-2 (University of Texas, El Paso), and HuskySat-1 (University of Washington).

Friday's operations also marked Nanoracks' 250th small satellite deployed since 2014 across the Company's available deployment platforms, including the International Space Station, India's Polar Space Vehicle (PSLV), and Northrop Grumman's Cygnus.

"Between standing up a new program on the Falcon 9 and maintaining our current offerings on Cygnus and the Space Station, we've been busy." says Nanoracks External Payloads Program Manager, Henry Martin. "Deploying 250 satellites is a huge milestone for Nanoracks as we continue to be the world's leading provider of commercial access to space. Since we pioneered this capability in 2016, this is our eighth mission in a row with Northrop Grumman, and our 46th CubeSat deployed from the Cygnus. It's our job to provide consistent and reliable flight opportunities to our global customer base, and this American spacecraft is a key mechanism to accomplishing that. For many reasons, this program is near and dear to me, so congratulations to all of the satellite teams on this successful mission!"

Of note, HuskySat-1 and SwampSat II were selected for flight by NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) and were launched in the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites-25A mission complement, supported by the NASA Launch Services Program.

The Nanoracks External Cygnus Program is the first program to have leveraged a commercial resupply vehicle for use beyond the primary cargo delivery to Space Station, demonstrating the future possibilities for the Nanoracks Space Outpost Program and other commercial space station activities.

"Thank you to our friends and partners at both NASA and Northrop Grumman for their continued support towards innovative commercial satellite deployment programs," finishes Martin.

Download the press release PDF.

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/02/03/cygnus-departs-space-station-deploys-cubesats/

Cygnus departs space station, deploys CubeSats
February 3, 2020 | Stephen Clark


Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo craft departed the International Space Station Friday before raising its orbit and deploying multiple CubeSats. Credit: Oleg Skripochka/Roscosmos

A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo craft departed the International Space Station Friday to close out a three-month stay, then raised its orbit to release multiple experimental nanosatellites for NASA, the U.S. military and research institutions, including one that was snap-assembled by astronauts using 3D-printed parts produced on the station.

The automated cargo freighter is scheduled to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at the end of February, when it will burn up over the South Pacific Ocean to dispose of several tons of trash and unnecessary equipment fr om the space station, including a failed NASA sensor designed to study space debris and a disused European solar research instrument.

Ground controllers commanded the space station's Canadian-built robotic arm to detach the Cygnus spacecraft from a berthing port on the Unity module. Astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir oversaw the arm's release the Cygnus spacecraft below the space station at 9:36 a.m. EST (1436 GMT) Friday, according to NASA.

NASA said Friday's departure demonstrated a new release position and incorporated the first ground-controlled release of a Cygnus spacecraft.

"The new orientation allowed for easier drift away from the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm," NASA said.

After reaching a safe distance from the space station, the Cygnus cargo craft — named the S.S. Alan Bean in honor of the late Apollo 12 moonwalker — fired thrusters to raise its orbit to an altitude of more than 285 miles (460 kilometers) to begin ejecting 14 CubeSats to begin their scientific research and technology demonstration missions.

Seven of the nanosatellites sprung out of an external mechanism provided by NanoRacks, a Houston-based company that arranges rides to space for small research payloads and CubeSats. Another seven CubeSats were programmed to deploy from containers mounted on the Cygnus spacecraft's forward hatch by astronauts in the days before the cargo ship's departure.


NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir pose with the Hypergiant SEOPS Slingshot deployer, which carried seven CubeSats on the Cygnus spacecraft's forward hatch for deployment after the cargo ship's departure from the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Friday's departure marked the beginning of the end of the 12th Cygnus resupply mission to the space station. The automated cargo carrier arrived at the station Nov. 4, two days after launching atop a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia.

The 12th Cygnus mission, designated NG-12, delivered approximately 8,168 pounds (3,705 kilograms) of food, experiments, hardware, and small satellites to the space station.

The equipment delivered inside the Cygnus cargo freighter's Italian-made pressurized compartment in November included tools and replacement hardware for the repair of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which was completed last month by astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan, who performed a series of spacewalks to restore the $2 billion particle physics instrument to science operations.

Other payloads carried aboard the Cygnus included a zero-gravity oven that baked the first cookies on the space station, a radiation-shielding vest to protect astronauts, and mice to help scientists understand whether exposure to microgravity changes the animals' circadian rhythm.

After unloading the Cygnus spacecraft's pressurized compartment, astronauts on the station packed trash and other unnecessary equipment for disposal.

The Cygnus cargo craft flying on the NG-12 mission debuted a new capability to accommodate large instruments on the outside of the spacecraft's pressure shell. The new capability allows the Cygnus to dispose of equipment mounted outside the space station.

On this mission, the Cygnus spacecraft departed the station with the European Space Agency's SOLAR payload, which monitored the sun's radiation output from 2008 until 2017. NASA's Space Debris Sensor, which failed in 2018 soon after its launch to the station, is also fixed outside the Cygnus spacecraft to burn up with the cargo freighter when it re-enters the atmosphere later this month.

While Northrop Grumman controllers in Dulles, Virginia, oversee the final weeks of the NG-12 mission, ground teams on Virginia's Eastern Shore are readying another Cygnus spacecraft for launch on an Antares rocket Feb. 9 at 5:39 p.m. EST (2239 GMT) to begin the company's 13th resupply mission to the space station.


A technician from Ball Aerospace works on the CIRiS CubeSat. Credit: Ball Aerospace

After raising its orbit Friday, the Cygnus spacecraft began releasing 14 CubeSats from two separate deployers.

Seven nanosatellites ejected out of a NanoRacks deployer to begin their technology demonstration and scientific research missions.

Billed as the first amateur satellite from the state of Washington, the shoebox-sized HuskySat 1 CubeSat was one of the small spacecraft deployed from the NanoRacks mechanism. It will test two experimental payloads — a pulsed plasma thrusters and a high-frequency K-band communication system — according to the University of Washington, wh ere students assembled the spacecraft.

The SwampSat 2 nanosatellite, developed at the University of Florida, was expected to unfurl a 172-square-foot (16-square meter) loop antenna after release from the NanoRacks deployer. The antenna will measure very low frequency wave propagation in the upper ionosphere.

Orbital Factory 2, another 1U CubeSat, carries a tiny 3D printer to demonstrate technologies for future self-repairing satellites.

Four CubeSats developed by the Aerospace Corp. were also deployed from the NanoRacks mechanism. Two of the nanosatellites, known as AeroCube 14A and 14B, were sponsored by the National Reconnaissance Office and will test new small satellites technologies and materials, such as structural materials, thermal straps and advanced solar cells.

The AeroCube 15A and 15B CubeSats, also known as Rogue Alpha and Beta, were developed by the Aerospace Corp. on a tight 18-month timeline for the U.S. Air Force. The CubeSats are designed to serve as a pathfinder for rapid spacecraft development processes, and each of the identical nanosatellites hosts an optical imager to observe clouds and ground targets.

NanoRacks confirmed the successful release of all seven CubeSats out of its deployment mechanism.

Seven CubeSats were also housed inside a Slingshot deployment mechanism on the Cygnus spacecraft's forward hatch. Supplied by Hypergiant SEOPS, the Slingshot was expected to release seven small CubeSats, according to Kristina Libby, an executive vice president at Hypergiant.

One of the CubeSats deployed from the Slingshot mechanism was CIRiS, which stands for the Compact Radiometer in Space. CIRiS will test the performance of a miniature Earth-observing instrument built by Ball Aerospace. The instrument on the CIRiS spacecraft — about the size of a briefcase — has applications in soil moisture observations in support of drought monitoring.

The EdgeCube nanosatellite — a 4-inch-wide (10-centimeter) 1-unit CubeSat —  also separated from the Cygnus spacecraft's Slingshot deployer. It was developed by students at Sonoma State University, Santa Clara University and Morehead State University, and is designed to see ecosystem change over time.

Other CubeSats deployed from the from the Slingshot mechanism were MiniCarb for NASA and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Very Low Frequency Propagation Mapper for the Air Force Research Laboratory.

MiniCarb will measure greenhouse gases on Earth, and the VLF Propagation Mapper — or VPM — will measure the travel of radio waves in low Earth orbit.

An engineer on the MiniCarb mission confirmed it separated successfully from the Slingshot mechanism, and ground teams successfully established contact with the spacecraft.

A tiny satellite named MakerSat 1 developed by students at Northwest Nazarene University in Idaho was also packed in the Slingshot deployer. MakeSat 1 was designed to be quickly snap-assembled by astronauts on the space station, then loaded into its deployment slot.


The MakerSat 1 kit. Credit: Northwest Nazarene University

Stephen Parke, a professor of electrical engineering at Northwest Nazarene University, said the MakerSat 1 CubeSat began sending science data to ground teams soon after its release from the Slingshot deployer Saturday.

The data received by ground teams so far has provided insights on the robustness of the 3D-printed components, which were produced aboard the space station's Additive Manufacturing Facility owned by Made in Space.

"MakerSat 1's 1U frame structure was was specifically designed to be 3D-printed on the AMF and then quickly snapped-together aboard the ISS," Parke wrote in an email to Spaceflight Now.

A CubeSat for DARPA, the U.S. military's research and development arm, was also deployed from the Slingshot device. The Slingshot also carried a payload for Lynk — formerly known as Ubiquitilink — a Virginia-based with ambitions to launch a constellation of tiny satellites to extend the reach of terrestrial cell phone networks.

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Jonathan McDowell✔@planet4589 8:18 AM - Feb 5, 2020

Debris objects 45128-45132 cataloged, leaving gaps 45118-45127 in the catalog presumably reserved for more of the NG-12 cubesats in addition to 45113-17 already associated with the mission. That's 15 gaps, but current info suggests 14 cubesats, so still a mystery to solve..

[Pirat5]

Кто доставил ORCA-2 пока непонятно. ORCA-1 стартовал на орбиту 25.07.2019 вместе с Dragon CRS-18, был запущен 07.08.2019 с борта Cygnus (NG-11) вместе с RTFSat, QR-3 и  NARSSCube-2.
Кто доставил Lynk [Uniquitilink] также пока непонятно.

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Обнаружены ещё 3 объекта запуска с борта Лебедя - объекты H, J и K

 

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T.S. Kelso‏ @TSKelso 5 ч. назад

I am at a complete loss to understand the latest additions to the @SpaceTrackOrg TLE data. We have 7 more TLEs from the CYGNUS NG-12 deployments (expecting 6). OBJECT 45118-45120 are H/J/K, as are 45131-45133. All TLEs seem to represent different orbits. Not all are updating.





3 ч. назад

And now we have 2 more TLEs for the CYGNUS NG-12 deployments, bringing the total to 17. Since we only expected 14, it looks like 45131-45133 may be about to be re-assigned to something else. That means HUSKYSAT-1 needs a new home. Very confusing.

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К #287

zandr написал:
31 января (точное время неизвестно) были отделены микроспутники ... Aerocube-15A [Rogue Alpha] и Aerocube-15B [Rogue Beta].

https://www.losangeles.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2074745/smc-mission-partners-successfully-deploy-aerospace-rogue-cubesats-from-iss/

SMC, Mission Partners Successfully Deploy Aerospace Rogue CubeSats fr om ISS
By SMC Public Affairs, SMC Public Affairs / Published February 04, 2020

LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. --
The U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center and its mission partners successfully deployed Aerospace's Rogue Alpha and Rogue Beta CubeSats from the Northrop Grumman Cygnus capsule at 1 p.m. and 4:10 p.m. respectively, Jan. 31, 2020.

This marks the beginning of the program's mission experiment plan, wh ere the two satellites will use their short-wave infrared sensors to create a baseline for processing cloud backgrounds and inform future low Earth orbit satellites. The Air Force will also utilize this program's unclassified data to investigate potential uses of the capability.

"The Space and Missile Systems Center is proud of this team's accomplishments and the speed at which this program developed," said Col. Dennis Bythewood, Program Executive Officer for Space Development.

The CubeSats were designed, built, and tested by The Aerospace Corporation, a national nonprofit corporation that operates as a federally funded research and development center dedicated to advancing the nation's missions in space.

"Aerospace is proud to present its Rogue CubeSats to support the Space Force's mission of achieving a secure and resilient space architecture," said Jeff Emdee, general manager of the Space Development Division at The Aerospace Corporation. "Each three-unit CubeSat is about the size of a shoe box and contains both visible and infrared sensing, as well as a laser communications downlink, that will allow us to explore operations in low earth orbit to benefit future system concepts."

Прим. Предполагаю, что в заметке указано тихоокеанское стандартное время (PST, UTC -8 h)

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НОРАД идентифицировал 5 мКА, запущенных с борта Лебедя-12

 

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Опознан 6-й объект запуска с борта Лебедя-12 - Ciris (obj. L)
 

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Уведомление о затоплении Лебедя-12

NOTAM

SCIZ

R0012/20 - ZONE ...D... SECT WEST PACIFIC DUE TO SPACE VEHICLE DEBRIS REENTRY.
THE AREA IS BOUNDED BY GEO COORD:
500000S 1300000W
303000S 1300000W
500000S 1310000W
303000S 1310000W
INFO PROVIDED BY NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION.
INFORMATION: SANTIAGO OCEANIC 10024KHZ/6649KHZ
FANS1A EQUIPPED ACFT LOGON SCEZ.
SFC - UNL, 02 MAR 06:00 2020 UNTIL 02 MAR 09:00 2020.
CREATED: 26 FEB 13:23 2020

Затопление 2 марта 2020 г. с 06:00 до 09:00 UTC / с 09:00 до 12:00 ДМВ
Прим. Участок зоны затопления по Оклендскому РПИ пока не опубликован...