FASTSAT, FASTRAC-A, FASTRAC-B, FalconSat-4, OREOS, RAX (STP-S26) - Minotaur IV - Kodiak LP-1 - 20.11.10 01:25 UTC

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Sharicoff

ЦитироватьЕсли любители (...)

Не-не. Один из тех, которым номер присвоен. Объект A например... Впрочем, это хохма конечно. Я колеблюсь (колебаюсь?) между вторым и третьим вариантами.
Не пей метанол!

Брабонт

Тогда ставлю на пункт 2. C учётом того факта, что на STPSAT 1 и его попутчиков по сей день выдаются вполне честные тулайны.

Интересно, а как операторы гражданских микроспутников будут управлять своими подопечными, хотя бы планировать сеансы связи? Получат доступ в spacedatasource.org под расписку ФБР?
Пропитый день обмену и возврату не подлежит

Sharicoff

Цитироватьхотя бы планировать сеансы связи?

(фантазировать - так фантазировать): а там ниже S-band ничего не будет. :) Не знаю, как это можно в три-кубики упрятать - но это мое личное персональное мнение, и никто не может на него наезжать, иначе всудподам. :)

ps: в международный!
Не пей метанол!

Tiger

4. Чтоб никто не догадался про енергетические возможности MX-а.  :lol:
(350838) = 2002 EH163 = 2011 UN192

Sharicoff

NanoSail было обещано отделить через 7 дней после запуска. Неделя между прочим уже прошла.
Не пей метанол!

Pol

Старенькое. но:

http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?number=508631648


NASA... How To Pack With Aplomb (Satellite)

[SatNews] The Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses, or O/OREOS, nanosatellite managed by NASA's Ames Research Center, successfully launched at 5:25 p.m. PST on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, from Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska.


Photo credit: Charlie Friedericks/NASA — The O/OREOS chemistry cube contains 24 sample compartments and a spectrometer, all packed into a 10-cm3 box.O/OREOS rode into orbit aboard a four-stage Air Force Minotaur IV rocket. Also aboard were the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Test ProgramSat-2 (STPSat-2), NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, payload bus which carried the NanoSail-Demonstration, NASA's first solar sail, as well as other satellites developed by universities and industry. The goal of the O/OREOS mission is to demonstrate the capability to conduct low-cost astrobiology science experiments on autonomous nanosatellites in space.

Scientists will apply the knowledge they gain from O/OREOS to plan future experiments in the space environment to study how exposure to space changes organic molecules and biology. These experiments will help answer astrobiologys fundamental questions about the origin, evolution and distribution of life in the universe. Approximately 19 minutes after launch, O/OREOS separated from the Minotaur IV rocket and entered low Earth orbit at an altitude of approximately 400 miles. About three hours after launch, amateur radio operator, Marco Bruno, in Torino, Italy received the first signals from O/OREOS.

After a spacecraft checkout period, O/OREOS autonomously initiated the first of two experiments, which will last approximately six months and transmit data for as long as a year. The second experiment will start on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. Now that O/OREOS is activated and has begun transmitting radio signals to ground control stations at Santa Clara University, the nanosatellite will send mission data to the NASA Mission Management and science teams at Ames for analysis.

The STPSat-2 launch was the STP's 26th small launch vehicle mission. The 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 STPSat-2 mission. The Small Spacecraft Division at Ames manages the O/OREOS payload and mission operations with the professional support of staff and students from Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif., in support of the Astrobiology Small Payloads program under the Planetary Science Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA's Headquarters in Washington.


Photo credit: Charlie Friedericks/NASA — The O/OREOS chemistry cube contains 24 sample compartments and a spectrometer, all packed into a 10-cm3 box.
С уважением, Павел Акулаев

Pol

Вах!

Вставлял вроде на инглише, а получился перевод?
С уважением, Павел Акулаев

instml

NASA впервые запустило спутник со спутника

Американскому космическому агентству (NASA) впервые удалось запустить один спутник с борта другого, сообщается в официальном пресс-релизе агентства. По мнению исследователей NASA, подобная схема запуска аппаратов в будущем может применяться достаточно широко.

Основной спутник (относящийся к классу микроспутников) FASTSAT был запущен 19 ноября 2010 года с космодрома на Аляске. На борту аппарата была установлена система P-POD, предназначенная для вывода на орбиту миниатюрных космических аппаратов (наноспутников).

Подобные системы, напоминающие по своему устройству катапульты, ранее размещались только на головных блоках ракет, откуда и осуществлялся пуск космических аппаратов. При помощи P-POD на орбиту был выведен наноспутник NanoSail-D. Линейные размеры аппарата составляют примерно 10 на 10 и на 39 сантиметров.

По словам исследователей, несмотря на небольшие размеры новый спутник позволит испытать ряд совершенно новых технологий. Так, например, NanoSail-D снабжен солнечным парусом площадью около 10 квадратных метров. Этот парус служит для торможения и должен помочь свести аппарат с орбиты.

http://lenta.ru/news/2010/12/07/sats/
Go MSL!

Старый

Лента.вру жжот напалмом. Этому П-ПОДу в обед сто лет.
1. Ангара - единственная в мире новая РН которая хуже старой (с) Старый Ламер
2. Назначение Роскосмоса - не летать в космос а выкачивать из бюджета деньги
3. У Маска ракета длиннее и толще чем у Роскосмоса
4. Чем мрачнее реальность тем ярче бред (с) Старый Ламер

Leroy

ЦитироватьЛента.вру жжот напалмом. Этому П-ПОДу в обед сто лет.
А где там написано, что это новый девайс?

pkl

Старый прав. Спутник со спутника уже запускали. В т.ч. при помощи "Минотавра". А первым был "Магион" с "Интеркосмоса".
Вообще, исследовать солнечную систему автоматами - это примерно то же самое, что посылать робота вместо себя в фитнес, качаться.Зомби. Просто Зомби (с)
Многоразовость - это бяка (с) Дмитрий Инфан

Salo

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1012/11nanosaild/
ЦитироватьNASA solar sail lost in space[/size]
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: December 11, 2010

NASA has not heard from the experimental NanoSail-D miniature solar sail in nearly a week, prompting officials to wonder if the craft actually deployed from a larger mother satellite despite initial indications it ejected as designed.


Artist's concept of NanoSail-D. Credit: NASA
 
The agency announced Monday the NanoSail-D ejected from the its mothership, the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT. The deployment was supposed to trigger a three-day timer before issuing an automatic command to unfurl a 100 square foot ultra-thin polymer sail from NanoSail-D, which is about the size of a loaf of bread.

NanoSail-D's spring-ejection was indicated at 1:31 a.m. EST Monday, leading to a predicted release of the spacecraft's sail membrane around 1:30 a.m. EST Thursday.

But officials fear something went wrong with NanoSail-D.

Engineers have been unable to contact the spacecraft since its suspected release early Monday, according to Kim Newton, a spokesperson at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

NASA posted an update on the mission website late Friday saying "it is not clear" that the small spacecraft was deployed from FASTSAT.

"At the time of ejection, spacecraft telemetry data showed a positive ejection as reflected by confirmation of several of the planned on orbit ejection sequence events," the statement said. "The FASTSAT spacecraft ejection system data was also indicative of an ejection event."

NanoSail-D was mounted in a P-POD ejection apparatus inside FASTSAT. P-PODs are typically positioned to release CubeSat spacecraft from launch vehicles, but NanoSail-D was expected to become the first CubeSat to separate from a microsatellite.

Containing the small solar sail experiment and five other technology investigations, the 300-pound FASTSAT spacecraft launched Nov. 19 on a Minotaur 4 rocket from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska.

NASA still has not confirmed the sail deployment event, which was programmed to occur this week. Four spring-loaded guide booms were expected to pop out of the compact spacecraft, then the polymer membrane was designed to stretch tight in a diamond shape within about five seconds.

"The FASTSAT team is continuing to troubleshoot the inability to make contact with NanoSail-D," NASA's statement said. "The FASTSAT microsatellite and all remaining five onboard experiments continue to operate as planned."


Artist's concept of FASTSAT. Credit: NASA
 
NanoSail-D's primary objectives were to eject the 8.5-pound satellite from FASTSAT and deploy the solar sail.

NASA launched an identical NanoSail-D spacecraft in 2008, but the satellite was destroyed in a rocket mishap. Engineers spent the last two years preparing a backup spacecraft for blastoff.

Both NanoSail-D vehicles were assembled on a budget of $500,000, according to Dean Alhorn, the NanoSail-D project manager at Marshall.

The craft's solar sail is designed to harness light pressure from the sun to change its orbit, eventually slowing the craft's speed enough to drop from orbit and burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

Solar sails don't generate much thrust, but they can propel lightweight spacecraft long distances into the solar system on timescales of months and years. A Japanese solar sail mission, named Ikaros, successfully demonstrated solar sailing on the way from Earth to Venus this summer.

NanoSail-D's potential applications are closer to home.

NASA and the U.S. military are interested in inexpensive methods of removing retired satellites from clogged traffic lanes in orbit. The military tracks nearly 16,000 objects larger than 4 inches circling Earth, and even small debris moving at high speeds pose serious threats to active spacecraft.

DARPA, the Pentagon's research and development agency, is studying concepts to pull debris and old satellites out of operational orbits. Such a job is technically challenging, but legal and political hurdles loom even taller, according to experts.

Low-cost CubeSat spacecraft like NanoSail-D could prove solar sails can be packed inside canisters like parachutes, providing a disposal system when satellites are finished with their missions. Over time, sails could slow satellite velocities enough to move the craft to graveyard orbits or into the atmosphere for a destructive reentry.

NanoSail-D was designed to stay in orbit between 70 and 120 days, depending on atmospheric conditions.
"Были когда-то и мы рысаками!!!"

Salo

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/nasa-solar-sail-maybe-not-eject-101210.html
ЦитироватьNASA Solar Sail Satellite May Not Have Ejected from Mothership After All[/size]
By SPACE.com Staff

posted: 11 December 2010
09:21 am ET

A small NASA satellite carrying a folded-up solar sail may not have ejected from its mothership earlier this week after all, the space agency announced late Friday (Dec. 10).

NASA had reported that NanoSail-D, which is about the size of a loaf of bread, successfully ejected from the FASTSAT satellite in low-Earth orbit in the early hours of Dec. 6. But the space agency released a status update today (Dec. 10) saying that now they're not so sure.

"At this time, it is not clear that NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite (FASTSAT) as originally stated on Monday, Dec. 6," the statement reads. "At the time of ejection, spacecraft telemetry data showed a positive ejection as reflected by confirmation of several of the planned on orbit ejection sequence events. The FASTSAT spacecraft ejection system data was also indicative of an ejection event."

However, NanoSail-D was supposed to unfurl its 100-square-foot solar sail three days after ejection, and mission scientists can't confirm that this has happened. They're having trouble communicating with the tiny satellite, officials said.

"NanoSail-D was scheduled to unfurl on Dec. 9 at 12:30 a.m., and deployment hasn't been confirmed," the statement continues. "The FASTSAT team is continuing to troubleshoot the inability to make contact with NanoSail-D. The FASTSAT microsatellite and all remaining five onboard experiments continue to operate as planned."

FASTSAT launched Nov. 19 from Kodiak Island, Alaska, bearing six different science and technology demonstration payloads, including NanoSail-D.

NanoSail-D is intended to demonstrate a technology that NASA hopes will help bring decommissioned satellites down from Earth's orbit without using up valuable propellant. The idea is to use radiation from the sun as a sort of wind pushing against a thin sail to propel craft through space. [How Do Solar Sails Work?]

Solar sails could help de-orbit larger satellites, the idea goes, thus helping free Earth orbit of dangerous, cluttering space junk, NASA officials have said.

Once its sail deploys, NanoSail-D is supposed to stay in low-Earth orbit from 70 to 120 days, according to NASA officials. Over time, the satellite will use the sail to de-orbit, spiraling lower and lower without using costly propellants like traditional satellites do.

NanoSail-D is not the first spacecraft to attempt to demonstrate solar-sail technology. In June, Japan's Ikaros probe deployed its solar sail, becoming the first craft to cruise through space propelled only by sunlight.

Nanosatellites like NanoSail-D, also known as cubesats, are typically launched and deployed from a mechanism that mounts directly on a launch vehicle. This is the first time NASA has mounted this mechanism on a microsatellite to eject a cubesat, agency officials said.
"Были когда-то и мы рысаками!!!"

instml

Так что с NanoSail-D? То ли не отделился, то ли не раскрылся, то ли связи нет :?
Go MSL!

Кир

Логика подсказывает, что не отделился...

Salo

http://lenta.ru/news/2010/12/14/nanosail/
ЦитироватьNASA потеряло на орбите наноспутник на солнечном парусе[/size]


NASA потеряло связь с так называемым наноспутником NanoSail-D, оснащенным солнечным парусом. Пока специалисты не знают, что именно пошло не так, сообщает портал ScienceNOW.

Сообщалось, что аппарат был выброшен на орбиту с другого спутника FASTSAT (Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite - Быстрый и доступный научный и технологический спутник) 6 декабря. 9 декабря NanoSail-D должен был передать на Землю сигнал о развертывании паруса, однако этого не произошло.

В NASA рассматривают три возможные версии произошедшего. Первая предполагает, что емкость аккумулятора NanoSail-D оказалась недостаточной для работы на орбите при очень низких температурах. Согласно второму варианту, аппарат не был выброшен на орбиту несмотря на поступивший на Землю сигнал. Третья версия состоит в том, что NanoSail-D не смог развернуть свой парус.

Аппарат NanoSail-D является прототипом малобюджетных спутников, которые, теоретически, могли бы использоваться космическими агентствами. Размер наноспутника сравним с размером батона хлеба, а площадь его солнечного паруса составляет около десяти квадратных метров. Помимо NanoSail-D "материнский" спутник FASTSAT несет еще пять устройств (также малобюджетных), которые пока работают нормально.

Если выброс NanoSail-D все же прошел успешно, то аппарат станет первым спутником, запущенном NASA на орбиту с другого спутника. Предполагается, что в будущем такая технология вывода в космос небольших аппаратов может применяться довольно широко.
"Были когда-то и мы рысаками!!!"

Sharicoff

ЦитироватьТак что с NanoSail-D? То ли не отделился, то ли не раскрылся, то ли связи нет :?

Связи нет - это точно. Раскрытие не произошло - тоже точно.
http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm
Не пей метанол!


Sharicoff

Бггг. А спейстрак его не видит! :)
Не пей метанол!

Sharicoff

ЦитироватьNanoSail-D Ejects: NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for Beacon Signal

On Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. EST, engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Technology Satellite, FASTSAT. The ejection event occurred spontaneously and was identified this morning when engineers at the center analyzed onboard FASTSAT telemetry. The ejection of NanoSail-D also has been confirmed by ground-based satellite tracking assets. Amateur ham operators are asked to listen for the signal to verify NanoSail-D is operating. This information should be sent to the NanoSail-D dashboard at: http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm. The NanoSail-D beacon signal can be found at 437.270 MHz.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/nanosaild.html

Твиттер: http://twitter.com/nanosaild
Цитировать# @rickyjordan Thanks Ricky. I am still trying to figure out why FASTSAT finally let me go. Maybe it was tired of me hanging around? about 4 hours ago via web in reply to rickyjordan

# Just found out that n2yo.com is tracking me. Check out http://www.n2yo.com/?s=90027 about 4 hours ago via web

# @cherryyamyam I am about as happy as a satellite can be. Look I'm smiling. about 5 hours ago via web in reply to cherryyamyam

# @mike_wood I am surprised that my internet connection still works. There must be some wifi signal here. Live tweets if possible! about 6 hours ago via web in reply to mike_wood

# Big day tomorrow. Just about 24hrs before I open up my sail around 10pm EST. Stay tuned ... about 6 hours ago via web

# After being cramped in that box for so long my arms are getting tired. I need to stretch them soon. Looking forward to tomorrow night! about 7 hours ago via web

# Captain FASTSAT, I think that I might have forgotten my sunglasses. It sure is bright out here!!!! about 9 hours ago via web

# @NASA_OOREOS Thank you and did you bring your football? I am going long. about 9 hours ago via web in reply to NASA_OOREOS

# Thank you for your patience. I am sending my beacon and heard that radio operators in both Huntsville and PA have heard me. Anybody else? about 9 hours ago via web

# Here is the official announcement. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/fastsat/11-009.html Anybody want to listen? Can you hear me? about 11 hours ago via web

# My TLE's. 1 90027U 0 11019.40613897 +.00003325 +00000-0 +47680-3 0 0001 2 90027 071.9739 007.2360 0021785 203.3337 159.2085 14.7703891000001 about 11 hours ago via web

# Surprise, surprise. I am back and what do you know. I am flying free. Bye Bye captain FASTSAT. Thanks for the ride! about 11 hours ago via web

http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm

NANOSAILD
  1 90027U 0        11019.40613897 +.00003325 +00000-0 +47680-3 0 00013
  2 90027 071.9739 007.2360 0021785 203.3337 159.2085 14.77038910000019

Пишут, что идет передача на УКВ. Передатчик S-диапазона пока молчит. Парус тоже еще не развернут. Отделение якобы произошло 17 января.
Не пей метанол!