TurkmenAlem -- Канаверал -- Falcon 9 v1.1 -- 27.04.2015

[Salo]

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/03/31/spacex-cargo-launch-now-set-for-april-13/

The launch of a European-built communications satellite for the government of Turkmenistan was supposed to take off March 21, but SpaceX opted to delay the mission to around April 24, allowing the space station resupply flight to launch next in the queue.
The launch for Turkmenistan — with a satellite named TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat — is apparently still on track for late April.

[anik]

Peter B. de Selding @pbdes
SpaceX launch of Turkmen geo telecom sat now moved to 27 April from 24 April, perhaps unsurprisingly given challenges of 10-day turnaround.

[che wi]

Chris B - NSF ‏@NASASpaceflight  15m ago

SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 has conducted a Static Fire test. Data review and LRR to come ahead of April 27 launch of TurkmenistanSat.

[Pirat5]

che wi пишет:
SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 has conducted a Static Fire test.

хорошая новость!
А какие планы у Маска после этого пуска? На май, получается, запланировано Abort Pad и сертификация? Дальнейшие пуски в июне?

[Salo]

June 19 - Dragon SpX-7 (CRS7) - Falcon 9 v1.1 - Canaveral SLC-40 - 17:51

[Pirat5]

Я вот про что: Orbicomm-ы и SES-9 идут уже после CRS-7. В мае, получается, не до них.

[Salo]

Под SES-9 всё-таки новая модификация F9 идёт и это понятно. Jason-3 ждёт сертификации, а вот почему плывёт Orbcomm сказать трудно.

[Sam Grey]

turkmenistan-5
Читал у Тёмы про Туркмению, и, глядя на фотографии, сразу вспомнил Туркменсат. Мне теперь всё понятно. С таким количеством тарелок на крышах, свое спутниковое телевещание им просто жизненно необходимо, а с таким количеством денег странно, что они вообще не забабахали какую-нибудь национальную навигационную спутниковую систему, чтоб всё как у больших.

[Salo]

http://www.patrick.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070716-028.pdf

Launch day probability of  violating launch weather constraints: 40%
Primary concern(s): Cumulus Cloud Rule, Thick Cloud Layer Rule

24-hour delay probability of violating launch weather constraints: 70%
Primary concern(s): Thick Cloud Layer Rule, Disturbed Weather Rule

[Salo]

http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/04/25/clouds-in-the-forecast-for-mondays-falcon-9-launch/

Clouds in the forecast for Monday's Falcon 9 launch       
Posted on April 25, 2015 by Stephen Clark

SpaceX's mission patch for the Falcon 9 launch with TurkmenAlem52E/MonacoSat. Credit: SpaceX
 
Forecasters will be watching clouds and rain showers during the countdown before Monday's launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Turkmenistan's first communications satellite.
The 22-story rocket is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral during a 90-minute launch window opening at 6:14 p.m. EDT (2214 GMT) Monday.
The official weather outlook issued Friday by the U.S. Air Force's 45th Weather Squadron calls for a 60 percent chance of favorable conditions during Monday's launch window. Forecasters said their chief concerns are with thick clouds and cumulus clouds that could violate launch weather rules.
The Air Force weather team predicts isolated rain showers, scattered to broken clouds, and northwest winds at 10 to 15 mph.
The forecast worsens Tuesday, when a weather system is expected to generate widespread storms in Central Florida. There is just a 30 percent probability of good weather Tuesday, according to the Air Force.
The flight will be the Falcon 9's fifth launch of more than a dozen planned this year, and if the rocket blasts off Monday, it will come just 13 days after SpaceX's last mission from the same launch pad.
The achievement would best SpaceX's turnaround time of 14 days, which came between two launches last year.

File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX
 
SpaceX technicians rolled the two-stage Falcon 9 rocket into the hangar at Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad hours after another Falcon 9 went up April 14 with a Dragon supply ship for the International Space Station.
Workers mechanically and electrically connected the two-stage rocket, completed final testing, and transferred the booster to the launch pad about 600 feet north of the horizontal assembly hangar for a customary prelaunch engine hotfire test Wednesday.
The first stage's nine Merlin 1D engines fired for a few seconds as computers checked numerous parameters to verify the kerosene-fueled powerplants are ready for launch. The rocket remained affixed to the launch pad during the firing.
Ground teams returned the rocket to the hangar to receive the TurkmenAlem52E satellite, which was fueled with in-space maneuvering propellant and enclosed inside the Falcon 9's 17-foot diameter nose cone in a nearby SpaceX payload processing facility.
Assembled in France by Thales Alenia Space, the spacecraft will be handed over to the government of Turkmenistan after launch to become the country's first communications satellite.
The Falcon 9 will place the five-ton satellite into an elliptical transfer orbit, then the spacecraft will raise its altitude to 22,300 miles and slide into an operational position in geosynchronous orbit at 52 degrees east longitude.
The operating post will give the satellite coverage over Europe, Central Asia and Africa for its 15-year mission, according to Thales Alenia Space.
Monaco has rights to the 52 degrees east slot to be occupied by the Turkmen satellite. In exchange for permitting the spacecraft to reside there, Monaco's government secured the use of 12 Ku-band transponders on the satellite.
Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES signed an agreement with Space Systems International Monaco, an entity licensed by Monaco's government, to commercialize the 12 Ku-band transponders.
The hefty payload and high-altitude destination for Monday's mission will prevent SpaceX from attempting a recovery of the Falcon 9's first stage booster.

Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.

[Alexio]

Обратный отсчет прямой трансляции
http://livestream.com/spacex/events/3995038

[Pirat5]

Менее 3х часов до попытки.
Погода - 60% на сегодня, 30% на завтра. Хотя всякое может быть...

As expected, weather will need to be watched throughout this afternoon's countdown. The attached anvil and thick cloud rules are currently being violated.

[Pirat5]

Осталось 2 часа.
Ракету уже заправили, хотя с погодой так и не могут определиться - то "красный", то "зеленый" свет

[Pirat5]

Остался час.
в T-minus 1 hour состоится погодный брифинг.

[Pirat5]

[Pirat5]

Погода остаётся "no go".

[Анатолий Ревзин]

а где трансляция

[Анатолий Ревзин]

тормоз на 20 мин - погода.....

[ilan]

Остановили отсчет.
Вернули на T-00:20:00

[ilan]

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