AsiaSat 6 (Thaicom 7) - Falcon 9 v1.1 - Canaveral SLC-40 - 07.09.2014 05:00 UTC

[vlad7308]

ВВК пишет:
Перенос запуска- это фирменный знак Маска

с таким же успехом можно сказать, что "Перенос запуска- это фирменный знак Шаттла"

[ВВК]

vlad7308 пишет:

ВВК пишет:
Перенос запуска- это фирменный знак Маска

с таким же успехом можно сказать, что "Перенос запуска- это фирменный знак Шаттла"

Наверно у них одни отцы-основатели

[Искандер]

Pirat5 пишет:
А сайт Nasaspaceflight молчит.
Посмотрим. До 6 сент осталось немного

SpaceX Falcon 9 realigns for weekend launch of ASIASAT-6

[Space Alien]

Уже 7-е сентября.

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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/012/140905preview/#.VAr_91crpeE

Falcon 9 rocket on track for middle-of-the-night launch
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: September 5, 2014
 
A commercial communications satellite is folded up inside the nose of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for liftoff fr om Cape Canaveral after midnight Sunday, ready to launch on a 15-year mission to beam broadcast video and data services to China and Southeast Asia.
 
Credit: SpaceX
 
 Owned by AsiaSat, a telecom operator based in Hong Kong, the nearly five-ton spacecraft is fueled, charged and ready for liftoff fr om Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad at 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT) Sunday. The launch window extends to 4:04 a.m. EDT (0804 GMT).
Forecasters predict partly cloudy skies with isolated rain showers during the middle-of-the-night launch window, calling for a 70 percent chance conditions will be acceptable for liftoff of the 22-story Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX delayed the launch fr om Aug. 27 to review the rocket's fault detection software, an effort company founder and CEO Elon Musk said was to ensure the launcher's reliability after a prototype rocket with similarities to the Falcon 9 self-destructed Aug. 22 on a test flight over Central Texas.
SpaceX and AsiaSat announced Friday that liftoff was targeted for Sunday morning.
The launch team plans to oversee the loading of more than a million pounds of liquid oxygen and kerosene into the two-stage rocket Saturday night. Once the Falcon 9's safety, guidance and propulsion systems are verified ready for flight, SpaceX will authorize the start of the rocket's final computer-controlled countdown sequence.
Nine Merlin 1D engines will ignite and go through an automated health check before computers release the rocket from the launch pad.
The Falcon 9 will take off and turn east from Cape Canaveral, powering into the sky atop more than 1.3 million pounds of thrust during a nearly three-minute first stage engine burn.
The rocket's single-engine second stage will take over, jettison the launcher's aerodynamic fairing cocooning the AsiaSat 6 spacecraft, and complete two engine firings to inject the satellite into an egg-shaped geostationary transfer orbit.
Deployment of the AsiaSat 6 satellite is scheduled about 32 minutes after liftoff, according to SpaceX.
AsiaSat 6's hefty weight -- approximately 9,900 pounds -- is near the lim it of the Falcon 9's lift capability, so SpaceX says it will not reserve leftover fuel to try to recover the rocket's first stage, an exercise aimed at eventually making the launcher reusable.
Sunday's mission will fly in expendable mode, according to SpaceX.
William Wade, AsiaSat's president and CEO, said AsiaSat 6 will extend its power-generating solar panels, unfurl its communications antennas, and maneuver into an operational orbit 22,300 miles up, wh ere it will hover over a fixed point on Earth along the equator.
Ground controllers at Space Systems/Loral, the California-based builder of AsiaSat 6, will park the satellite at 120 degrees east longitude.
 
The AsiaSat 6 communications satellite is encapsulated inside the Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing. Credit: AsiaSat
 
 The value of Sunday's mission is approximately $190 million, including the spacecraft, the launch contract and insurance, Wade said. AsiaSat is paying SpaceX $52.2 million for the launch of AsiaSat 6, according to AsiaSat's regulatory filings.
Wade said AsiaSat 6 will go into service about a month after its launch if everything goes as planned. It is designed for a 15-year lifetime.
AsiaSat 6 hosts 28 C-band transponders to broadcast communications signals through two beams -- a global beam and a regional beam to serve AsiaSat and Thaicom, another satellite operator that negotiated access to up to 50 percent of AsiaSat 6's capacity.
"The purpose of that is to be able to separate the traffic, so we aren't competing with each other in selling and marketing the capacity," Wade said. "For AsiaSat, the bulk of that capacity as we see it will be used in China -- C-band capacity in China -- for video services and other telecommunications and data services ... whereas we expect the Thais to use it for data services in Southeast Asia."
AsiaSat 6's launch will come a month after SpaceX placed a similar satellite into orbit for AsiaSat. A Falcon 9 rocket delivered AsiaSat 8 to orbit Aug. 5 on its last flight.
"These two satellites launching a month apart are really growth satellites for us," Wade said. "They're not replacements. They're new, incremental growth satellites for us across Asia, with C-band on AsiaSat 6 mainly in China, and Ku-band on AsiaSat 8, which was mainly for the Indian subcontinent as well as the Middle East."
Launching two satellites in quick succession with the same launch provider is new for AsiaSat. It is also rare in the wider commercial satellite market.
"I'm not sure very many satellite operators have ever launched back-to-back like we're doing. We certainly never have," Wade said. "Our history has usually been a little bit more conservative wh ere we launched satellites usually three-to-four years apart mainly for replacement satellites or some growth that way."
The two launches are also AsiaSat's first missions with SpaceX.
"SpaceX is new," Wade said. "When we signed up with SpaceX, we knew there would be some growing pains that they would go through. We expected that. That's what we signed up for."
Space Systems/Loral completed testing of the satellites in Palo Alto, Calif., this spring, when the payloads were originally booked to launch with SpaceX. But the launches were delayed to August and September after SpaceX ran into problems with other missions earlier this year.
"Obviously, we're launching a little bit later," Wade said. "These satellites were originally scheduled to launch in the spring, so we're delayed on that. But they've done a great job. Our experience with them has been very good.
"We got a great launch with AsiaSat 8. It was a little bit later than we had hoped, but I think we knew there was that possibility when we signed up because launching rockets is complicated," Wade said. "You kind of have to learn as you go along, and some things are unpredictable. Our experience so far has been very good. The people have been very responsive to our needs, and very open about what we needed to do."

Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.

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NAVAREA IV 704/14
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[Space Alien]

Launch Update

T-0 now targeted for 1:00am EDT, to allow weather to finish clearing. Webcast begins at ~12:40am EDT.

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Накануне вечером:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/012/prelaunch/#.VAvgw1crpeE

Falcon 9 poised for liftoff
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: September 6, 2014
 
 Gray skies and rain showers hung over SpaceX's launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Saturday as ground crews readied a Falcon 9 rocket for a middle-of-the-night liftoff with the AsiaSat 6 communications satellite.

See our Mission Status Center for the latest news on the mission.

 

Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

 

Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

 

Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

 

Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

 

Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now

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Трансляция:
http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/3266215

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За полтора часа

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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/012/status.html

0434 GMT (12:34 a.m. EDT)
Launch has been reset for 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) to allow weather to clear, according to SpaceX.

0430 GMT (12:30 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 20 minutes and counting. All weather rules are now observed GO for launch.

The SpaceX webcast will begin in a few minutes.

The final poll of the launch team stationed in a control center will begin at T-minus 13 minutes before the countdown enters the final phase.

0428 GMT (12:28 a.m. EDT)
Officials continue to watch thick clouds over Cape Canaveral that could prevent an on-time launch.

0420 GMT (12:20 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 30 minutes. Today's launch is heading for a geosynchronous transfer orbit with an apogee, or high point, of 35,786 kilometers (22,236 miles) and a perigee, or low point, of 185 kilometers (114 miles). The target inclination is 25.3 degrees.

Built by Space Systems/Loral of Palo Alto, Calif., the AsiaSat 6 satellite is destined for a slot 22,300 miles above the equator in geostationary orbit at 120 degrees east longitude, where its 28 C-band transponders will beam video and data network services to China and Southeast Asia for 15 years for AsiaSat and Thaicom.

Today's mission marks the fourth SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with a satellite heading for a geostationary transfer orbit after the Dec. 3 launch with the SES 8 communications satellite, the Jan. 6 liftoff of Thaicom 6 and last month's Aug. 5 launch of AsiaSat 8. Such an orbit requires two burns of the Falcon 9's upper stage Merlin 1D engine, first to place the satellite into a low-altitude parking orbit, then to raise its apogee to geostationary altitude or higher.

0350 GMT (11:50 p.m. EDT on Sat.)
T-minus 60 minutes. Skies are mostly cloudy over Cape Canaveral as the countdown continues for liftoff at 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT) at the opening of a 3-hour, 14-minute launch window.

Weather balloons are being launched throughout the countdown to monitor winds aloft.

0320 GMT (11:20 p.m. EDT Sat.)
Today's flight is fr om Space Launch Complex 40, which was formerly used by the Air Force's Titan 4 rocket until its last flight from Florida in April 2005. SpaceX took over the pad and launched the first Falcon 9 rocket from there on June 4, 2010.

The second Falcon 9 launch on Dec. 8, 2010, sent SpaceX's first Dragon capsule into space on a two-orbit test flight for SpaceX's commercial cargo services to the space station. The December 2010 flight did not go to the space station, but it demonstrated Dragon's avionics and heat shield, culminating with splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

SpaceX's next launch on May 22, 2012, launched the Dragon spacecraft on a NASA-sponsored test flight to the International Space Station. The 9-day Dragon mission delivered cargo to the space station and returned hardware from orbit with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on May 31.

On Oct. 7, 2012, SpaceX launched its fourth Falcon 9 rocket on the first operational Dragon resupply flight to the space station. The three-week mission delivered 882 pounds of cargo to the complex and returned to Earth on Oct. 28 with 1,673 pounds of equipment.

A Falcon 9 launch on March 1, 2013, put up another automated Dragon cargo craft en route to the space station with 1,869 pounds of supplies. It arrived at the outpost March 3 and stayed for 23 days before coming back to Earth with 2,668 pounds of return cargo.

The Falcon 9's first launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California occurred Sept. 29, 2013, and deployed Canada's Cassiope space weather research and communications demonstration satellite into polar orbit. The launch also marked the first flight of SpaceX's upgraded Falcon 9 v1.1 vehicle, which includes more powerful first stage engines, stretched fuel tanks and other changes.

SpaceX's first launch into geostationary transfer orbit occurred Dec. 3, 2013, with the SES 8 Ku-band and Ka-band direct-to-home broadcasting and network services to cover the Asia-Pacific region for SES of Luxembourg.

The Falcon 9 rocket launched again Jan. 6 with the Thaicom 6 telecom satellite to provide C-band and Ku-band communications services across Southeast Asia and Africa.

SpaceX's third operational cargo resupply flight to the space station lifted off April 18 on a Falcon 9 rocket, marking the first time the launcher flew with first stage landing legs in a bid to make the vehicle reusable. The Dragon spacecraft delivered supplies to the space station and returned to Earth a month later.

The Falcon 9's 10th flight July 14 placed six small washing machine-sized delay relay communications satellites into low Earth orbit for Orbcomm Inc.

A month ago, on Aug. 5, SpaceX launched the AsiaSat 6 spacecraft on the most recent Falcon 9 rocket flight.

0250 GMT (10:50 p.m. EDT on Sat.)
Kerosene and liquid oxygen are being pumped aboard the two-stage Falcon 9 rocket. Both stages burn the mix of liquid propellants to fuel 10 Merlin 1D engines.

SpaceX says the webcast of today's launch will begin at 12:35 a.m. EDT (0435 GMT), about 20 minutes prior to liftoff, and continue through the first cutoff of the second stage engine about 10 minutes into the mission.

We will have the live webcast on this page.

If you are heading out to the beach or Port Canaveral to watch the launch, sign up for our Twitter feed to get occasional countdown updates on your cellphone. U.S. readers can also sign up from their phone by texting "follow spaceflightnow" to 40404. (Standard text messaging charges apply.)

And if you are need tips on picking a good viewing spot, check out this authoritative guide on wh ere to go.

0225 GMT (10:25 p.m. EDT on Sat.)
The latest weather briefing given to the SpaceX launch team indicates the thick cloud rule is currently observed "no go" for launch, but conditions are improving as afternoon thunderstorms die out after sunset.

Scattered clouds and muggy conditions are expected by the time the launch window opens at 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT), with just a 30 percent chance weather will violate launch weather rules.

[Space Alien]

Пошла трансляция.

[Space Alien]

[Salo]

Парит наш орёл, тьфу сокол!8)

[Space Alien]

10 минут

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0450 GMT (12:50 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 10 minutes and counting. The terminal countdown autosequence has started. Any hold after this point will result in an automatic abort and recycle to T-minus 13 minutes.

0448 GMT (12:48 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 12 minutes. The launch team has verified all consoles are go for liftoff at 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT).

All systems on the rocket and the AsiaSat 6 satellite, along with weather, are GO for launch. The AsiaSat 6 satellite was placed on internal battery power for liftoff a few minutes ago.

0445 GMT (12:45 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 15 minutes and counting. Here are some statistics on today's launch:

    12th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
    17th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
    11th Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral
    7th launch of a Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket
    6th Falcon 9 v1.1 launch from Cape Canaveral
    5th Falcon 9 night launch
    5th Falcon 9 launch of 2014
    12th launch from Cape Canaveral in 2014

0443 GMT (12:43 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 17 minutes and counting. The Falcon 9 rocket stands 224 feet tall and measures 12 feet in diameter. At liftoff, its nine Merlin 1D first stage engines will generate about 1.3 million pounds of thrust.

Keep up with the launch sequence with this timeline of key events during the Falcon 9's ascent to orbit.

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0454 GMT (12:54 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 6 minutes and counting. The Falcon 9 rocket is now operating on internal power.

The strongback umbilical tower will soon be lowered a few degrees to clear the rocket for launch. The procedure begins with opening of cradles gripping the rocket at attach points, then hydraulics lower the tower into launch position.

0453 GMT (12:53 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 6 minutes, 30 seconds. The Falcon 9's heaters are being deactivated, and the rocket will be transitioned to internal power in a few seconds.

0453 GMT (12:53 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 7 minutes and counting. Within the next minute, the Falcon 9's flight computer will be commanded to its alignment state. The Merlin engine pumps are continuing to chill down.

The launch danger area around Cape Canaveral is clear for launch.

0452 GMT (12:52 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 8 minutes and counting. Good chilldown continues on the first stage engines, and closeouts of the upper stage's gaseous nitrogen attitude control system are underway.

0451 GMT (12:51 a.m. EDT)
T-minus 9 minutes and counting. Prevalves leading to the Falcon 9's Merlin 1D first stage engines are opening, permitting super-cold liquid oxygen to flow into the engines to condition the turbopumps for ignition.

[Salo]

Улетела!:)

[Space Alien]

Есть пуск!!!

[Salo]

Есть отделение первой ступени!