Hispasat 30W-6 - Falcon 9 - Canaveral SLC-40 - 06.03.2018 05:33 UTC

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/06/hefty-hispasat-satellite-rides-spacex-rocket-into-orbit/

Hefty Hispasat satellite rides SpaceX rocket into orbit
March 6, 2018 | Stephen Clark


A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off fr om Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad Tuesday. Credit: SpaceX

A Spanish-owned, U.S.-built commercial communications satellite climbed into orbit early Tuesday fr om Cape Canaveral on the 50th flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launching on a 15-year mission to relay video, data and broadband signals across the Americas, Europe and North Africa.

Heading for a post in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the equator, the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite took off at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) Tuesday from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad.

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A 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket, firing nine Merlin 1D main engines with 1.7 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust, cleared the seaside launch complex and arced to the east from Cape Canaveral, aligning on a heading to place its powerhouse payload into orbit.

The Falcon 9's first stage switched off its main engines around two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, and the booster detached for a controlled descent into the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX's rocket recovery ship was not in position in the downrange recovery zone because of rough seas, preventing the booster from making an intact landing for the company to reuse on a future flight.

A single Merlin engine on the Falcon 9's upper stage ignited to head into orbit, and the rocket shed its nose cone around three-and-a-half minutes into the mission, once the fairing structure was no longer needed to protect the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite.

The upper stage engine accomplished a six-minute firing to reach a preliminary parking orbit, then the rocket coasted across the Atlantic before reigniting the engine over Africa for a planned 55-second burn to raise the orbit's apogee, or high point, to an altitude near the Hispasat 30W-6 spacecraft's final operating location nearly 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) above Earth.

An engineer on SpaceX's launch team confirmed an on-target orbital insertion on the company's commentary loop, and a live video feed from the rocket showed the Hispasat 30W-6 spacecraft deploying from the Falcon 9 upper stage after the vehicles flew into an orbital sunrise.

An official from Madrid-based Hispasat, the satellite's owner, said ground controllers received initial telemetry signals from the spacecraft shortly after its release from the Falcon 9 rocket.

Built by Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, Hispasat 30W-6 is one of the heaviest geostationary communications satellites to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket.

With a launch weight of more than 13,400 pounds — approximately 6.1 metric tons — Hispasat 30W-6 carries a tri-band communications payload with broad reach from the Americas and the Caribbean, to North Africa, to Europe and the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on Spain and Portugal.


Artist's illustration of the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite with its solar panels and antennas unfurled in space. Credit: SSL

"This new satellite will allow us to meet the growing connectivity demand detected in the market," said Carlos Espinós, CEO of Hispasat. "In the hyperconnected world in which we live, access to quality broadband is an essential need for economic, social and even personal development, and this satellite fulfils this need in places other technologies cannot reach. Hispasat 30W-6 allows us to broaden capacity and services, while completing the current phase of the company's growth plan."

Forty Ku-band transponders on Hispasat 30W-6 will focus on two coverage areas in Europe and North Africa, and in the Americas, stretching from Canada to Patagonia. Ten C-band transponders will support communications services in the southern United States, the Caribbean and South America.

Hispasat 30W-6 also adds Ka-band capacity to the company's portfolio, carrying seven high-throughput beams covering Spain, Portugal, other regions in Europe, plus North Africa. The Ka-band payload will distribute Internet connectivity to rural areas in Spain and Morocco through a partnership between Hispasat and Eurona Wireless Telecom, a Spanish communications company.

With the combination of Hispasat 30W-6 and another Hispasat spacecraft launched last year, more than 30,000 homes in Spain and parts of Morocco will have access to high-speed Internet services via satellite, officials said.

Hispasat 30W-6, formerly known as Hispasat 1F, will also enable connectivity on ships and trains in the Caribbean and Mediterranean regions.

The spacecraft also hosts a Spanish-designed experiment using photonics technology in an on-board Ka-band receiver, demonstrating an advancement that could reduce the mass and volume of future communications satellites.


An overview of Hispasat 30W-6's coverage. Credit: Hispasat

Hispasat 30W-6 began extending its power-generating solar panels soon after its launch Tuesday, officials said, and the craft's main thruster will fire several times in the coming weeks to maneuver into a circular geostationary orbit, wh ere its velocity will keep pace with Earth's rotation.

The new satellite will hover over the equator at 30 degrees west longitude, wh ere it will replace the aging Hispasat 30W-4 spacecraft, which launched in September 2002 from Cape Canaveral aboard an Atlas 2AS rocket.

The launch of Hispasat 30W-6 was scheduled for Feb. 25, but SpaceX delayed the mission to conduct extra testing on a pressurization system on Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing. A range conflict with a previously-scheduled launch of an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral last week kept the Falcon 9 flight grounded until Tuesday, SpaceX said.

Tuesday's launch marked the 50th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and the fourth Falcon 9 flight of 2018. SpaceX has also logged one launch of the powerful triple-body Falcon Heavy rocket this year, bringing the company's tally for 2018 to five missions.

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SpaceX's launch schedule has 30 missions on the calendar for this year, an increase from 18 in 2017.

Up to six Falcon 9 missions from three launch pads are planned over the next two months, beginning with a flight March 29 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a batch of 10 Iridium voice and data relay satellites.

SpaceX's next resupply flight to the International Space Station is set for takeoff no earlier than April 2 from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, followed no sooner than April 5 by a Falcon 9 launch from nearby pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center with Bangladesh's first communications satellite.

A NASA astronomy satellite designed to search for planets circling other stars is being prepped for blastoff April 16 on a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, and five more satellites for Iridium's upgraded mobile communications network could launch as soon as April 28 from Vandenberg in tandem with two U.S.-German probes to map Earth's gravity field.

A high-power all-electric telecom satellite owned by SES could be ready for launch from Cape Canaveral in late April or early May.

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 5 ч.5 часов назад

Hispasat 30W-6 has successfully separated from the second stage, completing another Falcon 9 mission. The second stage will probably remain in geotransfer orbit

а кто-нибудь что-нибудь знает по теме: Спейсы вырезали телеметрию после второго включения двигателя второй ступени (или она пропала?)? об этом заявил малОй в диалогах в вышеприведённом твите (это его бред?)

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https://www.hispasat.com/contenidos/notas-de-prensa-en/0/310-1.pdf

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John Kraus‏ @johnkrausphotos 6 ч. назад

Falcon 9 streaks toward orbit for the 50th time, carrying the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite.

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http://www.sslmda.com/html/pressreleases/2018-03-06-Commercial-Satellite-Built-by-Maxar-Technologies-SSL-Successfully-Begins-On-Orbit-Operations-Demonstrating-Leadership-in-New-Space-Economy.php

Commercial Satellite Built by Maxar Technologies' SSL Successfully Begins On-Orbit Operations, Demonstrating Leadership in New Space Economy

Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite begins post-launch maneuvers according to plan following its launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

Palo Alto, Calif. - SSL, a Maxar Technologies company (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.) (NYSE: MAXR; TSX: MAXR), and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today that the advanced Hispasat 30W-6 satellite, previously called Hispasat 1F, was launched yesterday and is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan, demonstrating Maxar's leadership in the new space economy. The satellite deployed its solar arrays on schedule following its launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It will begin firing its main thruster tomorrow to propel toward its final geostationary orbit. The satellite incorporates technical innovations that will help reduce mass and improve performance, resulting in an enhanced business case for satellite communications.

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"The advances on Hispasat 30W-6 represent our strong commitment to providing customers with next-generation spacecraft flexibility, reliability, and value," said Dario Zamarian, group president, SSL. "Thanks to the teams at HISPASAT, SpaceX, and SSL for making this mission a success."

SSL and Hispasat worked together to include key developments on Hispasat 30W-6, which has a primary mission of providing communications services in Europe the Americas and north of Africa. It carries a state-of-the-art photonics receiver, which will prove the value of using the advanced technology for photonic frequency conversion and routing of radio frequency signals within the communications satellite. The photonics receiver demonstration, provided under technology partnership between SSL and DAS Photonics, replaces traditional microwave components with optical, solid-state components to demonstrate an integrated photonic solution. In the future, this technology will enable enhanced payload performance, greater architecture flexibility, and very high throughput satellite solutions.

"Hispasat 30W-6 is the fourth satellite that SSL has provided to our company, and expands our services offerings and capacity in the covered regions," said Carlos Espinós, chief executive officer at HISPASAT. "SSL continues to deliver reliable satellite solutions with cutting edge advances that improve our business case and help to enable future space systems and missions."
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Бредовые статейки и доблестные отчёты эт конечно замечательно, но что скажет наш доблестный NORAD? Приз - в студию...

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поц пишет:
Бредовые статейки и доблестные отчёты эт конечно замечательно, но что скажет наш доблестный NORAD? Приз - в студию...

Two objects related to today's #Falcon9 launch tracked in a sub-GTO orbit, as was expected based on the performance figures for this mission: 2018-023A: 184 x 22,261 km, 26.97° 2018-023C: 186 x 22,215 km, 26.92° SS/L reports Hispasat 30W-6 is healthy and executing on-orbit ops

https://twitter.com/Spaceflight101/status/971074423108358144

GTO-2120 (с NSF)

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1 43228U 18023A   18065.66005963 -.00000399  42973-6  00000+0 0  9990
2 43228  26.9834  80.0629 6268712 177.4432 188.8053  3.71764788    13
1 43230U 18023C   18065.45735922 -.00000379  39728-6  00000+0 0  9997
2 43230  26.9229  80.1459 6266016 177.2609 277.9959  3.72504380    00

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Безобразие! Даже первую ступень не посадили!

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Так были ли ножки? Судя по патчу – они есть.
Но вроде бы ступень изначально планировалась одноразовой из-за тяжёлой ПН.
Где-нибудь были более подробные фотки ступени днём?

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Pirat5 пишет:
Но вроде бы ступень изначально планировалась одноразовой из-за тяжёлой ПН.

насколько я понял ступень планировали садить
и она села в океан
баржу не погнали потому что штормовая погода была.

страшный ветер (с) наконец выпрыгнул из за угла.

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Astro Cat пишет:
Безобразие! Даже первую ступень не посадили!

Я же говорю, что Маск уже не тот. Так запросто выбрасывает первые ступени...

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Василий Ратников пишет:
страшный ветер (с) наконец выпрыгнул из за угла.

Второй раз за 3 года.

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Из прошлогоднего интервью Гвинн.

In terms of trends, Shotwell sees a trend of a bifurcation in the market. She says there are a couple of satellite providers making their satellites bigger. "Some of that is basically putting a giant satellite on Falcon 9 with a lot of propellant, which would normally be a very heavy satellite, even potentially hard for Falcon 9 to throw. But when you put so much propellant on that satellite, they can get themselves to orbit even from a sub-synch. A couple of manufacturers are doing that ... [sending] an over 7-ton satellite on Falcon 9 to GTO. We are seeing a number of satellite manufacturers come around and do that just because of the value proposition presented by Falcon 9." But SpaceX is also seeing a lot of smaller satellites that are really a half bay Falcon 9 capability. "Spaceflight services, for one, is trying to match folks for us and fly on Falcon 9s. We are seeing a little bit more of that this year than we have in the past," she adds.

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Pirat5 пишет:
Так были ли ножки? Судя по патчу – они есть.
Но вроде бы ступень изначально планировалась одноразовой из-за тяжёлой ПН.
Где-нибудь были более подробные фотки ступени днём?

Ноги были.



Hispasat 30W-6 Mission by Official SpaceX Photos, on Flickr

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/06/photos-falcon-9-rocket-lights-up-the-night-with-launch-for-hispasat/

Photos: Falcon 9 rocket lights up the night with launch for Hispasat
March 6, 2018 Stephen Clark

SpaceX's 50th Falcon 9 rocket flight took off from Florida's Space Coast shortly after midnight Tuesday with the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite, firing into a moonlit night sky with 1.7 million pounds of thrust.

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Nine Merlin engines steered the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket eastward from Cape Canaveral, and the SpaceX-built launcher's upper stage delivered the Hispasat 30W-6 communications craft to a geostationary transfer orbit around 33 minutes after liftoff.

The Falcon 9 blasted off from Cape Canaveral's Complex 40 launch pad at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT) Tuesday.

Read our full story on the launch for details.


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UP-CLOSE 50th Falcon 9 Launches Hispasat 30W-6

  AmericaSpace

Опубликовано: 6 мар. 2018 г.

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Pirat5 пишет:
Так были ли ножки?

На видео примерно (1:48 - 1:49) очень хорошо видны

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НОРАД идентифицировал объекты запуска. Номер 43229 -

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tnt22 пишет:
НОРАД идентифицировал объекты запуска. Номер 43229 -

МакДауэлл пишет :

Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589

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В ответ @ChrisG_NSF

Actually 43230 is 23C, so 43229 is an as yet unidentified 23B, presumably a previously unknown second payload?

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/971182038320664581

43229  - неизвестный второй груз?

Гебхард там же:

2018-23A - HispaSat
 2018-23B - unknown
 2028-23C - F9 second stage

Или прошлой ночью еще что-то взлетело..

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2 andr59, я читал их обоих, прямых ответов нет, только предположения, поэтому и не стал их постить на ФНК.