Paz - Falcon 9 - Vandenberg SLC-4E - 22.02.2018 11:25 UTC

[Apollo13]

Это может быть первый RTLS с Ванденберга.

[opinion]

Apollo13 пишет:
Это может быть первый RTLS с Ванденберга.

На nsf писали, что разрешение получено для блок 4.

[tnt22]

http://spacenews.com/morocco-satellite-launch-could-accelerate-spanish-space-efforts/

Morocco satellite launch could accelerate Spanish space efforts
by Jaroslaw Adamowski — January 5, 2018

Hisdesat's PAZ radar satellite arriving in the U.S. for a January 2018 launch. Credit: Hisdesat.

WARSAW, Poland — Morocco's launch of its Mohammed 6-A satellite last November could accelerate Spain's work on its SeoSat/Ingenio optical Earth-observation satellite, which is expected to launch in late 2019 or early 2020.

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Morocco and Spain have struggled to boost their satellite observation capacities since the Perejil Island crisis in 2002 when Spain could not acquire satellite images of the island following reports of its occupation by the Moroccan Navy.

Mohammed 6-A was developed by a consortium formed by Thales Alenia Space, which acted as the prime system contractor, and Airbus Defence and Space, which served as co-prime. The satellite launched Nov. 7 to low Earth orbit on an Arianespace Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana.

Airbus is developing SeoSat/Ingenio on behalf of the Spanish government, with the Madrid-based Center for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) funding the mission. It is the optical counterpart to the country's PAZ synthetic aperture radar mission that is slated for launch this January, having overcome a three-year delay because of Russia's unwillingness to permit Dnepr launches by switching in March to a SpaceX Falcon 9.

The project development of SeoSat/Ingenio is overseen by the European Space Agency (ESA) as a national contribution within the framework of Europe under a procurement assistance agreement signed between ESA and the CDTI in 2007.

Andrés Borges, the program manager for SeoSat/Ingenio at Airbus Defence and Space, told SpaceNews that the group has to subcontract most of the flight equipment and take care of the assembly, integration and test campaign for the satellite's structural, functional and flight aspects. Airbus is also responsible for manufacturing the satellite's platform structure and harness, and manages the development of the image processor prototype.

"Once the satellite is integrated at our clean rooms and the test campaigns are finalized, Airbus will take responsibility of the launch campaign and ... collaborate with the European Space Agency during the launch and early operation phase (LEOP) and in-orbit commissioning (IOC) phases," Borges said.

According to the SeoSat/Ingenio program manager, the Spanish satellite will be launched from Kourou onboard an Italian Vega launcher.

Launcher contract to determine launch date

"The best estimate for the launch date is end 2019 or the first months of 2020. It will depend on the launcher contract signature and the launcher availability," said Borges. CDTI is funding the mission, including launch. "Airbus will be in charge of the launch campaign [which means it will] support the launcher authority to set the satellite in the launcher fairing. Once in orbit, Airbus will lead the LEOP and IOC phases."

The total cost for the flight segment, which includes the satellite, platform and instrument, is about 125 million euros ($149.5 million), according to the program manager.

"The ground segment and the launcher are not within Airbus perimeter and we are not completely sure of the financial figures," Borges said.

Morocco launched the country's first microsatellite in 2001 when it's Maroc-TUBSAT (Zarkae Al Yamama), a joint undertaking between the country's Royal Centre for Remote Sensing and the German Technical University of Berlin, hitched a ride on a Zenit-2 rocket whose primary payload was the Russian Meteor-3M satellite. Morocco is expected to launch Mohammed 6-B, the second in a pair of Earth-observation satellites, in 2018.

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Spain nears SAR satellite launch

The SeoSat/Ingenio is part of Spain's National Earth Observation Satellite Program (PNOTS) whose second component is PAZ, a satellite that was also built by Airbus Defence and Space. Owned by Spain's satellite operator Hisdesat, PAZ is an X-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mission.

Under the plan, the satellite is to be placed on the same orbit with German TerraSAR and TanDEM-X satellites to form a SAR constellation. Hisdesat communications director Araceli Serrano told SpaceNews the launch of PAZ remains forecasted for Jan. 30. "PAZ is already in California to be prepared for this," he said.

Serrano says the Spanish company has a duty of confidentiality in respect to SpaceX, and, due to this, it cannot reveal the value of the contract. As a 1,400 kilogram satellite, PAZ is less than a tenth the mass a Falcon 9 can carry to low Earth orbit.

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Budding regional space rivalry?

Meanwhile, Algeria, another regional rival of Morocco, successfully launched its first communication satellite from China on Dec. 11. A Long March-3B launch vehicle took Alcomsat-1 to orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China's Sichuan province.

The Algerian satellite was launched by China Great Wall Industry Corp., who acted as the prime contractor. The Alcomsat-1 was designed and manufactured by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).

"The successful launch of [the] Alcomsat-1 is the good beginning of space cooperation between [the] two countries. More cooperation, more space programs are expected to be initiated soon," the Chinese company said in a Dec. 11 statement.

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[PIN]

Я правильно понял, что с PAZ попутно летят первые аппараты SpaceX?

[Himfatik]

PIN пишет:
Я правильно понял, что с PAZ попутно летят первые аппараты SpaceX?

Ничего такого в тексте нет

[PIN]

Himfatik пишет: 
Ничего такого в тексте нет

Я не знаю, какой "текст" имеется в виду. Я пишу на тему ветки, об этом конкретном пуске.

[Himfatik]

PIN пишет:

Himfatik пишет:
Ничего такого в тексте нет

Я не знаю, какой "текст" имеется в виду. Я пишу на тему ветки, об этом конкретном пуске.

Вот этот 

tnt22 пишет:
http://spacenews.com/morocco-satellite-launch-could-accelerate-spanish-space-efforts/

Откуда информация про спутники?

[Apollo13]

На первой странице этой темы есть твит Селдинга. Более «официальной» информации я не встречал, но у Гюнтера и на Реддите тоже пишут, что Микросаты SpaceX полетят вместе с Paz.

[tnt22]

Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 2 ч. назад

Falcon 9 PAZ/Demosat launch out of Vandenberg is slipping out of January, but nothing to do with Zuma....slip was just before Zuma's launch - so posting this to make sure the official date in Feb (when published) isn't seen as related.

[Pirat5]

По неподтверждённым данным ядро B1038, возможно однораз - так как блок 3 

...and the upcoming B1038 Formosat 5/Paz),

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7olw86/

[Pirat5]

на reddit стоит дата и время - 2018 Feb 10 [14:22] UTC
там же появилась дата для Hispasat 30W-6 (1F) - 2018 Feb 15, но без времени.

[Pirat5]

На Ванденберге старты примерно раз в месяц.
ORS-6 + SHERPA SSO CubeSat уже на апрель не успевает.
То, что не улетит за месяц перед InSight - переносится на после него.
Iridium-NEXT 6 – предполагается первый Блок-5. С ним могут быть задержки как с Хэви.

Будущие

10.02.2018	Paz  MicroSat 2a  MicroSat 2b	Falcon-9 v1.2(ex)	Va SLC-4E
18.03.2018	Iridium-NEXT 5	Falcon-9 v1.2	Va SLC-4E
14.04.2018	Iridium-NEXT 6  GRACE-FO 1, 2	Falcon-9 v1.2	Va SLC-4E
05.05.2018	InSight (Discovery 12)  MarCO 1,2	Atlas-5(401)	Va SLC-3E
xx.04.2018	SkySat 14,15  ORS 6 (COWVR)++++	Falcon-9 v1.2	Va SLC-4E

Прошедшие

ID	Date	Payload(s)	Vehicle	Site
2017-003	14.01.2017	Iridium-NEXT 1	Falcon-9 v1.2	Va SLC-4E
2017-011	01.03.2017	Intruder 12A, 12B	Atlas-5(401)	Va SLC-3E
2017-039	25.06.2017	Iridium-NEXT 2	Falcon-9 v1.2	Va SLC-4E
2017-049	24.08.2017	FORMOSAT 5	Falcon-9 v1.2	Va SLC-4E
2017-056	24.09.2017	'Trumpet-F/O-2 2'	Atlas-5(541)	Va SLC-3E
2017-061	09.10.2017	Iridium-NEXT 3	Falcon-9 v1.2	Va SLC-4E
2017-068	31.10.2017	SkySat 8 ...13  Flock-3m 1...4	Minotaur-C-XL-3210	Va 576E
2017-073	18.11.2017	JPSS 1 → NOAA 20   +++	Delta-7920-10C	Va SLC-2W
2017-083	23.12.2017	Iridium-NEXT 4	Falcon-9 v1.2(ex)	Va SLC-4E
2018-005	12.01.2018	Topaz 5 (USA 281, NROL 47)	Delta-4M+(5,2) (upg.)	Va SLC-6

[tnt22]

Airbus Space‏Подлинная учетная запись @AirbusSpace 5 ч. назад

Spanish radar #satellite #PAZ, built by @AirbusSpace, to be launched on the 17th of Feb. with a @SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket.

[tnt22]

Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 35m ago

SpaceX now switches attention to the west coast, with the Falcon 9 launch of the PAZ and Microsat-2a, -2b mission.

Updated Vandenberg Range bookings are NET Feb 11 for the Static Fire and NET Feb 16 for the launch. As always, subject to change.

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=44892.0 ...

[us2-star]

А вот на сайте SpaceX Stats до старта менее 2-х суток, что странно.
Вроде сайт обновляется оперативно и выглядит прилично. :|

[Georgea]

1400 кг, даже не на ГПО, да еще, похоже, без возврата ступени.
Ниччего не понимаю.

[Alex_II]

Georgea пишет:
1400 кг, даже не на ГПО, да еще, похоже, без возврата ступени.

А это не "Блок 3" разве летит? Тогда понятно, почему - плановое обновление парка ступеней, Блок-3 не нужен...

[KBOB]

Дык, что 4,5 часа осталось?
https://spacexstats.herokuapp.com/

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[Georgea]

Alex_II пишет:

Georgea пишет:
1400 кг, даже не на ГПО, да еще, похоже, без возврата ступени.

А это не "Блок 3" разве летит? Тогда понятно, почему - плановое обновление парка ступеней, Блок-3 не нужен...

Это летит Фалькон-9 с заявленной грузоподъемностью 20+ тонн на НОО. Вместо легкого конверсионного "Днепра".

Неужели не нашлось дешевле? Может быть, Маск дал какую-то мега-скидку (но зачем ему)?

Впору посоветовать Маску возобновить выпуск Фалькона-1...

[KBOB]

Georgea пишет:

Alex_II пишет:

Georgea пишет:
1400 кг, даже не на ГПО, да еще, похоже, без возврата ступени.

А это не "Блок 3" разве летит? Тогда понятно, почему - плановое обновление парка ступеней, Блок-3 не нужен...

Это летит Фалькон-9 с заявленной грузоподъемностью 20+ тонн на НОО. Вместо легкого конверсионного "Днепра".

Неужели не нашлось дешевле? Может быть, Маск дал какую-то мега-скидку (но зачем ему)?

Впору посоветовать Маску возобновить выпуск Фалькона-1...

Hispasat тоже без возврата ступени, может с баржей что не так?