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

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Сабж начал обещанный подъём орбиты. НОРАД таки зафиксировал 3-й объект запуска под № 43229 - TBA

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0 HISPASAT 30W-6
1 43228U 18023A   18067.16251052 -.00000138  00000-0  00000+0 0  9999
2 43228  27.0040  79.0170 6224650 179.2142  37.3205  3.70285661    74

0 TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
1 43229U 18023B   18067.21793292 -.00000470  57951-6  00000+0 0  9995
2 43229  27.0057  78.9267 6269059 179.3151 114.1792  3.71958628  8323

0 FALCON 9 R/B
1 43230U 18023C   18066.73025457  .00014126  54970-6  39648-3 0  9998
2 43230  27.0084  79.3208 6264651 178.6835 184.5801  3.72438823    54
HISPASAT 30W-6
43228 / 2018-023A
Epoch (UTC) 2018-03-08 03:54:00, 285 km x 22256 km x 27.004°, 388.88 min

TBA - TO BE ASSIGNED
43229 / 2018-023B
Epoch (UTC) 2018-03-08 05:13:49, 187 km x 22248 km x 27.006°, 387.13 min

FALCON 9 R/B
43230 / 2018-023B
Epoch (UTC) 2018-03-07 17:31:33, 189 km x 22216 km x 27.008°, 386.63 min

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Liftoff in Slow Motion [480fps / 20x slower than real-time] - Test 002 of (RSR) v1.0

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Опубликовано: 7 мар. 2018 г.

Test 002 of Rocket Slowmo Rig (RSR) v1.0 Nine Merlin engines push Hispasat 30W-6 to a geostationary transfer orbit, the largest GTO satellite that SpaceX has flown to date. Liftoff: March 6th, 2018 12:33 a.m. EST (5:33 a.m. UTC)

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НОРАД идентифицировал последний объект запуска под № 43229

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 8 мин. назад

It appears the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite had an attached experimental subsatellite, the NovaWurks PODSAT, ejected from it after insertion into orbit.

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 24 мин. назад

The fact that the gap was left for object B and has now been filled may indicate that the ejection only happened today. (and @Skitt0608 knew about it in advance) .. or that it was only tracked today because it was small and in a high orbit.

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 5 ч. назад

Hmm: TLEs for 43228 prior to Mar 8 appear to be for PODSAT not Hispasat . Would suggest that PODSAT separated from Hispasat immediately after orbit insertion.



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Other possibility is that Hispasat ejected Podsat yesterday and then boosted its own perigee a bit. But Space-Track indicates NORAD ID 43229 was changed to 43228, which supports the former suggestion

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 3 мин. назад

CONFIRMED: There was a ride-share on Tuesday morning's #Falcon9 launch with #HispaSat30W6. Here's the statement to me from Wendy Lewis, Director of Communications with Space Systems Loral. #SpaceX

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Gunter Krebs‏ @Skyrocket71 40 мин. назад

And here is, what i have now collected on the PODSAT-1 satellite: It is a combination of a SSL POD chassis withe four Novawurks satlets

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NovaWurks HISat-based Services

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Опубликовано: 28 дек. 2015 г.

Changing the paradigm for building space systems

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/03/12/spacexs-most-recent-launch-carried-a-secret-military-funded-experiment/

SpaceX's most recent launch carried a secret military-funded experiment
March 12, 2018 Stephen Clark


Artist's illustration of a Payload Orbital Delivery System accommodation on a Space Systems/Loral-built telecom satellite. Credit: SSL

A previously-undisclosed payload funded by a U.S. military research agency rode into orbit with a Spanish communications satellite on SpaceX's most recent Falcon 9 rocket launch March 6, officials said Friday.

The small spacecraft was fastened inside the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite, then ejected soon after the Falcon 9's primary payload deployed in orbit following liftoff from Cape Canaveral.

Officials from Space Systems/Loral and NovaWurks, two companies involved in the project, acknowledged the existence of the secret secondary satellite after publicly-available orbital data published by the U.S. military registered an unexpected object attributed to Tuesday's launch named PODSat.

The companies declined to release details about the secondary satellite's mission or design, and a spokesperson for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, did not respond to multiple requests for information regarding the PODSat mission.

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"SSL's innovative secondary payload release system was successfully tested on Hispasat 30W-6," said Wendy Lewis, a spokesperson for SSL, based in Palo Alto, California. "This was an R&D (Research and Development) mission not related to the ongoing operation of the Hispasat satellite. Rideshare arrangements such as this are becoming more common as they help defray the cost of launch and drive innovation for our industry."

"We are not disclosing further details about the secondary payload at this time but we are optimistic about its potential as part of the SSL future R&D roadmap," Lewis said in a written statement in response to Spaceflight Now questions.

SSL provided a ride for the PODSat testbed satellite built in partnership with NovaWurks, headquartered in Los Alamitos, California. According to its website, NovaWurks specializes in assembly of small spacecraft using "satlets," cellular components that engineers can connect together to create custom and conformable payloads.

James Greer, chief operating officer at NovaWurks wrote in an email Friday that the PODSat spacecraft is functioning according to plan, but he declined to answer questions on the satellite's mass, design, or purpose.

"We are very pleased with the successful launch and deployment of PODSat over that past several days. Everything is going well and we continue to receive positive data with each pass," Greer said.

"However, as this is a DARPA project, we are not at liberty to discuss any specifics or details relative to the mission, except as approved by DARPA," Greer said.


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NovaWurks developed what it calls the Hyper-Integrated Satlet, or HISat, architecture with funding from DARPA's Phoenix program, chartered to find lower-cost ways of building satellites and delivering them to space. Each HISat cell is a self-contained spacecraft, and engineers can connect multiple HISats to expand capability based on a mission's specific requirements.

DARPA's Phoenix program also backed development of SSL's Payload Orbital Delivery System, or PODS, the mechanism which held the PODSat spacecraft inside the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite during launch.

The Phoenix initiative was originally established by DARPA to use satlets to harvest components from a disused satellite, but officials changed the aim of the program to focus on satellite servicing, inspection and low-cost manufacturing.

According to documents posted on SSL's website, the standard PODS accommodation on a telecom satellite like Hispasat 30W-6 can carry a secondary satellite with a mass as high as 200 pounds, or 90 kilograms. The housing is built into the host satellite inside unused battery bays, big enough to carry a deployable payload measuring 3.3 feet (1 meter) by 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) by 1.3 feet (40 centimeters).

SSL's brochure on the rideshare capability suggests the host satellite can provide video of the secondary payload's release.

The PODS mechanism could support missions in space situational awareness and Earth observation, tech demo test craft, satellite servicing platforms, and scientific missions, such as space telescopes or interplanetary probes, according to SSL.

SSL says it has identified at least six launch opportunities for PODS secondary payloads per year. In 2016, there were 11 SSL-built communications satellites launched with space available for PODS-type secondary payloads, according to the company's PODS user's guide.

The PODSat satellite was described in a paper presented by NovaWurks engineers at the 2016 SmallSat Conference in Utah.

PODSat was expected to fly with four HISat cells assembled into a "PODS chassis," according to the paper.


SSL's secondary Payload Orbital Delivery System mechanism can be positioned on several locations on the company's SSL 1300-series satellite bus. Credit: SSL

The PODS chassis is likely a reference to a PODS spacecraft bus, or platform, offered by SSL. The PODS spacecraft bus, which SSL says is built with an electric propulsion system, is designed to be compatible with the PODS bay on an SSL-built communications satellite.

PODSat was expected to test the performance of the HISat cells in combination with a standard satellite structure — the PODS chassis, NovaWurks engineers wrote in the SmallSat Conference paper.

NovaWurks' first satellite — named Satlet Initial Mission Proofs and Lessons, or SIMPL — launched with six HISat cells in 2015 that were assembled by astronauts on the International Space Station. The spacecraft was released from the space station last year to begin standalone experiments.

PODSat is the second mission to test out NovaWurks' satlet concept in orbit. A third satlet demonstrator, incorporating 14 HISat cells, is scheduled for blastoff later this year on a rideshare mission arranged by Spaceflight Industries for launch on a Falcon 9 rocket.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket placed the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite in a "sub-synchronous" transfer orbit ranging in altitude between 115 miles (185 kilometers) and 13,285 miles (22,250 kilometers) above Earth, inclined approximately 27 degrees to the equator.

Hispasat 30W-6 deployed PODSat in the same orbit before beginning maneuvers to raise its altitude toward geosynchronous orbit nearly 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) over the equator.

Read our earlier coverage of the launch for details on the Hispasat 30W-6 mission.

"The potential benefits to payload designers are obvious," NovaWurks wrote in the SmallSat paper. "HISats provide an app-based, open-source approach" to provide simple user-created software to coordinate spacecraft hardware.

"This enables HISats to be aggregated together informationally so that satlet resource exposure and sharing is transparent to the operation of the system. This critical resource-sharing software provides for basic capability that tailors performance by varying the number of HISats interoperating without skipping a beat."

Talbot Jaeger, founder and chief technologist at NovaWurks, described the satlet concept in a promotional video released by the company.

"A spacecraft provides a way of carrying a payload in space," Jaeger said. "A payload can be a telescope, a transceiver, or some other device. It's typically built to fit the spacecraft, but at NovaWurks, we believe that a designer should be free to build his payload to meet his needs, while we add the support required for space operations."

With the HISat design, "a spacecraft that actually conforms to the payload, not the other way around," he said. "Its advantages are it's easily configurable and flexible. It's rapidly developed and deployed from order-to-orbit, and it's cost-efficient because from the heart of it, it's mass-produceable."

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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 5 ч. назад

On Mar 12, Hispasat 30W-6 completed raising its initially subsync apogee to GEO height; on Mar 13 it began perigee raising/inc lowering, now in 5524 x 35905 km x 13.8 deg

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Текущее состояние сабжа на 2018-03-14 (подъём перигея, снижение наклонения)

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1 43228U 18023A   18073.97731749 -.00000120  00000-0  00000+0 0  9992
2 43228     0.3457  88.0604 0332523 170.2181  225.4140 1.05390755    265HISPASAT 30W-6
43228 / 2018-023A
Epoch (UTC) 2018-03-14 23:27:20, 33054 km x 35766 km x 0.346°, 1366.33 min

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ПМСМ, сабж на ГСО в точке тестирования (26°W, по данным n2yo)

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1 43228U 18023A   18080.90604394 -.00000205  00000-0  00000+0 0  9992
2 43228   0.0679 263.5494 0000873  36.7517 179.2462  1.00272028   332HISPASAT 30W-6
43228 / 2018-023A
Epoch (UTC) 2018-03-21 21:44:42, 35790.0 km x 35797.4 km x 0.1°, 1436.1 min

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Peter B. de Selding‏ @pbdes 3 ч. назад

Fleet operator @Hispasat says Hispasat 30W-6 sat, @sslmda -built, @SpaceX -launched March 6, passed in-orbit checkout & ready for service at 30 deg W. 40 Ku, 7 Ka-, 10 C-band beams + demo photonic receiver from DAS Photonics/@TryoGroup.

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https://www.hispasat.com/en/press-room/press-releases/archivo-2018/332/el-satelite-h30w-6-llega-a-su-posicion-orbital-y-entra-en-servicio-operacional

El satélite H30W-6 llega a su posición orbital y entra en servicio operacional
June 26, 2018

The satellite is located in the 30º West position and has satisfactorily passed the trial period in orbit.
 The H30W-6 has arrived to expand the capacity in the Ka band over Spain and Morocco to offer excellent high speed internet access. It also has transponders in the Ku band, and incorporates a new beam in the C band over America.

 The Hispasat 30W-6 was launched this past March fr om the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

MADRID, 26 June 2018. The Hispasat 30W-6 (H30W-6) satellite is now in its definitive orbital position at 30º West and will begin to offer the telecommunications services that it was designed for in the next few days, after having successfully passed the exhaustive tests conducted in space. This satellite was launched on 6 March from the Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex in Florida, on board a Falcon 9 launch vehicle made by SpaceX.

With a useful life of 15 years, the H30W-6 will offer video contribution and cellular backhaul services, as well as business solutions and broadband internet in its coverage areas: Europe, North-east Africa and the American continent. Specifically, this new satellite expands the operator's offer in the Ka and Ku bands and incorporates a new beam in the C band with Pan-American coverage. With this configuration, the Hispasat 30W-6 will contribute to reducing the digital divide in Spain, North Africa, and Latin America.

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Services in the Ka band: greater browsing speed

This satellite's Ka band beams cover Spain and Morocco and will provide internet access at 30 Mbps in rural areas, thus opening the doors to the Information Society in places wh ere it has not been possible to do so with other telecommunications infrastructures. This new satellite offers high-quality connectivity thanks to the Ka band, which is much more powerful than other frequency bands, which allows internet users to have a greater browsing speed.

On the other hand, the Hispasat 30W-6 will reinforce the distribution of audiovisual contents in Latin America, allowing access to more than 50 million users through its audiovisual distribution platforms, while also offering connectivity on high speed trains, as well as maritime services in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, among other places.

More innovation to improve satellite performance

The Hispasat 30W-6 carries a receiver demo in the Ka band based on photonic technology whose modules have been designed by two Spanish companies, DAS Photonics and TRYO Aerospace. With similar features to the receivers currently available on the market, the application of photonic technology to these components will significantly reduce their mass and volume and improve the payload's performance.

On the other hand, this satellite has been launched with a new innovative antenna tower (an element which constitutes the structural support for the assembly of different pieces of equipment) made with elements created through 3D printing, in which the solid traditional panels have been replaced by much lighter polymer and metal tubes which have contributed to significantly decreasing the mass. 3D printing has accelerated the manufacturing process and reduced production periods. It spurs innovation in the satellite sector and provides solutions which improve satellite performance, simplify their construction and make them more competitive.

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