11/16/2010 NROL-3211/20/2010 FASTSAT-HSV01 (STP-S26 mission)
With the first satellite nearing completion of its final test activities, Air Force officials decided the week of Oct. 4 to plan for an April 30 launch aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
...the Atlas 5 is the only rocket in the U.S. fleet that meets the SBIRS deployment requirements...
MAR 2011 NROL-346/1/2011 SAC-D/AquariusNLT Summer 2012 AEHF 3
The revised 2011 schedule for the Atlas 5 rocket: The year begins with launching the second Orbital Test Vehicle in the U.S. military's X-37B experimental spaceplane program. Liftoff of OTV 2 from Cape Canaveral is targeted for March 4.A classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office will fly from the West Coast pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch of NROL-34 is planned for March 31.And the AEHF 2 satellite now shoots for early 2012, launching in March or April.
The MAVEN spacecraft will blast off in November 2013 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The mission will use the Atlas 5's basic configuration with no solid rocket boosters, a single-engine Centaur upper stage and a 4-meter payload shroud.
We'll be visiting the Cape on Nov. 1 for STS-133. I see that there are two other launches by mid-November: an NRO payload by Delta IV (SLC-37B) on Nov. 15 and the Dragon demo flight by Falcon 9 (SLC-40) on Nov. 18.Question: Will either or both stacks be on-pad and visible from the Causeway on Nov. 1? It would be fun to check those out.
http://www.spacenews.com/military/sbirs-narrow-window.htmlQuoteWith the first satellite nearing completion of its final test activities, Air Force officials decided the week of Oct. 4 to plan for an April 30 launch aboard an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force StationQuote...the Atlas 5 is the only rocket in the U.S. fleet that meets the SBIRS deployment requirements...There are range conflict with OTV-2.
Delta II COSMO - SkyMed 4 Mission Rescheduled for Oct. 31
Actual work on the constellation, dubbed Iridium Next, began over the summer after an agreement for authorization to proceed was reached in June. The satellites will be based on Thales Alenia Space’s standard low Earth orbit bus, also utilized for the Globalstar 2 and O3b constellations, but some 40% of design and production, including final assembly, will be handled by U.S. firms. Launch of the first satellites, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, is expected in the first quarter of 2015.
The mission will be launched by the Minotaur IV. For the second phase, there might be one additional spare satellite. Development started since early 2010. More information: http://www.uni-graz.at/opac2010/pdf_presentation/opac_2010_yen_nick_presentation49.pdf
4/6/2011 ORS-1NET DEC 2011 WGS SV 42012TBD GPS 2F-2
Nov. 18 Delta 4-Heavy • NROL-32Dec. 7 Falcon 9 • Dragon C1
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11107.pdf
Quote from: Salo on 11/22/2010 11:31 pmhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d11107.pdfVery interesting. This doc says that Orbital is looking at SLC 2 for a Taurus 2 Vandenberg launch site. I wonder if that means SLC 2W, which will still be an active Delta 2 launch facility for another year at least, or nearby SLC 2E, the old Thor Agena/Ablestar/Delta pad that hasn't seen a launch since 1972. - Ed Kyle
According to.http://msdb.gsfc.nasa.gov/launches.phpthe launch of NROL-49/Delta-4H from Vandenberg is now NET January 14.