Jeff Foust @jeff_foustCantrell: next Vector test flight in January to test thrust vector control. First orbital launches in July from Wallops.
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6A mission. Launch is currently targeted for November 2020, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Tweet from Chris Bergin:More! NASA selects United Launch Services LLC (ULS) to provide launch services for the Landsat 9 mission. Targeted for a contract launch date of June 2021, while protecting for the ability to launch as early as Dec. 2020, on an Atlas V 401 rocket from SLC-3E at Vandenberg.
Orbital ATK @OrbitalATKOur #MinotaurC upper stack w/ @PlanetLabs spacecraft is prepped for transport to the pad for a 2:37 p.m. launch Oct. 31 from VAFB
Emre Kelly @EmreKellyNorthrop Grumman confirms: SpaceX 'Zuma' mission will fly on #Falcon9 next month. USAF says teams targeting Nov. 16.
Scheduled:Date - Satellite(s) - Rocket - Launch Site - Time (UTC)2017October 31 - SkySat 8, SkySat 9, SkySat 10, SkySat 11, SkySat 12, SkySat 13, Flock-3m (x4) - Minotaur-C XL (3210) - Vandenberg SLC-576E - 21:37November 11 - Cygnus OA-8 (CRS-8) - Antares-230 - MARS LP-0A - 12:37-12:42December 8 - ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer) [Helio EX-1] - Pegasus XL - Kwajalein, L-1011 "Stargazer" - 15:28
Caleb Henry @CHenry_SN SpaceX's Patricia Cooper: 2 demo sats launching in next few months, then constellation deployment in 2019. Can start service w/ ~800 sats.
Jeff Foust @jeff_foust May will only give “2019” as date for EM-1 launch, says he expects NASA to codify a more precise date in next few weeks. #vonbraunJeff Foust @jeff_foustThat 2019 date will almost certainly be late 2019, though. NASA told Congress this summer no earlier than October 2019.
Discussion of the manifest, and updates.
External cargo: Space Debris Sensor, MISSE-FF, TSIS
Development started in 2010 and current launch is planned for 2018 with Falcon-9/Dragon by SpaceX.
QuoteMission Update Nov. 3, 2017 - NASA is postponing launch of the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) until 2018. The mission was previously planned to launch Dec. 8, 2017, on an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. NASA and Orbital ATK need additional time to assess a separation component of the rocket. More information on a revised launch date will be provided once it becomes available.From: https://www.nasa.gov/content/icon-mission-overview
Mission Update Nov. 3, 2017 - NASA is postponing launch of the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) until 2018. The mission was previously planned to launch Dec. 8, 2017, on an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. NASA and Orbital ATK need additional time to assess a separation component of the rocket. More information on a revised launch date will be provided once it becomes available.
Initially, KazSTSAT was planned to be launched on the Dnepr rocket, but due to the temporary collapse of the launch services operator Kosmotras, the Kazakh side opted for the US SpaceX launch vehicle. Vice Minister of Defense and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan Marat Nurguzhin said at the conference "Kazakhstan's path to space 2017" that the launch is scheduled for April 2018 - simultaneously with the second Kazakhstans scientific satellite, which will be based on CubeSat technology.
http://www.comnews.ru/content/110183/2017-10-25/kazahstan-vzyalsya-za-sozdanie-sputnikovGoogle translateQuoteInitially, KazSTSAT was planned to be launched on the Dnepr rocket, but due to the temporary collapse of the launch services operator Kosmotras, the Kazakh side opted for the US SpaceX launch vehicle. Vice Minister of Defense and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan Marat Nurguzhin said at the conference "Kazakhstan's path to space 2017" that the launch is scheduled for April 2018 - simultaneously with the second Kazakhstans scientific satellite, which will be based on CubeSat technology.
#DeltaII #JPSS1 launch is scheduled for no earlier than Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.