QB50 CubeSat Launch Contract Signed http://amsat-uk.org/2014/01/28/qb50-cubesat-launch-contract-signed/QuoteThe 7th QB50 workshop opened on Tuesday with the announcement that on Monday, January 27, 2014, the Von Karman Institute of Belgium signed the launch contract with Alcantara Cyclone Space for the launch of the QB50 constellation of 50 2U CubeSats into a 350 km low earth orbit for scientific research. The QB50 project is funded via the FP7 programme of the European Commission.QuoteThe precise QB50 launch date is still to be confirmed but the launch window is defined as being between December 2015 and November 2016.
The 7th QB50 workshop opened on Tuesday with the announcement that on Monday, January 27, 2014, the Von Karman Institute of Belgium signed the launch contract with Alcantara Cyclone Space for the launch of the QB50 constellation of 50 2U CubeSats into a 350 km low earth orbit for scientific research. The QB50 project is funded via the FP7 programme of the European Commission.
The precise QB50 launch date is still to be confirmed but the launch window is defined as being between December 2015 and November 2016.
Está previsto lanzar el primer satélite de esta misión en 2018 y el segundo en 2019"
The Amazonia 1 is the first satellite produced as part of the multi-mission platform designed by INPE....The satellite was designed to be compatible with a family of launchers, such as the Ukrainian Dnepr, the American Minotaur-C, and the European Vega, among others.
Peter B. de Selding @pbdesGerman #ohbsystem/MT Aerospace-Brazilian AEB small-sat launch vehicle set for static tests this year. What is Germany's goal in program?https://www.spaceintelreport.com/brazil-says-ground-test-micro-satellite-launcher-developed-germany-occur-year/
The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has concluded the process for contracting the services that will put Amazonia-1, the first fully-designed earth observation satellite assembled and tested in Brazil, into orbit. The US company Spaceflight Inc has won international competition and will launch with the PSLV ( Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle [/ I]) from a base in India in 2020.
The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) announced that the high-resolution satellite Carponis-1 that it is driving is scheduled to be launched in space in 2022. This mission is part of the Strategic Space Systems Program (PESE) that integrates the Program Brazilian space for defense.
Spaceflight to Launch Brazil’s Amazonia-1 SatelliteBy Annamarie Nyirady | December 20, 2018 Spaceflight was awarded a contract to provide launch services for Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE,) the research unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Communications. The company will be launching the Amazonia-1 satellite, and is targeting a mid-2020 launch.INPE’s Amazonia-1 satellite is the first Earth observation satellite to be completely designed, integrated, tested, and operated by Brazil. Its goal is to autonomously observe the national territory of Brazil, in particular the Amazon region. Amazonia-1 is also the first satellite based on Brazilian Multi Mission Platform (MMP), a general purpose service bus for 500 kilogram class satellites.Amazonia-1 will be the primary spacecraft on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission, with the excess capacity filled by Spaceflight’s smallsat rideshare customers. Targeting mid-2020, Amazonia-1 will be deployed to a mean altitude 760 kilometers sun-synchronous orbit, while the additional secondary rideshare spacecraft will be deployed at a lower altitude. Spaceflight will provide a combination of launch and end-to-end mission management services, as well as hardware for INPE.
Brazil reports that five missions are to be carried out from the Alcantara Launch Center (CLA) by the year 2022.However, reader, before you get excited about this Launch Schedule, it is worth remembering that the history of the Brazilian Space Program (PEB) shows that 'the only right thing about PEB is that there is nothing right'. Perhaps even this maxim from the Bolsonaro Government will change.The missions are as follows:2020· Qualifying launch of the new VS-50 suborbital rocket - a flight that will also attempt to qualify the new S-50 solid rocket engine of just over 12 tons, which will be used in the first and second stages of the future microsatellite launch vehicle. (VLM-1).Hypersonic Accelerator Vehicle (VAH) is scheduled for launch in October - a vehicle made up of a modified VSB-30 suborbital rocket with a technology experiment called the Scramjet 14-X S1 demonstrator, the first flight test of the Hypersonic Technology linked to the Aerospace Vehicle project. Hypersonic 14-X that is under development in Brazil.2021· Launch of an international hypersonic experiment called Hexafly-INT - a launch that is supposed to be performed by a VS-50 rocket. This international project has the participation of four Consortiums, the European Consortium headed by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Australian Consortium, the Consortium of the Russian Federation and the Brazilian Consortium, which is led by the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB).2022· Launch of the Hypersonic Accelerator Vehicle (HAV) - a vehicle made up of a modified VSB-30 suborbital rocket with a technology experiment called the Scramjet 14-X S2 demonstrator, that is, the second flight test of hypersonic technology, a little more. also linked to the 14-X Hypersonic Aerospace Vehicle project under development in Brazil.· Microsatellite Launch Vehicle Qualification Launch (VLM-1) - There is no clear information as to whether this flight will be suborbital as anticipated at the time of the former German SHEFEX-3 project, or whether it will be an orbital flight aboard a technology satellite developed by INPE, as previously planned for the former VLS-1 qualifying flight. It may even be that it only flies with measuring instruments, anyway .... However, reader, should this flight actually take place in 2022, it is worth remembering that curiously the forecast made in July 2010 by the then minister of the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs (SAE) of the government of the miscreant Lula, Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães, was correct. Is it coincidence ?? Lol.Yeah reader, this is the CLA schedule foreseen until the year 2022, but as I said above, nothing in the PEB is certain, except for its own uncertainty, and so we will have to wait for these missions to actually take place. and successfully, and perhaps even including in this period also an agenda for the Hell Barrier Launch Center (CLBI), something that obviously goes beyond the current training rockets. Let's wait.Duda Falcão
The expert stressed that, apart from this project, Brazil is preparing to launch another satellite in 2020, called Amazonia-1. It will be a Brazilian production device. "No country will participate in its manufacture. We have designed and assembled it ... It will be launched in the second half of 2020," he said.In the long term, Brazil also expects to build another space apparatus of almost 200 kilograms. Your mission will be to study the ionosphere. Brazilian builders plan to launch this satellite in late 2023 or early 2024.
Financial Express Online was the first to report about the launch of the Brazilian Satellite in 2020. According to a representative of the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB), “The launch of Amazonia with PSLV later this year is confirmed. It is expected to be launched either in June or July.”Amazonia-1 which will be the primary payload, not a hitch-hike satellite has been built, designed and tested in Brazil. It will be Brazil’s first satellite for Earth Observation.It will provide remote sensing data (images) to observe and monitor deforestation especially in the Amazon region, and also the diversified agriculture throughout the country.
São José dos Campos-SP, February 10, 2020Satellite Image Amazônia-1 begins to be closed for environmental testsThe first remote sensing satellite fully developed in the country and by INPE, Amazônia-1, is in the process of closing the sides of the service module, the Multimission Platform, at the Integration and Testing Laboratory (LIT), in São José dos Campos (SP). This phase marks the transition from the satellite tests, previously performed with its open sides, to a phase that will be completely closed, with its flight model systems and subsystems inside.After its closure, systemic tests will be carried out, which precede the first environmental tests, which include dynamic - vibration - and thermal tests, under vacuum conditions. The Amazon-1 testing campaign started in June last year, at LIT.The satellite will be launched from the Sriharikota Launch Center (SHAR) in India by the PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle) rocket. The launch is scheduled for September this year.Amazonia-1 will take on board an imager similar to that of the CBERS-4 and 4A satellites, developed in partnership with China and currently in orbit, whose images are of interest to the environmental monitoring of the Amazon region, among other applications.
A completely national satellite, designed and developed in Brazil and by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), Amazônia-1, which is already in the final testing phase and should be launched in February next year. "This satellite is focused precisely on observing the Amazon, it has a number of interesting features and is 100% national," said the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovations, Marcos Pontes, who participated in a press conference on Tuesday (14). press.It is the first remote sensing satellite. Amazonia-1 will expand the capacity to monitor biomes throughout the Brazilian territory. “Amazônia-1 is going to be launched together with India. I would like it to be launched here at our Alcântara Launch Center, but we still don't have the capacity to launch a satellite of this nature over there in Alcântara [MA], but we will have it soon ”, explained the minister.
ITASAT 2ITASAT 2 is a flight project for the formation of three satellites to carry out scientific and technological investigations in the ionosphere. It is a continuation of the research initiated with the SPORT project, a nanosatellite with the purpose of investigating the space climate. Its importance lies in the fact that the ionosphere has a great influence on the current electronic systems used in our society, such as GPS (which in Portuguese means Global Positioning System), communications and energy transmission.According to Professor Loures, this Pre-Phase A study work, entrusted by the Brazilian Space Agency to ITA, demonstrates the agency's confidence in the technical level reached by the Institute in the Space Systems project. “This competence started with ITASAT, financed by AEB, and was definitely consolidated with our work with NASA and American universities on the SPORT satellite. ITA establishes itself as a ‘player’ in this space niche and our path will show that we will do much more. After finishing this study, we will start project activities in 2021 ”, he explained.
ELaNa 37 Date: NET Q3 CY2021 Mission: Launch vehicle and launch site TBD 12 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployed CapSat-1 - The Weiss School, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida D3 - University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida GWSat - George Washington University, Washington, D.C. JAGSAT - University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama LEOPARDSat-1 - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio MARIO - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan NACHOS - Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, New Mexico OreSat - Portland State University, Portland, Oregon PATCOOL - NASA KSC, Kennedy Space Center, Florida petitSat - NASA GSFC, Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland REALOP - University of California - Davis, Davis, California SPORT - NASA MSFC, Marshall Space Flight Center, Alabama
Brazil is in the final preparations to put the Amazon 1 into orbit, the first nationally designed and operated earth observation satellite. The launch is scheduled for February 2021, in India.
NANOSATC-BR2 Spacecraft is a scientific, academic and technological satellite designed for monitoring of the Earth’s Ionosphere and Magnetic Field, Southern Regional Space Research Center, University of Santa Maria, Brazil.
Does anyone know the status of the ASTER project?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTER_(spacecraft)Is it alive in any form or shape, or shut down?
Quote from: hattifnatter on 04/09/2021 07:42 amDoes anyone know the status of the ASTER project?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASTER_(spacecraft)Is it alive in any form or shape, or shut down?I asked to Brazilian Space, blog, and he said is dead, at least for now...
This week the deployment test of the solar panels of the CONAE SABIA-Mar Earth observation satellite was carried out, which is in the design and construction phase, with launch scheduled for 2023.
On 1 October 2021, an S50 solid-propellant rocket motor, which will form the first two stages of the new VLM-1 launch vehicle, successfully completed a static firing test in the operational area of Usina Coronel Abner (UCA), in São José dos Campos, São Paulo state, Brazil. The test was conducted by an engineering team from the Aeronautics and Space Institute (Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço; IAE), which is headquartered in São José dos Campos, on behalf of the Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira; FAB) and the Brazilian Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial; DCTA). As part of the long-standing cooperation between Brazil and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), the rocket motor that has now been tested will also be used for a new European sounding rocket. This will significantly improve the range of services available in the field of suborbital launchers.<snip>The S50 is the largest rocket motor ever manufactured in Brazil, with 12 tonnes of solid propellant, and employs innovative technologies such as the use of carbon-fibre-reinforced composites for the engine casing, which makes it lighter and more efficient. The first launch with an S50 is planned for 2023 from the Alcântara Space Center (Centro Espacial de Alcântara; CEA).The static firing lasted 84 seconds and tested the behaviour of the motor. The successful completion of this test was critical for the final stages of development of the S50 motor, which will provide Brazil with new capabilities in terms of the deployment of suborbital vehicles and microsatellites through the Microsatellite Launch Vehicle Project (Projeto do Veículo Lançador de Microssatélites; VLM-1).
Some activity at Alcantara expected:O0646/22 NOTAMNQ) SBAZ/QRPCA/IV/NBO/W/000/999/0214S04416W018A) SBAZB) 2210201100 C) 2210292100D) DLY 1100-2100E) SBP 103 (ALCANTARA 1) ACTF) SFC G) UNLCREATED: 17 Oct 2022 13:07:00 SOURCE: SBRJYNYXO0645/22 NOTAMNQ) SBAZ/QXXCA/IV/BO/W/000/999/0129S04248W048A) SBAZB) 2210201100 C) 2210292100D) DLY 1100-2100E) PROHIBITED AREA (SANTA BRANCA OPERATION) WI COORD 0211.07S/04258.14W, 0204.26S/04315.57W, 0130.14S/04332.22W, 0112.07S/04326.15W, 0045.17S/04239.55W, 0152.12S/04209.18W ACTF) SFC G) UNLCREATED: 17 Oct 2022 13:05:00 SOURCE: SBRJYNYX
The SABIA-Mar mission aims to study the sea and the coasts of Argentina and South America and will provide valuable information for the scientific, productive and decision-making fields. Its launch is scheduled for the end of 2024.
QuoteInnospace, a South Korean startup specializing in developing hybrid space rockets, said it has launched the Hanbit-TLV -- an 8.4-ton single-stage thrust hybrid rocket standing at 16.3 meters tall -- from the Alcantara Space Center in Brazil at 2:52 p.m. on Sunday local time.“We will announce the results of the engine’s flight performance and whether the payload’s mission ends up in a success after a comprehensive analysis of the flight data,” said Innospace in a text to reporters.The company gave no exact timeline on when the final results will be released. The suborbital launch vehicle was loaded with the Brazilian military’s inertial navigation system -- called SISNAV -- which weighs 20 kilograms.A video that was uploaded to the YouTube account of a user named John Cutrim on Sunday, showed the blastoff of the Hanbit-TLV from the Brazilian Air Force’s launchpad. The description of the video read, “The Alcantara launch center today launched a vehicle from the South Korean company Innospace. The South Korean Hanbit-TLV rocket was successfully launched.”The Korean startup had initially aimed for a launch on March 8, but it did not happen due to a problem with a frozen battery just 10 seconds before launch. The company then fixed the issue and waited until good weather on Sunday for the launch.“Developing a space launch vehicle is a process of constantly overcoming variables. The valuable experience and know-how earned during the test launch will become our core technology and a stepping stone for us to become a professional space company with independent technology and launch management capabilities,” said Kim Soo-jong, CEO of Innospace.Sunday’s liftoff came about three months after the Korean startup's project had to be put on hold at the same site due to a weather issue, problems with a cooling valve and connection errors between systems.Innospace’s launch was the first rocket blastoff by Korea’s private sector. According to the company, the Hanbit-TLV was also the world’s first launch of a hybrid rocket.The launch is a test project to assess the performance of the hybrid rocket engine, which is planned to be used as the first stage engine of the Hanbit-Nano rocket later. Innospace is developing the Hanbit-Nano, which is expected to have a 50-kilogram payload, to enter the market for launching commercial small satellites in 2024.According to Innospace, its hybrid rocket technology of using solid fuel and liquid oxidizer has major advantages in costing less and needing less time to build an engine while guaranteeing safety, as the technology prevents the rocket engine from exploding in urgent cases.The company plans to develop two additional launch vehicles capable of having a 150-kilogram and 500-kilogram payload, respectively.Innospace was established by the current CEO in 2017. Since then, the startup has raised 55.2 billion won ($42 million) in investment funding. The rocket developer plans to go public on Korea’s secondary tech-heavy Kosdaq in 2024 through the technology special listing track.Source: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230320000629
Innospace, a South Korean startup specializing in developing hybrid space rockets, said it has launched the Hanbit-TLV -- an 8.4-ton single-stage thrust hybrid rocket standing at 16.3 meters tall -- from the Alcantara Space Center in Brazil at 2:52 p.m. on Sunday local time.“We will announce the results of the engine’s flight performance and whether the payload’s mission ends up in a success after a comprehensive analysis of the flight data,” said Innospace in a text to reporters.The company gave no exact timeline on when the final results will be released. The suborbital launch vehicle was loaded with the Brazilian military’s inertial navigation system -- called SISNAV -- which weighs 20 kilograms.A video that was uploaded to the YouTube account of a user named John Cutrim on Sunday, showed the blastoff of the Hanbit-TLV from the Brazilian Air Force’s launchpad. The description of the video read, “The Alcantara launch center today launched a vehicle from the South Korean company Innospace. The South Korean Hanbit-TLV rocket was successfully launched.”The Korean startup had initially aimed for a launch on March 8, but it did not happen due to a problem with a frozen battery just 10 seconds before launch. The company then fixed the issue and waited until good weather on Sunday for the launch.“Developing a space launch vehicle is a process of constantly overcoming variables. The valuable experience and know-how earned during the test launch will become our core technology and a stepping stone for us to become a professional space company with independent technology and launch management capabilities,” said Kim Soo-jong, CEO of Innospace.Sunday’s liftoff came about three months after the Korean startup's project had to be put on hold at the same site due to a weather issue, problems with a cooling valve and connection errors between systems.Innospace’s launch was the first rocket blastoff by Korea’s private sector. According to the company, the Hanbit-TLV was also the world’s first launch of a hybrid rocket.The launch is a test project to assess the performance of the hybrid rocket engine, which is planned to be used as the first stage engine of the Hanbit-Nano rocket later. Innospace is developing the Hanbit-Nano, which is expected to have a 50-kilogram payload, to enter the market for launching commercial small satellites in 2024.According to Innospace, its hybrid rocket technology of using solid fuel and liquid oxidizer has major advantages in costing less and needing less time to build an engine while guaranteeing safety, as the technology prevents the rocket engine from exploding in urgent cases.The company plans to develop two additional launch vehicles capable of having a 150-kilogram and 500-kilogram payload, respectively.Innospace was established by the current CEO in 2017. Since then, the startup has raised 55.2 billion won ($42 million) in investment funding. The rocket developer plans to go public on Korea’s secondary tech-heavy Kosdaq in 2024 through the technology special listing track.