City National Bank and RBC Wealth Management announced May 14 they provided the Nevada Museum of Art with $50,000 in support of artist Trevor Paglen's Orbital Reflector project, scheduled to launch in October.
SWARM filed for another experimental license for their 1U cubesats, launching on SSO-A. Time to go make some popcorn...FCC File Number: 0976-EX-ST-2018
Quote from: gongora on 06/07/2018 09:56 pmSWARM filed for another experimental license for their 1U cubesats, launching on SSO-A. Time to go make some popcorn...FCC File Number: 0976-EX-ST-2018Are these the smae cubesats that had their license revoked after their unauthorized launch?
Quote from: whitelancer64 on 06/07/2018 10:17 pmQuote from: gongora on 06/07/2018 09:56 pmSWARM filed for another experimental license for their 1U cubesats, launching on SSO-A. Time to go make some popcorn...FCC File Number: 0976-EX-ST-2018Are these the smae cubesats that had their license revoked after their unauthorized launch?Yep.
Quote from: gongora on 06/07/2018 10:20 pmQuote from: whitelancer64 on 06/07/2018 10:17 pmQuote from: gongora on 06/07/2018 09:56 pmSWARM filed for another experimental license for their 1U cubesats, launching on SSO-A. Time to go make some popcorn...FCC File Number: 0976-EX-ST-2018Are these the smae cubesats that had their license revoked after their unauthorized launch?Yep.Except that the unauthorized ones were 1/4 U tablets, these ones are 1U cubes - interesting change.Also appears that each one has a different mass 0.4, 0.7, 0.9 kg
The one that was canceled is 0026-EX-ST-2018. As Gunter noted it was four of the 1U cubesats on Electron. It looks like the new application is for 3 of those sats.
Quote from: gongoraThe one that was canceled is 0026-EX-ST-2018. As Gunter noted it was four of the 1U cubesats on Electron. It looks like the new application is for 3 of those sats. The new app mentions Spacebee 9, 10 and 11 so I guess they are new sats, with 5 to 8 still waiting for a ride
The first OHB nanosatellite for Earth Observation has reached its final testing stage and is ready for launch, with Space Flight, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, during August 2018. Eaglet is a 3U+ satellite with 5m panchromatic resolution capabilities, using a 300-mm focal length telescope with an aperture of 85 mm. The overall mass is less than 5 kg. The satellite has a precise attitude control system based on Earth, Sun, Star Tracker and GPS sensors. The attitude control system makes use of reaction wheel and utilizes magneto-torquers for their desaturation. In addition to the EO mission, Eaglet shall embark an AIS payload. The Eaglet QM has undergone thermal vacuum tests at the end of 2017 and vibration test in early 2018, showing full compliance with the specification.
Spokesperson Julie Fornaro told SpaceNews the first two satellites are launching one on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and another on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, both next year.
[Spaceflight: June 13, 2018] TESTING IS IN FULL SWING FOR SSO-A MISSIONBy Hilary MeyersonWe’re deep in the process of testing for our upcoming SSO-A mission at our Auburn integration facility. Adam Hadaller, our lead integration engineer, gave us a run down of some of the preparations. To support the requirements of this mission, we actually built out a new facility, which includes a new certified ISO 8 cleanroom (<100,000 0.5µm particles/ft3), a 3-ton bridge crane to move manipulate hardware and integrate dozens of discrete spacecraft. The cleanroom has an airlock for moving hardware in and out, a gowning room, and an electrostatic dissipative floor. The air is constantly being scrubbed by filters and its conditions are controlled to keep humidity and temperature within required levels. At our facility we also have a portable cleanroom tent capable of ISO 7 (<10,000 0.5µm particles/ft3) for smaller integration work, such as CubeSat-to-dispenser integration . We’ve also built a lab for bench testing, so we can test new software/firmware on non-flight hardware before we test it on the flight hardware in the cleanroom environment.We conduct many layers of avionics testing, over the life of the program, from bench-level testing to full system-level, to make sure our on-orbit deployment platforms, which we call Upper Free Flyer and Lower Free Flyer, are ready for customer payload integration, flight, and eventual operations. Initially, we check out all hardware received from vendors, to make sure it was built up to specifications. Then we bring in our software, getting more complicated at each step, until we are finally running the actual mission scripts that will run during launch. The final tests look at the entire mission duration, from going to internal power on the launch pad, the moment of separation from the launch vehicle, through our on-orbit passes over our ground stations. The Mission Simulation Tests can last as much as 16 hours. During those tests we simulate data collection and dissemination, sending those data to our mission management team who will eventually send those data to our customers, so they can locate and communicate with their spacecraft.Thorough testing keeps us on our toes. Sometimes, we get a part that isn’t manufactured up to our specifications, and we need to send it back. Often times with a mission as large as this, our customer manifest changes, because a customer is no longer ready to launch. Luckily we have a large backlog of customers ready to take their place, and we can move someone else up because Spaceflight works to have a large and diverse launch capacity. However, customer manifest changes mean potential changes to harnesses, mission sequences, etc., which we must rigorously test.All our tests are geared to incrementally build on previous tests to give us the most confidence we can have in the Upper and Lower Free Flyers to operate successfully on orbit. We’re looking forward to finishing up this phase before we move on to spacecraft integration.
Spaceflight posted another blog entry on their website (thanks to Reddit user Straumli_Blight for noticing it.)
The overall goal of the WeissSat-1 mission, is to establish The Weiss School hardware heritagebased on the NearSpace Launch FastBus by collecting inflight telemetry and validating a novel labon-a-chipfor investigating extremophile bacteria viability in space.The satellite will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from Vandenberg AFB, California,no earlier than December 1, 2018. It will be inserted into an orbit approximately 575 km apogeeand perigee, on an inclination from the equator of 97.7 degrees.
Australian Internet of Things (IoT) startup, Fleet Space Technologies, has today announced launch plans for its first two nanosatellites, Centauri I and II, in 2018....the first of its nanosatellites is under contract to launch with Spaceflight aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) by Antrix/ISRO. ... second nanosatellite will launch on Spaceflight’s SSO-A mission;
This application is for renewed authorization for the launch and operation of a micro-satellitethat incorporates a number of commercial-off-the-shelf technologies to prove a concept of howone could build and quickly launch an inexpensive satellite to address short-term, immediateimaging needs. The launch has been delayed, so that this filing is needed to keep Raytheonauthorized for when it may finally be able to launch. 1. Launch Schedule:Currently, the satellite launch is scheduled for October to November 2018, depending ondelivery of the space vehicle, weather, and other factors that are not in the control of theapplicant. 2. Launch vehicle source:SpaceX SSA space vehicle27kg
Hmmmm....File No.: 0469-EX-CN-2018QuoteThe overall goal of the WeissSat-1 mission, is to establish The Weiss School hardware heritagebased on the NearSpace Launch FastBus by collecting inflight telemetry and validating a novel labon-a-chipfor investigating extremophile bacteria viability in space.The satellite will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, from Vandenberg AFB, California,no earlier than December 1, 2018. It will be inserted into an orbit approximately 575 km apogeeand perigee, on an inclination from the equator of 97.7 degrees.edit: It doesn't explicitly say this is on SSO-A, but I'm not sure what other flight on the near-term manifest would be carrying cubesats to SSO.
Mission description: IRVINE02 will be dispensed from a PPOD 3U CubeSat dispenser into anestimated orbit of 500 km Apogee and 500 km Perigee with an inclination of 97 degrees. Themission is expected to remain in orbit for a maximum of up to 4.923 years. During this time, themain payload will communicate using laser diodes. IRVINE02 will also continue taking picturesof celestial objects (focusing primarily on Venus) where they will be sent to the ground station,where they will be used for educational purposes. Other data will be collected using sun sensors,GPS, and other necessary equipment. In addition, magnetorquers will be used for attitudecontrol, and solar panels will be used for power....Description of all propulsion systems (cold gas, monopropellant, bipropellant, electric,nuclear): There is an electric thruster (one Accion Systems TILE-50) and there will be 3magnetorquers on board, to adjust the orientation and heading of the cubesat.