Quote from: matthewkantar on 02/08/2017 01:49 pmQuote from: Proponent on 02/08/2017 08:23 amI wonder whether SpaceX might worry that a circumlunar Dragon flight, cool though it would be, if it's possible, would embarrass NASA. Not a good idea to embarrass your largest customer.SpaceX is planning to send the same spacecraft all the way to Mars three years from now next year, with help from NASA. Why would there be any embarrassment about a lunar flyby?MatthewThere, fixed that for ya. I've been informed that 2018 is off the table. Remember, 2018 was only a NET.
Quote from: Proponent on 02/08/2017 08:23 amI wonder whether SpaceX might worry that a circumlunar Dragon flight, cool though it would be, if it's possible, would embarrass NASA. Not a good idea to embarrass your largest customer.SpaceX is planning to send the same spacecraft all the way to Mars three years from now next year, with help from NASA. Why would there be any embarrassment about a lunar flyby?Matthew
I wonder whether SpaceX might worry that a circumlunar Dragon flight, cool though it would be, if it's possible, would embarrass NASA. Not a good idea to embarrass your largest customer.
ULA: The Atlas V launch carrying the NROL-79 satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office is confirmed on the Western Range for March 1.
Orbital ATK @OrbitalATKOrbital ATK to provide payload integration & support services for @usairforce Space Test Program Satellite 6 http://bit.ly/2lBpsiO
Chris B - NSF @NASASpaceflightCool news. Do we know which vehicle this is riding on yet? Last I heard it was a competition between ULA and SpaceX?QuoteOrbital ATK @OrbitalATKOrbital ATK to provide payload integration & support services for @usairforce Space Test Program Satellite 6 http://bit.ly/2lBpsiO
Chris B - NSF @NASASpaceflightCool news. Do we know which vehicle this is riding on yet? Last I heard it was a competition between ULA and SpaceX?
Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:IRDM) announced it has received a targeted launch date of mid-June for the second mission of ten Iridium NEXT satellites. Originally anticipated for mid-April of 2017, the date has shifted due to a backlog in SpaceX's launch manifest as a result of last year's September 1st anomaly. This second launch will deliver another ten Iridium NEXT satellites to low-Earth-orbit (LEO) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX is targeting six subsequent Iridium NEXT launches approximately every two months thereafter.
Chris B - NSF @NASASpaceflight NASA memo at 9am today notes the secret is out about EM-1. SLS debuting with a crew. Have fun with that, ASAP! Likely 2019/20 now.QuoteRecruta Capoeira @clownShowPony holy shit robert lightfoot just said we're going to investigate putting a crew on EM-1
Recruta Capoeira @clownShowPony holy shit robert lightfoot just said we're going to investigate putting a crew on EM-1
L2 39A schedule has updated. No target for the Static Fire yet, but the launch date is NET March 12. Mainly to do with range availability.
Atlas V to Launch NROL-79Atlas V NROL-79 Mission ArtworkRocket/Payload: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 configuration rocket will launch the NROL-79 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).Date/Site/Launch Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2017, from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The launch period is 9:30-10:30 a.m. EST PST.Webcast: Tune in to ULA’s live launch day broadcast beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST PST.Launch Notes: NROL-79 will mark the 70th Atlas V launch and the 35th in the 401 configuration since the rocket’s inaugural mission in 2002.Launch Updates: To keep up to speed with updates to the launch countdown, dial the ULA launch hotline at 1-877-852-4321 or join the conversation at www.facebook.com/ulalaunch, twitter.com/ulalaunch and instagram.com/ulalaunch; hashtags #NROL79 and #AtlasV.Go Atlas! Go Centaur! Go NROL-79!
Date/Site/Launch Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2017, from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The launch period is 9:30-10:30 a.m. PST.
Team Vandenberg is scheduled to launch a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying a National Reconnaissance Office payload from Space Launch Complex-3 on Wednesday, March 1, with a launch window opening at 9:49 a.m. PST.
ULA:The ULA Launch Readiness Review was completed today and everything is progressing toward the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the NROL-79 satellite. The mission is set to lift off on a ULA Atlas V rocket on Wednesday, March 1 from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch time is 9:50 a.m. Pacific. Today’s L-2 forecast shows a 90 percent chance of favorable weather conditions for launch.
2017-06 F9 RTLS Formosat-5 & [13] SSO 525+ LC4E Sherpa SSO [14]
Re: SpaceX Falcon 9 - Formosat-5/SHERPA - SLC-4E Vandenberg - 2017 - DISCUSSIONDoes this make it more clear? (and this really doesn't surprise me at all)edit: It appears SHERPA was cancelled from this flight.
