SpaceX F9 : HAKUTO-R : CCSFS SLC-40 : 11 December 2022 (07:38 UTC)

[FutureSpaceTourist]

Updated TFRs following launch slip

twitter.com/spacetfrs/status/1597923443558711299

Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, FL temporary restriction:
From December 01, 2022 at 0802 UTC to To December 01, 2022 at 0904 UTC
Altitude: From the surface up to and including 18,000ft
https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_2_8061.html
Likely:HAKUTO-R 1 (rocketlaunch.live/launch/hakuto-…)

https://twitter.com/spacetfrs/status/1597927199247679489

Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, FL temporary restriction:
From December 01, 2022 at 0802 UTC to To December 01, 2022 at 0904 UTC
Altitude: From the surface up to and including 18,000ft https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_2_8062.html
Likely:HAKUTO-R 1 (rocketlaunch.live/launch/hakuto-…)

[FutureSpaceTourist]

L-1 forecast is 80% GO and additional risk criteria low

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1598106762850500609

After further inspections of the launch vehicle and data review, we're standing down from tomorrow's launch of @ispace_inc's HAKUTO-R Mission 1; a new target launch date will be shared once confirmed

[FutureSpaceTourist]

twitter.com/spaceoffshore/status/1598107641330401282

HAKUTO-R Mission 1 delay might be a few days at least, based on initial movements of fairing recovery ship Doug.

Vessel appears to have left its holding point and is heading west towards Florida at 9 knots.

https://twitter.com/spaceoffshore/status/1598108270652276737

The ship being recalled to Port would typically mean a longer or undetermined delay, which makes waiting at sea unproductive.

Add at ~2.5 days of travel time to return to Florida and sail back to the LZ.

[zubenelgenubi]

Ben Cooper's Launch Photography Viewing Guide, updated November 30 evening EST:

The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the first HAKUTO-R lunar lander for iSpace on December TBD around 3:37 a.m. EST. The first stage will land back at the Cape about eight minutes after launch.

[Ken the Bin]

As expected, an NGA cancellation notice.

010204Z DEC 22
NAVAREA IV 1270/22(11,26).
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
CANCEL NAVAREA IV 1262/22 AND THIS MSG,
OPERATIONS CANCELED.

[edkyle99]

Two Falcon 9 vehicles now that have been stacked and scrubbed and fallen out of the campaign flow in recent weeks, one on each coast. 

 - Ed Kyle

[Rondaz]

SpaceX is expected to roll a Falcon 9 rocket back to its hangar at Cape Canaveral for troubleshooting, postponing the launch of a Japanese moon lander for an unspecified period.

SpaceX provided no details about the reason for grounding the rocket.

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1598205335948464128

[Rondaz]

SpaceX suffered few technical delays throughout most of 2022, allowing the company to launch 54 missions so far this year.

But the problem with Hakuto-R’s launcher is the second Falcon 9 rocket issue in two weeks that has kept a mission on the ground.

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1598205921108414465

[zubenelgenubi]

Moderator:
Off-topic Falcon 9 vs. SLS/Artemis I posts deleted.

Stay on-topic.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spaceoffshore/status/1598425188902772756

Doug should arrive back at Port Canaveral at midnight tonight, as SpaceX stands down for an undetermined period from the HAKUTOR-R Mission 1

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/sarwatnasir/status/1598720673404157952

ispace said they are still discussing a new date with SpaceX. If launch is after mid-December, then lunar landing attempt will happen after April, 2023.

[zubenelgenubi]

Ben Cooper's Launch Photography Viewing Guide, updated December 2:
Launch time of day revised to ~3 am EST = ~08:00 UTC.

[zubenelgenubi]

Has the Falcon 9 rolled back yet?
SFN SpaceX rocket trouble postpones Japanese moon lander launch, November 30:

SpaceX is expected to roll a Falcon 9 rocket back into its hangar at Cape Canaveral for troubleshooting, postponing the planned launch of a Japanese commercial moon lander for an unspecified period. SpaceX provided no details about the reason for grounding the rocket.
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Multiple sources familiar with the mission said SpaceX planned to lower the Falcon 9 rocket horizontal and roll it back to the hangar just south of pad 40, where technicians will perform more tests and resolve the problem.

Edit:  Rollback on December 1?
Screen capture during morning twilight from the NSF Space Coast Live stream.

[gongora]

Does this look like it would be for Hakuto-R?  If so I'm getting fairly confused about the SpaceX launch schedule next week.

022314Z DEC 22
NAVAREA IV 1286/22(11,26).
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   070759Z TO 070856Z DEC, ALTERNATE
   080751Z TO 080848Z, 090744Z TO 090841Z,
   100739Z TO 100836Z, 110733Z TO 110830Z,
   120726Z TO 120823Z, 130720Z TO 130817Z DEC
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 28-35.00N 080-02.00W, 28-40.00N 080-04.00W,
      28-39.41N 080-37.97W, 28-27.14N 080-31.60W,
      28-27.00N 080-20.00W.
   B. 28-58.00N 074-34.00W, 29-06.00N 074-57.00W,
      28-47.00N 076-55.00W, 28-40.00N 076-54.00W,
      28-31.00N 074-54.00W, 28-39.00N 074-33.00W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 130917Z DEC 22.

[sdsds]

Has the Hakuto-R team said anything about the constraints their mission profile puts on launch opportunities? For that matter, have they explicitly mentioned their profile takes them near Sun-Earth L1 or L2?  SE-L1 is 1.5 million kilometers inside the Earth’s orbit, and they've mentioned that distance. SE-L2 is essentially equivalent distance I think.

The connection to launch opportunities is that the lowest delta-v paths to either SE-L1 or SE-L2 occur when the Moon is somewhat aligned with the SE Lagrange point. That might imply their mission has launch opportunities only about twice per month, and in one opportunity they pass near L1 and in the other they pass near L2.

[Ken the Bin]

Does this look like it would be for Hakuto-R?  If so I'm getting fairly confused about the SpaceX launch schedule next week.

Yes.  See my discussion in the 4-37 topic, where I posted cancellations for the two Space Debris notices (but no cancellation notice yet for the 4-37 Rocket Launching notice).

I posted this notice there because I couldn't initially identify it, but further reseach led me to the same conclusion ... it's a new notice for Hakuto-R.

[zubenelgenubi]

NextSpaceFlight, updated December 2:
Launch December 7 08:04 UTC = 3:04 am EST

[Galactic Penguin SST]

NextSpaceFlight, updated December 2:
Launch December 7 08:04 UTC = 3:04 am EST

Clarification: It was another update by me, with reference to the marine closure notices noted above only (the time is assumed by the fact that these zones were closed 5 minutes before T-0 for the Nov. 29/30 attempts).

[Chinakpradhan]

NextSpaceFlight, updated December 2:
Launch December 7 08:04 UTC = 3:04 am EST

Clarification: It was another update by me, with reference to the marine closure notices noted above only (the time is assumed by the fact that these zones were closed 5 minutes before T-0 for the Nov. 29/30 attempts).

Interesting that the Hakuto-R Mission 1 launch is ~10 hours after OneWeb Flight #15. Both mission are RTLS, so could we see the first Falcon 9 land on LZ-2?