Chris did you have a source for the Falcon 1 bit or did you just assume it from the Kwajalein launch location?
40 flights now on the Manifest, huh? It shows 26 upcoming flights on the website and 6 past missions. What are the other eight missions?
Quote from: tigerade on 06/14/2010 05:23 am40 flights now on the Manifest, huh? It shows 26 upcoming flights on the website and 6 past missions. What are the other eight missions?I wonder if there's a number of new Falcon 9 contracts that they're waiting to finalize so that they can announce them all at once for publicity reasons.
I believe they count every single CRS flight double, one time for ISS resupply and then as a reflown Dragonlab mission
Quote from: simonth on 06/14/2010 06:43 amI believe they count every single CRS flight double, one time for ISS resupply and then as a reflown Dragonlab missionHuh? Why? They stated they have a number of new contracts waiting to be announced, some customers apparently wanted to wait after F9 launched.
"Formosat-5 is slated to launch as early as December 2013 . . ." - oh boy, so much for the responsive space. I'm kinda sad it always takes so long.
Quote from: zaitcev on 06/14/2010 05:13 am"Formosat-5 is slated to launch as early as December 2013 . . ." - oh boy, so much for the responsive space. I'm kinda sad it always takes so long.Maybe that's when the payload will be ready?...
Quote from: butters on 06/14/2010 05:29 pmQuote from: zaitcev link=topic=21984.msg605982#msg605982 date=1276492433"Formosat-5 is slated to launch as early as December 2013 . . ." - oh boy, so much for the responsive space. I'm kinda sad it always takes so long.Maybe that's when the payload will be ready?...Likely somewhere between that and the Orbcomm missions will be coming 1st. Remember we still don't know how may Orbcomm satillites will be on each flight. Could be anywhere between 1 & 3 each.
Quote from: zaitcev link=topic=21984.msg605982#msg605982 date=1276492433"Formosat-5 is slated to launch as early as December 2013 . . ." - oh boy, so much for the responsive space. I'm kinda sad it always takes so long.Maybe that's when the payload will be ready?...
Quote from: SpacexULA on 06/15/2010 05:05 pmQuote from: butters on 06/14/2010 05:29 pmQuote from: zaitcev link=topic=21984.msg605982#msg605982 date=1276492433"Formosat-5 is slated to launch as early as December 2013 . . ." - oh boy, so much for the responsive space. I'm kinda sad it always takes so long.Maybe that's when the payload will be ready?...Likely somewhere between that and the Orbcomm missions will be coming 1st. Remember we still don't know how may Orbcomm satillites will be on each flight. Could be anywhere between 1 & 3 each.We know from SEC filings that the contract between SpaceX and Orbcomm speaks of 5 flights.
Quote from: simonth on 06/15/2010 05:07 pmQuote from: SpacexULA on 06/15/2010 05:05 pmQuote from: butters on 06/14/2010 05:29 pmQuote from: zaitcev link=topic=21984.msg605982#msg605982 date=1276492433"Formosat-5 is slated to launch as early as December 2013 . . ." - oh boy, so much for the responsive space. I'm kinda sad it always takes so long.Maybe that's when the payload will be ready?...Likely somewhere between that and the Orbcomm missions will be coming 1st. Remember we still don't know how may Orbcomm satillites will be on each flight. Could be anywhere between 1 & 3 each.We know from SEC filings that the contract between SpaceX and Orbcomm speaks of 5 flights.Thanks for the Info. So That leaves 1 maiden and 5 Orbcomm & 1 Astrium. So if the Maiden Flight goes off in February 2011 and this one is for Dec 2013, that's 32 months between the maiden flight and the Formosat flight. Or an average of 4 months between flights if these are all the flights between now and then.