Quote from: russianhalo117 on 04/27/2016 10:33 pmQuote from: longdrivechampion102 on 04/27/2016 01:41 pmQuote from: Steven Pietrobon on 04/27/2016 07:05 amThere's one more Delta II carrying ICESat 2 in 2017. There's also enough parts for another Delta II, but ULA has not been able to find a buyer for it.Could the last unbuilt Delta II be assembled for a museum display like the Titan IVB?the manufacturing equipment was pulled off the floor when the last first stage booster was completed.Does that mean the last unbuilt Delta II is scrapped?
Quote from: longdrivechampion102 on 04/27/2016 01:41 pmQuote from: Steven Pietrobon on 04/27/2016 07:05 amThere's one more Delta II carrying ICESat 2 in 2017. There's also enough parts for another Delta II, but ULA has not been able to find a buyer for it.Could the last unbuilt Delta II be assembled for a museum display like the Titan IVB?the manufacturing equipment was pulled off the floor when the last first stage booster was completed.
Quote from: Steven Pietrobon on 04/27/2016 07:05 amThere's one more Delta II carrying ICESat 2 in 2017. There's also enough parts for another Delta II, but ULA has not been able to find a buyer for it.Could the last unbuilt Delta II be assembled for a museum display like the Titan IVB?
There's one more Delta II carrying ICESat 2 in 2017. There's also enough parts for another Delta II, but ULA has not been able to find a buyer for it.
Last I recall Rocketdyne was making the Delta/Thor XLT core for these vehicles. Anyone know if the tooling went to the scrapyard or just storage. This is my favorite S1 core to play LEGO rockets with. Sad to see its end in sight.
Lean operations dictated that the on-pad assembly would occur now while workers could break away from their duties on other rockets.
Is it typical to start attacking a Delta II six months before the planned launch? Seems a bit early... I realize Titans have sat on the pad for years waiting for everyone to cross all the i's and dot all the t's, but... But.
Launch slipping to March. http://spacenews.com/first-jpss-satellite-launch-delayed-two-months/
NOAA says no later than the second quarter......http://www.jpss.noaa.gov/launch_schedule.html
At the South Australian Space Forum today it was announced that the Buccaneer Pathfinder cubesat will launch with a NASA weather satellite. This is most likely JPSS 1 as GOES-R is going to the wrong orbit. If Biarri-Point doesn't launch first (its on one of the CRS missions early next year), this will be the first Australian Defence Department satellite to be launched since WRESAT in 1967.
Secondary payloads for the last two DII launches are already announced previously and are already listed on the US Launch Schedule so go check it out.
Quote from: Steven Pietrobon on 09/01/2016 06:05 amNOAA says no later than the second quarter......http://www.jpss.noaa.gov/launch_schedule.htmlof the fiscal year so, as early as January or as late as March.
Quote from: russianhalo117 on 11/13/2016 11:38 pmSecondary payloads for the last two DII launches are already announced previously and are already listed on the US Launch Schedule so go check it out.Thanks. I see that the payloads were first listed on 20 August, but no reference is given. The secondary payloads areBuccaneer RMMCP 7EagleSat 1Fox 1B (RadFxSat)MakerSat 0MiRaTAELanA XIV lists EagleSat 1, RadFxSat and MiRaTA on the NASA website (Golden Eagle 1 is also listed, but that mission has been cancelled). Are CP 7 and MakerSat 0 part of the ELanA program? The NASA list has MakerSat (no number) flying on ELanA XX and only lists CP 5 and CP 9.
The launch of NOAA’s next-gen polar-orbiting weather satellite, JPSS-1, has slipped again, to July-September:
“The main factors delaying the JPSS-1 launch are technical issues discovered during environmental testing of the satellite and the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) instrument,” [John] Leslie said in a statement.