This launch is now scheduled for no earlier than the third quarter of this year, versus earlier projections of a 2nd quarter launch.
According to this article back in March 2019, both SBIRS GEO 5 and 6 will use an Atlas V 421.QuoteULA will use Atlas 5 rockets with four-meter-diameter payload fairings and two solid rocket boosters — configuration known as the Atlas 5-421 — on each of the SBIRS missions.https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/03/07/spacex-ula-win-military-contracts-air-force-renames-eelv-program/
ULA will use Atlas 5 rockets with four-meter-diameter payload fairings and two solid rocket boosters — configuration known as the Atlas 5-421 — on each of the SBIRS missions.
Very belated post re: make and model of LV; it's the Atlas V 551.From SpaceX, ULA win military contracts, Air Force renames EELV program, dated March 7, 2019
QuoteSirius/XM Satellite Radio’s Sirius-FM7 launches from the Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX launch vehicle. Nominal lift-off time schedule is: August 1st, 2020 at 04:27:00 UTCsource
Sirius/XM Satellite Radio’s Sirius-FM7 launches from the Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX launch vehicle. Nominal lift-off time schedule is: August 1st, 2020 at 04:27:00 UTC
NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency’s Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is on track for sustainable human exploration of the Moon for the first time in history.The human landing system awards under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2) Appendix H Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) are firm-fixed price, milestone-based contracts. The total combined value for all awarded contracts is $967 million for the 10-month base period. The following companies were selected to design and build human landing systems: • Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, is developing the Integrated Lander Vehicle (ILV) – a three-stage lander to be launched on its own New Glenn Rocket System and ULA Vulcan launch system. • Dynetics (a Leidos company) of Huntsville, Alabama, is developing the Dynetics Human Landing System (DHLS) – a single structure providing the ascent and descent capabilities that will launch on the ULA Vulcan launch system. • SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, is developing the Starship – a fully integrated lander that will use the SpaceX Super Heavy rocket. “With these contract awards, America is moving forward with the final step needed to land astronauts on the Moon by 2024, including the incredible moment when we will see the first woman set foot on the lunar surface,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “This is the first time since the Apollo era that NASA has direct funding for a human landing system, and now we have companies on contract to do the work for the Artemis program.”
Cross-post re: Sirius-FM7:Quote from: input~2 on 04/30/2020 04:16 pmQuoteSirius/XM Satellite Radio’s Sirius-FM7 launches from the Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX launch vehicle. Nominal lift-off time schedule is: August 1st, 2020 at 04:27:00 UTCsource
Ok, this has me really confused. The dates don't work. Is the launch actually on August 2? It's like they did local dates with UTC times and forgot about daylight savings.
FALCON 9The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral will launch the eighth batch of 60 Starlinksatellites from pad 40 on May TBA, in the early morning EDT. The launch time gets about 20-21 minutes earlier each day. Other upcoming launches include: A Falcon 9 from pad 39A will launch the first crewed Dragon to the ISS, the first U.S. launch of astronauts into orbit since the retirement of the Space Shuttle nine years ago, on May 27 at the earliest, at 4:32pm EDT. The launch window is instantaneous. The launch time gets 22-26 minutes earlier per day. And a Falcon 9 will launch the ninth batch of 60 Starlink satellites from pad 40 on late May or June TBA.
May 18 • Falcon 9 • Starlink 7Launch window: 0709-0809 GMT (3:09-4:09 a.m. EDT)Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches
Quote from: PM3 on 05/06/2020 04:49 pmhttps://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launchesThat link also shows that the SpaceX rideshare mission is launching from SLC-40, not Vandy.
Quote from: scr00chy on 05/06/2020 04:57 pmQuote from: PM3 on 05/06/2020 04:49 pmhttps://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launchesThat link also shows that the SpaceX rideshare mission is launching from SLC-40, not Vandy.Could it be a Starlink rideshare?
NET May 17 • Falcon 9 • Starlink 7Launch window: Approx. 0800 GMT (4:00 a.m. EDT)Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Quote from: PM3 on 05/06/2020 05:19 pmQuote from: scr00chy on 05/06/2020 04:57 pmQuote from: PM3 on 05/06/2020 04:49 pmhttps://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launchesThat link also shows that the SpaceX rideshare mission is launching from SLC-40, not Vandy.Could it be a Starlink rideshare?Oh yeah, you're probably right. Looks like PTD-1 is supposed to have a 400 x 400 km x 51.3 deg orbit, so that would fit with Starlink. My bad.
Aiming to reduce risk and costs, NASA has decided to launch the first two modules of the Gateway station in lunar orbit on the same heavy-lift rocket in 2023, rather than fly them on separate rockets and dock them together in deep space, according to the the agency’s chief human spaceflight manager.NASA has not selected a rocket to carry the two modules into space, but the massive payload could fit on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with a lengthened payload fairing currently in development to accommodate large U.S. military satellites, according to Doug Loverro, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations.In an interview, Loverro told Spaceflight Now that launching the Gateway’s Power and Propulsion Element and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost — known as the PPE and the HALO — will save money and reduce technical risk on the program.Agency managers previously intended to launch the PPE module and the HALO on separate rockets in 2022 and 2023....NASA has contracted with SpaceX to deliver logistics to the Gateway using an extended version of its Dragon spacecraft launched by a Falcon Heavy rocket.
[Spaceflight Now] Spy satellite launch on Delta 4-Heavy rocket delayed to AugustQuoteThe mission was previously scheduled to launch some time in June, but has been rescheduled for Aug. 26, according to Col. Robert Bongiovi, head of the launch enterprise division at the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.
The mission was previously scheduled to launch some time in June, but has been rescheduled for Aug. 26, according to Col. Robert Bongiovi, head of the launch enterprise division at the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.
May 27, Wednesday...12 :15 p.m. – Live launch coverage of the SpaceX/DM-2 Crew Dragon Mission to the International Space Station; launch scheduled at 4:33 p.m. EDT – Kennedy Space Center/Hawthorne, California/Johnson Space Center (All Channels)
SFN Launch Schedule, updated May 9, 2020NROL-129 launch date: July 15, 2020
