New Elana dates:Elana 20 with LauncherOne slips to NET 14 August.Elana 29 with LauncherOne slips to Q4.Elana 33 has been removed from CRS-21, which could indicate another significant delay of Cargo Dragon 2. The previous Elana 33 sats have been moved to NG-14 (Elana 31), and Elana 33 has been reassigned to NG-15 with just one satellite.https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches
ELaNa 33Date: February 1, 2021Mission: NG-15 – Antares, Wallops Flight Facility, VA1 CubeSat Mission scheduled to be deployedExternal Deployment IT-SPINS-Montana State University, Bozeman Montana
Quote from: gongora on 05/19/2020 09:11 pm0798-EX-ST-2020QuotePrelaunch testing and launch support for the upcoming SAOCOM-1B launch. Operation Start Date: 07/07/2020For the record, the above linked permit application extends the dates of the existing pre-launch testing STA 2346-EX-ST-2020 which expires on 2020 July 7. The pre-launch testing can occur at any time, so July 7 is not a NET for the testing or the launch. Sorry if this was not a confusion, but I have seen it confused elsewhere.
0798-EX-ST-2020QuotePrelaunch testing and launch support for the upcoming SAOCOM-1B launch. Operation Start Date: 07/07/2020
Prelaunch testing and launch support for the upcoming SAOCOM-1B launch. Operation Start Date: 07/07/2020
“Our team performed their prelaunch and flight operations with incredible skill today. Test flights are instrumented to yield data and we now have a treasure trove of that. We accomplished many of the goals we set for ourselves, though not as many as we would have liked,” said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. “Nevertheless, we took a big step forward today. Our engineers are already poring through the data. Our next rocket is waiting. We will learn, adjust, and begin preparing for our next test, which is coming up soon.”The company’s next rocket is in final stages of integration at its Long Beach manufacturing facility, with a half-dozen other rockets for subsequent missions not far behind. Virgin Orbit’s decision to begin production of multiple rockets well in advance of this test flight will enable the team to progress to the next attempt at a significantly faster pace, shortly after making any necessary modifications to the launch system.
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The project proposed an April 2025 launch date, in accordance with the announcement of opportunity, but NASA selected its back-up launch date of April 2026. NASA stated that it directed the project to target this later launch date because the earlier launch date carried considerable schedule risk. Both launch dates allow Dragonfly to arrive at Titan in December 2034.
IMAP entered the preliminary design and technology completion phase in January 2020. At this decision point, NASA established a preliminary lifecycle cost estimate range of $707.7 million to $776.3 million for the project. This includes launch services and reserves and a launch readiness date range of October 1 to December 21, 2024.
The Restore-L project is no longer working to preliminary cost and schedule estimates that NASA approved when the project entered the preliminary design phase, largely due to issues related to funding and the late addition of a new payload. NASA has not yet approved a cost and schedule baseline for the program, but the program is now working to a launch readiness date of December 2023.
SPHEREx will include a telescope to map and survey the sky in optical and near-infrared light and a passive cooling system to keep the telescope cool enough to detect infrared light without interference from the sun, moon, or spacecraft. The project reports that it completed all the technology development work needed for the telescope and other technologies before entering the preliminary design and technology completion phase. The project is currently working towards an internal launch date during the second quarter of fiscal year 2024 and expects the mission to operate for two years.
In commenting on a draft of this assessment, project officials noted that the project completed its confirmation review on February 28, 2020, and established a lifecycle cost baseline of $3,934 million which includes a $3,591.3 million baseline for WFIRST and a $342.7 million baseline for the CGI. The project set a launch readiness date of October 2026.
The DART project continues to work within its cost and schedule baselines set in August 2018. In August 2019, the project amended its internal cost and schedule goals, pushing its internal launch readiness date back by 1 month to July 2021, to accommodate the dedicated launch service that was selected, among other changes. The project now has 7 months of schedule reserve remaining to its February 2022 baseline launch date.
The Europa Clipper project entered the implementation phase and established its cost and schedule baselines in August 2019. The project set a baseline life-cycle cost of $4.25 billion and a launch date of September 2025.
The Landsat 9 project is reevaluating its schedule to set a new internal launch readiness date, but project officials expect this date will still be before its November 2021 baseline date.
Lucy continues to operate within its cost and schedule baselines. The project’s launch vehicle costs $12.9 million less than estimated, so NASA moved these savings to development and operational cost reserves. Project officials stated that they are retaining adequate schedule reserves to mitigate current difficulties faced with vendors, as well as other risks, and plan to hold to their committed launch readiness date of November 2021.
NASA had planned to conduct the uncrewed demonstration of Artemis I in June 2020, but after a series of delays the agency is currently reevaluating this date. The Orion program is currently planning to be ready for an Artemis I launch as early as November 2020, although this launch date is likely to be delayed, according to NASA. Despite a potential delay to the Artemis I launch, Orion program officials said the committed baseline date for the second mission remains April 2023. However, the program has experienced significant delays since 2018, placing pressure on that date. For example, late deliveries of redesigned pressure control valves for the Artemis II European Service Module contributed to a 5-month delay to module delivery and reduced program schedule margin, according to program officials.
The PACE project entered the implementation phase and formally established its cost and schedule baselines in August 2019. The project set a baseline lifecycle cost of $889.7 million and a launch date of January 2024, which is $39.7 million above the top-end of the project’s preliminary cost estimate of $850 million and 9 months later than its preliminary schedule estimate of April 2023.
The Psyche project entered the implementation phase and formally established its cost and schedule baselines in May 2019. The project set a baseline lifecycle cost of $996.4 million and a launch date of August 2022.
The SWOT project is still operating within its cost and schedule baselines, but is reviewing its internal launch readiness date due to delays with its primary instrument. The project had been working towards a September 2021 launch date, which is 7 months earlier than its committed launch readiness date of April 2022. However, project officials stated that component delivery delays for the Ka-Band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn)—the project’s most complicated technology development effort—have put this date at risk. As of January 2020, the project had consumed all payload schedule margin due to these delays. Additionally, the project is preparing a schedule replan for approval by NASA, but the project still expects to launch prior to its committed launch readiness date.
MOSCOW, May 31 - RIA News. The American ship Starliner will go on a second flight without a crew to the International Space Station in mid-November 2020, its first flight with a crew is scheduled for April 2021, a source in the rocket and space industry told RIA Novosti.
The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral will launch the eighth batch of Starlink internet satellites from pad 40 on June 3 at about 9:25pm EDT. The launch time gets roughly 20-21 minutes earlier per day. Then, a Falcon 9 from pad 40 will launch the ninth batch of Starlink satellites on early June TBA. A Falcon 9 from pad 39A will launch the tenth Starlink batch on June TBA. And a Falcon 9 is slated to launch the next GPS III satellite for the U.S. Air Force from pad 40 as early as June 30, likely in the middle of the night.
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