Quote from: deruch on 03/09/2018 08:16 pmQuote from: speedevil on 03/08/2018 04:50 pmFrom falcon payload document.Just to be clear, that (spin about the X-axis) wasn't the type of rotation imparted to this satellite.I may have been misremembering - but I thought it was.The cameras that are pointed not along the axis of the stage show it rotating confusingly, but the payload deploy makes it clear - the satellite is departing along the spin axis, which makes the spin axis the X axis.
Quote from: speedevil on 03/08/2018 04:50 pmFrom falcon payload document.Just to be clear, that (spin about the X-axis) wasn't the type of rotation imparted to this satellite.
From falcon payload document.
Quote from: ChrisGebhardt on 03/09/2018 03:22 pmRide-share confirmed.What are the approvals required for such a ride-share?Is it just 'get the approval of your host'?Do these satellites have to be separately approved, or are they buried in the not-revealed applications paperwork, and only the main satellite reported publically?
Ride-share confirmed.
So does it mean that total weight (with ride shares) was indeed the biggest to gto?
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589If it is a 4-HiSat satlet cluster as per the paper by @NovaWurks the mass of PODSAT is probably only 50 kg or so, with maybe a further 50 kg at most for the attachment hardware on Hispasast. So I don't see how it matches IS-35e
SSL PODS user's guide (revision 1, 2017): https://www.sslmda.com/pods/pods_users_guide.pdf (direct .pdf link)Also attached for posterity.
Hmmm... not raising perigee first43228 HISPASAT 30W-6 2018-023A 636.73min 27.04deg 35961km 317km
Hmmm... not raising perigee first
The Hispasat 30W-6 antenna tower is the largest and most complex antenna support structure that SSL has completed to date. The strut-truss design methodology used on the satellite, which brings a range of communications services to Europe, the Americas, and North Africa contains more than 200 carbon fiber composite struts, making it three times the size of the first strut-truss tower that SSL launched in late 2016. More than 200 additively manufactured metal and polymer components were incorporated throughout Hispasat 30W-6 including 3D printed nodes that enabled the antenna tower design.