VENUS is currently scheduled for launch in 2011 (1st quarter).See here: http://smsc.cnes.fr/VENUS/ From this site you could get the impression, that VENUS was originally planned to launch piggy-back on a Ariane 5: http://www.ueaf.net/actualites/fis_288.htmlDon't know if that is still the plan (or ever was), but I have a hard time imagining what sense it would make to launch a polar satellite piggy-back on a GTO trajectory. If the launch is in 2011, they could surly use VEGA.
Just found this new sign of life from Tsyklon-4. Including User guide! So this project really seems to make some progress...http://www.alcantaracyclonespace.com
According to this http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/remote-indonesian-island-reaches-for-stars-by-playing-host-to-space-center/389916 orbital launches from Inonesia's Enggano Island will take place on 2014.
"This one, which will consist of four stages, will be part of an RPS-01 rocket to put a satellite in orbit," Soewarto said.He said LAPAN had earlier successfully tested the flights of RX-320 and RX-420 rockets whose components would be used to build a RPS-01 rocket to carry a satellite to an orbit around earth.The rockets, he said, would be the prototypes of satellite carrying rockets to be launched in 2014.
Can't find an English source yet, but Yonhap News is reporting that the launch is now scheduled on October 26 (with backup dates on October 27-31). The launch window is 3:30 pm - 7:00 pm LT (06:30 - 10:00 UTC).
2012[/b]late (TBD) December 10-22 - Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 - Unha-3 - Sohae (North Korea)
Quote from: Salo on 11/22/2012 08:57 am2012[/b]late (TBD) December 10-22 - Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 - Unha-3 - Sohae (North Korea) Shouldn't that be the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4?
Quote from: Satori on 12/01/2012 04:16 pmQuote from: Salo on 11/22/2012 08:57 am2012[/b]late (TBD) December 10-22 - Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 - Unha-3 - Sohae (North Korea) Shouldn't that be the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4?The problem is that in the N-K announcement, they call it "a copy of KMS-3", not "KMS-4".....
Launched:Date - Satellite(s) - Rocket - Launch Site (Country) - Time (UTC)1998.08.31 - Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1 - Paektusan-1 - Musudan-ri (North Korea) - 03:07 (Failure)2006.07.04 - Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 - Unha-1 - Musudan-ri (North Korea) - 20:01 (Failure)2009.04.05 - Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 - Unha-2 - Tonghae (North Korea) - 02:20 (Failure)2009.08.25 - STSAT-2A - Naro-1 (KSLV-1) - Naro (South Korea/Russia) - 08:00 (Failure)2010.06.10 - STSAT-2B - Naro-1 (KSLV-1) - Naro (South Korea/Russia) - 08:01 (Failure)2012.04.12 - Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 - Unha-3 - Sohae (North Korea) - 22:38:55 (Failure)Scheduled:Date - Satellite(s) - Rocket - Launch Site (Country) - Time (UTC)2012late (TBD) December 10-22 - Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 - Unha-3 - Sohae (North Korea) 2013November 29 December 3 early (TBD) - STSAT-2С - Naro-1 - Naro (South Korea/Russia) - 07:00-09:55TBD - FORMOSAT-6 - TSLV - TBD (Taiwan) (or 2014)TBD - TBD - Tronador II - Puerto Belgrano (Argentina) (or 2014)2014TBD - Pengorbitan-1 (RPS-01) - Lapan (Indonesia)2021TBD - TBD - KSLV-2 - Naro (South Korea)Unclear:TBD - TBD - TBD - Sonmiani (Pakistan)TBD - ELE - Haas - Balloon over Black Sea (Romania)TBD - TBD - ORBIT - Puerto Belgrano (Argentina) Changes on November 22ndChanges on November 27thChanges on November 29thChanges on November 30thChanges on December 1st
New topics:Brazilian launch sheduleNorth Korean launch sheduleSouth Korean launch shedule
TBD - ELE - Haas - Balloon over Black Sea (Romania)
Argentina's CONAE might test Tronador/VEX 1 October 12-17 at 35-31.26S 057-11.3W
Como compañeros de la aventura espacial, Conae e Invap firmaron un contrato para la instalación en Bahía Blanca de la base de lanzamiento Tronador II, con capacidad de transporte de 250 kilos, que es el tamaño de los satélites de observación terrestre, a diferencia de los de telecomunicaciones, que pesan 3000 kilos por la cantidad de combustible que llevan para funcionar 15 años.
As fellow space adventure, CONAE and Invap signed a contract for the installation in Bahia Blanca Tronador II launch base, with a transport capacity of 250 kilos, which is the size of Earth observation satellites, unlike the telecommunications, weighing 3000 kilos by the amount of fuel that lead to run 15.
Ahora vendrá la prueba con el VEx-5. Culminada esa etapa, será el turno del modelo tecnológico y luego el operativo del Tronador II, de cara a septiembre de 2015.
Scheduled:Date - Satellite(s) - Rocket - Launch Site (Country) - Time (UTC)2015TBD - TBD - Pengorbitan-1 (RPS-01) - Lapan (Indonesia)
TBD - TBD - ORBIT - Puerto Belgrano (Argentina)
QuoteTBD - TBD - ORBIT - Puerto Belgrano (Argentina)Orbit no longer exists. In an open door day at Moron AFB last year there were news of a Sirio(a star´s name) small launcher by 2016 end. IMHO probably from Chamical or Mar Chiquita launch pads already owned by AF.Sirio was described as a 4+1+1 3-stage rocket: a cluster of 4 56 cm as 1st stage and the other 2 stages of 56 cm diameter rockets each
Rocket Lab is a US corporation with a New Zealand subsidiary
From the RocketLab webpage:QuoteRocket Lab is a US corporation with a New Zealand subsidiaryIs the allocation to New Zealand correct? Doesn't it American company?
Quote from: JSz on 11/13/2016 04:08 pmFrom the RocketLab webpage:QuoteRocket Lab is a US corporation with a New Zealand subsidiaryIs the allocation to New Zealand correct? Doesn't it American company?Its current launch facilities are only in New Zealand until US Spaceports joint government and civilian agency task forces approve their pad requests and assign them an available missile/space launch complex(es).
So the Rocket Lab should be reported in "US Launch Schedule" as the company is US entity. Launch facility location is not a criterion (like Ariane is an Europe rocket in spite of the fact that Kourou is not located in Europe).
Quote from: JSz on 01/11/2017 10:08 amSo the Rocket Lab should be reported in "US Launch Schedule" as the company is US entity. Launch facility location is not a criterion (like Ariane is an Europe rocket in spite of the fact that Kourou is not located in Europe).if i remember correctly my school times, french guyana is politically part of france and the eu
Quote from: aga on 01/11/2017 05:40 pmQuote from: JSz on 01/11/2017 10:08 amSo the Rocket Lab should be reported in "US Launch Schedule" as the company is US entity. Launch facility location is not a criterion (like Ariane is an Europe rocket in spite of the fact that Kourou is not located in Europe).if i remember correctly my school times, french guyana is politically part of france and the euaga wrote truth. French Guyana is oversea department of France.
Rocket Lab's first Electron vehicle has arrived at its launch site south of Gisborne in what the New Zealand company says is an important milestone for the space industry.The historic test launch will take place in ''the coming months'', dependent on equipment testing and weather on the Mahia Peninsula.Pre-flight checks would now start on the 17m tall rocket - with a call sign chosen by staff: ''It's a Test.''"It's an important milestone for our team and for the space industry, both in New Zealand and globally. In past, it's been countries that go to space, not companies," said Peter Beck, Rocket Lab founder and chief executive.''I'm immensely proud of the team it's a great effort by a group of incredible people."The rocket was taken by truck in two climate-controlled containers to the Mahia Peninsula from Rocket Lab's manufacturing base near Auckland Airport. Launch Complex 1 is at the tip of the peninsula, about 90km south of Gisborne.
United States OfficeRocket Lab HeadquartersSuite 10114520 Delta LaneHuntington Beach, CA 92647New Zealand OfficeRocket Lab New Zealand3a Airpark Drive,Auckland 2022
Launched:Date - Satellite(s) - Rocket - Launch Site (Country) - Time (UTC)2017:April 20 - suborbital test - VEx5a - Pipinas (Argentina) - 21:02 (launch failure)Scheduled:Date - Satellite(s) - Rocket - Launch Site (Country) - Time (UTC)2017TBD - test flight - Black Arrow II - Nothern Scotland (UK)2018TBD - customer flight - Black Arrow II - TBD (Great Britain)2019TBD - suborbital test - VEx5c - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)2020midyear - TBD - ARION 2 - INTA-CEDEA (Spain)TBD - TBD - Tronador II - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)TBD - SARE-1A-1 - Tronador II - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)TBD - SARE-1A-2 - Tronador II - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)TBD - SARE-1A-3 - Tronador II - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)TBD - SARE-1A-4 - Tronador II - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)TBD - TBD - North Star Launch Vehicle (NSLV) - Andoya (Norway)20213rd quarter - smallsat (50 kg) + cubesat (x4) - ARION 2 - INTA-CEDEA (Spain)20232nd quarter - moon launch - ARION 2- INTA-CEDEA (Spain)Unclear:NET 2020 - TBD - Skylon - TBD (Great Britain)2023 - TBD - Águila IV - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)2024 - TBD - SLV - Lapan (Indonesia)TBD - TBD - Tronador III - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)TBD - TBD - Sirio III - Bahía Blanca (Argentina)TBD - TBD - Gokturk - TBD (Turkey)TBD - TBD - TBD - Sonmiani (Pakistan)TBD - ELE - Haas-2C - TBD (Romania)TBD - TBD - CHEETAH-1 CSLV - TBD (South Africa)Changes on April 23rd
U.K.-based Skyrora has unveiled plans to host a suborbital test flight in the fourth quarter of 2018. As part of its strategy to meet the rising demand for small satellite launches in a cost-effective manner, the company aims to set up a facility to launch smallsats from Scotland.
Now, this new financial support will allow PLD Space to start manufacturing two complete reusable ARION 1 rockets that will be ready to fly into space in 2019 from the CEDEA “El Arenosillo” test range in Huelva, belonging to the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA). ...Raúl Torres, CEO and co-founder of the company: – “We are in the process of manufacturing our first two space rockets, and we hope to start their integration and testing by the end of this year. It’s the beginning of a new era in our company, very nice but complex, because for the first time, we’re going face to face with building our first space launcher. In fact, we have already started purchasing materials and equipment to manufacture those 2 vehicles and more than 8 rocket engines that will be qualified for the first space launch in PLD Space’s history. In addition, I am proud to say that everything is being developed in Spain: Design, Manufacturing, Integration, Qualification, and the future Launch, which increases Spain’s competitiveness and brings added value to our national aerospace industry, which is strategically important at international level”-.
Current situation of the companyVeng SA carries out for the CONAE the development of the prototype of Launcher "Tronador II / III" included in the ISCUL Program (Satellite Injector for Light Useful Loads).Said prototype is designed to have the capacity to place a satellite payload of between two hundred and fifty kilograms (250 kg) and one thousand kilograms (1000 Kg) in a polar orbit between six hundred kilometers (600 km) and seven hundred kilometers (700 km) high. ) of weight. To that end, liquid propellant engines are developed with ablative and regenerative combustion chamber and fuels and liquid comburents for these engines.The structure of the launcher prototype, the avionics and the navigation, guidance and control systems of the launcher are also developed. For the purpose of qualifying the developed components, a flight prototype design and test plan is carried out, until arriving at a first prototype with satellite capacity, called "Tronador III Tecnológico", whose first test is scheduled for the end of 2019 .The project Tronador II / III emerges as a continuity and a fusion of both projects, which allows to reuse to the maximum the engineering of the first in line with the achievement of the second, where increasing the burning times in the second stage can be achieved to inject more load useful in orbit with the same engineering. These two launcher models cover all the needs derived from the launches of future satellite missions developed with the concept of "segmented architecture", on the basis of which the satellite missions of the SARE series of CONAE are planned.Source: Ministry of Finance
Peter B. de Selding @pbdes@PLD plans first suborbital flight in late 2019.https://bit.ly/2HP3qQf
Farnborough, UK, July 16, 2018 – Orbex has announced that it has secured £30 million ($39.6 million) in public and private funding for the development of orbital space launch systems. Orbex will launch orbital vehicles from the newly-announced UK Vertical Launch spaceport in Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands as part of the main consortium.Recently emerging from stealth mode, Orbex is a UK-based spaceflight company, with subsidiaries and production facilities in Denmark and Germany. The company has received funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA), two of Europe's largest venture capital funds, Sunstone Technology Ventures and the High-Tech Gründerfonds, as well as private investors, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme.Orbex is constructing a completely re-thought and re-designed orbital launch vehicle, called Prime, to deliver small satellites into Earth’s orbit. The Prime launcher has a novel architecture that eliminates the fundamental mass challenge of small launchers. Prime launchers are up to 30% lighter and 20% more efficient than any other vehicle in the small launcher category, packing more power per cubic litre than many heavy launchers. The Prime vehicle will launch satellites to altitudes up to 1,250km, inserting them into sun-synchronous or polar orbits.
ERISQ4 2020
WASHINGTON — Smallsat launch startup Gilmour Space has raised 19 million Australian dollars ($14 million) from investors.The company’s namesake says he now has sufficient capital to see his Queensland, Australia-based venture through to a first launch of an orbital rocket in 2020, but acknowledges he’s still looking for a domestic launch site. Australia hasn’t hosted an orbital launch since 1971 when the U.K’s Black Arrow rocket lifted off from Woomera on its first and only successful satellite launch.Gilmour Space is building Eris-100, a three-stage rocket for payloads up to 100 kilograms, and a larger variant called the Eris-400 that uses strap-on boosters to carry around 400 kilograms. Both rockets are focused on low Earth orbit. Eris-400 is slated to launch in 2021.
Handicapped by the successive budget cuts applied to the area of Science and Technology, the national space agency reprograms for 2021 the qualification flight of the Tronador Tecnológico vector, initially planned for 2019.
The CONAE projects suffered heavy cuts and the available funds were prioritized for SAOCOM-1A, a mission with enormous delays, partly due to its complexity. SARE, SABIA Mar and Tronador-II were almost without resources and are virtually paralyzed.
Indonesia plans to construct its first spaceport in Biak, Papua, to serve as the location of the country’s rocket test launches, the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN) has confirmed.“We will build [the spaceport] just like LAPAN’s rocket launch site we have in South Garut [West Java]. However, it will be bigger so that it can be used for larger rocket test launches,” LAPAN flight and aerospace study center head Robertus Heru Trijahyanto said.Biak was chosen as the place to build the new spaceport because the regency’s vast area was deemed ideal to support LAPAN’s plan to do a larger rocket test launch in 2024, he said.Citing the Karman line ─ the imaginary line marking where space begins ─ Heru said the space border was 100 kilometers above Earth's surface. LAPAN, however, plans to test launch a rocket that could go up to 300 km above Earth.“To reach that height, the rocket must be bigger [in diameter and height],” Heru said, “That’s why we need a larger launch site,” he added as quoted by kompas.com.The planned new spaceport would help Indonesia master the technology and operation for satellite launches, LAPAN head Thomas Djamaluddin said separately.“LAPAN can already make satellites on its own. The next target is to launch a satellite with our own rockets that we made and a spaceport inside Indonesia,” Thomas said.
There is already a chosen date. It will be in 2024. That year, if the forecasts are met, the Miura 5 rocket will be launched into space. Inside, Spanish technology developed by PLD Space, a pioneering company that will become the first industry in our country to put a satellite in orbit. The first in Europe, in addition, to take this type of device between 1 and 500 kilos into the atmosphere.
Finally, some news on Tronador II/III and VEx development:Argentina resumes the project of the national launcher Tronador II/III [dated Nov. 4]Google translate (bolds mine):QuoteMinister Daniel Filmus announced that in 2022 4,500 million pesos will be allocated to relaunch CONAE's Access to Space program, which includes the manufacture of vehicles to place satellites weighing up to 750 kilos in orbit, in addition to the associated auxiliary infrastructure and the launch bases.Within the framework of the reactivation of strategic projects, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Nation (MINCyT) relaunched the Access to Space program carried out by the National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE), which includes the development of vehicles experimental VExs and Tronador II/III launchers, as well as associated auxiliary infrastructure and launch bases. There is a planned investment of about 4,500 million pesos in 2022.The announcement was made at the facilities of CONAE's Punta Indio Space Center (CEPI), located in the town of Pipinas, province of Buenos Aires, by Minister Daniel Filmus and CONAE's executive and technical director, Raúl Kulichevsky.<snip>The Tronador II/III is a two-stage launcher, approximately 28 meters long and 2.5 meters in diameter, with a thrust of about 120 tons at takeoff. "The development of this project will allow Argentina to complete the domain of space technology necessary to put its own satellites, designed and manufactured in the country, into orbit, and to be able to offer this service to other countries in the region and the world," Kulichevsky said. Currently only 10 countries dominate the entire space cycle.<snip>In the first stage, the reactivation of the Access to Space program will allow progress in the development of the experimental vehicles VEx 5 and VEx 6, to consolidate the necessary technologies required by the Tronador II/III projects, such as avionics, propulsion systems and structures. It is estimated that the first flight of these prototypes could take place at the end of 2023. Then the Tronador II-A is planned to be carried out with the aim of satellite payloads of up to 250 kilos at 600 kilometers high. With the following launchers, the aim is to increase the payload to reach 500 kilos with the Tronador II-B, and 750 kilos with the Tronador III.With regard to launch bases, it is planned to recover the necessary infrastructure for the development, manufacture, integration, testing and subsequent launch of experimental VEx vehicles from the facilities of La Capetina, which are part of CEPI. In the future, it is also planned to develop the Manuel Belgrano Space Center (CEMB), in the south of the province of Buenos Aires, where the Launch Center for the VEx 6 vehicle and the Tronador II/III launchers will be located.
Minister Daniel Filmus announced that in 2022 4,500 million pesos will be allocated to relaunch CONAE's Access to Space program, which includes the manufacture of vehicles to place satellites weighing up to 750 kilos in orbit, in addition to the associated auxiliary infrastructure and the launch bases.Within the framework of the reactivation of strategic projects, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of the Nation (MINCyT) relaunched the Access to Space program carried out by the National Commission for Space Activities (CONAE), which includes the development of vehicles experimental VExs and Tronador II/III launchers, as well as associated auxiliary infrastructure and launch bases. There is a planned investment of about 4,500 million pesos in 2022.The announcement was made at the facilities of CONAE's Punta Indio Space Center (CEPI), located in the town of Pipinas, province of Buenos Aires, by Minister Daniel Filmus and CONAE's executive and technical director, Raúl Kulichevsky.<snip>The Tronador II/III is a two-stage launcher, approximately 28 meters long and 2.5 meters in diameter, with a thrust of about 120 tons at takeoff. "The development of this project will allow Argentina to complete the domain of space technology necessary to put its own satellites, designed and manufactured in the country, into orbit, and to be able to offer this service to other countries in the region and the world," Kulichevsky said. Currently only 10 countries dominate the entire space cycle.<snip>In the first stage, the reactivation of the Access to Space program will allow progress in the development of the experimental vehicles VEx 5 and VEx 6, to consolidate the necessary technologies required by the Tronador II/III projects, such as avionics, propulsion systems and structures. It is estimated that the first flight of these prototypes could take place at the end of 2023. Then the Tronador II-A is planned to be carried out with the aim of satellite payloads of up to 250 kilos at 600 kilometers high. With the following launchers, the aim is to increase the payload to reach 500 kilos with the Tronador II-B, and 750 kilos with the Tronador III.With regard to launch bases, it is planned to recover the necessary infrastructure for the development, manufacture, integration, testing and subsequent launch of experimental VEx vehicles from the facilities of La Capetina, which are part of CEPI. In the future, it is also planned to develop the Manuel Belgrano Space Center (CEMB), in the south of the province of Buenos Aires, where the Launch Center for the VEx 6 vehicle and the Tronador II/III launchers will be located.
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