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SpaceX F9 : Cygnus NG-22 : Florida : June 2025
« on: 09/22/2024 09:49 pm »
Thread for the launch of Northrop Grumman's Cygnus NG-22 mission on Falcon 9.

Launch is targeted for 2025 from Florida.  The first stage will land at LZ-1.

This is the third of 3 ordered F9 launches as a result of the Antares 230 retirement and gap before Antares 330 comes online.
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Re: SpaceX F9 : Cygnus NG-22 : Florida : 2025
« Reply #1 on: 09/22/2024 09:50 pm »
0910-EX-CN-2024  RHOK-SAT (1U, Rhodes College)
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The overall goals of the RHOK-SAT mission are educational and scientific. The educational (primary) objective is to give students hands-on learning on the mechanical, software, and RF engineering involved with satellite development. Our students engaged public high schools, museums, and STEM related programs to teach students about the solar system and satellite orbits as part of an outreach curriculum. Its scientific (secondary) objective is to collect data on perovskite solar cells and assess their hardiness in orbit over time.

The satellite will be launched to the ISS as cargo on the NG-22 resupply mission

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Re: SpaceX F9 : Cygnus NG-22 : Florida : 2025
« Reply #2 on: 09/29/2024 05:53 am »
RHOK-SAT was previously listed in ELaNa 58 along with BLAST, EagleSat 2 and QubeSat 2. The latter satellites might also be on this flight.

NSF gives a launch date of February 2025.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/08/cygnus-ng-21/

"...the NG-22 mission is also slated to launch on Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral with a tentative February 2025 date."
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Re: SpaceX F9 : Cygnus NG-22 : Florida : 2025
« Reply #3 on: 09/30/2024 03:44 pm »
0292-EX-CM-2024
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The DUPLEX mission, a 6U cubesat, is currently licensed under file 0048-EX-CN-2023. A modified license is requested to reflect the following changes to the mission:
1. It will still deploy from the ISS, but it will be carried to the ISS on a later vehicle, NG-22 instead of SpX-28, No Earlier Than February 1, 2025.

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Re: SpaceX F9 : Cygnus NG-22 : Florida : 2025
« Reply #4 on: 11/22/2024 12:35 am »
SilverSat payload on board (1144-EX-CN-2024). [Nov 21]

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The satellite will be launched as a secondary payload aboard CRS NG-22 ISS cargo re-supply mission, from Cape Canaveral, Florida on June 7, 2025.

The spacecraft is a single unit with the dimensions of a 1U 10 cm X 10 cm X 11.35 cm CubeSat module. The total mass is about 883 g

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Our mission concept employs a 1U CubeSat that takes photos of Earth, and when in contact with a ground station, directly logs into Twitter to post photos and mission data as Tweets.

Altitude (km): 350-425

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Re: SpaceX F9 : Cygnus NG-22 : Florida : 2025
« Reply #5 on: 01/07/2025 11:09 pm »
0292-EX-CM-2024
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The DUPLEX mission, a 6U cubesat, is currently licensed under file 0048-EX-CN-2023. A modified license is requested to reflect the following changes to the mission:
1. It will still deploy from the ISS, but it will be carried to the ISS on a later vehicle, NG-22 instead of SpX-28, No Earlier Than February 1, 2025.

NG-22 launch has slipped.

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Iridium Satellite LLC (“Iridium”) hereby requests a two-year renewal of its experimental license to transmit from its space stations to the CU Aerospace Dual Propulsion Experiment (“DUPLEX”) smallsat in the 1618.725–1626.5 MHz band.

The DUPLEX is a 6U cubesat mission run by CU Aerospace to test and establish flight heritage for two polymer fiber propulsion systems in low earth orbit. The mission as described in Iridium’s initial application was unavoidably delayed and renewal of authority is necessary to complete the mission. This companion application is to allow the DUPLEX to communicate via the Iridium constellation to allow for TT&C and downlink of critical payload data.

As set forth in the CU Aerospace application and subsequent modification, the DUPLEX carries two Near Space Launch (“NSL”) EyeStar S4 transceivers that will be used to transmit to space stations in Iridium’s “Big LEO” constellation in order to relay payload data. The experiment will be launched no earlier than June 15, 2025. Once the DUPLEX is deployed, DUPLEX will be inserted into low earth orbit as described in CU’s application for experimental authority.

There will be no change during the experiment in the operating parameters of Iridium’s space stations, which are licensed as Part 25 space stations under Call Sign S2110. For this reason, no operating parameters, other than effective radiated power and emission designator, were identified in Iridium’s original request for an experimental license. The only change for which Iridium seeks experimental authority is adding the DUPLEX as a point of communication. Iridium’s Part 25 space station license does not cover space-to-space communications.

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Re: SpaceX F9 : Cygnus NG-22 : Florida : June 2025
« Reply #6 on: 01/16/2025 06:28 pm »
0091-EX-ST-2025 [Jan 16]

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The reason for this STA request is that although the mission will last only a few days after deployment from the ISS, which will occur no earlier than TBD, we need the STA relatively soon. This satellite is going to the ISS on a Cargo Resupply Mission, NG-22. NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) spectrum office requires the spacecraft FCC license to initiate the processing of a Request for Frequency Authorization (RFA), which they require to start by 2/13/2025.

The overall goal of the Alpha mission is to serve as a technical demonstration of a light sail in orbit, verifying the mechanical properties of the polycarbonate material. Also, the sail architecture will demonstrate key functions of next-generation ChipSats. Alpha comprises a 1U CubeSat capable of deploying a free-flying 1m x 1m light sail in response to ground commands. The sail has a sensor-equipped ChipSat attached to each of the 4 corners. These will transmit GPS data to the Cornell University ground station, enabling tracking of the sail to about 10 m accuracy.

Operation Start Date: 06/20/2025
Operation End Date: 07/20/2025

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Re: SpaceX F9 : Cygnus NG-22 : Florida : June 2025
« Reply #7 on: 01/20/2025 05:34 am »
Alpha was also manifested on ELaNa 52, which flew on NG 21.

https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/alpha
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