SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, August 9 for a Falcon 9 launch of 52 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instantaneous launch is at 10:14 p.m. ET, or 2:14 UTC on August 10, and a backup opportunity is available on Wednesday, August 10 at 6:36 p.m. ET, or 22:36 UTC.The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched one Starlink mission and SES-22. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth and land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX has rideshare customers booked on missions to sun-synchronous orbit as late as 2025, he said. The company is also booking rides on Starlink missions as well as “traditional” rideshare opportunities where a launch of a primary payload has excess capacity. There are also rideshare opportunities for missions to geostationary transfer orbit and to the moon.
William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsF9/Starlink 4-26: Now 1 hour to launch at 10:14:40pm EDT (0214 UTC); no update yet on weather/upper-level winds; fingers crossed
Launch time 21:40 UTC per CelesTrak.Quote from: T.S. KelsoCelesTrak has pre-launch SupGP data for the #Starlink Group 3-3 launch scheduled for 2022-08-12 at 21:40:20 UTC from Vandenberg SFB. Deployment of 46 satellites is planned to occur at 22:43:26.420 UTC: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/. [Aug 10 UTC]
CelesTrak has pre-launch SupGP data for the #Starlink Group 3-3 launch scheduled for 2022-08-12 at 21:40:20 UTC from Vandenberg SFB. Deployment of 46 satellites is planned to occur at 22:43:26.420 UTC: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/. [Aug 10 UTC]
At the end of the SFN webcast of the Starlink 4-26 launch, Stephen Clark mentioned the upcoming Falcon 9 Starlink launches. He said SpaceX may launch a second Starlink mission from Vandenberg before the end of August, after the launch of Starlink 3-3 on the 12th. He did not have a date for Starlink 3-4, and therfore he did not include it on the table seen in the webcast screencap.
The end if the SFN webcast of the August 10 UTC launch of Starlink 4-26 gave mention of the other upcoming August Starlink launches. Starlink 4-20 was not mentioned and not on the list. Therefore, it must be NET the beginning of September.
A Starlink 4-2 launch from LC-39A on NET September 7 would be 14 days after Starlink 4-23 and after the Artemis I launch window.
1368-EX-ST-2022This STA is necessary to authorize launch vehicle communications for Mission 1828 Starlink Group 4-34 from Cape Canaveral FL at LC-40 CCAFS or LC-39a at KSC, and the experimental recovery operation following the Falcon 9 launch.ASDS North 32 46 21 West 75 38 24NET September 8
This was Relativity’s idea, a way to connect with the company’s founding obsession of building the first factory on Mars with 3D printing technology. The company is getting close to flying its first rocket, the Terran 1, next year, but this mission mission to Mars would mark the first flight of the company’s next-generation rocket, the Terran R, in 2024.
OneWeb signed a launch contract with Relativity Space to launch satellites in its Gen 2 network on the new Terran R rocket. The deal, announced Thursday, marks a win for Relativity Space before the first flight of its Terran 1 vehicle. Relativity Space said launches will start in 2025. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the companies described it as “multi-year, multi-launch” agreement. OneWeb confirmed to Via Satellite that the agreement covers “a portion” of the Gen 2 constellation.
Capable of carrying up to 1.25 tons (~2750 lb) to low Earth orbit for as little as $12 million, Terran 1 also has a shot at becoming the first new privately-developed 1-ton-class rocket of any kind to successfully reach orbit. On that front, though, Relativity is in a neck-and-neck race with Firefly Aerospace and ABL Space, both of which intend to launch similarly-sized rockets at some point in the next few months. It’s never been less clear who will cross the finish line first but one would be hard-pressed to count Relativity out.
cross-post:Quote from: ethan829 on 08/09/2022 02:36 pmAn update on Alpha flight 2 from CNBC:QuoteSchumacher said Firefly completed a fueling milestone for the second Alpha launch on Monday, known as a wet dress rehearsal – with a hot fire engine test scheduled for later this week.“We are planning on our first launch window for that second flight, [which opens] on September 11,” Schumacher said.
An update on Alpha flight 2 from CNBC:QuoteSchumacher said Firefly completed a fueling milestone for the second Alpha launch on Monday, known as a wet dress rehearsal – with a hot fire engine test scheduled for later this week.“We are planning on our first launch window for that second flight, [which opens] on September 11,” Schumacher said.
Schumacher said Firefly completed a fueling milestone for the second Alpha launch on Monday, known as a wet dress rehearsal – with a hot fire engine test scheduled for later this week.“We are planning on our first launch window for that second flight, [which opens] on September 11,” Schumacher said.
Intelsat made an FCC filing for ground station support, expected launch date October 8.
I didn't see FUTABA and HSU-SAT-1 being previously mentioned in this thread:https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1557605479404249089https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1557606081773305856
https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1556666213538926594Quote There was a minor (but correctable) issue in testing the first BE-4 flight engine for Vulcan. May set the timeline back a week or so. ULA is still likely to take delivery of both engines during the next four to six weeks, allowing Vulcan to debut during the first half of 2023.
There was a minor (but correctable) issue in testing the first BE-4 flight engine for Vulcan. May set the timeline back a week or so. ULA is still likely to take delivery of both engines during the next four to six weeks, allowing Vulcan to debut during the first half of 2023.
At an Aug. 8 briefing, project officials from SDL and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed off the first completed cubesat for the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, or SunRISE, mission that NASA selected for development in 2020 as a mission of opportunity for its heliophysics Explorer program at a cost of $62.6 million....Lux said the project is still working on launch arrangements for the satellites, with a current plan to launch them in mid-2024. “That could always change because we didn’t buy our own ride,” he said, instead relying on a rideshare launch opportunity.The spacecraft will operate about 300 kilometers above geostationary orbit in a region known as the “graveyard,” where GEO satellites are retired.
Jeff Foust @jeff_foustA couple other notes from the launch session at #smallsat:- Moog says its SL-OMV tug is on track for launch in 1st quarter of 2023 on ABL’s RS1 from SaxaVord on the UK Pathfinder launch.
SN NASA cubesat bumped from rideshare launch because of orbital debris mitigation concerns, August 10
The GTOSat mission, developed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, was manifested to fly as a secondary payload on the Atlas 5 launch of the SBIRS GEO-6 missile-warning satellite.<snip>However, GTOSat and a second, unidentified rideshare payload were not included on the launch. Space Force officials said in a prelaunch briefing that the satellites were not compliant with orbital debris mitigation guidelines but did not elaborate.<snip>
Per this NGA notice, the Primary Day is August 19.Quote from: NGA112127Z AUG 22NAVAREA IV 794/22(11, 26).WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.FLORIDA.1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING 191914Z TO 192021Z AUG, ALTERNATE 201852Z TO 201959Z, 211831Z TO 211938Z 221809Z TO 221916Z, 231747Z TO 231854Z 241726Z TO 241833Z, 251704Z TO 251811Z 261643Z TO 261750Z AUG IN AREAS BOUND BY:<snip>Ben Cooper confirms a change from August 16 at http://www.launchphotography.com/Launch_Viewing_Guide.html which now says:Quote from: Ben CooperThe next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on mid-late August at TBA EDT. [Aug 11]
112127Z AUG 22NAVAREA IV 794/22(11, 26).WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.FLORIDA.1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING 191914Z TO 192021Z AUG, ALTERNATE 201852Z TO 201959Z, 211831Z TO 211938Z 221809Z TO 221916Z, 231747Z TO 231854Z 241726Z TO 241833Z, 251704Z TO 251811Z 261643Z TO 261750Z AUG IN AREAS BOUND BY:<snip>
The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on mid-late August at TBA EDT. [Aug 11]
Quote from: Ken the Bin on 08/10/2022 04:21 amThe PDF file is the original.Updated notice from the USCG Local Notice to Mariners. The launch window has been moved four hours earlier. (This was also in the PSCA file that I posted above but I missed it there.)
The PDF file is the original.
Alaska Aerospace will open the launch window from 29 August - 31 August & 06 September - 10 September 2022. Launch attempts will take place within a three and a half hour window beginning at 10:00 AM local [AKDT]. [18:00 to 21:30 UTC]
The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on mid-late August at TBA EDT. A Falcon 9 will launch a Starlink batch on late August. Upcoming launches include more Starlink batches. Then, a Falcon 9 from pad 39A will launch four astronauts on NASA's Crew-5 mission on early October TBA, in the early afternoon EDT. [August 11 update]
