https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3761135,00.htmlQuoteLaunch of AMOS-17 Satellite Pushed Back Until JulyThe launch of communication satellite AMOS-17 has been postponed until July, Israel-based company Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom), which operates the AMOS satellites, announced Sunday.
Launch of AMOS-17 Satellite Pushed Back Until JulyThe launch of communication satellite AMOS-17 has been postponed until July, Israel-based company Space Communication Ltd. (Spacecom), which operates the AMOS satellites, announced Sunday.
Then, a Falcon 9 from pad 40 will launch the AMOS-17 comsat for Israel on late July.
In a Feb. 7 earnings call, Dankberg said the launch of the first ViaSat-3 satellite, expected to cover the Americas, will likely slip a few months to early 2021....Carlsbad, California-based Viasat has three launch contracts for ViaSat-3 — one with Arianespace for an Ariane 5, one with United Launch Alliance for an Atlas 5, and one with SpaceX for a Falcon Heavy — but has not said which will launch first. Viasat is expected to launch the first ViaSat-3 to cover the Americas, followed be the second ViaSat-3 for Europe, the Middle East and Africa six months later. Dankberg said the third ViaSat-3, designated for the Asia Pacific, is expected to launch in the second half of 2022.
The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral will launch the next Dragon resupply mission tothe ISS, CRS-17, from pad 40 on May 3 at the earliest at 3:11am EDT. The launch time gets about22-26 min earlier each day. The first stage will land back at Cape Canaveral about eight minutes afterlaunch.
Virgin Orbit has yet to actually send LauncherOne to space. The company is currently still in the midst of its testing program, which entails both igniting the rocket on test stands and flying Cosmic Girl with the rocket attached. LauncherOne has flown a few times strapped to the 747, but has yet to actually fall from the wing. That’s going to change soon. Eventually, Virgin Orbit will fill LauncherOne with water, to simulate its weight when filled with propellant, and then drop the rocket from Cosmic Girl. It’ll show the Virgin Orbit team whether the rocket falls like they expect.If that goes well, the company will be closer than ever to actually launching LauncherOne for the first time. “That’s going to be really exciting,” says Latimer. “Not as exciting as the actual rocket [launch], but once we get that test done, that’s the point we say, ‘Our flight test program is finished. We’re now good to go.’”
“We really only need eight or nine [satellites] to close the ring, but when we started looking at launch vehicles, we could get up to 10 on the Vega C launch vehicle with one launch,” he said. “It became a question of maximizing a launch vehicle.”Beek said Cloud Constellation hasn’t ruled out using Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne, which was the company’s original plan.
2020...December - Restore-L - NSSL - Vandenberg
Maxar and NASA Successfully Complete Design Review for Restore-L On-Orbit Servicing Spacecraft Bus Innovative spacecraft on track to make history as first-ever to refuel satellite in Low Earth OrbitWestminster, Colo. – April 8, 2019–Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a U.S.-based global technology innovator powering the new space economy, today announced that the spacecraft bus it is building for NASA’s Restore-L project to refuel a satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has completed an important review process called the Critical Design Review (CDR). With the CDR complete, the spacecraft bus is on track to ship to NASA in 2020 for integration with the robotic payload and a forecasted launch in 2022. Maxar is also building both nimble robotic arms for the Restore-L spacecraft, which will capture, manipulate and refuel the Landsat 7 satellite....
https://twitter.com/csa_asc/status/1124316488695975936Quote40 days ‘til lift off! 🇨🇦’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission is scheduled to launch on June 11 from Vandenberg, California. Stay tuned for more information about the mission! http://asc-csa.gc.ca/RCM . 🛰️🛰️🛰️ Photo: CSA/@MDA_maxar #RCM #EO #EarthObservation #CDNSpace
40 days ‘til lift off! 🇨🇦’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission is scheduled to launch on June 11 from Vandenberg, California. Stay tuned for more information about the mission! http://asc-csa.gc.ca/RCM . 🛰️🛰️🛰️ Photo: CSA/@MDA_maxar #RCM #EO #EarthObservation #CDNSpace
SFN Launch Schedule, updated May 1:AEHF-5 launch window on June 27: 1000-1200 UTC
PUBLISHED: 15:07, Tue, Apr 23, 2019...There still isn’t a plan to meet the Congressional mandate, with NASA waiting for a report outlining the best methods of find near-Earth objects, expected sometime this spring, before it makes a decision on NEOCam.Professor Richard Binzel, a planetary scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology said: “I don’t lose sleep over the risk of an undiscovered asteroid impacting the Earth because the chances are small, but they are not zero.“We have the capability, the adult responsibility, to simply know what’s out there. And NEOCam is basically ready to go.”Another space probe called IMAP will launch in 2024 to study solar wind, heading for an orbit that is also ideal for NEOCam.There is room on its rocket for one more payload, and asteroid researchers say this is the best opportunity to launch NEOCam.But NASA scientists will require urgent approval and funding in order to prepare the telescope in time.Another important source of near-Earth asteroid data will be the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).By 2023, the telescope will begin a 10-year survey repeatedly capturing wide-scale images of the night sky.And NASA researchers believe the LSST could collect enough information to find about 75 percent of near-Earth objects as small as 140 meters across.However, to reach the 90 percent target requires space-based infrared observations, which NEOCam is designed to collect.Only infrared observations are able to estimate the size of an asteroid.
Now announced an LSA with Spaceflight Industries. That is 3 major customers announced just this month.https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/tech/rocket-startup-launch-contract-relativity-space/index.html
