According to their post t-minus are only launching two t-minus darts in the time window of the notice. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7158457069522636800/QuoteToday the first group of the T-Minus launch team left for a road trip: up to the High North, to Esrange Space Center.They bring the T-Minus mobile launcher, from which we will conduct two launches of the T-Minus DART to space next week. This is done in the PRIME campaign. The rockets will carry scientific payloads made by the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), to study the upper atmosphere.The rockets will be launched from the newly established Launch Complex 3 at Esrange, from which future orbital missions will be launched. T-Minus will have the honour to use the brand new Launch Vehicle Integration Building for preparations as well as Pad 3A for placing the mobile launcher.#TME #Rocket #DART #KTH #EsrangeQuote from: Fmedici on 02/04/2024 02:42 pmSwedish Space Corporation has an incoming launch window stretching from 5 to 11 February. The safety notice mentions five expected rocket launches. Two of them should be TEXUS 59 and TEXUS 60 (initially scheduled for January per their Rocket and Balloon Activities page), the other three T-MINUS Dart launches.
Today the first group of the T-Minus launch team left for a road trip: up to the High North, to Esrange Space Center.They bring the T-Minus mobile launcher, from which we will conduct two launches of the T-Minus DART to space next week. This is done in the PRIME campaign. The rockets will carry scientific payloads made by the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), to study the upper atmosphere.The rockets will be launched from the newly established Launch Complex 3 at Esrange, from which future orbital missions will be launched. T-Minus will have the honour to use the brand new Launch Vehicle Integration Building for preparations as well as Pad 3A for placing the mobile launcher.#TME #Rocket #DART #KTH #Esrange
Swedish Space Corporation has an incoming launch window stretching from 5 to 11 February. The safety notice mentions five expected rocket launches. Two of them should be TEXUS 59 and TEXUS 60 (initially scheduled for January per their Rocket and Balloon Activities page), the other three T-MINUS Dart launches.
This Wednesday a T-Minus DART was launched successfully from Launch Complex 3 at Esrange Space Center.
Trident missile test fails for second time in a row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395This is the first UK test since a previous failure of the UK Trident.
For anyone interested in historical stuff, I've found this old PD Brazilian government newsreel on a 1973 Black Brant VC launch from the Barreira do Inferno Launch Center, in a mission operated by a Brazilian, American and German team.Video on Commons. (as of Feb. 24, 2024, there's some glitch on the Commons player, so you need to choose the “source quality” to hear the audio.)
In the coming days, the #USAF will conduct a new ARRW/AGM-183A hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) test in the Pacific. It seems it aims at simulating an operational mission of a B-52H bomber taking off from Guam, flying ~4000 km before releasing a live weapon...
