Quote from: gongora on 10/11/2016 12:15 amSpaceX can't just switch a used core to a random customer. They should have plenty of new cores being constructed.Why not? The cores are identical, not custom made to a particular mission. (obviously you have to deal with satisfying two customers who both want to fly first, but that is a business issue, nothing to do with the core)
SpaceX can't just switch a used core to a random customer. They should have plenty of new cores being constructed.
Will Core #23 still be used for SES-10, or will it be switched to EchoStar 23 just because SpaceX wants to start reusage?
(Cross-posted with the discussion thread.)Quoted from https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/57balr/details_from_elons_speech_at_the_nro/QuoteDetails from Elon's speech at the NRO (self.spacex)submitted 23 minutes ago * by Ravenous117...Addressing return to flight:“The plan is to get back to launch in early December and that will be from pad 39A at the Cape and we will be launching around the same time from Vandenberg as well. Pad 40 will probably be back in action around March or April next year. Probably around May or so is when we will launch Falcon Heavy. We are going to re-fly the first returned core December or January. We have test fired one of the returned cores 8 times and it looks good. That is promising for testing re-flight.”...These are my personal accounts of what I heard from Elon live and the rough transcript is from a recording of the event. I do not know much other than what I heard but I wanted to share with you guys. Enjoy.
Details from Elon's speech at the NRO (self.spacex)submitted 23 minutes ago * by Ravenous117...Addressing return to flight:“The plan is to get back to launch in early December and that will be from pad 39A at the Cape and we will be launching around the same time from Vandenberg as well. Pad 40 will probably be back in action around March or April next year. Probably around May or so is when we will launch Falcon Heavy. We are going to re-fly the first returned core December or January. We have test fired one of the returned cores 8 times and it looks good. That is promising for testing re-flight.”...These are my personal accounts of what I heard from Elon live and the rough transcript is from a recording of the event. I do not know much other than what I heard but I wanted to share with you guys. Enjoy.
quoted from https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/57balr/details_from_elons_speech_at_the_nro/QuoteDetails from Elon's speech at the NRO (self.spacex)submitted 23 minutes ago * by Ravenous117Addressing return to flight:“The plan is to get back to launch in early December and that will be from pad 39A at the Cape and we will be launching around the same time from Vandenberg as well. Pad 40 will probably be back in action around March or April next year. Probably around May or so is when we will launch Falcon Heavy. We are going to re-fly the first returned core December or January. We have test fired one of the returned cores 8 times and it looks good. That is promising for testing re-flight.”These are my personal accounts of what I heard from Elon live and the rough transcript is from a recording of the event. I do not know much other than what I heard but I wanted to share with you guys. Enjoy.
Details from Elon's speech at the NRO (self.spacex)submitted 23 minutes ago * by Ravenous117Addressing return to flight:“The plan is to get back to launch in early December and that will be from pad 39A at the Cape and we will be launching around the same time from Vandenberg as well. Pad 40 will probably be back in action around March or April next year. Probably around May or so is when we will launch Falcon Heavy. We are going to re-fly the first returned core December or January. We have test fired one of the returned cores 8 times and it looks good. That is promising for testing re-flight.”These are my personal accounts of what I heard from Elon live and the rough transcript is from a recording of the event. I do not know much other than what I heard but I wanted to share with you guys. Enjoy.
Bangabandhu Satellite
Home Science & Tech50pc work of Bangabandhu Satellite completed: TaranaBSS . Dhaka | Update: 19:21, Oct 21, 20160 Like BangabandhuState minister for post and telecommunications Tarana Halim on Friday revealed that 50 per cent works of Bangladesh’s first satellite ‘Bangabandhu-I’ has been completed. “So far 83 per cent engineering works of the Bangabandhu-I has been done while progress of antenna manufacture is 56 per cent and works of communication and service modules reported 65 per cent development,” said the minister. Tarana Halim said this while briefing newsmen about the satellite and optical fiber network of BTCL at BTCL Gulshan-1 Exchange Office in the morning. Referring to the completion of satellite system requirement review (SRR) preliminary design review (PDR), she said, “We would start the commercial operation of the satellite in March 2018 after launching it to the space on 16 December next year.”If the current pace of work is continued, manufacture of the satellite would be completed in November 2017, said the state minister, adding, “The satellite would be launched using vehicle -SpaceX and Falcon 9 -of United States from the Cape Carnival Launch Pad.”
Is this a new payload?QuoteBangabandhu SatelliteQuote Home Science & Tech50pc work of Bangabandhu Satellite completed: TaranaBSS . Dhaka | Update: 19:21, Oct 21, 20160 Like BangabandhuState minister for post and telecommunications Tarana Halim on Friday revealed that 50 per cent works of Bangladesh’s first satellite ‘Bangabandhu-I’ has been completed. “So far 83 per cent engineering works of the Bangabandhu-I has been done while progress of antenna manufacture is 56 per cent and works of communication and service modules reported 65 per cent development,” said the minister. Tarana Halim said this while briefing newsmen about the satellite and optical fiber network of BTCL at BTCL Gulshan-1 Exchange Office in the morning. Referring to the completion of satellite system requirement review (SRR) preliminary design review (PDR), she said, “We would start the commercial operation of the satellite in March 2018 after launching it to the space on 16 December next year.”If the current pace of work is continued, manufacture of the satellite would be completed in November 2017, said the state minister, adding, “The satellite would be launched using vehicle -SpaceX and Falcon 9 -of United States from the Cape Carnival Launch Pad.”http://en.prothom-alo.com/science-technology/news/125991/50pc-work-of-Bangabandhu-Satellite-completed
Is this a new payload? [Bangabandhu Satellite]
This comsat was ordered in November last year and is being built by Thales Alenia Space, but no LSP has been mentioned till now: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/space/press-release/thales-alenia-space-build-bangabandhu-telecommunication-satellite
This STA is necessary to authorize launch vehicle communications for F9-31, a commercial GTO launch from Complex 39a, Kennedy Space Center...Operation Start Date: 12/01/2016
http://www.ses.com/20641374/ses-14?platform=hootsuite
Quote from: jacqmans on 10/26/2016 12:30 pmhttp://www.ses.com/20641374/ses-14?platform=hootsuiteThat's odd.The link shows this, with "Launch date H2-2017":It is not clear which is the current information.
Intelsat Announces Third Quarter 2016 ResultsQuoteThe company has three satellite launches scheduled for 2017: Intelsat 32e, an Intelsat EpicNG Ku-band payload in the first quarter of 2017; Intelsat 35e in the second quarter of 2017, providing that there are no changes to SpaceX’s launch manifest as a result of its recent anomaly; and Intelsat 37e in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The company has three satellite launches scheduled for 2017: Intelsat 32e, an Intelsat EpicNG Ku-band payload in the first quarter of 2017; Intelsat 35e in the second quarter of 2017, providing that there are no changes to SpaceX’s launch manifest as a result of its recent anomaly; and Intelsat 37e in the fourth quarter of 2017.
With SpaceX launch delays, SES now has six satellites to launch in 2017, beginning with SES-10 aboard reused Falcon 9 booster in Q1.
Inmarsat has three launch contracts with SpaceX. Up to now, it had planned to launch its Inmarsat 5-F4 Ka-band broadband mobile communications satellite on a Falcon 9 in late 2016; an S-band aeronautical-connectivity satellite on a new Falcon Heavy rocket in early 2017; and the first of the Inmarsat-6 satellites after that.
Inmarsat has decided to stick with SpaceX for the 5-F4 satellite, but to seek alternatives for the mid-2017 S-band satellite launch.“It’s largely a function of where you are in the manifest,” Pearce said of Inmarsat’s launch reasoning. “With Inmarsat 5 F4, we’re well up in the queue — I think we are number five or six....With the S-band EAN satellite, he said, the reasoning is different.“We are further [back in] the queue and therefore there’s a risk of further delays because SpaceX not only has to get back to flight but to demonstrate that it can maintain a very good launch schedule. So you could presumably have a day-to-day delay....Pearce said it remain possible that SpaceX will be able to confirm a May or June launch, but that would be difficult to achieve in the deadline Inmarsat has to find an alternative rocket....“It’s probably more likely we would look to exercise one of the options we have been quietly cultivating behind the scenes,” Pearce said. “We’ve talked about one of them, which is the [International Launch Services] Proton launch that we have up our sleeve anyway. But we do have other options as well...”