It’s Go Time! In the next 24 hours we will see the launch of the @strocast Nanosatellite IoT Network. On the SpaceX #Falcon9 rocket, carried and deployed by the #SpaceFlight rideshare service.The next 5 nanosatellites of the Astrocast constellation arrive in low earth orbit and go live.
On board this launch are 133 commercial and government spacecraft (including CubeSats, microsats, and orbital transfer vehicles) and 10 Starlink satellites – the most spacecraft ever deployed on a single mission. The Starlink satellites aboard this mission will be the first in the constellation to deploy to a polar orbit.
00:58:59 36 Planet SuperDoves begin deployment00:59:00 17 spacecraft aboard Kepler’s port begin deployment00:59:09 NASA’s V-R3x mission, 3 CubeSats aboard Maverick’s Mercury dispenser, begin deployment01:08:19 Nanoracks’ Eyries-1 mission's 9 payloads begin deployment01:08:44 EXOport-2, with 28 spacecraft aboard, begins deployment01:13:58 Capella-3 deploys01:14:10 EXOport-1, with two ICEYE satellites aboard, begins deployment01:14:23 Spaceflight Inc. customer iQPS's second SAR satellite, iQPs-2, deploys01:15:38 Capella-4 deploys01:16:10 Spaceflight Inc's Sherpa-FX1 spacecraft deploys with 13 spacecraft on board01:16:28 D-Orbit’s Pulse mission deploys with 20 spacecraft on board01:31:10 Starlink satellites deploy
Quote from: scr00chy on 01/21/2021 09:00 pmThis means there should be over 138 payloads total, which would be a world record (beating PSLV at 104).The November 17, 2018 launch of an Antares 230 orbited 108 satellites. Cygnus NG-10, CHEFsat-2, MYSAT 1, KickSat-2, and 104 Sprite satellites.
This means there should be over 138 payloads total, which would be a world record (beating PSLV at 104).
Quote from: Jrcraft on 01/21/2021 11:38 pmQuote from: scr00chy on 01/21/2021 09:00 pmThis means there should be over 138 payloads total, which would be a world record (beating PSLV at 104).The November 17, 2018 launch of an Antares 230 orbited 108 satellites. Cygnus NG-10, CHEFsat-2, MYSAT 1, KickSat-2, and 104 Sprite satellites. Did those all launch on Cygnus? Sometimes Cygnus deploys payloads added to its forward hatch while at the Station. So did it launch with all 108 or were some of those added after it reached orbit?
And to make it even more confusing, SpaceX says there are 133 customer spacecraft and 10 Starlinks, but the list of deployments adds up to only 141.
So based on my count, not all previously announced payloads made it onto this flight, but I don't know which ones.Based on the SpaceX deployment timeline, I see 1 unspecified payload on NanoRacks and 8 unknown payloads on D-Orbit's PULSE.But there are more than 9 additional payloads that were at one point or another expected to launch on this mission:XR-1GNOMES-2Landmapper-Demo6Landmapper-Demo7HugoCPOD ACPOD BUVSQ-SATLINCS ALINCS BASELSATADELIS-SAMSON 1ADELIS-SAMSON 2ADELIS-SAMSON 3YUSATIDEASSatAdditionally, I count 14 spacecraft and 3 hosted payloads on SHERPA-FX but there are only supposed to be 13 spacecraft. So I'm guessing one of these single sats didn't make it:PTD-1Umbra-2001Prometheus 2.10And to make it even more confusing, SpaceX says there are 133 customer spacecraft and 10 Starlinks, but the list of deployments adds up to only 141.
Additionally, I count 14 spacecraft and 3 hosted payloads on SHERPA-FX but there are only supposed to be 13 spacecraft. So I'm guessing one of these single sats didn't make it:PTD-1Umbra-2001Prometheus 2.10
... (although SHERPA-FX isn't an OTV no matter what Spaceflight insists on saying about it)
Quote from: gongora on 01/22/2021 04:54 pm... (although SHERPA-FX isn't an OTV no matter what Spaceflight insists on saying about it)Do we have a thread on SHERPA-FX?What sort of propulsion does it have and how much delta-v is it capable of?I assume it isn't really doing any orbit raising, but is just intended to separate from the rest of the crowd.