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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #160 on: 11/15/2017 01:51 am »
Another FCC app (crossposting from Reddit).

This is for mission 1389 a RTLS from SLC-40 that will launch in H1 2018. Any idea as to what this one is?

It's not RTLS, it clearly mentions the drone ship.  Probably the first GTO flight of the year (Govsat?).

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #161 on: 11/15/2017 02:02 am »
On the subject of FCC permits, we are getting a nice reset at the end of the year when the last permit we don't really know the payload for (we've been assuming it was for Hispasat since it's expendable) expires, assuming it isn't actually used by then.  The only active ASDS permit will be the new one mentioned above, and no expendable flights will have active permits (which doesn't mean there won't be more next year, we just haven't seen the paperwork yet).

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #162 on: 11/20/2017 03:12 am »
I tend not to look at the FAA site nearly as often as I look at the FCC site, but SpaceX should be needing at least 8 new or modified FAA launch licenses through next April/May (including Zuma which apparently won't ever be publicly available on their site, just like Formosat 5.)  Some to watch out for as their flights approach would be FH Demo, GTO flights from SLC-40, PAZ, TESS, GRACE-FO, DM-1, SSO-A.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #163 on: 11/20/2017 04:55 am »
Has the ZUMA mission been rescheduled? If so; anyone know when?
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #164 on: 11/20/2017 05:16 pm »
Has the ZUMA mission been rescheduled? If so; anyone know when?

No new launch date for Zuma has been determined as of today.
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #165 on: 11/20/2017 06:41 pm »
And it seems, according to Irene Klotz, won’t be until December:

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#SpaceX Zuma off range at least until it reopens after annual maintenance Dec 1
http://aviationweek.com/awinspace/spacex-classified-zuma-launch-delayed-until-least-december

https://twitter.com/free_space/status/932689217599213568
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #166 on: 11/21/2017 07:47 am »
I tend not to look at the FAA site nearly as often as I look at the FCC site, but SpaceX should be needing at least 8 new or modified FAA launch licenses through next April/May (including Zuma which apparently won't ever be publicly available on their site, just like Formosat 5.)  Some to watch out for as their flights approach would be FH Demo, GTO flights from SLC-40, PAZ, TESS, GRACE-FO, DM-1, SSO-A.

I believe TESS was contracted through NASA Launch Services and as such won't require a FAA launch license.  Non-commerical.
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #167 on: 11/21/2017 03:47 pm »
Interview with Gwynne Shotwell:

http://spacenews.com/spacex-aims-to-follow-a-banner-year-with-an-even-faster-2018-launch-cadence/

Includes this on launches next year:

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“We will increase our cadence next year about 50 percent,” Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX president and COO, told SpaceNews in an interview last week. “We’ll fly more next year than this year, knock on wood, and I think we will probably level out at about that rate, 30 to 40 per year.”

Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #168 on: 11/21/2017 04:17 pm »
So a mature rate of 30 to 40 missions per year for F9 and FH without accounting for the constellation she says. Wow.
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #169 on: 11/21/2017 04:28 pm »
It's really unlikely they fly more than about 30 next year, unless there are more mystery payloads.  30 should catch them up on their manifest.
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #170 on: 11/21/2017 05:42 pm »
It's really unlikely they fly more than about 30 next year, unless there are more mystery payloads.  30 should catch them up on their manifest.

Doesn't seem like she's even expecting 30 next year. (unless you think they end up with more than 20 this year).

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“We will increase our cadence next year about 50 percent,” Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX president and COO, told SpaceNews in an interview last week. “We’ll fly more next year than this year, knock on wood, and I think we will probably level out at about that rate, 30 to 40 per year.”

But really I think 'cadence' and actual numbers are not the same thing. You can have a general flow that supports x number per year, but actual numbers will generally be less due to breaks in the rhythm. (as was the case this year).

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #171 on: 11/23/2017 12:11 am »
Did CRS-14 slip a month?

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The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM), is on its way to the US to be prepared for launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS).

The launch is scheduled for Tuesday, 13 March 2018, and ASIM is planned for launch on the SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #172 on: 11/24/2017 08:23 pm »
Bangabandhu launch now planned for March 2018
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #173 on: 11/27/2017 08:57 pm »
https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/935256052240650242
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SpaceX returns to SLC-40 for the next mission - Falcon 9 launch with CRS-13 Dragon. Static Fire is currently waiting on a firm date (Wednesday no longer the target). Launch date now has a NASA planning date of December 8, but don't go booking flights until this all firms up.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #174 on: 11/28/2017 06:52 pm »
FWIW, SpaceX was granted FCC licenses for a launch (Mission 1389) from LC-40 and ASDS recovery NET 1/15/17, almost certainly Govsat.
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #175 on: 11/29/2017 05:26 pm »
Update re SpaceIL (putting it here since I don't see a thread dedicated to this and it's potentially on the SpaceX manifest somewhere)

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... Only two weeks before its completion, $20 million are needed by the end of the year to prevent the project’s termination. This would result in the cancellation of the launch planned for 2018 ...

More details here: http://www.spaceil.com/news/spaceil-alerts-the-national-dream-in-danger-of-closing/


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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #176 on: 12/06/2017 09:56 pm »
Zuma just officially moved to SLC-40.
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #177 on: 12/07/2017 11:57 am »
I've just noticed that CRS-14 is listed on the manifest as reusing a booster.

Is that an assumption or have I missed an announcement? I thought the CRS-13 statement on reuse said NASA would look at it on a case-by-case basis for each launch and thus, although perhaps likely, it's not yet official whether CRS-14 would reuse?

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #178 on: 12/07/2017 12:49 pm »
I've just noticed that CRS-14 is listed on the manifest as reusing a booster.

Is that an assumption or have I missed an announcement? I thought the CRS-13 statement on reuse said NASA would look at it on a case-by-case basis for each launch and thus, although perhaps likely, it's not yet official whether CRS-14 would reuse?
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #179 on: 12/07/2017 11:05 pm »
I've just noticed that CRS-14 is listed on the manifest as reusing a booster.

Is that an assumption or have I missed an announcement? I thought the CRS-13 statement on reuse said NASA would look at it on a case-by-case basis for each launch and thus, although perhaps likely, it's not yet official whether CRS-14 would reuse?
If you read the details on what NASA did for CRS-13 reuse permission, they're just reviewing SpaceX work. So as long as SpaceX is just as careful, there's no reasonable expectation NASA will say no. Its NASA folks justifying their jobs and covering their rears.
The key is CRS-13/Govsat-1 and Iridium launches going without a hitch. That will add up to 6 (hoperfully successful) relaunches.

Don’t forget FH Demo adding another 2 flight-proven stages being reflown. ;)

I believe there are 1 or 2 other flight-proven cores without a mission, so at this point we are almost running out of flight-proven stages.

This will change with Block 5 being able to refly 10 times without serious refurb.

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