Author Topic: Antares - Cygnus NG-10 - November 17, 2018  (Read 89586 times)

Online FutureSpaceTourist

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 48146
  • UK
    • Plan 28
  • Liked: 81623
  • Likes Given: 36932
Antares - Cygnus NG-10 - November 17, 2018
« on: 02/27/2018 07:13 pm »
Launch thread for NG-10
« Last Edit: 11/17/2018 03:11 pm by input~2 »

Online gongora

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10205
  • US
  • Liked: 13885
  • Likes Given: 5933
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #1 on: 04/14/2018 06:05 pm »
ODAR for ELaNa-21

Offline Steven Pietrobon

  • Member
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 39215
  • Adelaide, Australia
    • Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive
  • Liked: 32735
  • Likes Given: 8178
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #2 on: 04/15/2018 03:54 am »
Thanks gongora! OA-10 is carrying ELaNa 21 with cubesats

Aeternitas
Ceres
Libertas
TJREVERB
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

Offline Olaf

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3124
  • Germany
  • Liked: 1481
  • Likes Given: 455
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #3 on: 04/15/2018 07:54 am »
Thanks gongora! OA-10 is carrying ELaNa 21 with cubesats

Aeternitas
Ceres
Libertas
TJREVERB
This NASA site https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches has these satellites
Quote
CIRiS – Utah State University, Logan
TechEdSat-8 – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett, California
CAPSat – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SASSI2 – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CySat-1 – Iowa State University, Ames
SPACE HAUC – University of Massachusetts, Lowell
SOCRATES – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
TJREVERB – Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, Virginia
Virginia CubeSat Constellation – Old Dominion Research Foundation, Norfolk
But the last update was Dec.,5 2017.

Offline Steven Pietrobon

  • Member
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 39215
  • Adelaide, Australia
    • Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive
  • Liked: 32735
  • Likes Given: 8178
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #4 on: 04/15/2018 08:02 am »
But the last update was Dec.,5 2017.

Yes, but the ODAR is from 1 March 2018, so should be more accurate.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

Offline Olaf

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3124
  • Germany
  • Liked: 1481
  • Likes Given: 455
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #5 on: 04/15/2018 08:55 am »
But the last update was Dec.,5 2017.

Yes, but the ODAR is from 1 March 2018, so should be more accurate.
Maybe someone at NASA can update this site?

Online gongora

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10205
  • US
  • Liked: 13885
  • Likes Given: 5933
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #6 on: 04/15/2018 02:15 pm »
Thanks gongora! OA-10 is carrying ELaNa 21 with cubesats

Aeternitas
Ceres
Libertas
TJREVERB
This NASA site https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches has these satellites
Quote
CIRiS – Utah State University, Logan
TechEdSat-8 – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett, California
CAPSat – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SASSI2 – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CySat-1 – Iowa State University, Ames
SPACE HAUC – University of Massachusetts, Lowell
SOCRATES – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
TJREVERB – Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, Virginia
Virginia CubeSat Constellation – Old Dominion Research Foundation, Norfolk
But the last update was Dec.,5 2017.

I think Aeternitas, Ceres, and Libertas are the "Virginia Cubesat Constellation".  Some others could be added later.  There have been several revisions on the earlier ELaNa ODARs.  I saw CAPSat has their paperwork started but it didn't specify the launch yet.

Offline Steven Pietrobon

  • Member
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 39215
  • Adelaide, Australia
    • Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive
  • Liked: 32735
  • Likes Given: 8178
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #7 on: 04/16/2018 07:28 am »
I think Aeternitas, Ceres, and Libertas are the "Virginia Cubesat Constellation".  Some others could be added later.  There have been several revisions on the earlier ELaNa ODARs.  I saw CAPSat has their paperwork started but it didn't specify the launch yet.

The Virginia Cubesat Constellation has three cubesats from ODU, Virginia Tech, and UVa.

http://hrscene.com/community/nasa-selects-virginia-students-to-develop-and-fly-satellites/

Gunter's Space Page also confirms this

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/vcc.htm
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

Offline Steven Pietrobon

  • Member
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 39215
  • Adelaide, Australia
    • Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive
  • Liked: 32735
  • Likes Given: 8178
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #8 on: 04/16/2018 07:35 am »
This NASA site https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches has these satellites
Quote
CIRiS – Utah State University, Logan
TechEdSat-8 – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett, California
CAPSat – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
SASSI2 – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CySat-1 – Iowa State University, Ames
SPACE HAUC – University of Massachusetts, Lowell
SOCRATES – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
TJREVERB – Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, Virginia
Virginia CubeSat Constellation – Old Dominion Research Foundation, Norfolk
But the last update was Dec.,5 2017.

That is for ELaNa 25, not ELaNa 21 which is flying on OA-10. Does anyone know which mission ELaNa 25 is flying on?
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

Offline Olaf

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3124
  • Germany
  • Liked: 1481
  • Likes Given: 455
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #9 on: 04/16/2018 08:01 am »
It looks like they have split the "old" ELaNa 25 and create a new ElaNa 21, which is not yet included in the cited document.

Online gongora

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10205
  • US
  • Liked: 13885
  • Likes Given: 5933
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #10 on: 05/22/2018 10:47 pm »
FCC File Number 0401-EX-CN-2018
Quote
The goals of the UNITE CubeSat mission are to: measure plasma properties of the lower
ionosphere using a Langmuir Plasma Probe, monitor its own internal and skin temperatures via a
temperature sensor array for use in updating a thermal model of the spacecraft, and carefully track
the CubeSat’s orbital decay using data from an onboard GPS unit.
The satellite will launch November 21, 2018, on an Orbital ATK Antares II Cygnus ISS resupply
mission. It will be deployed from the International Space Station via the NanoRacks CubeSat
Deployer in early 2019.

Offline deruch

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2422
  • California
  • Liked: 2006
  • Likes Given: 5634
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - October 2018
« Reply #11 on: 05/23/2018 09:03 am »
FCC File Number 0401-EX-CN-2018
Quote
The goals of the UNITE CubeSat mission are to: measure plasma properties of the lower
ionosphere using a Langmuir Plasma Probe, monitor its own internal and skin temperatures via a
temperature sensor array for use in updating a thermal model of the spacecraft, and carefully track
the CubeSat’s orbital decay using data from an onboard GPS unit.
The satellite will launch November 21, 2018, on an Orbital ATK Antares II Cygnus ISS resupply
mission. It will be deployed from the International Space Station via the NanoRacks CubeSat
Deployer in early 2019.

Weird form factor listed on TechEdSat-8.  Got to be a mistake, no?  6x1U in a single stack, as opposed to 2x3U?
Shouldn't reality posts be in "Advanced concepts"?  --Nomadd

Offline Skyrocket

  • Extreme Veteran
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2631
  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • Liked: 940
  • Likes Given: 172
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - November 2018
« Reply #12 on: 05/23/2018 11:14 pm »
FCC File Number 0401-EX-CN-2018
Quote
The goals of the UNITE CubeSat mission are to: measure plasma properties of the lower
ionosphere using a Langmuir Plasma Probe, monitor its own internal and skin temperatures via a
temperature sensor array for use in updating a thermal model of the spacecraft, and carefully track
the CubeSat’s orbital decay using data from an onboard GPS unit.
The satellite will launch November 21, 2018, on an Orbital ATK Antares II Cygnus ISS resupply
mission. It will be deployed from the International Space Station via the NanoRacks CubeSat
Deployer in early 2019.

Weird form factor listed on TechEdSat-8.  Got to be a mistake, no?  6x1U in a single stack, as opposed to 2x3U?

No, 6x1U is correct. See page 18 on http://mstl.atl.calpoly.edu/~bklofas/Presentations/SummerWorkshop2017/Alena.pdf

Online gongora

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10205
  • US
  • Liked: 13885
  • Likes Given: 5933
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - November 2018
« Reply #13 on: 06/19/2018 02:50 pm »
1063-EX-ST-2018
Quote
The overall goal of the ThinSat-1 mission, is to orbit 60 small experiments to advance STEM
education, and promote space science research and systems engineering for grades 4 – 12 and
universities. It includes approximately 70 schools from nine states. The student teams will analyze
the data collected by their experiment and submit a report detailing their findings. The students
will track their experiment and receive data in near real time through the Globalstar network and
the Space Data Dashboard website. Online content and resources will enhance the educational
experience.

The experiments will be deployed aboard 12 satellites, ThinSat-1A through ThinSat-1L, launched
as a secondary payload aboard the Orbital ATK OA-10 on the Antares second stage, from the midAtlantic
Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia, November 1, 2018. The satellites will be
inserted into Extremely Low Earth Orbit (ELEO), at 250 km apogee and 203 km perigee, on an
inclination from the equator of 51.6 degrees. They are deployed from 4 canisters mounted
externally on the second stage of the launcher; they unfold accordion style as they exit the canister.
Transmission will begin upon deployment, and cease less than 14 days later, when de-orbiting
occurs. See the Orbital Debris Assessment Report for details.

Offline Olaf

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3124
  • Germany
  • Liked: 1481
  • Likes Given: 455
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - November 2018
« Reply #14 on: 07/17/2018 09:31 am »
Here is an updated Version of the ELaNa 21-CubeSats.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches
Quote
ELaNa 21
 Date:  NET November 17, 2018
 Mission:  NG-10 – Antares, Wallops Flight Facility, Va.
 9 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployed
•CAPSat – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
•CySat-1 – Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
•HARP – University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland
•KickSat-2 – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett, California
•SPACE HAUC – University of Massachusetts, Lowell
•TechEdSat-8 – NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett, California
•TJREVERB – Thomas Jefferson High School, Alexandria, Virginia
•UNITE – Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
•Virginia CubeSat Constellation – Old Dominion Research Foundation, Norfolk, Virginia
OPAL and Phoenix were removed.

Offline Steven Pietrobon

  • Member
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 39215
  • Adelaide, Australia
    • Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive
  • Liked: 32735
  • Likes Given: 8178
Re: Cygnus OA-10 - November 2018
« Reply #15 on: 07/18/2018 08:26 am »
Thanks Olaf. In that link the flight is being called NG-10, so the thread title needs to be updated.

"ELaNa 21
Date:  NET November 17, 2018
Mission:  NG-10 – Antares, Wallops Flight Facility, Va.
9 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployed"
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

Online gongora

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10205
  • US
  • Liked: 13885
  • Likes Given: 5933
Re: Cygnus NG-10 - November 2018
« Reply #16 on: 07/28/2018 02:59 am »
This seems to be on NG-10. The document is heavily redacted but it looks like it might be an external payload that will stay attached to Cygnus and be tested for 10 days when Cygnus moves to the higher orbit after leaving ISS?

UbiquitiLink (1247-EX-ST-2018)

Quote
UbiquitiLink, Inc. (UBLink), is a Virginia corporation, incorporated on January 21, 2017. Its management team includes veterans of NASA, Nanoracks, Orbcomm, SpaceHab, Orbital, Fairchild, and Neustar. UBLink is developing a last-mile ubiquitous communications solution for Internet of Things (IOT) ... utilizing a constellation of small satellites.

edit:  I guess I should have read the cover letter.
Quote
Our payload will launch on Northrop Grumman’s Antares launch vehicle, currently
scheduled for flight on 17 November 2018, and will be assembled on orbit at the
International Space Station by astronauts in January 2019.
« Last Edit: 07/28/2018 03:13 am by gongora »

Online gongora

  • Global Moderator
  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 10205
  • US
  • Liked: 13885
  • Likes Given: 5933
Re: Cygnus NG-10 - November 2018
« Reply #17 on: 08/07/2018 11:16 pm »
0619-EX-CN-2018
Quote
The overall goal of the NSLSAT-1 mission, is to correlate solar activity to electron density in the Near-Earth (LEO) plasma field. The spacecraft will carry a Energetic Particle Detector and a Langmuir Probe.

The satellite will be launched as a payload aboard a NASA CRS (Commercial Resupply Mission) inside a NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD). Current launch vehicle is the Orbital-ATK NG10 rocket, scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, VA in November 2018. About 90 days after this launch, the NG-10 will un berth from the ISS, boost to a higher orbit, and deploy the satellite. The satellite will be inserted into a near-circular orbit at 500 km at an inclination of 51.6 degrees from the equator.

Offline Olaf

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3124
  • Germany
  • Liked: 1481
  • Likes Given: 455
Re: Cygnus NG-10 - November 2018
« Reply #18 on: 08/31/2018 07:27 am »
Quote
Iridium and NASA just learned that TechEdSat-8 has been added to the launch manifest for SpaceX-16, which is scheduled to be launched on December 1, 2018
The question is now, only TechEdSat-8 or all ELaNa-21 satellites?
« Last Edit: 08/31/2018 07:27 am by Olaf »

Offline deruch

  • Senior Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2422
  • California
  • Liked: 2006
  • Likes Given: 5634
Re: Cygnus NG-10 - November 2018
« Reply #19 on: 09/03/2018 05:49 pm »
0619-EX-CN-2018
Quote
The overall goal of the NSLSAT-1 mission, is to correlate solar activity to electron density in the Near-Earth (LEO) plasma field. The spacecraft will carry a Energetic Particle Detector and a Langmuir Probe.

The satellite will be launched as a payload aboard a NASA CRS (Commercial Resupply Mission) inside a NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD). Current launch vehicle is the Orbital-ATK NG10 rocket, scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, VA in November 2018. About 90 days after this launch, the NG-10 will un berth from the ISS, boost to a higher orbit, and deploy the satellite. The satellite will be inserted into a near-circular orbit at 500 km at an inclination of 51.6 degrees from the equator.

I wonder whether the 90 days from that document includes free flight time, or is the NG10 Cygnus going to spend an even longer time berthed to station?  OA/NG and NASA seem to have been more aggressive with demonstrating expanded capabilities on recent missions.  So, given previous tests with temp stowing experiments in the Cygnus (Tangolab-1 on OA-8[?]) I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they look into extending the berthed time to 3 months (IIRC, Cygnus was previously limited to ~60 days).  But maybe that 90 days is really 60 days at ISS and 30 days free flying prior to deployment?
Shouldn't reality posts be in "Advanced concepts"?  --Nomadd

Tags:
 

Advertisement NovaTech
Advertisement Northrop Grumman
Advertisement
Advertisement Margaritaville Beach Resort South Padre Island
Advertisement Brady Kenniston
Advertisement NextSpaceflight
Advertisement Nathan Barker Photography
0