Discussion of the manifest, and updates. The best guess at the current manifest is in this post.....All comments and updates are welcomed! Thank you to all contributors!
This STA is necessary to authorize launch vehicle communications for SpaceX Mission 1372, a commercial launch from Complex 39a, Kennedy Space Center.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Hawthorne, California, has been awarded a $96,500,490 firm-fixed-price contract for launch services to deliver a GPS III satellite to its intended orbit. Contractor will provide launch vehicle production, mission integration, launch operations, spaceflight worthiness and mission unique activities for a GPS III mission. Work will be performed at Hawthorne, California; Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida; and McGregor, Texas, and is expected to be complete by April 30, 2019. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with two offers received. Fiscal 2016 space procurement funds in the amount of $96,500,490 are being obligated at the time of award. Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity (FA8811-17-C-0005).
The launch will be the third GPS III launch and is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida in February 2019.
HARP and OPEN will be launched on SpX-12 (ELaNa 22).https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launches
ELaNa 22Date: NET August 1, 2017Mission: SpaceX-12 – Falcon 9 FT, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.7 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployed
Quote from: Fuji on 03/06/2017 02:54 pmHARP and OPEN will be launched on SpX-12 (ELaNa 22).https://www.nasa.gov/content/upcoming-elana-cubesat-launchesQuoteELaNa 22Date: NET August 1, 2017Mission: SpaceX-12 – Falcon 9 FT, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.7 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployed
ELaNa XVDate: NET September 15, 2017Mission: Space Test Program (STP)-2 – Falcon 9 Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.3 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployed
But that source says:QuoteELaNa XVDate: NET September 15, 2017Mission: Space Test Program (STP)-2 – Falcon 9 Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.3 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployedand we know that's NOT going to happen. STP-2 is the second flight of Falcon Heavy and the first launch won't happen until more than 60 days after LC-40 is back on line which is NET August. So no dates from the ELaNa page are reliable.
Quote from: Comga on 03/18/2017 03:31 pmBut that source says:QuoteELaNa XVDate: NET September 15, 2017Mission: Space Test Program (STP)-2 – Falcon 9 Heavy, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.3 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployedand we know that's NOT going to happen. STP-2 is the second flight of Falcon Heavy and the first launch won't happen until more than 60 days after LC-40 is back on line which is NET August. So no dates from the ELaNa page are reliable.We already knew in L2 that CRS-12 was moving to NET August, this is a public confirmation of it. Everyone knows STP-2 is going to slip, but to when? Unless they just want to make something up or put TBD, there's no point in changing the STP-2 date yet.
Did you miss my point?Since we all know that STP-2 isn't going to launch when ELaNa says it is, the other dates it posts are unreliable. I was not suggesting we use these dates in the manifest. Quite the opposite. And we are not supposed to bring any L2 info out here
Intelsat 35e FCC ApplicationQuoteMarch 14, 2017Re: Request for Special Temporary Authority to Conduct In-Orbit Testing of Intelsat 35e;Call Sign S2959Dear Ms. Dortch:Intelsat License LLC (“Intelsat”) herein requests a grant of Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) for 90 days, beginning May 25, 2017, to conduct in-orbit testing (“IOT”) of the Intelsat 35e satellite (Call Sign S2959) at 33.0º W.L. and to drift the satellite to its permanent location of 34.5° W.L. Intelsat 35e is scheduled to be launched no earlier than May 15, 2017. The IOT period is expected to last approximately 45 days and the drift to 34.5° W.L. is expected to last approximately five days.
March 14, 2017Re: Request for Special Temporary Authority to Conduct In-Orbit Testing of Intelsat 35e;Call Sign S2959Dear Ms. Dortch:Intelsat License LLC (“Intelsat”) herein requests a grant of Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) for 90 days, beginning May 25, 2017, to conduct in-orbit testing (“IOT”) of the Intelsat 35e satellite (Call Sign S2959) at 33.0º W.L. and to drift the satellite to its permanent location of 34.5° W.L. Intelsat 35e is scheduled to be launched no earlier than May 15, 2017. The IOT period is expected to last approximately 45 days and the drift to 34.5° W.L. is expected to last approximately five days.
Quote Peter B. de Selding @pbdes 8s8 seconds agoQatari sat operator @eshailSat's Es'hail-2 Ka-Ku sat for 26E (@ME_Europe build, @SpaceX launch) slips again, to 2018, Es'hailSat says.https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/844552243399528448
Peter B. de Selding @pbdes 8s8 seconds agoQatari sat operator @eshailSat's Es'hail-2 Ka-Ku sat for 26E (@ME_Europe build, @SpaceX launch) slips again, to 2018, Es'hailSat says.
Quote Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 26s27 seconds agoNASA’s Paul Hertz says at Nat’l Academies meeting that NICER payload to ISS set to launch May 14 on SpX-11 Dragon mission.https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/846745556559036420
Jeff Foust @jeff_foust 26s27 seconds agoNASA’s Paul Hertz says at Nat’l Academies meeting that NICER payload to ISS set to launch May 14 on SpX-11 Dragon mission.
Quote from: FutureSpaceTourist on 03/28/2017 03:23 pmQuoteOur CTO Martin Halliwell talks about #SES10 and the launch on #flightproven rocket!https://twitter.com/ses_satellites/status/846742078310690818https://www.periscope.tv/w/a6kjoTFETEtCeURWT2FEUUp8MWpNSmdZd3JPYXlLTOkPzfjLKb6zX572-CwWcPxK89_4GMQLEeCpVDy3-Oo7Here are some notes:* Mass is 5281.7 kg, insertion orbit will be 35410 km x 218 km at 26.2º, so barely subsynchronous GTO. Orbit raising will be done with chemical engines.* SES block bought SES-10, SES-11, SES-14, SES-16. Then last August they were approached with the opportunity to use a pre-flown booster.* Essentially no change in the insurance premium, 100th of a percent.* First stage booster is contractually obligated to make certain altitude, velocity, downrange, etc. SpaceX works with the leftovers for landing. This will be a very hot landing, but if it comes back, SES gets "bits" for their boardroom.* Satellite requires 13 hours of checkouts once the full stack is vertical on the pad.
QuoteOur CTO Martin Halliwell talks about #SES10 and the launch on #flightproven rocket!https://twitter.com/ses_satellites/status/846742078310690818https://www.periscope.tv/w/a6kjoTFETEtCeURWT2FEUUp8MWpNSmdZd3JPYXlLTOkPzfjLKb6zX572-CwWcPxK89_4GMQLEeCpVDy3-Oo7
Our CTO Martin Halliwell talks about #SES10 and the launch on #flightproven rocket!
* SES block bought SES-10, SES-11, SES-14, SES-16. Then last August they were approached with the opportunity to use a pre-flown booster.