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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #580 on: 07/08/2019 09:34 pm »
July 08, 2019
CONTRACT RELEASE C19-018
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Groundbreaking Astrophysics Mission
 
NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which will allow astronomers to discover, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most exotic astronomical objects in our universe. 

The total cost for NASA to launch IXPE is approximately $50.3 million, which includes the launch service and other mission-related costs.

IXPE measures polarized X-rays from objects, such as black holes and neutron stars to better understand these types of cosmic phenomena and extreme environments.

The IXPE mission currently is targeted to launch in April 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A in Florida. IXPE will fly three space telescopes with sensitive detectors capable of measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays, allowing scientists to answer fundamental questions about these turbulent environments where gravitational, electric and magnetic fields are at their limits.

NASA’s Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will manage the SpaceX launch service. The IXPE project office is located at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

For more information about NASA programs and missions, visit: http://www.nasa.gov

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #581 on: 07/09/2019 02:22 pm »
Updated "FPIP" for SpaceX.

It looks like a *gap* in August-September.
May be another un-announced launch?

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #582 on: 07/09/2019 02:29 pm »
Updated "FPIP" for SpaceX.

It looks like a *gap* in August-September.
May be another un-announced launch?

It seems to just be a gap.  It looks like you're trying to spread the launches between the two pads.  SLC-40 is the main pad for F9 (except for Commercial Crew).  There will occasionally be another mission from LC-39A but most of them will be from SLC-40.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #583 on: 07/09/2019 03:40 pm »
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It seems to just be a gap.
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It looks like you're trying to spread the launches between the two pads.  SLC-40 is the main pad for F9 (except for Commercial Crew).
Yes, I know.
I'm just kind of reluctant to put on the same pad two launches which both have "late September" tags.
Once I see they can recycle pad 40 in a week or less I won't do spreading anymore :)

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #584 on: 07/19/2019 02:18 pm »
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
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Aug. 3Falcon 9 • Amos 17
Launch time: Approx. 2250 GMT (6:50 p.m. EDT)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #585 on: 07/20/2019 03:18 pm »
Musk has now said effectively 4-6 months for an orbital test of Starship. (Nov 2019-Jan 2020) Is it time to add a placeholder line for a BFR flight for that launch? My suggestion based on tweets plus a bit of realism is to list it as a launch from 39A for 2020, and just include one entry for now since we don't have any real details on actual numbers of orbital test flights, and their internal plans probably aren't nailed down anyway.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #586 on: 07/24/2019 01:17 pm »
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Space Norway contracts w/ @Inmarsat to launch 2 @northropgrumman-built triple-band satellites to HEO orbit on a @SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2022; @usairforce to provide EHF payload; Inmarsat will use Ka-band & Space Norway X-band for Arctic coverage.
Since contract is with Inmarsat - are they utilizing the "orphan" Falcon launch still listed in the manifest?

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #587 on: 07/24/2019 01:23 pm »
Since contract is with Inmarsat - are they utilizing the "orphan" Falcon launch still listed in the manifest?
That contract option is for Falcon Heavy and recently, Spaceflight Now/Space News reported that it might be used for Inmarsat 6B:

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Inmarsat, which owns a network of satellites for maritime and aeronautical communications, has not executed the Falcon Heavy contract option. Inmarsat’s CEO said in March that one of the company’s future satellites — the Airbus-made Inmarsat 6B spacecraft scheduled for launch in late 2021 — might be a candidate to fill the company’s Falcon Heavy contract option, according to Space News.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #588 on: 07/26/2019 07:33 pm »
Musk has now said effectively 4-6 months for an orbital test of Starship. (Nov 2019-Jan 2020) Is it time to add a placeholder line for a BFR flight for that launch? My suggestion based on tweets plus a bit of realism is to list it as a launch from 39A for 2020, and just include one entry for now since we don't have any real details on actual numbers of orbital test flights, and their internal plans probably aren't nailed down anyway.

Now that Starhopper is in flight test and soon to be followed by Starship and Super Heavy, may I suggest that someone with better computer skills than I create a new separate table that just covers those three vehicles.  We will not see satellite launches for a while but I would expect a robust test development schedule.  Suggest the table  include but not limited to: configuration ( number of engines, engine S/N's, engine reuse # ), altitude achieved, test objective, test result, date, location where manufactued, etc.  Maybe it shouldn't be in the "SpaceX Manifest Updates and Discussion" thread but in a new separate thread.
Anyone have other ideas?
Thanks in advance.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #589 on: 07/27/2019 02:22 pm »
Since contract is with Inmarsat - are they utilizing the "orphan" Falcon launch still listed in the manifest?
That contract option is for Falcon Heavy and recently, Spaceflight Now/Space News reported that it might be used for Inmarsat 6B:

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Inmarsat, which owns a network of satellites for maritime and aeronautical communications, has not executed the Falcon Heavy contract option. Inmarsat’s CEO said in March that one of the company’s future satellites — the Airbus-made Inmarsat 6B spacecraft scheduled for launch in late 2021 — might be a candidate to fill the company’s Falcon Heavy contract option, according to Space News.

Inmarsat (has/had?) more launch options with SpaceX:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=35104.msg1222130#msg1222130
« Last Edit: 07/27/2019 02:23 pm by gongora »

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #590 on: 07/29/2019 09:17 pm »

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #592 on: 08/05/2019 06:06 pm »
A few more missions from SLC-4E to SSO

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1158437647280271363

1. November 2020-March 2021
2. Q1 2022
3. Q1 2023
« Last Edit: 08/05/2019 06:08 pm by intelati »
Starships are meant to fly

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #593 on: 08/05/2019 09:10 pm »
A few more missions from SLC-4E to SSO

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1158437647280271363

1. November 2020-March 2021
2. Q1 2022
3. Q1 2023
These are part of a new dedicated launch SpaceX launch service: https://www.spacex.com/smallsat

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #594 on: 08/07/2019 11:16 am »
Updated FPIP chart.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #595 on: 08/07/2019 12:11 pm »
Just an observation, but that handful of drop in missions Shotwell said would fill out the 2019 manifest haven't materialized yet.  Maybe they're all delayed and moving out to 2020.  But as it stands, 2019 is coming in light.
JTRI is moving to the Atlantic due to lack of Vandy launches.

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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #596 on: 08/07/2019 10:38 pm »
In 2023-Q1 SpaceX SSO-2 should be modified in SpaceX SSO-3, there is already a SpaceX SSO-2 in 2022-Q1.
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #597 on: 08/19/2019 03:32 pm »
Quote from Hans Koenigsmann:

https://twitter.com/cathofacker/status/1163472096753836032

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Also gives update on Crew Dragon timeline: Another in-flight abort test is scheduled for October or November, with the Demo-2 crewed flight "hopefully early next year." #AiaaPropEnergy

Edit to add: different quote on Demo-2 ...

https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1163472275498307586

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At the AIAA Propulsion & Energy Forum this morning, SpaceX’s Hans Koenigsmann says the company is planning an in-flight abort test of Crew Dragon in October or November; “hopefully” do Demo-2 crewed test flight this year. #AIAAPropEnergy
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #598 on: 08/22/2019 02:55 pm »
iSpace (Japan) has updated the schedule of the two Hakuto-R missions, both secondary payloads on Falcon 9.

Old:
- Mission 1: Orbiter, mid 2020
- Mission 2: Lander & rovers, mid 2021

New:
- Mission 1: Lander, 2021
- Mission 2: Lander & one rover, 2023

https://ispace-inc.com/news/?p=1376
« Last Edit: 08/22/2019 02:58 pm by PM3 »
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Re: SpaceX Manifest Updates Thread 5
« Reply #599 on: 08/23/2019 10:21 pm »
https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/1165007573600202752
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Startup telecom satellite operator @OvzonAB moves launch of its 500-kg @Maxar GEO satellite, to @Arianespace @ArianeGroup Ariane 5 from @SpaceX Falcon Heavy; writes down advance payments to @northropgrumman for earlier satellite design.

https://www.ovzon.com/en/interim-report-january-june-2019/
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CEO statement

Important customer agreements and financing of Ovzon 3

During the second quarter, we continued to develop the company according to plan. The last bit of funding for Ovzon 3 is in place and Maxar, our satellite provider, has started the project to build the satellite. As for the launch of the satellite, we have recently contracted Arianespace to launch our satellite in 2021 and we have thus left the preliminary agreements we had.
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