Currently, the planned configuration for Sherpa‐FX3 has a microsatellite on the outboard end, withthree (3) microsatellites, and a single 3U equivalent cubesat dispenser containing four (4) sub‐3Ucubesats attached radially on the body of Sherpa.2 Sherpa‐FX3 will also carry one approximately 5 kghosted payload, subject to the provider of that payload, NearSpace Launch, securing its own separateauthority for this mission from the Commission. The Sherpa‐FX3 Mission configuration also includes anS‐band receive antenna and an L‐band transmitter as part of its avionics.
The planned configuration for Sherpa-LTC1 has three microsatellites on the outboard end of Sherpa-LTC1, with ten cubesats integrated in dispensers attached radially on the body of Sherpa-LTC1.2 Sherpa-LTC1 also contains a chemical propulsion system, which will be commissioned and operated only after the initial batch of customer payload deployments is complete, leaving five (5) sub-3U spacecraft onboard for deployment at a lower altitude. Once the Sherpa-LTC1 is at this lower altitude of 500 km, the final spacecraft onboard will be deployed. The Sherpa-LTC1 Mission configuration also includes an S-band receive antenna, an L-band transmitter, a UHF transmitter, and a UHF receiver as part of its avionics.
30th September 2021 — Aistech Space SL (Aistech), a high-resolution thermal imaging service provider, has signed a contract with Orbital Astronautics Ltd (OrbAstro), a satellite and in-orbit service provider, to fly its first Guardian mission scheduled for launch in Q4 2021 onboard a SpaceX dedicated rideshare mission. The OrbAstro ORB-6 satellite platform (6U-class) will host an Aistech multi-spectral imaging payload to commence commercial services addressing markets linked to environmental sustainability.“Our mission is to work with organizations around the world to tackle critical threats to people and the environment, and build a better, more sustainable future for the next generation,” said Guillermo Valenzuela, CEO and Co-Founder of Aistech Space. “Our Guardian satellites will provide organizations with critical information for mitigating large-scale threats, such as forest fires, water waste, pollution, and illegal activity.”Aistech is planning to deploy a constellation of 20 thermal-enabled satellites. This will be one of the first commercial constellations able to collect high-resolution thermal infrared data on demand. Information captured by Aistech’s multispectral telescope will support decision-making in the public and private sector.
HawkEye 360 successfully launched three satellites (Cluster 2) in January, introduced the Mission Space platform for analysis of RF geospatial intelligence in February, and launched three more satellites (Cluster 3) in June. The next launch is planned no earlier than January 2022 and will carry six satellites (both Clusters 4 and 5) into orbit simultaneously. The company has 15 additional satellites under production for launch to reach a total of 30 satellites on orbit, with average global revisit around 30 minutes.
The 5 MHz uplink channel will allow Spaceflight to update Sherpa’s flight software far more efficiently than can be achieved using the lower data-rate 300 kHz bandwidth that has been used for the Sherpa-LTE1 mission. Sherpa-LT vehicles are an incremental development and from the 300 kHz bandwidth used for Sherpa-LTE1 indicated a need for faster uploads to iterate, test, and, as needed, deliver patches to Sherpa-LT flight software during the mission life. Spaceflight estimates that a flight computer upload that might take a month on a 300 kHz channel could be completed in one or two passes, no more than a day, using a 5 MHz channel. ...Spaceflight plans to terminate Sherpa’s mission (“safe the vehicle”) at least 25-50 km above the orbits of inhabitable spacecraft. Spaceflight intends to end Sherpa’s mission in an orbit which is as circular as we can obtain. ...The deorbit of Sherpa-LTC1 will be accomplished in 9.2 years...The Sherpa-LTC1 uses the following: •34.3 kg high-test peroxide (oxidizer) at 300 psi •6.5 kg isopropyl alcohol (fuel) at 300 psi •1.22 kg nitrogen gas (pressurant) at 6,000 psi
Spaceflight, Inc. (“Spaceflight”) files this letter pursuant to section 1.65 of the Commission’s regulations to update the application for special temporary authority referenced above.1 Due to shifting customer timelines, Spaceflight seeks to amend the start of the launch window for its Sherpa-FX3 spacecraft from January 2022 to June 1, 2022.As a result, the manifest for Sherpa-FX3 will change. Spaceflight will file an updated manifest along with the updated recontact analysis and orbital debris assessment report to reflect the change by the end of November 2021.
6 students fighting for healthier oceans from @NTNUnorway visited our cleanrooms last week to inspect their HYPSO-1 satellite's hyperspectral imager that's integrated into our 6U M6P #nanosatellite bus. After a quick test, their smiles confirmed HYPSO-1 is ready for flight!🚀
HYPSO-1 has a hyperspectral camera that can see in many wavelengths simultaneously. In 2020, the satellite had the last and important review that shows that it has been built and tested, and ready to be launched.- HYPSO-1 will be sent to SpaceX in the US for launch in just two weeks. One week after that again, we get the date for the actual launch, which will be very exciting, says Honoré-Livermore.
Quote from: crandles57 on 11/13/2021 12:36 pmQuote from: gongora on 11/12/2021 07:39 pmF9 launch from Florida NET January 10 with no droneship shown1811-EX-ST-2021Nextspaceflight has Transporter-3 on/NET that Jan 10 date.https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/?search=SpaceXbut no droneship?or is that just 'no droneship *shown*'?Interesting, you might be onto something.My guess is SpaceX might be planning on adding a bunch of Starlink sats to the Transporter stack and then fly expendable with B1049.11 which is the oldest booster in the fleet. Elon has said in the past that the older boosters are a pain in the butt to refurbish because they don't have many of the upgrades that the newer boosters have received.
Quote from: gongora on 11/12/2021 07:39 pmF9 launch from Florida NET January 10 with no droneship shown1811-EX-ST-2021Nextspaceflight has Transporter-3 on/NET that Jan 10 date.https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/?search=SpaceXbut no droneship?or is that just 'no droneship *shown*'?
F9 launch from Florida NET January 10 with no droneship shown1811-EX-ST-2021
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”) isin the process of authorizing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(“NASA”) to conduct experiments with the Technical Educational Satellite -15(“TechEdSat-15”) low earth orbit nanosatellite.In connection with these experiments, NASA will operate an Iridium 9602modem hosted on the TechEdSat-15 smallsat. A spare 9603 modem will be carried as aback-up. TechEdSat-15 will transmit to space stations in Iridium’s “Big LEO”constellation. The transmissions will, among other goals, utilize Iridium’s constellationas a tracking and data relay satellite (“TDRS”) and for testing a de-orbit/re-entrysystem.Iridium hereby requests special temporary authority (“STA”) commencing onJanuary 20, 2022, and continuing for a period of one hundred and eighty (180) days, totransmit from its space stations to TechEdSat-15 in the 1618.725–1626.5 MHz band.
On December 8, 2021, Ukrainian spacecraft Sich-2-30, developed and manufactured by Yuzhnoye SDO, departed from Boryspil International Airport (KBP) with the assistance of Cargo Division of Turkish Airlines and Gunsel LLC as their official Appointed Cargo Sales Agent in Ukraine.Route to be covered by Sich-2-30 to the launch site is as follows: Dnipro – Kyiv – Istanbul – and it is expected that on December 12, the plane will land in Miami (Florida, USA).Tentatively on December 12, spacecraft will arrive to the International Airport of Miami and in several days following the customs clearance, it will reach the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral for prelaunch processing and integration activities with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.Ukrainian remote sensing satellite Sich-2-30 is scheduled for launch on January 10, 2022.Sich-2-30 is designed to obtain digital images of the Earth’s surface in the visible and near-infrared ranges of electromagnetic wavelengths as well as to monitor the Earth’s magnetosphere parameters. It features 7 m (per pixel) resolution with swath width of 45 km.
