Company Momentus, which is providing launching service into orbit for nanosatellites from the Falcon 9 rocket, has not obtained permission from the FAA to launch its carrier. This also affects the Czech nanosatellite VZLUSAT-2, whose launch was originally planned for the beginning of 2021 and then for the summer of 2021.Based on these events, the Spacemanic flight broker, that mediates the Momentus services to VZLU, decided to withdraw from the existing contract and subsequently purchased a launch from the established launch service provider Spaceflight. A new contract for the launch of the VZLUSAT-2 in December 2021 was signed between Spacemanic and Spaceflight in early June.
HERON MK II Updated: 10 Jun 2021...**Now expecting a launch into a 500-600 km orbit end of Q1 2022**
That mission, known as NROL-174, will use a Minotaur 4 rocket, the larger Minotaur variant. It is scheduled for launch in 2023, Eberly said. A launch site for the NROL-174 mission has not been confirmed.
Below is the CIRBE mission concept of operations. Launch is expected to take place in late 2021. The launch provider is not yet known but the slot is provided by NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, which pairs CubeSat missions with launch providers. *
CIRBE Updated: 16 Apr 2021...Headline Details: A 3U Cubesat. The primary objective of Colorado Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE) is to understand better the formation and decay of the inner belt (L<2) electrons (100s of keV to multiple MeV), and to determine the intensity and dynamic variations of these electrons with a state‐of‐art instrument fitted into a CubeSat in a highly inclined low Earth orbit (LEO)....**Now planning a launch in June 2022**
KUbeSat1 Updated: 20 Mar 2021Headline Details: A 3U CubeSat mission. The purpose of KUbeSat1 is to study and understand high energy particles on two fronts....Planning a CSLI launch from Vandenburg NET April 2022 into a 550 km polar orbit
[image attached]QuoteThe next launch of Starlink satellites is currently scheduled to occur on July 12, 2021, and after that SpaceX has an average of two Starlink launches per month planned for the rest of 2021. SpaceX plans its Starlink launches more than a year in advance. It did not increase its launch rate in response to Viasat's litigation efforts.
The next launch of Starlink satellites is currently scheduled to occur on July 12, 2021, and after that SpaceX has an average of two Starlink launches per month planned for the rest of 2021. SpaceX plans its Starlink launches more than a year in advance. It did not increase its launch rate in response to Viasat's litigation efforts.
OreSat 0 Launch 01/01/2022
Originally designed as Oregon's first satellite, OreSat is a 2U CubeSat that's being given a free ride to space by the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) sometime in early 2022. We'll be deployed into low earth orbit off of the International Space Station! OreSat has two amazing missions - STEM outreach for the entire state of Oregon, and a climate science mission.
JAGSAT I launch to ISSJAGSAT I Orbit deployment from ISS
The PATCOOL CubeSat currently has a launch date with NanoRacks set for quarter three (Q3) of 2021 as part of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 37 mission to the ISS.
23 - June 13 - Odyssey (TacRL-2) [USA 316] - Pegasus XL - RunWay 30/12, Vandenberg SFB, L-1011 "Stargazer" - 08:11:0524 - June 15 - NROL-111: [USA 317], [USA 318], [USA 319] - Minotaur I - MARS LP-0B - 13:3525 - June 17 - GPS III SV05 (Navstar 78, Neil Armstrong) [USA 320] - Falcon 9-122 (B1062.2 S) - Canaveral SLC-40 - 16:09:35
Quote from: Fmedici on 06/16/2021 11:09 amIs the USA-316 for the payload designation confirmed?USA 316 has been assigned to NROL 111.https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=48846
Is the USA-316 for the payload designation confirmed?
Viasat of California says the first of its trio of its Version 3.0 satellites has completed testing and payload integration at Viasat’s own facility. Boeing will now take care of the further integration with performance testing.The satellite, destined to cover the Americas, will launch early next year. Two more V 3.0 will follow. One will cover Europe, the Mid-East and Africa and the third will serve the Asia-Pacific region.Viasat says that its European/MEA bird will be delivered to Boeing later next year.“I can’t predict that there won’t be any other COVID impacts,” Rick Baldridge, Viasat’s president and CEO, said on the company’s recent fiscal Q4/2021 earnings call, noting that the second payload (for the EMEA) region is running about six months behind the first payload for the Americas. “It has definitely hit us pretty hard this last year on that payload.”
https://blog.ulalaunch.com/blog/cft-atlas-v-arrives-at-launch-site-for-historic-missionThe United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket destined to make history by launching Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft with three NASA astronauts to the International Space Station for the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission has arrived at Cape Canaveral, Fla. aboard the R/S RocketShip.<snip>This rocket, known as AV-085, will write a new chapter in human spaceflight by launching the first crewed Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.<snip>CFT will be the third launch of Starliner, following the two uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT)-1 in December 2019 and OFT-2 planned for this summer. The rocket for OFT-2, tail number AV-082, was delivered from the factory to the Cape in 2019.<snip>
The Virgin Orbit team is excited to share an update on timing for our upcoming mission, Tubular Bells: Part One! WHENWith wet dress rehearsal successfully completed, our team is proceeding through the final routine items on our pre-flight checklist. We’re coordinating with our stakeholders to identify the final preferred targets for launch, with an eye on June 30th or the early days of July.We will only proceed with the mission if all conditions for launch are nominal. If for some reason the launch is delayed, we have backup windows extending through July.WHEREOur carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl will take off from Mojave Air and Spaceport in California, and will travel approximately 1 hour out to sea before releasing the rocket just off the Pacific coast.MISSION MANIFESTA total of 7 satellites will fly on LauncherOne for Tubular Bells: Part One. The full list of customers onboard this mission includes: The U.S. Department of Defense, which is launching three CubeSat sets as part of the DoD Space Test Program’s (STP) Rapid Agile Launch (RALI) Initiative. This launch, also known as STP-27VPA, was awarded to Virgin Orbit subsidiary VOX Space by the DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), an organization working to accelerate the adoption of commercial technology into the U.S. military to strengthen national security. The Royal Netherlands Air Force, which is launching the Netherlands’ first military satellite, a CubeSat called BRIK II, built and integrated by Innovative Solutions in Space. SatRevolution, which is launching the first two optical satellites, STORK-4 and STORK-5 (A.K.A. MARTA), of the company’s 14-satellite STORK constellation.
Isn't Firefly's AFTS relying on the same core system as Electron-Wallops?https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1403016355981430785
