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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1780 on: 09/07/2018 04:21 am »
A reminder that in China today, in addition to a satellite launch from Taiyuan, the company OneSpace is also flying a sub-orbital flight today from Jiuquan, just 2 days after some other company flew theirs first:

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1035420528494956544
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Private Chinese launch company OneSpace will launch its second OS-X  suborbital rocket (aka Chongqing Liangjiang Star) in September, this time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert.

IIRC they are going for max. velocity of Mach 4.5 this time. According to reports the flight will be on September 7.

OneSpace. Private Chinese launch company OneSpace will launch its second OS-X  suborbital rocket (aka Chongqing Liangjiang Star) 5 September. Tianfu Junrong No.1 - SQX-1Z.

This is not a OneSpace flight, but is from another competitor who (at least by name - more on that in another post elsewhere  ::)) is trying to beat them to the punch!

Update: launched successfully at 04:10 UTC.
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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1781 on: 09/07/2018 06:21 am »
A reminder that in China today, in addition to a satellite launch from Taiyuan, the company OneSpace is also flying a sub-orbital flight today from Jiuquan, just 2 days after some other company flew theirs first:

https://twitter.com/AJ_FI/status/1035420528494956544
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Private Chinese launch company OneSpace will launch its second OS-X  suborbital rocket (aka Chongqing Liangjiang Star) in September, this time from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert.

IIRC they are going for max. velocity of Mach 4.5 this time. According to reports the flight will be on September 7.

OneSpace. Private Chinese launch company OneSpace will launch its second OS-X  suborbital rocket (aka Chongqing Liangjiang Star) 5 September. Tianfu Junrong No.1 - SQX-1Z.

This is not a OneSpace flight, but is from another competitor who (at least by name - more on that in another post elsewhere  ::)) is trying to beat them to the punch!

Update: launched successfully at 04:10 UTC.

Due to customer requirements the flight stayed fully within the upper atmosphere, with apogee at 35 km, downrange distance of 169 km and flight time of 200 seconds.

http://tech.qq.com/a/20180907/069476.htm

Notice the spear tip on this flight's rocket.....  8)
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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1782 on: 09/07/2018 11:03 am »
A perhaps silly question.... payloads designed to do astronomical observations (or solar)... how useful are these, really?
These were just a "technological demonstration". ADA-Space is working on a "Star Age" AI constellation, "each satellite is equipped with self-memory, self-identification, self-processing, self-adapted to the function"
Is someone knows Chinese, maybe provide a better translation http://www.edu-gov.cn/news/98157.html

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1783 on: 09/08/2018 06:00 am »
Space.com has an article about the OneSpace launch, which includes two videos, one of which being the launch as seen by the Jilin-1 sat (attached below).

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1784 on: 09/08/2018 06:48 am »
A Black Brant 9 sounding rocket was launched from White Sands on September 7 at 11:21 MDT local time (17:21 UT) carrying the FOXSI payload (36.325 US).

More info: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-funded-rocket-to-view-sun-with-x-ray-vision

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1785 on: 09/13/2018 06:32 am »

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1786 on: 09/13/2018 06:34 am »
Another launch from Spaceport America, NM, on Aug 25: this one of EXOS Aerospace's SARGE rocket. It reached an altitude of 28 km.
More info: http://www.parabolicarc.com/2018/09/12/results-exos-aerospace-sarge-launch-spaceport-america/
« Last Edit: 09/13/2018 06:39 am by Lewis007 »

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1787 on: 09/14/2018 07:38 pm »
Black Brant IX onboard camera on NASA’s FOXSI mission

A Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket launched NASA’s Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, on 7 September 2018, at 17:21 UTC (13:21 EDT). FOXSI reached an altitude of about 189 miles to search for nanoflares on the Sun using its X-ray vision. The video was filmed by a camera at the bottom of the payload.

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1788 on: 09/21/2018 05:14 pm »
Andoya Space Center Warning
I think this is for the Nammo Nucleus Sounding rocket.
Launch between 17 September and 3 October (but Not Between 21 - 23 September) each day the launch window is from 10:00-18:00 local time.  (CEST | UTC+2)

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1789 on: 09/24/2018 09:23 pm »
Andoya shares renders of the Nucleus rocket on their twitter page.
And a NRK article with foto's and renderings

Foto from NRK.
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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1790 on: 09/25/2018 04:30 pm »
And here is a ASC article. And:

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« Last Edit: 10/08/2018 09:08 am by Steven Pietrobon »
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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« Last Edit: 10/08/2018 09:12 am by Steven Pietrobon »
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1793 on: 10/12/2018 06:33 am »
http://russianforces.org/blog/2018/10/annual_exercise_of_the_strateg.shtml
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On October 11, 2018 the Russian strategic forces conducted an annual exercise that involved launches of SLBMs and launches of weapons carried by long-range bombers.

The SLBM launches were conducted from one of the Project 667BDRM submarines of the Northern Fleet from the Barents Sea to the Kura test range and one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet, probably Project 667BDR class Ryazan, from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Chizha test range. It appears that in both cases it was a salvo launch, but there is no official information about the number of missiles that were involved.

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1794 on: 10/12/2018 07:59 pm »
Something from Kodiak:

!CARF 10/073 (KZAK A3966/18) ZAK AIRSPACE DCC PSCA MISSION P124 BACKUP STNR ALT RESERVATION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 5045N15605W TO 5033N15500W TO 5730N15142W TO 5739N15245W TO 5045N15605W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1810132000-1810132359

!CARF 10/081 (KZAK A3976/18) ZAK AIRSPACE DCC PSCA MISSION P124 BACKUP STNR ALT RESERVATION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 5045N15605W TO 5033N15500W TO 5730N15142W TO 5739N15245W TO 5045N15605W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1810142000-1810142359

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This message reflects my personal opinion based on open sources of information.

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1795 on: 10/12/2018 08:46 pm »
Something from Kodiak:

!CARF 10/073 (KZAK A3966/18) ZAK AIRSPACE DCC PSCA MISSION P124 BACKUP STNR ALT RESERVATION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 5045N15605W TO 5033N15500W TO 5730N15142W TO 5739N15245W TO 5045N15605W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1810132000-1810132359

!CARF 10/081 (KZAK A3976/18) ZAK AIRSPACE DCC PSCA MISSION P124 BACKUP STNR ALT RESERVATION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 5045N15605W TO 5033N15500W TO 5730N15142W TO 5739N15245W TO 5045N15605W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1810142000-1810142359

!CARF 10/084 (KZAK A3992/18) ZAK AIRSPACE DCC PSCA MISSION P124 BACKUP STNR ALT RESERVATION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 5045N15605W TO 5033N15500W TO 5730N15142W TO 5739N15245W TO 5045N15605W TO POINT OF ORIGIN SFC-UNL 1810152000-1810152359
P124 has connection to ASTRA in FAA documentation.

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1796 on: 10/13/2018 06:06 am »
http://russianforces.org/blog/2018/10/annual_exercise_of_the_strateg.shtml
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On October 11, 2018 the Russian strategic forces conducted an annual exercise that involved launches of SLBMs and launches of weapons carried by long-range bombers.

The SLBM launches were conducted from one of the Project 667BDRM submarines of the Northern Fleet from the Barents Sea to the Kura test range and one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet, probably Project 667BDR class Ryazan, from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Chizha test range. It appears that in both cases it was a salvo launch, but there is no official information about the number of missiles that were involved.

Update: apparently, no (successful) launch took place.
See: http://russianforces.org/blog/2018/10/what_happened_to_the_icbm_part.shtml

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1797 on: 10/17/2018 07:02 am »
Woomera airspace has been closed since 1 October and will remain so until 10 November. Can anyone help find out if there are any public sources of any launches that have have or will take place? Amber Zone 2 (corridor) airspace is closed, which indicates a sounding rocket launch could be planned.

http://www.defence.gov.au/woomera/exclusionperiods.htm
« Last Edit: 10/17/2018 07:20 am by Steven Pietrobon »
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1798 on: 10/26/2018 11:42 pm »
Finally found the launch date for HIFiRE 4 from Woomera last year. It was 30 June. Thanks Boeing!

http://www.boeing.com/features/2017/08/hifire-08-17.page

"The June 30 test of the HIFiRE 4 vehicle in Woomera, South Australia, was conducted by Boeing and the Defence Science Technology Group, and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, along with partners University of Queensland and BAE Systems, as part of the Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation program. The successful flight test exceeded expectations in flight control performance, program officials said."
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design #1:  Engineering is done with numbers.  Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

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Re: The suborbital thread!
« Reply #1799 on: 11/16/2018 04:29 am »
Woomera airspace has been closed since 1 October and will remain so until 10 November. Can anyone help find out if there are any public sources of any launches that have have or will take place? Amber Zone 2 (corridor) airspace is closed, which indicates a sounding rocket launch could be planned.

Hi Steven,

Whatever they're planning it's got to be military, right? From how I understand it the Abbott Government closed Woomera to any sounding rocket launches. To fly from Woomera these days you've got to be military. NASA's SRPO can't even get access to launch there anymore iirc.

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