ELaNa XIXDate: NET November 2017Mission: Rocket Lab – tbd10 CubeSat Missions scheduled to be deployedCeREs – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.ANDESITE – Boston University, Boston, Mass.STF-1 – West Virginia University / NASA IV&V, Morgantown, W.Va.CHOMPTT – University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.CubeSail – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill.NMTSat – New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, N.M.DaVinci – North Idaho STEM Charter Academy, Rathdrum, IdahoRSat – United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.ISX – SRI International/ California Polytechnic University, Menlo Park, Calif.Shields-1 – NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
I'm missing a connection here - I can't see on that web page where it says that these cubesats will be launched on the *next* flight of Electron. How do we know that there won't be other Electron flights between now and these cubesats?
Several commercial CubeSats are expected to be aboard the Electron’s second mission.
Thanks, nice find! If the launches are spaced at around 6 weeks that would put the third test launch around the end of September and the ELaNa mission as the fourth launch mid November. The November date seems to line up with what the NASA website date.
Garrett Skrobot, NASA: our Venture Class Launch Services contract with Rocket Lab is schedule for no earlier than March 2018. Will launch 14 cubesats. #TRBAM
From the Peter Beck interview:QuoteWe’ve officially accelerated into full commercial operations, so we’re trying to manifest flight three in a really short time frame. And then flight four is a NASA flight, a NASA VCLS flightConfirms that the NASA launch will be the fourth Rocket launch. Also the NOTAM has been extended to the 25th of April.
We’ve officially accelerated into full commercial operations, so we’re trying to manifest flight three in a really short time frame. And then flight four is a NASA flight, a NASA VCLS flight
At HQ in Huntington Beach cleanroom getting ready for NASA ELaNa XIX payload integration this week!
Identification of the anticipated launch vehicle and launch site: AC11/TOMSat 3U pair aremanifested as part of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) XIX program. TheELaNa XIX satellites will launch on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from its launch site on theMahia Peninsula in New Zealand. Each of the two AC11/TOMSats will be deployed from a LVprovided spacecraft dispenser integrated with the Electron rocket. The Electron rocket willdeploy the satellites into a 500 km altitude circular orbit with an inclination of 85°.
The ELaNa-19 mission will be launched as the primary payload on the VCLSRocketLabs ELaNa-19 mission on an US made Electron launch vehicle from NewZealand range. The ELaNa-19 compliment, will deploy 14 pico-satellites (or CubeSats).The CubeSat slotted position is identified in Table 2: ELaNa-19 CubeSats. The ELaNa19manifest includes: ANDESITE, CeREs, CHOMPTT , CubeSail, DaVinci, ISX,NMTSat, RSat, Shields-1, STF-1, TOMSat EAGLESCOUT, TOMSat R3, SHFT-1, andALBUS. The current launch date opens May 30, 2018 extending till June 7, 2018. The 14CubeSats are to be ejected from the Electron shortly after the launch, placing theCubeSats in an orbit approximately 500 X 500 km at inclination of 85 deg (ref. (i)).
Finished the upper stage test today for the next flight following #ItsBusinessTime. NASA #ELaNaXIX
https://twitter.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1008621846554542081QuoteFinished the upper stage test today for the next flight following #ItsBusinessTime. NASA #ELaNaXIXAlso there's a short video of the test, which I have no idea how to attach, but its at the link. Looks like RocketLab might be starting to get a roll on.