120031Z OCT 23NAVAREA IV 1177/23(11,25,26).WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.FLORIDA1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING 131414Z TO 131455Z, ALTERNATE 141419Z TO 141500Z,151423Z TO 151504Z, 161428Z TO 161509Z, 171433Z TO 171514Z, 181433Z TO 181514Z OCT AND 191431Z TO 191512ZIN AREAS BOUND BY:A. 28-41.69N 080-39.68W, 28-26.85N 080-32.13W, 28-24.00N 080-25.00W, 28-18.00N 078-43.00W, 28-24.00N 078-42.00W, 28-41.69N 080-39.68W.B. 28-12.00N 077-24.00W, 28-16.00N 078-06.00W, 28-11.00N 078-06.00W, 28-02.00N 077-26.00W, 28-00.00N 076-57.00W, 28-05.00N 076-56.00W, 28-12.00N 077-24.00W.C. 25-41.00N 065-32.00W, 26-16.00N 068-33.00W, 25-59.00N 068-40.00W, 24-55.00N 065-50.00W, 24-27.00N 063-30.00W, 24-47.00N 063-22.00W, 25-41.00N 065-32.00W.2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 1167/23.3. CANCEL THIS MSG 191612Z OCT 23.
Launch visibility map for tomorrow's (🤞🤞🤞) @SpaceX launch of #Psyche on Falcon Heavy🍀
More accurate times for Psyche (UTC)10/13 14:19:4310/14 14:24:0810/15 14:28:3710/16 14:33:4310/17 14:38:0810/18 14:38:1810/19 14:36:5010/20 14:35:3610/21 14:35:0610/22 14:34:0210/23 14:33:2910/24 14:33:0510/25 14:32:36
Quote from: Targeteer on 10/11/2023 06:28 pmQuote from: zubenelgenubi on 10/11/2023 05:41 pmQuestion from Steven Young about NASA transparency, particularly re: Psyche."Let me get back to you."5 pm meeting today, primarily about weather, help decide whether to start October 12 countdown.Edit: Just saw Bill Harwood is reporting the EVA is "likely to slip" a week. Again NASA PA fails to inform the American public. Presumably the iSS blog post this evening will provide an update...As predicited. How hard is it to put out a press release? https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2023/10/11/spacewalks-postponed-as-managers-review-leak-data/
Quote from: zubenelgenubi on 10/11/2023 05:41 pmQuestion from Steven Young about NASA transparency, particularly re: Psyche."Let me get back to you."5 pm meeting today, primarily about weather, help decide whether to start October 12 countdown.Edit: Just saw Bill Harwood is reporting the EVA is "likely to slip" a week. Again NASA PA fails to inform the American public. Presumably the iSS blog post this evening will provide an update...
Question from Steven Young about NASA transparency, particularly re: Psyche."Let me get back to you."5 pm meeting today, primarily about weather, help decide whether to start October 12 countdown.
Here's what happens after launch! An epic thread...Psyche is ready to go, soon as weather gives us a break! The attempt on Fri. Oct. 13 (my big brother's bday, along w a great friend at SpaceX on Psyche team, so VERY good luck) is 10:19:43 AM East. time.The "launch phase" began on day L-3 (Oct. 9) w/ launch load of parameters and final spacecraft configuration.On L-2 we had our formal Launch Readiness Review (500 people!). On L-1 lots of media events, an all-team meeting, & a looong weather discussion 🙄. And a family photo!Launch Team will be "On Console" (at their desks in mission ops) at T-8:30 hours (this will be ~2:30 AM local!) for the mission ops team in Florida, and T-4:00 for the mission ops teams in California. Spacecraft (s/c) power onXenon heating begins...Some things that could cause a launch hold...s/c not on internal power, xenon tank fluid is not above 27C, any of a million warnings or aborts from s/c or rocket.Battery charging beginslaunch day parameter loadT-00:27 – Transition to Internal PowerT-00:00:00 – Lift OFFMain Engine Cutoff T + 0:03:54Core separation T + 0:03:58Second Stage Engine 1 start T + 0:04:04Fairing jettison T + 0:04:16Second Stage Engine 1 Cutoff T + 0:08:24Second Stage Engine 2 start T + 0:54:03Second Stage Engine 2 Cutoff T + 0:56:12Psyche s/c deployment (Separation, or SEP) T + 1:02:24!Hoping for no rotation for Psyche s/c at tip-off, to make the s/c's next autonomous tasks quicker.After the Psyche s/c separates from the rocket, the s/c will power up its miniature inertial measurement unit (MIMU) to sense if the s/c is rotating. The MIMU will help the s/c stop any rotation before deploying solar arrays.Here is 1 of our 10 beautiful solar panels.The s/c is not pointing intentionally yet, but as soon as SEP+5.5 the DSN might catch a carrier wave signal as our low-gain antennae sweep during s/c rotation. As our launch lead Travis says: "we’re really close to Earth, the spacecraft is yelling, and DSN is sensitive.S/c then autonomously stops any rotation, begins to warm up comms system, releases and deploys +Y side solar array, stops any new rotation, and then deploys the -Y side solar array.De-rotation and solar array deployment should be complete by SEP + 21 min. Deployed arrays make the s/c 7.3 x 24.7 m.Then s/c autonomously starts to spin around s/c long axis to search for Sun. Once Sun is acquired, slew to Sun, start "rotisserie mode" which is spin like a windmill around the axis towards the Sun (+X axis)This should all be complete at some point between SEP +42 min and SEP +70 min, depending on how much rotation the s/c has to make before its sensors encounter the Sun.Once the s/c has acquired the Sun, it will enter a planned safe mode to await ground comms intervention.During this safe mode, Psyche will be spinning in rotisserie mode, and looking for Earth with a low-gain antenna.It could therefore take up to nearly 3 hours after liftoff (or about 2 hours after SEP) for engineers to acquire the first signal from Psyche....because:- SEP+21 min for solar array deploy;- longest time to acquire the Sun is SEP+75 min, and then rotisserie starts;- if at rotisserie start Earth is just past then we wait 30-40 min for the rotisserie to go all the way around & encounter Earth; around SEP +115.The launch phase ends when the spacecraft is in safe mode. The project then continues with "Countup" (as opposed to Countdown) and transition to Nominal Mode 1 to 2 days after separation from the rocket (L+1 or 2 days)
For anyone looking out the window in Florida and thinking, @MissionToPsyche should have launched today, the high-level winds are actually way too high. Made the right choice!
Here's what happens after launch! An epic thread...@MissionToPsyche is ready to go, soon as weather gives us a break! The attempt on Fri. Oct. 13 (my big brother's bday, along w a great friend at SpaceX on Psyche team, so VERY good luck) is 10:19:43 AM East. time. (1/n)The "launch phase" began on day L-3 (Oct. 9) w/ launch load of parameters and final spacecraft configuration.On L-2 we had our formal Launch Readiness Review (500 people!). On L-1 lots of media events, an all-team meeting, & a looong weather discussion 🙄. And a family photo!Launch Day!Launch Team will be "On Console" (at their desks in mission ops) at T-8:30 hours (this will be ~2:30 AM local!) for the mission ops team in Florida, and T-4:00 for the mission ops teams in California.Spacecraft (s/c) power onXenon heating begins...Some things that could cause a launch hold...s/c not on internal power, xenon tank fluid is not above 27C, any of a million warnings or aborts from s/c or rocket.Battery charging beginslaunch day parameter loadT-00:27 – Transition to Internal PowerT-00:00:00 – Lift OFFLiftoff T=0:00:00Main Engine Cutoff T + 0:03:54Core separation T + 0:03:58Second Stage Engine 1 start T + 0:04:04Fairing jettison T + 0:04:16Second Stage Engine 1 Cutoff T + 0:08:24Second Stage Engine 2 start T + 0:54:03Second Stage Engine 2 Cutoff T + 0:56:12Psyche s/c deployment (Separation, or SEP) T + 1:02:24!Hoping for no rotation for Psyche s/c at tip-off, to make the s/c's next autonomous tasks quicker.After the Psyche s/c separates from the rocket, the s/c will power up its miniature inertial measurement unit (MIMU) to sense if the s/c is rotating. The MIMU will help the s/c stop any rotation before deploying solar arrays.Here is 1 of our 10 beautiful solar panels.The s/c is not pointing intentionally yet, but as soon as SEP+5.5 the DSN might catch a carrier wave signal as our low-gain antennae sweep during s/c rotation. As our launch lead Travis says: "we’re really close to Earth, the spacecraft is yelling, and DSN is sensitive."S/c then autonomously stops any rotation, begins to warm up comms system, releases and deploys +Y side solar array, stops any new rotation, and then deploys the -Y side solar array.De-rotation and solar array deployment should be complete by SEP + 21 min. Deployed arrays make the s/c 7.3 x 24.7 m.Then s/c autonomously starts to spin around s/c long axis to search for Sun. Once Sun is acquired, slew to Sun, start "rotisserie mode" which is spin like a windmill around the axis towards the Sun (+X axis).This should all be complete at some point between SEP +42 min and SEP +70 min, depending on how much rotation the s/c has to make before its sensors encounter the Sun.Once the s/c has acquired the Sun, it will enter a planned safe mode to await ground comms intervention.During this safe mode, Psyche will be spinning in rotisserie mode, and looking for Earth with a low-gain antenna.It could therefore take up to nearly 3 hours after liftoff (or about 2 hours after SEP) for engineers to acquire the first signal from Psyche......because:- SEP+21 min for solar array deploy;- longest time to acquire the Sun is SEP+75 min, and then rotisserie starts;- if at rotisserie start Earth is just past then we wait 30-40 min for the rotisserie to go all the way around & encounter Earth; around SEP +115.The launch phase ends when the spacecraft is in safe mode. The project then continues with "Countup" (as opposed to Countdown) and transition to Nominal Mode 1 to 2 days after separation from the rocket (L+1 or 2 days)https://jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia24930-psyches-mission-planGO PSYCHE!!
SpaceX recovery ship Bob is positioned ~1550km downrange to recover the fairing halves for the upcoming Falcon Heavy Psyche mission.The center core will be expended and both side boosters will RTLS to Cape Canaveral.
Launch Team will be "On Console" (at their desks in mission ops) at T-8:30 hours (this will be ~2:30 AM local!)
NASA and SpaceX teams are set to launch the Psyche mission to metal asteroid 16 Psyche from LC-39A in Florida. Falcon Heavy and Psyche are scheduled to liftoff at 10:19 AM EDT (14:19 UTC) on Friday, Oct. 13.More on the mission, launch, and asteroid ⬇️
NASA stream for launch tomorrow:
Now looking like 60% weather ok, 40% chance of weather violation — and improving!
Upcoming launch of #Psyche mission via #SpaceX's #FalconHeavy vehicle#Space #NASA
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The countdown clock is ticking at KSC as SpaceX prepares to launch the Psyche mission for @NASA atop a Falcon Heavy rocket!nsf.live/spacecoast
New weather brief: Dropping probability of violating weather rules for @MissionToPsyche to 15%! so 85% chance of weather being OK. Keep your fingers crossed that ALL the other things go well!
