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#1460
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 17 Nov, 2015 09:08
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Perhaps they only assign numbers to launches from Brazil? They may be mission numbers, not vehicle serial numbers...
They have assigned numbers for VSB-30 that were flown outside Brazil, so I would presume the same for VS-40. See the listing on page 13 below for example.
http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/pres/stsc2014/tech-44E.pdf
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#1461
by
GClark
on 17 Nov, 2015 20:30
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Oh, I very much understand that. I was just hypothesizing, as it were.
Whatever they have done with other vehicles, they apparently are choosing to do it differently with VS-40 (For whatever reason - as far as we can tell ATT).
EDIT: After a quick check of Gunter and Jonathan, another possibility occurred to me - that SHEFEX was launched out of sequence and may be VS04.
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#1462
by
Skyrocket
on 17 Nov, 2015 23:27
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#1463
by
catdlr
on 17 Nov, 2015 23:55
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ANGEL Planetary Science Balloon Mission
Published on Nov 16, 2015
On September 4, 2015, NASA Glenn’s Rocket University team launched a balloon in New Mexico to demonstrate the controlled descent of a high altitude balloon payload to a predetermined landing site. The payload elevated to 120,000 feet and then disconnected from the balloon and was guided to the landing site by a paragliding parachute.
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#1464
by
jcm
on 18 Nov, 2015 00:20
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Oh, I very much understand that. I was just hypothesizing, as it were.
Whatever they have done with other vehicles, they apparently are choosing to do it differently with VS-40 (For whatever reason - as far as we can tell ATT).
EDIT: After a quick check of Gunter and Jonathan, another possibility occurred to me - that SHEFEX was launched out of sequence and may be VS04.
Yeah, it's confusing. I don't have an answer but for now I'll change SHEFEX to have no serial number and
give the new flight V03.
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#1465
by
Lewis007
on 18 Nov, 2015 07:25
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And yet another missile test: on November 17, 2015 at 15:12 MSK (12:12 UTC) the Strategic Rocket Forces carried out a successful launch of a Topol/SS-25 missile from the Kapustin Yar test site. According to the official statement, the purpose of the launch was "to test new combat payload for future ICBMs." The warhead was said to have successfully reached its target at the Sary-Shagan test range.
source:
http://russianforces.org/blog/2015/11/topol_launch_from_kapustin_yar_2.shtml
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#1466
by
marshal
on 24 Nov, 2015 00:23
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One of the Bulava missiles missed its targets
The Russian media quotes a source in the military as saying that the flight of the first of the two Bulava missiles launched from Vladimir Monomakh submarine on November 14, 2015 did not hit its targets at the Kura test site. The source said that the warheads did reach "the Kamchatka region", but not the designated targets. This suggests that the miss was fairly large.
UPDATE: Reports say that the missile was not properly prepared for the flight and as a result was damaged as it was leaving the silo. This, in turn, placed the missile on a wrong trajectory. It's not quite clear what it means. It appears that there was some physical damage to the missile that the guidance system was not able to compensate, but that was still not significant enough to abort the flight.
http://russianforces.org/blog/2015/11/one_of_the_bulava_missiles_mis.shtml
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#1467
by
catdlr
on 25 Nov, 2015 01:04
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UP Aerospace SL-10 NASA Flight Opportunities Mission
Published on Nov 24, 2015
On November 6, 2015 UP Aerospace successfully executed a mission for NASA to deploy the Maraia Earth Return Capsule. The mission reached an altitude of 75 miles above Spaceport America and landed 30 miles down range on White Sands Missile Range. The missions was UP Aerospace's 10th SpaceLoft rocket launch and the first deployment mission.
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#1468
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 25 Nov, 2015 03:41
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That was some pretty awesome video showing the payload separation from the main rocket body!
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#1469
by
Lewis007
on 25 Nov, 2015 08:06
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UP Aerospace SL-10 NASA Flight Opportunities Mission
Published on Nov 24, 2015
On November 6, 2015 UP Aerospace successfully executed a mission for NASA to deploy the Maraia Earth Return Capsule. The mission reached an altitude of 75 miles above Spaceport America and landed 30 miles down range on White Sands Missile Range. The missions was UP Aerospace's 10th SpaceLoft rocket launch and the first deployment mission.
Onboard was also a payload from Celestis
See:
http://www.celestis.com/tributeFlight.asp
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#1470
by
catdlr
on 25 Nov, 2015 22:55
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updated with new views....
SL-10 NASA Mission
Published on Nov 25, 2015
UP Aerospace's first separation mission conducted for NASA on November 6, 2015 from Spaceport America New Mexico. The launch vehicle had 4 GoPro Hero4 video cameras on-board that recorded the entire mission from different angles high definition 1080p at 120fps. The mission deployed the NASA Maraia Earth Return Capsule on its first mission into space. The capsule re-entered Earths Atmosphere over White Sands Missile Range. Three other payloads remained on-board the launch vehicle. Payloads from NASA AMES Research Center, Purdue University and New Mexico State University were along for the ride.
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#1471
by
Lewis007
on 26 Nov, 2015 07:21
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#1472
by
plutogno
on 28 Nov, 2015 09:53
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#1473
by
catdlr
on 28 Nov, 2015 23:15
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#1474
by
Skyrocket
on 02 Dec, 2015 14:03
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NASA has planned two special sounding rockets in April 2016 (NASA 12.080 DR) and July 2017 (NASA 12.081 DR). These are listed for project "Zombie". I have heard, that these are evaluation flights of sounding rocket conversions from surplus ATACMS missiles.
Has anyone more info?
Source:
http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/files/BlueBook.pdf
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#1475
by
block51
on 05 Dec, 2015 03:01
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NASA has planned two special sounding rockets in April 2016 (NASA 12.080 DR) and July 2017 (NASA 12.081 DR). These are listed for project "Zombie". I have heard, that these are evaluation flights of sounding rocket conversions from surplus ATACMS missiles.
Has anyone more info?
Source: http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/files/BlueBook.pdf
They are targets for the army. There isn't going to be much more public information than that if I had to guess.
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#1476
by
block51
on 05 Dec, 2015 03:02
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There is a sounding rocket launch schedule to launch tonight (12/4/15) at 2215 MST from WSMR. It is a NASA sounding rocket mission. Terrier Mk 70 - Black Brant V (Mk. 3), otherwise known as a Black Brant IX. The mission is carrying x-ray detectors to investigate the "local hot bubble". See the link for more info.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/dxl-2-studying-x-ray-emissions-in-space
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#1477
by
block51
on 05 Dec, 2015 16:35
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There is a sounding rocket launch schedule to launch tonight (12/4/15) at 2215 MST from WSMR. It is a NASA sounding rocket mission. Terrier Mk 70 - Black Brant V (Mk. 3), otherwise known as a Black Brant IX. The mission is carrying x-ray detectors to investigate the "local hot bubble". See the link for more info.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/dxl-2-studying-x-ray-emissions-in-space
It launched successfully at 2300 local time (MST). The side looking doors all unlatched, opened, closed, and re-latched. Science team got data. Good chute. Recovery operations will begin at 1100 MST today.
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#1478
by
Lewis007
on 06 Dec, 2015 10:54
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#1479
by
Skyrocket
on 06 Dec, 2015 11:48
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This Andoya launch was the 4th flight for NASA of the Oriole 4 vehicle and unfortunately, the system that ignites the 3rd stage motor failed to function properly and the mission was unsuccessful. The 4th stage motor did ignite as planned and the payload and empty rocket motor case landed safely into the ocean in the cleared hazard area approximately 17 km from the ASC.
(source: http://andoyaspace.no/?page_id=325)
Stricktly speaking it was the third Oriole-4, as the very first launch carried a dummy Nihka upper stage and was therfore a Oriole-3.