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#1580 by Satori on 23 Jan, 2017 22:01
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VSB-30 with the MAIUS-1 mission was launched from Kiruna at 02:30 on January 23.
MAIUS-1 is a technology demonstration microgravity mission and part of the Quantus3 project. The test of the Einstein’s equivalence principle with degenerate quantum matter is one the strategies to explore the frontier between quantum mechanics and gravity. A precise test for this equivalence is the comparisons of the free fall of ultracold clouds of different atomic species and its readout using atom interferometry. In order to increase the precision of such an interferometer the space-time-area enclosed in it has to be increased. This can be achieved by performing the experiments in a microgravity environment that allows longer interrogation times. -
#1581 by Lewis007 on 24 Jan, 2017 06:59
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More info on the MAIUS mission (and a few pics) here:
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10212/332_read-20337/#/gallery/25194
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#1582 by Satori on 30 Jan, 2017 18:41
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NASA launched PolarNOx from Poker Flat at 13:45UTC on January 27.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2017/nasa-sounding-rocket-successfully-launches-into-alaskan-night/
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#1583 by russianhalo117 on 30 Jan, 2017 18:46
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NASA launched PolarNOx from Poker Flat at 13:45UTC on January 27.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2017/nasa-sounding-rocket-successfully-launches-into-alaskan-night/
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#1584 by russianhalo117 on 04 Feb, 2017 20:04
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Raytheon
News Release
NEXT-GEN STANDARD MISSILE-3 COMPLETES FIRST INTERCEPT TEST
U.S. demonstrates enhanced capabilities of larger, more advanced missile defense interceptor
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii, Feb. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have completed the first successful intercept flight test of a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA, a defensive weapon designed to defeat short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.
Crew members onboard the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) launched a SM-3 Block IIA, which successfully engaged and destroyed a land-launched target resembling an advanced ballistic missile threat.
"The SM-3 Block IIA program continues to reflect MDA's commitment to maturing this regional ballistic missile defense capability for the defense of our nation, its deployed forces and our allies abroad," said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems president. "This test success keeps the program on track for deployment at sea and ashore in the 2018 timeframe, building on Raytheon's unequalled fifteen-year history of exo-atmospheric intercepts."
The test's primary objective was a successful intercept. The mission was also designed to evaluate key missile system performance, including the kinetic warhead, divert and attitude control system functionality, nosecone performance, steering control section function, booster performance and separation and the second and third stage rocket motor performance and separation.
The interceptor's kinetic warhead has been enhanced to best address advanced and emerging threats, with improvements to the search, discrimination, acquisition and tracking functions. The kinetic warhead, along with larger rocket motors, allows SM-3 Block IIA to engage more sophisticated threats and protect larger regions from short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats, providing greater operational flexibility.
The SM-3 Block IIA was flown twice before in successful test demonstrations, both without target intercepts, in order to fully evaluate the missile in flight and prepare for the first intercept test. Future flight tests will continue to evaluate system performance, en-route to a 2018 deployment in support of the European Phased Adaptive Approach Phase 3.
About the Standard Missile-3
SM-3s destroy incoming ballistic missile threats in space using nothing more than sheer impact, equivalent to a 10-ton truck traveling at 600 mph.
SM-3 Block IB is deployed at sea and ashore in Romania.
SM-3 Block IIA is on track for deployment at sea and ashore in 2018. B
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2016 sales of $24 billion and 63,000 employees, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of innovation spanning 95 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, C5I™ products and services, sensing, effects, and mission support for customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Follow us on Twitter
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#1585 by russianhalo117 on 04 Feb, 2017 21:41
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Raytheon
Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings
News Release
NEXT-GEN STANDARD MISSILE-3 COMPLETES FIRST INTERCEPT TEST
U.S. demonstrates enhanced capabilities of larger, more advanced missile defense interceptor
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii, Feb. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have completed the first successful intercept flight test of a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA, a defensive weapon designed to defeat short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.
Crew members onboard the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) launched a SM-3 Block IIA, which successfully engaged and destroyed a land-launched target resembling an advanced ballistic missile threat.
"The SM-3 Block IIA program continues to reflect MDA's commitment to maturing this regional ballistic missile defense capability for the defense of our nation, its deployed forces and our allies abroad," said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems president. "This test success keeps the program on track for deployment at sea and ashore in the 2018 timeframe, building on Raytheon's unequalled fifteen-year history of exo-atmospheric intercepts."
The test's primary objective was a successful intercept. The mission was also designed to evaluate key missile system performance, including the kinetic warhead, divert and attitude control system functionality, nosecone performance, steering control section function, booster performance and separation and the second and third stage rocket motor performance and separation.
The interceptor's kinetic warhead has been enhanced to best address advanced and emerging threats, with improvements to the search, discrimination, acquisition and tracking functions. The kinetic warhead, along with larger rocket motors, allows SM-3 Block IIA to engage more sophisticated threats and protect larger regions from short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats, providing greater operational flexibility.
The SM-3 Block IIA was flown twice before in successful test demonstrations, both without target intercepts, in order to fully evaluate the missile in flight and prepare for the first intercept test. Future flight tests will continue to evaluate system performance, en-route to a 2018 deployment in support of the European Phased Adaptive Approach Phase 3.
About the Standard Missile-3
SM-3s destroy incoming ballistic missile threats in space using nothing more than sheer impact, equivalent to a 10-ton truck traveling at 600 mph.
SM-3 Block IB is deployed at sea and ashore in Romania.
SM-3 Block IIA is on track for deployment at sea and ashore in 2018. B
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2016 sales of $24 billion and 63,000 employees, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of innovation spanning 95 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, C5I™ products and services, sensing, effects, and mission support for customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Follow us on Twitter
Media Contacts
Amanda Schildt
+1.571.305.3915
[email protected]
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/next-gen-standard-missile-3-completes-first-intercept-test-300402261.html
SOURCE Raytheon Company
Feb 4, 2017
U.S. Completes First Successful SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 04, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), announced today that its propulsion systems supported the first intercept flight test of Raytheon's Standard Missile-3 Block IIA guided missile.
During the SFTM-01 flight test conducted by the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency, the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor was launched from the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). The intercept test was designed to prove the effectiveness of the larger and faster SM-3 Block IIA variant in intercepting a medium range ballistic missile.
Aerojet Rocketdyne's MK 72 booster provided the first-stage propulsion on the SM-3 Block IIA and the company's Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System (TDACS) maneuvered the kinetic warhead to successfully impact the ballistic missile target.
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed a successful altitude test of the Qual-2 TDACS at the company's Sacramento, California, facility in September. This was the first of two planned qualification tests, and was a pivotal milestone leading to the successful intercept test.
"The SM-3 Block IIA TDACS is the next evolution of the extremely successful SM-3 Block IB TDACS," said Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and President Eileen Drake. "The SM-3 Block IIA TDACS allows a significantly greater area to be defended and is more producible."
The SM-3 Block IIA represents the newest generation of U.S. missile defense capabilities and is a key component of the European Phased Adaptive Approach for deployment at-sea and ashore. Larger rocket motors and key technology improvements increase the area that can be defended by missile defense efforts and increase the probability of intercept against a larger threat set. With the success of this intercept flight test, the SM-3 Block IIA is on track for deployment on land and at sea in 2018.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is an innovative company delivering solutions that create value for its customers in the aerospace and defense markets. The company is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader that provides propulsion and energetics to the space, missile defense and strategic systems, tactical systems and armaments areas, in support of domestic and international markets. Additional information about Aerojet Rocketdyne can be obtained by visiting our websites at www.Rocket.com and www.AerojetRocketdyne.com.
Contact: Glenn Mahone, Aerojet Rocketdyne, 202.302.9941
[email protected]
Lynn Machon, Aerojet Rocketdyne, 916.355.3587
[email protected]
Source: Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc.
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#1586 by russianhalo117 on 06 Feb, 2017 16:47
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Media - Lockheed MartinRaytheon
Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings
News Release
NEXT-GEN STANDARD MISSILE-3 COMPLETES FIRST INTERCEPT TEST
U.S. demonstrates enhanced capabilities of larger, more advanced missile defense interceptor
PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii, Feb. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have completed the first successful intercept flight test of a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA, a defensive weapon designed to defeat short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats.
Crew members onboard the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) launched a SM-3 Block IIA, which successfully engaged and destroyed a land-launched target resembling an advanced ballistic missile threat.
"The SM-3 Block IIA program continues to reflect MDA's commitment to maturing this regional ballistic missile defense capability for the defense of our nation, its deployed forces and our allies abroad," said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems president. "This test success keeps the program on track for deployment at sea and ashore in the 2018 timeframe, building on Raytheon's unequalled fifteen-year history of exo-atmospheric intercepts."
The test's primary objective was a successful intercept. The mission was also designed to evaluate key missile system performance, including the kinetic warhead, divert and attitude control system functionality, nosecone performance, steering control section function, booster performance and separation and the second and third stage rocket motor performance and separation.
The interceptor's kinetic warhead has been enhanced to best address advanced and emerging threats, with improvements to the search, discrimination, acquisition and tracking functions. The kinetic warhead, along with larger rocket motors, allows SM-3 Block IIA to engage more sophisticated threats and protect larger regions from short- to intermediate-range ballistic missile threats, providing greater operational flexibility.
The SM-3 Block IIA was flown twice before in successful test demonstrations, both without target intercepts, in order to fully evaluate the missile in flight and prepare for the first intercept test. Future flight tests will continue to evaluate system performance, en-route to a 2018 deployment in support of the European Phased Adaptive Approach Phase 3.
About the Standard Missile-3
SM-3s destroy incoming ballistic missile threats in space using nothing more than sheer impact, equivalent to a 10-ton truck traveling at 600 mph.
SM-3 Block IB is deployed at sea and ashore in Romania.
SM-3 Block IIA is on track for deployment at sea and ashore in 2018. B
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2016 sales of $24 billion and 63,000 employees, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of innovation spanning 95 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, C5I™ products and services, sensing, effects, and mission support for customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. Follow us on Twitter
Media Contacts
Amanda Schildt
+1.571.305.3915
[email protected]
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/next-gen-standard-missile-3-completes-first-intercept-test-300402261.html
SOURCE Raytheon Company
Feb 4, 2017
U.S. Completes First Successful SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 04, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), announced today that its propulsion systems supported the first intercept flight test of Raytheon's Standard Missile-3 Block IIA guided missile.
During the SFTM-01 flight test conducted by the U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency, the SM-3 Block IIA interceptor was launched from the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). The intercept test was designed to prove the effectiveness of the larger and faster SM-3 Block IIA variant in intercepting a medium range ballistic missile.
Aerojet Rocketdyne's MK 72 booster provided the first-stage propulsion on the SM-3 Block IIA and the company's Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System (TDACS) maneuvered the kinetic warhead to successfully impact the ballistic missile target.
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed a successful altitude test of the Qual-2 TDACS at the company's Sacramento, California, facility in September. This was the first of two planned qualification tests, and was a pivotal milestone leading to the successful intercept test.
"The SM-3 Block IIA TDACS is the next evolution of the extremely successful SM-3 Block IB TDACS," said Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO and President Eileen Drake. "The SM-3 Block IIA TDACS allows a significantly greater area to be defended and is more producible."
The SM-3 Block IIA represents the newest generation of U.S. missile defense capabilities and is a key component of the European Phased Adaptive Approach for deployment at-sea and ashore. Larger rocket motors and key technology improvements increase the area that can be defended by missile defense efforts and increase the probability of intercept against a larger threat set. With the success of this intercept flight test, the SM-3 Block IIA is on track for deployment on land and at sea in 2018.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is an innovative company delivering solutions that create value for its customers in the aerospace and defense markets. The company is a world-recognized aerospace and defense leader that provides propulsion and energetics to the space, missile defense and strategic systems, tactical systems and armaments areas, in support of domestic and international markets. Additional information about Aerojet Rocketdyne can be obtained by visiting our websites at www.Rocket.com and www.AerojetRocketdyne.com.
Contact: Glenn Mahone, Aerojet Rocketdyne, 202.302.9941
[email protected]
Lynn Machon, Aerojet Rocketdyne, 916.355.3587
[email protected]
Source: Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc.
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Next Generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System Successfully Engages Medium Range Ballistic Missile Target
Aegis Weapon System test supports the U.S. Phased Adaptive Approach to protect Europe from attack
USS JOHN PAUL JONES, Feb. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The USS JOHN PAUL JONES, supported by the U.S. Navy, Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), used the latest evolution of its Aegis Combat System to detect, track, engage and launch a missile to intercept a Medium Range Ballistic Missile target.
This exercise marked the first shipboard demonstration of the Aegis Baseline 9.2 (BMD 5.1) Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) tracking and engagement capabilities against more complex threats with increased battle space in support of the U.S. Phased Adaptive Approach to protect Europe from ballistic missile attack.
The test, called Standard Missile-3 Block IIA Cooperative Development Flight Test Maritime – 1 (SFTM-1), demonstrated the integrated capabilities of the Aegis Weapon System and how it has continually evolved to counter advanced threats. SFTM-1 is a development test that supports BMD 5.1 certification expected in 2018.
"Aegis continues to help sailors pace the threat thanks to upgrades we call baselines that leverage our extensive Common Source Library. With each baseline, Lockheed Martin brings advanced missile defense capabilities and enhanced integration with other systems external to the ship," said Paul Klammer, director, Aegis BMD. "This exercise included a series of tests to verify the operation of the BMD 5.1 Aegis Weapon System on board ship. We're proud of the Navy and Missile Defense Agency working together with our Lockheed Martin engineers to make this complicated test a success."
BMD 5.1 is the third generation of Aegis BMD capability and delivering the program to the Navy and the Missile Defense Agency is critical. Under this baseline configuration, Aegis merges BMD and anti-air warfare into its Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) capability using commercial-off-the-shelf and open architecture technologies.
This test builds upon joint research investments by the United States and Japan. Lockheed Martin is developing a Baseline 9/BMD 5.1 variant computer program, referred to as J7, for deployment on Japan's Aegis destroyers.
This test also builds on prior Baseline 9 successes, when Aegis demonstrated its advanced IAMD capabilities and was certified by the Navy and Missile Defense Agency. As the targets and threats have become more advanced, Aegis BMD has evolved over the last 20 years from a tracking experiment to today's capability in which it can detect, track and engage targets.
The central component of the Lockheed Martin-developed Aegis BMD Combat System is the SPY-1 radar; the most widely-fielded naval phased array radar in the world. The Aegis system and SPY-1 radar provide the U.S. and allied nations with advanced surveillance, anti-air warfare and missile defense capabilities.
As a proven world leader in systems integration and development of air and missile defense systems and technologies, Lockheed Martin delivers high-quality missile defense solutions that protect citizens, critical assets and deployed forces from current and future threats. The company's experience spans missile design and production, hit-to-kill capabilities, infrared seekers, command and control/battle management, and communications, precision pointing and tracking optics, radar and signal processing, as well as threat-representative targets for missile defense tests.
For additional information, visit our website: www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/aegis/evolutionary-design.html#bmd
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 97,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services.
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#1587 by Steven Pietrobon on 07 Feb, 2017 02:12
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Israel and U.S. Successfully Complete David’s Sling Weapon System Intercept Test Series (DST-5). The interceptor sure has a funny shaped nose. The target missile is called "Black Sparrow". It helps identification when they write the name on the missile! :-)
https://www.mda.mil/news/17news0001.html
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#1588 by edkyle99 on 09 Feb, 2017 15:08
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A Minuteman 3 missile was launched from VAFB LF-10 at 07:38:59 Zulu (UTC) on February 9, 2017. The missile, pulled from a Minot AFB silo, was aimed toward Kwajalein. A 91st Missile Wing crew conducted the launch. This was GT-221GM. The launch was delayed one day by a VAFB contractor strike.
https://www.stripes.com/news/air-force/air-force-test-launches-minuteman-missile-from-california-1.453221
- Ed Kyle
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#1589 by russianhalo117 on 10 Feb, 2017 03:58
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A Minuteman 3 missile was launched from VAFB LF-10 at 07:38:59 Zulu (UTC) on February 9, 2017. The missile, pulled from a Minot AFB silo, was aimed toward Kwajalein. A 91st Missile Wing crew conducted the launch. This was GT-221GM. The launch was delayed one day by a VAFB contractor strike.
RTV was reported by bystanders to be an MMIII MIRV test: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39426.msg1640473#msg1640473
https://www.stripes.com/news/air-force/air-force-test-launches-minuteman-missile-from-california-1.453221
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#1590 by SgtPoivre on 10 Feb, 2017 07:20
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I thought that through START treaties the US agreed to put only one RV on the MM3 ?A Minuteman 3 missile was launched from VAFB LF-10 at 07:38:59 Zulu (UTC) on February 9, 2017. The missile, pulled from a Minot AFB silo, was aimed toward Kwajalein. A 91st Missile Wing crew conducted the launch. This was GT-221GM. The launch was delayed one day by a VAFB contractor strike.
RTV was reported by bystanders to be an MMIII MIRV test: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39426.msg1640473#msg1640473
https://www.stripes.com/news/air-force/air-force-test-launches-minuteman-missile-from-california-1.453221
- Ed Kyle
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#1591 by edkyle99 on 10 Feb, 2017 15:00
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I thought that through START treaties the US agreed to put only one RV on the MM3 ?
I think you are correct - that Minuteman is constrained to one warhead by treaty. However, there is this backdrop.
Did the New START remove that constraint or is the Air Force preparing for a withdrawal to this treaty?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world/europe/russia-missiles-inf-treaty.html?_r=0
It makes me wonder if this launch - which seemed to have been publicized more than usual - wasn't meant as a message.
On the other hand, I'm no expert on treaty provisions regarding test flights. Perhaps MIRV tests are allowed but MIRV deployments are not. Or, perhaps, it is only the total number of warheads on all platforms that matter and MIRVs are not specifically prohibited. There is a good review of everything here.
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL33640.pdf
And a 2014 USAF press release highlights the completion of Minuteman de-MIRVing.
http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/485611/malmstrom-completes-final-minuteman-iii-configuration.aspx
By the way, the USAF press release for this launch was particular in stating that "The ICBM's reentry vehicles, which contained telemetry packages used for operational testing, traveled approximately 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands."
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#1592 by russianhalo117 on 10 Feb, 2017 15:22
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one of my cousins and my older sister both work in the field on the communications side said that it was highly likely a show of force and reminder to certain growing regional and international threats in the Pacific Theater to which my family member did not name (PRC and DPRK for starters).I thought that through START treaties the US agreed to put only one RV on the MM3 ?
I think you are correct - that Minuteman is constrained to one warhead by treaty. However, there is this backdrop.
Did the New START remove that constraint or is the Air Force preparing for a withdrawal to this treaty?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/world/europe/russia-missiles-inf-treaty.html?_r=0
It makes me wonder if this launch - which seemed to have been publicized more than usual - wasn't meant as a message.
I'm not sure about treaty provisions regarding test flights. Perhaps MIRV tests are allowed but MIRV deployments are not.
By the way, the USAF press release was particular in stating that "The ICBM's reentry vehicles, which contained telemetry packages used for operational testing, traveled approximately 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands."
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#1593 by Lewis007 on 23 Feb, 2017 06:47
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The first of two ISINGLASS rockets was launched with a Black Brant IX rocket from Poker Flat on February 22, 2017 (mission 36.030 UE).
The Ionospheric Structuring: In Situ and Ground based Low Altitude StudieS (ISINGLASS) sounding rocket mission sampled multiple locations simultaneously in the auroral ionosphere to take gradient measurements of plasma parameters. Two identical rockets were flown into two separate events (ie, quiet early evening arc vs dynamic rayed arc); each rocket had a large subpayload, and four small deployable payloads.
The in situ measurements of plasma parameters at multiple locations will be stitched together using ground based measurements and data assimilation to produce a localized map of plasma parameters and gradients. The information gained in this process is also being applied to a CubeSat swarm concept to sample the aurora via localized multipoint measurements on orbital spacecraft. The multipoint measurements of auroral ionosphere are made using the PIP (Petite Ion Probe) retarding potential analyser sensor. The PIPs were carried by 4 deployable payloads known as Bobs. The Bob payloads were ejected from the main payload using springs. Each Bob payload contained an Arduino and associated shield board as a spacecraft bus, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) for attitude information, 2 PIP sensors, a rechargeable battery pack for power, an LED beacon package, and a crossed-dipole antenna for transmission of data back to the main payload. Data from the separable payloads was transmitted back to the Bob-mains onboard the main payload, which captured the data from the ejectables via the DNT 900 radio link, and passed the data to the main payload TM. In addition, six PIPs were also be located on the main payload, and their data was passed to the Wallops TM through onboard Arduinos and shields. The main payload also carried a precipitation sensor Acute Precipitating Electron Spectrometer (APES), a scientific magnetometer, and a thermal electron plasma sensor, Electron Retarding Potential Analyzer (ERPA).
A significant ground-based sensor array, including the use of PFISR, and a modelling/assimilation analysis, completed the mission.
The Principal Investigator is Dr. Kristina Lynch/Dartmouth College.
More on NASA.gov: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/Wallops/2017/1-down-3-to-go-sounding-rocket-flies-in-alaska-to-study-aurora
source: https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/news/story204_Lynch_36.303.html
Launchpreps pics: https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/news/story204_Lynch_36.303.html
launchpic: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=133184
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#1594 by Steven Pietrobon on 24 Feb, 2017 05:00
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The first of two ISINGLASS rockets was launched with a Black Brant IX rocket from Poker Flat on February 22, 2017 (mission 36.030 UE).
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#1595 by Lewis007 on 03 Mar, 2017 08:45
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Three Black Brant 9 rockets were launched from Poker Flat on March 1: ISINGLASS-2 (36.304 UE) plus two others to study Neutral Jets associated with Auroral Arcs (36.301 and 36.306 GE; PI: Robert Pfaff).
For more info; see
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/wallops/2017/three-rockets-launched-within-hours-explore-auroras-over-alaska
https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/news/story204_Lynch_36.303.html
https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/news/story203_Pfaff_36.301_306.html
For pics of the preps of the Pfaff mission, see:
https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/news/story203_Pfaff_36.301_306.html
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#1596 by Lewis007 on 21 Mar, 2017 07:46
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The Rexus-21 and -22 rockets with student experiments onboard were launched from Kiruna on March 15 and 16, respectively.
See: http://www.sscspace.com/news-activities/all-news-archives/2017/student-rockets-successfully-launched
More info (in German): http://www.dlr.de/dlr/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-21754/#/gallery/26569
Video of Rexus-21 launch:
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#1597 by Steven Pietrobon on 21 Mar, 2017 08:25
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Here is REXUS 22
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#1598 by Lewis007 on 23 Mar, 2017 10:41
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For a photo set of the Rexus-21 & 22 missions, see:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154545938042123.1073741884.375803267122&type=3 -
#1599 by Steven Pietrobon on 07 Apr, 2017 03:19
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Maxus 9 launching on 7 April at 0730 UTC.
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2017/04/Taking_it_to_the_Supermax
https://twitter.com/SSC_Rockets