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#2280 by Fmedici on 04 Feb, 2024 19:07
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According to their post t-minus are only launching two t-minus darts in the time window of the notice.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7158457069522636800/QuoteToday the first group of the T-Minus launch team left for a road trip: up to the High North, to Esrange Space Center.
They bring the T-Minus mobile launcher, from which we will conduct two launches of the T-Minus DART to space next week. This is done in the PRIME campaign. The rockets will carry scientific payloads made by the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), to study the upper atmosphere.
The rockets will be launched from the newly established Launch Complex 3 at Esrange, from which future orbital missions will be launched. T-Minus will have the honour to use the brand new Launch Vehicle Integration Building for preparations as well as Pad 3A for placing the mobile launcher.
#TME #Rocket #DART #KTH #EsrangeSwedish Space Corporation has an incoming launch window stretching from 5 to 11 February. The safety notice mentions five expected rocket launches. Two of them should be TEXUS 59 and TEXUS 60 (initially scheduled for January per their Rocket and Balloon Activities page), the other three T-MINUS Dart launches.
That's interesting, I wonder what is the fifth launch then. There's MAPHEUS 14 that per their Rocket and Balloon Activities page has a launch window opening on 12 February, maybe it has been anticipated or maybe it is something entirely different. -
#2281 by Fmedici on 10 Feb, 2024 08:26
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#2282 by Nico from the Hague on 10 Feb, 2024 19:12
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One of the DART was launched last wednesday. It was a (partial) failure due to premature deployment of the payload. The other launch was cancelled.Quote
This Wednesday a T-Minus DART was launched successfully from Launch Complex 3 at Esrange Space Center.
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#2283 by Fmedici on 18 Feb, 2024 07:07
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TEXUS 59 was launched on 15 February at 14:42:00 UTC using a VSB-30 rocket. TEXUS-60 is scheduled for 20 February. Below there's a link to the YouTube webcast, with the launch taking place at 1:48:03 into the live. Attached there's a summary of the payloads from Airbus Space.
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#2284 by Steven Pietrobon on 21 Feb, 2024 05:47
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TEXUS 59 launch.
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#2285 by Star One on 21 Feb, 2024 09:45
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Trident missile test fails for second time in a row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395
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#2286 by edkyle99 on 21 Feb, 2024 21:11
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Trident missile test fails for second time in a row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395
Two legs of the "Triad" - Minuteman III and Trident - have failed their most recent tests. Not good.
This is the first UK test since a previous failure of the UK Trident.
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#2287 by ErickSoares3 on 24 Feb, 2024 22:59
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For anyone interested in historical stuff, I've found this old PD Brazilian government newsreel on a 1973 Black Brant VC launch from the Barreira do Inferno Launch Center, in a mission operated by a Brazilian, American and German team.
Video on Commons. (as of Feb. 24, 2024, there's some glitch on the Commons player, so you need to choose the “source quality” to hear the audio.) -
#2288 by jcm on 26 Feb, 2024 22:46
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For anyone interested in historical stuff, I've found this old PD Brazilian government newsreel on a 1973 Black Brant VC launch from the Barreira do Inferno Launch Center, in a mission operated by a Brazilian, American and German team.
Video on Commons. (as of Feb. 24, 2024, there's some glitch on the Commons player, so you need to choose the “source quality” to hear the audio.)
For context, four BBVC rockets were launched from BdI on 1973 Feb 1 to Feb 16,
as part of a DLR (German) progam to study the upper atmosphere.
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#2289 by catdlr on 27 Feb, 2024 06:44
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MAPHEUS 14 Launch (advance to 43:42 at T-2 seconds)
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#2290 by Rik ISS-fan on 27 Feb, 2024 22:51
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Mapheus-14 was the first mission launched by the RK-IM (RedKite- Improved Malemute) suborbital rocket. Both stages were provide by Bayern Chemie. So it's rather significant for the european sub-orbital space program.
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#2291 by edkyle99 on 02 Mar, 2024 16:55
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Yars ICBM launch on March 1, 2024, from Plesetsk I think. Multiple RVs to Kura Range, Kamchatka.
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#2292 by Steven Pietrobon on 03 Mar, 2024 02:06
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Screen grab of the launch of Mapheus 14.
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#2293 by Star One on 07 Mar, 2024 08:17
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In the coming days, the #USAF will conduct a new ARRW/AGM-183A hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) test in the Pacific. It seems it aims at simulating an operational mission of a B-52H bomber taking off from Guam, flying ~4000 km before releasing a live weapon...
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#2294 by Fmedici on 10 Mar, 2024 08:05
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#2295 by catdlr on 12 Mar, 2024 04:05
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A full broadcast video, and a shortened launch video in the following post.
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#2296 by catdlr on 12 Mar, 2024 04:46
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Here is a summary video
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#2297 by Rik ISS-fan on 13 Mar, 2024 23:45
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The updates about the S50/ VS50 / VLM launcher lead me to the following.
Apparently there was some logistical trouble around the TEXUS-59 and 60 launch campaigns, with getting the motors at Esrange. Germany sent one of their Luftwaffe (airforce) A400m to Brazil to transport the motors to Esrange. If I analyzed the pictures correctly, they transported 3x S31 and 4x S30 with the flight, so 7 motors in total.
https://foguetesbrasileiros.com/ & 2
luftwaffe-bringt-raketenmotoren-fuer-die-raumfahrt-nach-kiruna
DLR designed the S31, and I think the Red Kite is the same motor but produced by Bayern Chemie.
Most likely the amount of S31 (and S30) stages DLR MoRaBa utilizes will reduce considerably. Because they prefer using Red Kite and Improved Malemute motors from Bayern Chemie.
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#2298 by MiqBos on 14 Mar, 2024 09:32
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Hello!
Your post has sparked my interest to research about this new sounding rocket.
I couldn't find how the last rockets were transported from Brazil to Sweden, and therefore if the air transport with the A400M was an extraordinary measure or not.
Anyway, I find the Red Kite rocket developments very interesting. The best source I found was this paper:
https://elib.dlr.de/197879/1/2022_06%20Scheuerpflug%2C%20Kuhn%20et%20al.%2C%20%20Development%20and%20Performance%20of%20the%20Red%20Kite.pdf
It includes detailed information about the rocket motor and the possible launch configurations. They include a possible combination with a Black Brant Mk4 as a second stage.
About the Red Kite it is a new design, kind of as big as the S30 but with the quick burn rate of the S31 (and quite more powerful than it).
The performance seems quite good, specially in combination with an Improved Malemute second stage (even better than VSB-30 [S31+S30]).
I found the data about these missions launched from ESRANGE:
- Texus 59 - VSB-30 - payload mass: 388.0 kg - Apogee: 264.5 km
- Mapheus 14 - RK-IM - payload mass: 442.8 kg - Apogee: 265.2 km
It may be able to replace de VSB-30 completely.
Recently, it was announced that the production of Patriot PAC-2 missile will be restarted in Germany. Therefore, it will be possible to buy newly made Improved Malemute rockets.
https://esut.de/en/2024/01/meldungen/46657/800-patriot-flugkoerper-zur-raketenabwehr-fuer-deutschland-und-drei-andere-nato-staaten-bestellt/
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#2299 by Rik ISS-fan on 14 Mar, 2024 15:29
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REXUS 31 was also launched today.
Link Rexus Bexus for the student payloads launched with REXUS 31 and 32.
launch @45min into the video.