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#300 by William Graham on 26 Jun, 2009 09:35
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T+5 minutes
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#301 by William Graham on 26 Jun, 2009 09:36
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Parachute deployment confirmed
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#302 by William Graham on 26 Jun, 2009 09:40
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T+10 minutes
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#303 by William Graham on 26 Jun, 2009 09:46
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End of coverage.
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#304 by William Graham on 26 Jun, 2009 10:12
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#305 by Lewis007 on 29 Jun, 2009 06:45
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An article describing the launch is available on the Spaceref.com website: http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=31637
It reads: "Nearly 100 university instructors and students saw their experiments rise to the sky at 5:30 a.m. this morning (26 June) with the successful launch of a NASA suborbital sounding rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
During the past week the students have been at Wallops preparing their experiments through the week-long RockOn/RockSat workshop. The program is conducted in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia.
The purpose of the workshop is to provide a hands-on learning experience for future scientists and engineers that could one day be involved in flying rocket experiments. The two-stage Terrier-Orion rocket carried the experiments to an altitude of 73 miles.
The experiments were recovered and the students will begin analyzing their results this afternoon."
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#306 by Satori on 29 Jun, 2009 12:50
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Launch alert from Brian Webb...
LAUNCH ALERT
Brian Webb
Ventura County, California
[email protected]
http://www.spacearchive.info
2009 June 29 (Monday) 04:47 PDT
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VANDENBERG SUCESSFULLY LAUNCHES MINUTEMAN III
Vandenberg AFB News Release
2009 June 29
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - An unarmed Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missile configured with a National Nuclear
Security Administration test assembly launched from North Vandenberg
today at 3:01 a.m.
The launch was an operational test to verify the weapon system's
reliability and accuracy.
The missile carried three unarmed re-entry vehicles approximately
4,190 miles at speeds in excess of 24,000 mph to their pre-determined
targets near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Col. David Buck, the 30th Space Wing commander, was the mission's
launch decision authority. Lt. Col. Lesa K. Toler, the 576th Flight
Test Squadron commander, was the mission director for this test
launch.
"It's really something when you see a truly outstanding team come
together," Colonel Buck said. "As a former Top Hander myself, I know
that the Airmen of the 576th FLTS are the best of the best when it
comes to force development evaluation, and, as the 30th Space Wing
commander, I know that this is the best range team in the world. I
couldn't think of a better team to demonstrate the awesome capability
of our ICBM fleet."
Throughout the preparation and execution of the mission, maintenance
and operations task force personnel from the 91st Missile Wing out of
Minot AFB, N.D., integrated with the 576th FLTS to perform operational
tasks. Members of the 576th FLTS installed tracking, telemetry and
command destruct systems on the missile to collect data and meet 30th Space Wing safety requirements.
"These are dangerous times we're living in right now," said Colonel
Toler. "It's extremely important our combatant commander has the
capabilities he needs to perform the mission of fighting and winning
our nation's wars. Testing an operational asset pulled from the
missile field at Minot provides us confidence our weapon system is
capable of performing when needed."
The data collected will be used by the entire ICBM community,
including the United States Strategic Command planners and Department
of Energy laboratories.
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#307 by Satori on 29 Jun, 2009 12:55
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More info about this Minuteman-III launch in here.
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#308 by Yeknom-Ecaps on 29 Jun, 2009 23:02
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Minuteman 3 video from the VAFB web site
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#309 by edkyle99 on 02 Jul, 2009 04:45
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Minuteman 3 video from the VAFB web site
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090629-061.wmv
Brief "receiving end" video of RV impact at the tail end of this video. "Wow" puts it mildly.
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#310 by Yeknom-Ecaps on 02 Jul, 2009 20:07
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From NASA Wallops web site
36.244 UG GREEN/UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO 6-27-2009
36.244 UGTerrier-Black Brant was launched from White Sands Missile Range, NM on June 27, 2009.The purpose of this mission is to study the interstellar medium. The Principal Investigator is Dr. James Green, University of Colorado.
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#311 by Lewis007 on 03 Jul, 2009 07:02
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Indonesia launched a sounding rocket (RX-420) from a launch pad in Pameungpeuk, several kilometers from the town of Garut, West Java, at 08:00 local time (01:00 GMT).
The 6.2-meter rocket carried a GPS device, an accelerometer and a temperature sensor, and reached an altitude of about 50 km.
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#312 by jcm on 04 Jul, 2009 04:18
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Indonesia launched a sounding rocket (RX-420) from a launch pad in Pameungpeuk, several kilometers from the town of Garut, West Java, at 08:00 local time (01:00 GMT).
The 6.2-meter rocket carried a GPS device, an accelerometer and a temperature sensor, and reached an altitude of about 50 km.
For more information: see http://thejakartaglobe.com/national/space-agency-launches-rx-420-rocket/315934
And more info and pics at
http://www.lapan.go.id/doc_news/rx420.htm
(if only I spoke Indonesian.. but there's http://www.toggletext.com/main.cgi?page=translation)
Apogee 53 km. "Power per second 100 ton" ... I suspect this is thrust in kN, 100 kN would be reasonable but 980 kN (100 ton thrust) would be implausible for such a small rocket.
RX-320 launched 2008 May 30 and Jul 2; earlier I had seen only one RX-320 noted, and the wire story had said 2008 May 19. Two RX-100, with 1.90m long 0.11m dia 30 kg, were used to test payload sub-systems? Implication seems to be these two were launched around the same time as the RX-420
RPS (Roket Pengorbit Satelit) will use three RX-420 stages and one RX-320.
- Jonathan.
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#313 by jcm on 04 Jul, 2009 17:23
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North Korea's been launching missiles again. The launches on July 2 were reported as small anti-ship missiles, i.e. in-atmosphere. Seven launches on July 4 are being reported by S Korea's Yonhap news agency as being "Scud", which would be marginally exoatmospheric - but I'm not yet convinced that these reports are reliable.
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#314 by Yeknom-Ecaps on 14 Jul, 2009 20:18
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The flight of Flometrics' LOX-Biodiesel rocket. The engine puts out 1000lbf nominally, pushing the rocket to near Mach 1. Launched 7/11.
The rocket was built by Flometrics, http://www.flometrics.com/
The fuel was made by EERC.
The AFRL procured the fuel for Flometrics.
The rocket was launched at FAR, the Friends of Amateur Rocketry, http://far.pyroinnovations.com/
This video was recorded by Ben Brockert of Masten Space Systems, http://masten-space.com/
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#315 by hop on 15 Jul, 2009 00:46
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Pavel Podvig reports that another test of the troubled Bulava SLBM is expected soon, possibly July 15th.
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#316 by William Graham on 15 Jul, 2009 09:03
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Russia launched two R-29RMU Sineva missiles on Monday and Tuesday, from the K-117 Bryansk submarine near the North Pole.
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#317 by Olaf on 15 Jul, 2009 19:38
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Russia launched two R-29RMU Sineva missiles on Monday and Tuesday, from the K-117 Bryansk submarine near the North Pole.
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#318 by jcm on 15 Jul, 2009 21:34
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Russia launched two R-29RMU Sineva missiles on Monday and Tuesday, from the K-117 Bryansk submarine near the North Pole.
According to RIANovosti the first launch was from K-84 Ekaterinburg.
The situation is still confused but Pavel Podvig's reports suggest that
the K-84 report was an error and that both launches were from K-117.
One flight was aimed at Kamchatka, the other at Chizha. Each Sineva (R-29RMU) can carry up to 10 reentry vehicles.
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#319 by jcm on 15 Jul, 2009 21:51
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Russia launched two R-29RMU Sineva missiles on Monday and Tuesday, from the K-117 Bryansk submarine near the North Pole.
According to RIANovosti the first launch was from K-84 Ekaterinburg.
The situation is still confused but Pavel Podvig's reports suggest that
the K-84 report was an error and that both launches were from K-117.
One flight was aimed at Kamchatka, the other at Chizha. Each Sineva (R-29RMU) can carry up to 10 reentry vehicles.
Interfaks is still saying today that both were from K-117 Bryansk, but
Isvestia and RIAN (Novosti) are saying the first one was from K-84.
I conclude the latter are correct.