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#680
by
jcm
on 23 Jul, 2011 01:17
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41.092 GO / Rosanova launched successfully from WFF at 7:58 am on 7/21/2011. This was the first mission that I have been assigned to (I am a mechanical engineer working for a contractor for NASA at WFF) as the payload mechanical engineer from the mission initiation through mission closeout to launch from Wallops! I've had one other from White Sands (WSMR) and another that I wasn't on the entire mission from WFF.
The vehicle was a Mk. 12 Terrier - Improved Orion.
The payload was a student experiment carrier designed to be parachute recovered from the ocean surface.
I can provide details if anyone is interested.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/news/july21postlaunch.html
Nice! Yes please... in particular, do you have the apogee reached and the mass of the payload section?
This payload was Rocksat-X, done in collaboration with the Colorado Space Grant consortium, if I understand correctly.
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#681
by
Lewis007
on 23 Jul, 2011 09:53
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No additional info (other than stated above) is available on the Wallops site or the Wallops twitter page, except for a picture of the launch.
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#682
by
Lewis007
on 23 Jul, 2011 17:21
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Here's a video of the recovery of the Rocksat payload (launch July 21, Wallops).
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#683
by
Salo
on 24 Jul, 2011 10:45
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#684
by
Salo
on 24 Jul, 2011 10:53
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#685
by
jcm
on 25 Jul, 2011 02:20
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#686
by
block51
on 25 Jul, 2011 12:16
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41.092 GO / Rosanova launched successfully from WFF at 7:58 am on 7/21/2011. This was the first mission that I have been assigned to (I am a mechanical engineer working for a contractor for NASA at WFF) as the payload mechanical engineer from the mission initiation through mission closeout to launch from Wallops! I've had one other from White Sands (WSMR) and another that I wasn't on the entire mission from WFF.
The vehicle was a Mk. 12 Terrier - Improved Orion.
The payload was a student experiment carrier designed to be parachute recovered from the ocean surface.
I can provide details if anyone is interested.
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/news/july21postlaunch.html
Nice! Yes please... in particular, do you have the apogee reached and the mass of the payload section?
This payload was Rocksat-X, done in collaboration with the Colorado Space Grant consortium, if I understand correctly.
I haven't heard exact numbers on apogee yet, but I think it was on the order of 120 km. The launch configuration of the payload weighed about 650 lb.
This launch was for the Rocksat-X project. UCSGC served as the payload integrator and our (from the sounding rocket program side of things) contact through which all information was feed to students. The UCSGC group was real pleasure to work with as our primary point of contact. For that matter all the teams were great to work with. Enthusiastic, always asking questions, very willing to listen to friendly suggestions, etc. From everything I can gather it was a very good learning experience for all the teams.
UCSGC had a camera payload. I'll see what I can do about getting some of that video posted to youtube. At least some screen shots. They got some real amazing footage!
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#687
by
block51
on 25 Jul, 2011 13:51
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The pictures are all pretty self explanatory.
You can make out Assateague Island an Wallops Island in the first 4 pictures. For that matter you can make at the main land as well. Chincoteague and Assawoman are also visible. I'm sure more are too but that's the limit of my knowledge for having lived here for only 2 years!
The second to last photo shows the deploying probe that the University of Northern Colorado.
Thanks to the Colorado Space Grant Consortium team for the video from which I captured the pictures!
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#688
by
Satori
on 27 Jul, 2011 17:08
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A Minuteman-III was destroyed during a flight test from Vandenberg AFB on July 27.
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#689
by
Salo
on 27 Jul, 2011 18:14
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#690
by
William Graham
on 27 Jul, 2011 20:00
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A Minuteman-III was destroyed during a flight test from Vandenberg AFB on July 27.
According to the USAF, the RSO destroyed the vehicle when it was flying northeast of Roi-Namur, about five minutes into its flight.
This is the first Minuteman launch failure since May 2000, and the eleventh Minuteman III failure in total (according to an archived version of Astronautix)
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#691
by
William Graham
on 27 Jul, 2011 22:10
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Ed, do you know which previous Minuteman III launches failed?
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#692
by
edkyle99
on 28 Jul, 2011 03:11
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#693
by
jcm
on 28 Jul, 2011 05:06
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Thanks Ed *blush*
I'm puzzled by the Roi-Namur comment. Roi-Namur is at Kwajalein. It takes about 30 minutes for a Minuteman to get from Vandenberg to Kwaj. So I would think that
5 minutes in the missile would be way, way closer to California than to Roi-Namur.
It *is* true that California is northeast of Roi-Namur. But that's like saying "Northeast of Lubbock, Texas" when what you mean is "In the suburbs of New York City".
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#694
by
FinalFrontier
on 31 Jul, 2011 07:43
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Any idea on why this missile failed? Pretty disconcerting that something we rely on for national defense had to be terminated in flight, but these things do happen, its rocketry after all.
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#695
by
Space Lizard
on 03 Aug, 2011 14:07
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I count 8 failures:
24 Oct 1968 - FTM-202
12 Apr 1969 - FTM-210
13 Mar 1970 - FTM-212
28 Aug 1986 - GT-117GM
04 Nov 1992 - GT-150GM
20 Feb 1998 - GT-166GB
24 May 2000 - FTM-02
27 Jul 2011 - GT-205GM
Am I wrong?
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#696
by
edkyle99
on 03 Aug, 2011 18:49
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I count 8 failures:
24 Oct 1968 - FTM-202
12 Apr 1969 - FTM-210
13 Mar 1970 - FTM-212
28 Aug 1986 - GT-117GM
04 Nov 1992 - GT-150GM
20 Feb 1998 - GT-166GB
24 May 2000 - FTM-02
27 Jul 2011 - GT-205GM
Am I wrong?
The lists that I follow (JCM's, Gunter's,
http://www.spacearchive.info/vafblog.htm, and even Astronautix) do not show failures for FTM-202 or GT117GM.
There are different "layers" of success/failure for missile tests, depending on the listing. Most will call a successful down-range propulsion performance that aims the warhead bus in the right direction and velocity a success. Other stuff can happen downrange involving RV separation, spin up, reentry, and target performance, etc. We may not know the true story about the latter part of every test flight for years or decades. For now, each launch is generally considered a success unless the Air Force says it failed - which usually means that an RSO command was transmitted.
- Ed Kyle
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#697
by
Salo
on 09 Aug, 2011 08:37
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The Indian army is due within 45 days to test-launch versions of the country's nuclear-capable Agni 1 and Agni 2 ballistic missiles.
Separately, the Indian military has announced plans to conduct a first flight test of the Agni 5 missile in December.
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110808_3147.php
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#698
by
Salo
on 24 Aug, 2011 23:07
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#699
by
Olaf
on 27 Aug, 2011 12:50
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