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#960 by Lewis007 on 17 Apr, 2013 07:11
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Video of Texus-50 launch
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#961 by Lewis007 on 23 Apr, 2013 11:49
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The TEXUS 51 campaign has been cancelled due to technical reasons.
http://www.ssc.se/news-activities/all-news-archives/2013/texus-51-campaign-cancelled -
#962 by Lewis007 on 02 May, 2013 08:19
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It's a busy time in sounding rocket land.
Three NASA rockets were launched during the past two weeks; a Black Brant IX (mission SLICE) on April 21, another Black Brant IX (mission EUNIS) on April 23, with both launches from White Sands.
On May 1, a Terrier Orion (mission MOSC) was launched from Roi-Namur, Marshall Islands. MOSC released a Samarium vapor creating a red cloud of charged particles in the ionosphere. Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory studied the cloud as it dispersed and its impact on radio transmissions sent from multiple locations.
Source: Wallops facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/NASAWFF
More info:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/slice.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/eunis.html
Photo set for EUNIS:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_goddard/sets/72157633255000650/
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#963 by block51 on 02 May, 2013 11:46
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On May 1, a Terrier Orion (mission MOSC) was launched from Roi-Namur, Marshall Islands. MOSC released a Samarium vapor creating a red cloud of charged particles in the ionosphere. Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory studied the cloud as it dispersed and its impact on radio transmissions sent from multiple locations.
MOSC photo's lifted from a friend of mine that is working on the project out at Roi-Namur
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#964 by plutogno on 05 May, 2013 10:31
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A French M51 SLBM has been destroyed on May 5 shortly after launch
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/salle-de-presse/communiques/ministere/cp-un-missile-balistique-m51-detruit-lors-de-son-lancement -
#965 by Lewis007 on 06 May, 2013 10:52
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The launch of REXUS-14 & 13 from Kiruna have been postponed for 1 day due to strong wind shears this morning. The next launch opportunity for REXUS 14 is 06:00 on May7, with REXUS 13 following some time later.
https://www.facebook.com/Team.CERESS
For an overview of the experiments:
http://www.ssc.se/rexus-1314
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#966 by Lewis007 on 06 May, 2013 11:27
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A French M51 SLBM has been destroyed on May 5 shortly after launch
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/salle-de-presse/communiques/ministere/cp-un-missile-balistique-m51-detruit-lors-de-son-lancement
Video:
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#967 by catdlr on 06 May, 2013 15:41
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Friends of Amateur Rocketry rocket motor and flights tests for 5-4-2013
Published on May 6, 2013
This is a record of the activities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry test site in the Mojave Desert on Saturday, May 4, 2013. Includes the launch of a high power sugar fueled rocket and the first successful static firing of a 6" rocket motor for the Sugar Shot to Space project (the previous two motor tests resulted in CATOs.
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#968 by catdlr on 06 May, 2013 15:52
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DoubleSShot 6" 2-Grain Sugar Rocket Motor Test
Published on May 5, 2013
Static test of the short 2-grain DoubleSShot sugar rocket motor for the Sugar Shot to Space project. Each of the Bates grains had a mass of approximately 7kg (15 pounds) of propellant and contained about 0.1% CF for increasing tensile strength.
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#969 by Lewis007 on 07 May, 2013 09:44
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REXUS 14 was successfully launched from Esrange Space Center on May 7 at 04:00 UTC.
The rocket reached an altitude of 81, 5 km and landed approximately 40 km north of Esrange.
http://www.ssc.se/rexus-1314
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGUEkOEVrZo&feature=youtu.be
For more info on the experiments on this mission and Rexus-13 (launch either later today or tomorrow), see
http://rexuspolecats.com/
This page is of the Polecats team; a link to the other teams is on the right-hand side of the page. More info can be found on the Facebook pages of the respective teams.
ESA photos on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/esa_events/sets/72157633384875997/
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#970 by Lewis007 on 08 May, 2013 09:11
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Another sounding rocket mission took place from Roi Namur, the Marshall Islands on May 7: NASA's Equatorial Vortex Experiment (EVEX).
A Terrier-Oriole sounding rocket was launched at 3:39 a.m. EDT followed by the launch of a Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket 90 seconds later. Preliminary indications are that both rockets released their vapor clouds of lithium or trimethyl aluminum, which were observed from various locations in the area, and all science instruments on the rockets worked as planned.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.618564764840295.1073741836.191575794205863&type=1
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/news/evex.html
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#971 by Lewis007 on 10 May, 2013 09:44
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Rexus-13 (an Improved Orion sounding rocket) was launched from Kiruna at 06:00 local time on May 9, after a one-day weather delay.
Onboard were four student experiments: CERESS, MUSCAT, StrathSat-R and SOLAR.
Also check out the video of the Space Sailors experiment on Rexus-14 (the action starts 60 seconds into the video).
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#972 by Lewis007 on 10 May, 2013 11:19
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A Terrier-Improved Orion rocket was launched from Roi Namur, Marshall Islands on May 9; the second launch under the MOSC (Metal Oxide Space Cloud Experiment) program.
The rocket flew to more than 117 miles altitude and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. At approximately 113 miles altitude, the payload released a Samarium vapor cloud, which was seen at several observation sites in the neighboring islands. This allowed researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory to study the cloud as it dispersed and its impact on radio transmissions.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.619437344753037.1073741838.191575794205863&type=1
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/wallops/news/kwajpost2013.html
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#973 by Lewis007 on 13 May, 2013 15:48
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Rexus-13 (an Improved Orion sounding rocket) was launched from Kiruna at 06:00 local time on May 9, after a one-day weather delay.
Onboard were four student experiments: CERESS, MUSCAT, StrathSat-R and SOLAR.
Some more details provided by Esrange:
The student rocket REXUS 13 was launched from Esrange Space Center on May 9, at 04.00 UTC.
It reached an altitude of 83.1 kilometers and landed after 8 minutes of flight 40 km north of Esrange Space Center.
http://www.ssc.se/news-activities/all-news-archives/2013/rexus-13-launched-from-esrange-space-center
Also check out this video posted by the Muscat team of the four so-called FFUs being ejected from the rocket during the flight.
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#974 by Lewis007 on 13 May, 2013 15:50
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NASA successfully launched the Far-Ultraviolet Off Rowland Circle for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) experiment at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Science data was obtained and an assessment of the data is underway. The payload was recovered. FORTIS was launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket and flew to an altitude of approximately 174 miles.
Source: NASA Wallops Facebook.
More info:
http://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/v10n1/it-really-is-rocket-science/
and
http://hub.jhu.edu/gazette/2012/october/building-a-rocket-from-scratch -
#975 by block51 on 13 May, 2013 17:27
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NASA successfully launched the Far-Ultraviolet Off Rowland Circle for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) experiment at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Science data was obtained and an assessment of the data is underway. The payload was recovered. FORTIS was launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket and flew to an altitude of approximately 174 miles.
Source: NASA Wallops Facebook.
More info:
http://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/v10n1/it-really-is-rocket-science/
and
http://hub.jhu.edu/gazette/2012/october/building-a-rocket-from-scratch
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#976 by russianhalo117 on 14 May, 2013 16:09
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Quote from: Galactic Penguin SST on Today at 10:22:18
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2013/05-14/4817925.shtml
Google Translate of that, in case the original should evaporate:
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China once again high-altitude scientific exploration test: height higher data more
On May 14, 2013 20:57 Source: China News (5)
BEIJING, May 14 (Reporter Sun Zifa) reporter learned from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Space Science Center on the 14th, following the April 5, 2013, China successfully conducted for the first time sounding of the space environment and space science initiative test, May 13 and the success of a higher degree of high-altitude scientific exploration test.
The pilot commander, GONG Jian village Fellow, National Space Science Center, deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the active test probe test compared to the space in Danzhou, Hainan on April 5 this year, at the altitude has been greatly increased by hundreds of kilometers to more than 10,000 kilometers; equipped with a more scientific instruments, data obtained relates to a wider range of space, the amount of data is more. Preliminary analysis indicates that the test has been obtained first-hand scientific data, the vertical distribution of different heights on the space environment parameters and space science research has a very important value.
The trial, sounding rocket through the Earth's upper atmosphere and ionosphere, and finally into the magnetosphere. Sounding rocket carrying scientific instruments, space radiation in low latitudes with high-energy particles, ionospheric plasma and magnetic field distribution in situ detection. Sounding rocket released at the height of 10,000 km near the metal barium meal, barium cloud is formed in the space and ground-based optical telescope follow-up observations of the barium cloud evolution, measured to study the dynamic characteristics of this region of the magnetosphere data.
It is reported that the space scientific experiments at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, energetic particle detectors, Langmuir probe, magnetometer, the barium metal powder release device and other scientific instruments designed and developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Space Science Center, launch vehicles the Kunpeng VII "developed by the China Aerospace Science and Industry Group. (End)
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#977 by russianhalo117 on 14 May, 2013 19:49
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NASA successfully launched the Far-Ultraviolet Off Rowland Circle for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) experiment at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Science data was obtained and an assessment of the data is underway. The payload was recovered. FORTIS was launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket and flew to an altitude of approximately 174 miles.
Source: NASA Wallops Facebook.
More info:
http://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/v10n1/it-really-is-rocket-science/
and
http://hub.jhu.edu/gazette/2012/october/building-a-rocket-from-scratch
The payload was recovered but with significant damage to the experiment due to the aft looking shutter door failing on impact.
Successful Launch of FORTIS on May 11
05.13.13
UPDATE: May 13, 2013
NASA successfully launched the Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-Circle for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS) experiment at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Science data was obtained and an assessment of the data is underway. The payload was recovered. FORTIS was launched on a NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket and flew to an altitude of approximately 174 miles.
NASA will launch a new telescope designed to observe distant galaxies on a suborbital sounding rocket at 1 a.m. EDT, May 11, from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The observations will be conducted using the FORTIS (Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy) spectro/telescope developed at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Stephan McCandliss, principal investigator for the mission, said, “The goal of FORTIS is to explore the mysteries of escaping of ultraviolet radiation from the dusty confines of galaxies, using a new type of spectro/telescope with more than six times the sensitivity of our previous experiments. FORTIS can acquire spectra from forty-three individual targets simultaneously, and autonomously, within an angular region as large as the diameter of the moon (1/2 degree).”
FORTIS is to fly on a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket to an altitude of about 173 miles, providing approximately 360 seconds of exo-atmospheric observation time for FORTIS. The experiment will land via parachute approximately 50 miles from the launch site where it will be recovered. The total mission time is approximately 900 seconds from launch to landing.
More information on FORTIS, is available on the web at:
› http://hub.jhu.edu/gazette/2012/october/building-a-rocket-from-scratch
› http://krieger.jhu.edu/magazine/v10n1/it-really-is-rocket-science/
To find out more about NASA’s sounding rocket missions, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sounding-rockets/
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#978 by Lewis007 on 17 May, 2013 06:31
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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS Lake Erie (CG-70) successfully conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, resulting in the intercept of a separating ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean by the Aegis BMD 4.0 Weapon System and a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB missile.
At 5:25 p.m. (Hawaii time, 11:25 p.m. EDT), May 15, a separating short-range ballistic missile target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, on Kauai, Hawaii. The target flew northwest towards a broad ocean area of the Pacific Ocean. Following target launch, the USS Lake Erie (CG-70) detected and tracked the missile with its onboard AN/SPY-1 radar. The ship, equipped with the second-generation Aegis BMD weapon system, developed a fire control solution and launched the SM-3 Block IB missile. The SM-3 maneuvered to a point in space based on guidance from Aegis BMD Weapons Systems and released its kinetic warhead. The kinetic warhead acquired the target reentry vehicle, diverted into its path, and, using only the force of a direct impact, engaged and destroyed the target.
Initial indications are that all components performed as designed. Program officials will assess and evaluate system performance based upon telemetry and other data obtained during the test.
This test exercised the latest version of the second-generation Aegis BMD Weapon System and Standard Missile, providing capability for engagement of longer-range and more sophisticated ballistic missiles.
Last night’s event, designated Flight Test Standard Missile-19 (FTM-19), was the third consecutive successful intercept test of the Aegis BMD 4.0 Weapon System and the SM-3 Block IB guided missile. Previous successful ABMD 4.0 SM-3 Block IB intercepts occurred on May 9, 2012 and June 26, 2012. Other Aegis BMD intercepts have employed the ABMD 3.6 and 4.0 with the SM-3 Block IA missile, which is currently operational on U.S. Navy ships deployed across the globe.
source:
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=16008
photos:
http://www.mda.mil/news/gallery_aegis.html
video:
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#979 by catdlr on 17 May, 2013 20:42
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Wow, excellent quantity of video. Lot's of multi-angle and so-mo. Thanks for the post Lewis 007.