Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon 9 - JCSAT-14 - May 6, 2016 - UPDATES (Read 209147 times)

shm6666 · « **Reply #260 on:** 05/06/2016 07:55 am »

Congratz to SpaceX! Nice liftoff, landing and depoyment of JCSAT 14.

tyrred · « **Reply #261 on:** 05/06/2016 07:55 am »

Wow, watched this live while working late night and was totally prepared for ASDS camera to show a bright glow from descending S1 suicide burn and then KABOOM...

But nooooooooo! There's a rocket landed on that ship!

Kudos, SpaceX! You've done it again, this time hot to trot!

CraigLieb · « **Reply #262 on:** 05/06/2016 08:16 am »

Congrats to SpaceX, looking forward to watching FH in person.

Norm38 · « **Reply #263 on:** 05/06/2016 08:33 am »

I'll give my 3am congrats. Set an alarm, slept through it, woke up to see very good news.
Another landing, paradigm shift well underway.

cebri · « **Reply #264 on:** 05/06/2016 08:51 am »

Wow. I completly missed the launch (and landing haha). Guess SpaceX CC facilities will be getting bigger soon.

Ben the Space Brit · « **Reply #265 on:** 05/06/2016 09:08 am »

Well done to SpaceX for making this look so routine and unspectacular!

I think that special congratulations are in order to the team that developed this new EDL pattern for post-GTO landings; the company was blowing cold on the likelihood of a successful recovery and yet they managed to get it more accurate than the last! It's possible that they may have the low-margin return problem licked now!

Any word from JSAT Corporation about the spacecraft?

cartman · « **Reply #266 on:** 05/06/2016 09:12 am »

Quote

May 6, 2016
SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation
Notice Regarding Successful Launch of
The JCSAT-14 Communications Satellite

SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President and
Chief Executive Officer: Shinji Takada; “SKY Perfect JSAT”), announces the successful launch of the
JCSAT-14 communications satellite.

JCSAT-14 was launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station in the U.S. state of Florida at 2:21 p.m. on May 6, 2016 Japan Standard Time .The satellite was
separated from the lunch vehicle at 2:53 p.m. JST.

Moving forward, satellite operations will begin once in-orbit testing verifies JCSAT-14 satellite’s
nominal performance.

JCSAT-14 is a communications satellite with Ku and C-bands, and will replace JCSAT-2A at the 154
degrees East longitude. The satellite will provide Ku-band coverage over Japan and the Asia-Pacific region,
and extends coverage beyond Asia and Oceania into Russia as well as Pacific Island nations in C-band.
Making full use of JCSAT-14, SKY Perfect JSAT intends to boost global businesses in new and
emerging markets.

1. Launch date and time : Friday, May 6, 2016 2:21 p.m. (Japan Standard Time)
2. Launch site : Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA
3. Launch vehicle : Falcon 9 (SpaceX)
4. Satellite bus : SSL1300 (Space Systems Loral)
5. Satellite specifications : (1) Frequencies: Ku and C-bands
(2) Coverage area:
Japan, Asia, Oceania, Russia, Pacific region
(3) Design life: 15 years
6. Planned orbital slot : 154 degrees East longitud

SimonFD · « **Reply #267 on:** 05/06/2016 09:19 am »

Well done SpaceX!! Another tricky milestone achieved

input~2 · « **Reply #268 on:** 05/06/2016 09:40 am »

2 objects have been cataloged by USSTRATCOM

2016-028A/41471 in 189 x 35957 km x 23.70°
2016-028B/41472 in 187 x 35908 km x 23.73°

neoforce · « **Reply #269 on:** 05/06/2016 10:26 am »

Congrats to SpaceX!

Had decided to sleep through this one and watch the replays. Then I had a weird (but cool) post-apocalyptic dream ending with the death of all humanity. That of course wakes me up. So I glance at time and realize SpaceX launch is imminent. Got the webcast going at T-9. Was so happy to watch a successful launch and the sticking another (much more challenging trajectory) barge landing. Then right back to sleep. Perfect for me, just like it was perfect for SpaceX!!

ugordan · « **Reply #270 on:** 05/06/2016 10:57 am »

A couple of remote camera views:

linxiaoyi · « **Reply #271 on:** 05/06/2016 11:09 am »

2016-028A/41471 in 189 x 35957 km x 23.70°
2016-028B/41472 in 187 x 35908 km x 23.73°

montyrmanley · « **Reply #272 on:** 05/06/2016 11:23 am »

Congrats on another successful launch (and landing), SpaceX!

parham55 · « **Reply #273 on:** 05/06/2016 11:39 am »

Congratulations on a successful mission! Hard work paying off. And thanks to NSF for letting me relive the experience this morning.

kcrick · « **Reply #274 on:** 05/06/2016 11:58 am »

Congrats to SpaceX on yet another successful launch and landing!!!

Herb Schaltegger · « **Reply #275 on:** 05/06/2016 11:58 am »

Went to bed last night, thinking this one was likely to go like SES-9. Woke up to the stream of Elon and SpaceX tweets and immediately saw the pics. WOW! Congrats to the entire SpaceX team, their customer, the range and launch support assets, and good luck/safe travels to the recovery crews at sea over the next few days.

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Rocket Science · « **Reply #276 on:** 05/06/2016 12:18 pm »

Congrats to to all the teams, well done!

Thank you NSF for the coverage which will allow me to get caught up and up to speed!

TOG · « **Reply #277 on:** 05/06/2016 12:22 pm »

Once again well done SpaceX and NSF!

To the question of what "experimental landing" is next, that would be a 5 engine burn. Of course that would also be one each on the two side boosters, and three on the main core!

Bravo team. Excellent work making the impossible look routine!

MarekCyzio · « **Reply #278 on:** 05/06/2016 12:22 pm »

Last night's photo after some Lightroom fiddling.

MattMason · « **Reply #279 on:** 05/06/2016 12:58 pm »

Well, that was worth waking up to see.

The bingo winners are going to especially contentious.

It's cool to land one vehicle three times, but there is something cooler about landing three different stages in three different locations and three different levels of fuel variance and entry speeds.

Congratulations to SpaceX and its payload customer!