Hisdesat, the Spanish government satellite services company, has signed an agreement with U.S. company SpaceX to launch the Earth Observation Radar satellite, PAZ, on board a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch is targeted to take place during the last quarter of 2017, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The numerous successes of Falcon 9 have been a driving factor for the election of Hisdesat to launch on board this rocket, which already has the confidence of other great companies.
QuoteLaunching of the Spanish PAZ satellite will be carried out with the help of the Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX company instead of the Russian Dnepr rocket, as planned initially, according to the website of the customer - the Spanish state-owned company Hisdesat."Hisdesat signed an agreement with the US company SpaceX to launch the PAZ Earth observation radar on board the Falcon 9 rocket," the report said.The launch is scheduled for the last quarter of 2017 at the cosmodrome on the territory of the air base Vandenberg in California.https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2017/03/07/n_9768869.shtml
Launching of the Spanish PAZ satellite will be carried out with the help of the Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX company instead of the Russian Dnepr rocket, as planned initially, according to the website of the customer - the Spanish state-owned company Hisdesat."Hisdesat signed an agreement with the US company SpaceX to launch the PAZ Earth observation radar on board the Falcon 9 rocket," the report said.The launch is scheduled for the last quarter of 2017 at the cosmodrome on the territory of the air base Vandenberg in California.
Hisdesat: We dont yet know the ID of our co-passenger for late-2017 @SpaceX launch of our Paz radar sat into polar LEO from VAFB.#SATShow
How did Hisdesat get a launch lined up for 2017, given SpaceX's backlog?Is this going to rideshare with Formosat, maybe?
Quote from: WmThomas on 03/07/2017 06:44 pmHow did Hisdesat get a launch lined up for 2017, given SpaceX's backlog?Is this going to rideshare with Formosat, maybe?Can we speculate that it will use a reflown S1?
Quote from: Jcc on 03/08/2017 01:34 amQuote from: WmThomas on 03/07/2017 06:44 pmHow did Hisdesat get a launch lined up for 2017, given SpaceX's backlog?Is this going to rideshare with Formosat, maybe?Can we speculate that it will use a reflown S1?With Shotwell stating 5 more flights with reused boosters this year I wouldn't bet against it.
exactEarth has 65 hosted payloads launching on Iridium Next satellites, spokesperson Nicole Schill told SpaceNews Aug. 31...The company has one more first-generation payload awaiting launch on the long-delayed PAZ satellite that investor Hisdesat of Spain recently shifted from Kosmotras to SpaceX. Schill said PAZ is expected to launch in December 2017;
Speculation about whether the flight could reuse a booster is really not appropriate in every mission thread that gets created. If we get any actual indication that the flight will reuse a booster then you can discuss it here. Otherwise, maybe stick to a general reuse thread.
Quote from: gongora on 03/14/2017 07:02 pmSpeculation about whether the flight could reuse a booster is really not appropriate in every mission thread that gets created. If we get any actual indication that the flight will reuse a booster then you can discuss it here. Otherwise, maybe stick to a general reuse thread.When the award announcement to launch interval is this short, and the well-established* queue is jumped, I think the reality is that a reuse core is indicated. Not random speculation, unless there is a better explanation... * I'm assuming that queue published in this section is well-sourced and reasonably reliable.
Quote from: AncientU on 09/01/2017 05:14 pmQuote from: gongora on 03/14/2017 07:02 pmSpeculation about whether the flight could reuse a booster is really not appropriate in every mission thread that gets created. If we get any actual indication that the flight will reuse a booster then you can discuss it here. Otherwise, maybe stick to a general reuse thread.When the award announcement to launch interval is this short, and the well-established* queue is jumped, I think the reality is that a reuse core is indicated. Not random speculation, unless there is a better explanation... * I'm assuming that queue published in this section is well-sourced and reasonably reliable.When I wrote that 5 1/2 months ago people were asking that question in every mission thread created, no matter how far in the future it was.
This is a very likely candidate to be the first RTLS (Return to Launch Site) for F9 at Vandenberg. With only 1400 kg to sun synchronous orbit, it seems it would have the propellant to do so.
Quote from: DaveJes1979 on 08/31/2017 10:08 pmThis is a very likely candidate to be the first RTLS (Return to Launch Site) for F9 at Vandenberg. With only 1400 kg to sun synchronous orbit, it seems it would have the propellant to do so.Formosat was about 450kg to SSO and it didn't even do a boostback ASDS landing. Unless they just decided "Why not, let's just do a crazy entry burn with no boostback", this will likely not be RTLS.
See the final 5 paragraphs of this article: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/08/spacex-static-fire-formosat-5-falcon-9-asds-landing/That means that, unless the landing facilities are still incomplete, they could theoretically do RTLS for any launch that has the excess performance to do so.