Shouldn't Arabsat 6A be listed as GEO not GTO?
April 11, 2019RELEASE C19-009NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Asteroid Redirect Test MissionNASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor.The total cost for NASA to launch DART is approximately $69 million, which includes the launch service and other mission related costs.The DART mission currently is targeted to launch in June 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. By using solar electric propulsion, DART will intercept the asteroid Didymos’ small moon in October 2022, when the asteroid will be within 11 million kilometers of Earth. NASA’s Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will manage the SpaceX launch service. The DART Project office is located at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, and is managed by the Planetary Missions Program Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office in Washington.For more information about NASA programs and missions, visit:https://www.nasa.gov
Specific question: should I show on the graph those air-launches (Pegasus/"Stargazer", LauncherOne/"Cosmic Girl") which are going from Cape or Vandenberg? Would they have significant interference schedule-wise?
SpaceX CRS-17 Launch Now Scheduled for April 30Sarah Loff Posted on April 19, 2019A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is now scheduled to launch at 4:22 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 30, on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This will be SpaceX’s 17th Commercial Resupply Services contract mission to the International Space Station for NASA.SpaceX will take advantage of the additional time to perform a static fire test and pre-flight checkouts. Falcon 9 and Dragon are on track to be flight ready for an earlier launch attempt, however, April 30 is the most viable date for both NASA and SpaceX due to station and orbital mechanics constraints.NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. Monday, April 22, to discuss select science investigations the Dragon will deliver to the astronauts living and working aboard the orbiting laboratory. NASA will stream audio from the discussion at http://www.nasa.gov/live.https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/2019/04/19/spacex-crs-17-launch-now-scheduled-for-april-30/
“In 2017 we launched 18 times, in 2018 we launched 21 times,” Shotwell said. “This year, depending on customer readiness, we could launch between 18 and 21 times. Next year, 16-20 launches in the manifest. We’ve signed 22 deals since this show last year. So we’re still still seeing pretty strong uptake of our services and then Starlink would be on top of that.”
Quote from: gongora on 05/07/2019 08:34 pmI don't know where all of those "18-21" launches without Starlink are coming from, we don't have anything close to that on the publicly known manifest.That’s because there are several launches planned for payloads which are not on the public manifest.
I don't know where all of those "18-21" launches without Starlink are coming from, we don't have anything close to that on the publicly known manifest.
In light of the Anasis-II (KMilSatCom1) showing up on SpaceX's manifest recently, I have identified 6 other payloads from Gunter's space page with unknown launch vehicles that were ordered between 2014 and 2016. According to Gunter, Anasis-II was ordered in 2016. The 6 possible payloads for SpaceX listed as having an unknown launcher by Gunter are: Turksat 6A, Inmarsat-6 F1 & F2, Silkwave I, DirecTV 16, and SatKomHan1.Four more satellites in 2017 and an additional four in 2018 were ordered without known launchers.
Falcon 9 launches 60 Starlink satellites to orbit – targeting up to 6 Starlink launches this year and will accelerate our cadence next year to put ~720 satellites in orbit for continuous coverage of most populated areas on Earth
