SpaceX Falcon 9 : Türksat 5A : January 7/8, 2021

[XenIneX]

Per SFN, launch window is 8:28 pm to 12:28 am  EST.

The time from Turksat’s tweet above is incorrect.

Turkey is in UTC+3.  The time is correct.  For them.

It was probably more obvious in the tweet's original Turkish, before machine translation (presumably) mangled it...

https://twitter.com/turksat/status/1346406341544435713

[FutureSpaceTourist]

L-1 launch weather forecast has improved to 70% GO (still with moderate high level winds risk)

[zubenelgenubi]

Per SFN, launch window is 8:28 pm to 12:28 am  EST.
The time from Turksat’s tweet above is incorrect.

Turkey is in UTC+3.  The time is correct.  For them.

Jansen is referring to the minutes, not the hour.

Turkish Tweet lists launch window opening at 26 minutes after the hour: incorrect.
SFN lists launch window opening at 28 minutes after the hour: correct.

Member: I fixed my typo. My apologies.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/emrekelly/status/1346895674483290117

Quick timeline for Thursday's #Turksat5A launch from Cape Canaveral via @Turksat spokesperson:

– T-0 at 2028 ET
– 2:31: Stage separation
– 3:46: Fairing sep
– 32:17: Spacecraft sep

Trajectory straight out east over the Atlantic. Weather 70% go.

[Jansen]

https://twitter.com/SpaceXFleet/status/1346970690809827328

[Jansen]

Launch day forecast 70% GO

[RocketLover0119]

Surprised SpaceX has yet to comment on the launch when it’s happening today.hopefully we get word soon.

[Rebel44]

Surprised SpaceX has yet to comment on the launch when it’s happening today.hopefully we get word soon.

There were some protests asking SpaceX to drop this customer due to the recent war in Nagorno Karabakh in which Turkey was involved - so I expect them to keep the mission-related announcements relatively low-profile.

[ZachS09]

Surprised SpaceX has yet to comment on the launch when it’s happening today.hopefully we get word soon.

There were some protests asking SpaceX to drop this customer due to the recent war in Nagorno Karabakh in which Turkey was involved - so I expect them to keep the mission-related announcements relatively low-profile.

Does this mean there might be NO webcast at all?

[Conexion Espacial]

Falcon 9 is already vertical, it only remains for SpaceX to announce something and publish the direct, if it is going to do so.
https://twitter.com/EmreKelly/status/1347203176580190215

[RocketLover0119]

Surprised SpaceX has yet to comment on the launch when it’s happening today.hopefully we get word soon.

There were some protests asking SpaceX to drop this customer due to the recent war in Nagorno Karabakh in which Turkey was involved - so I expect them to keep the mission-related announcements relatively low-profile.

Does this mean there might be NO webcast at all?

Thinking about this at first glance seems extreme, but now that I think about it, maybe. We are 12 hours from launch and no announcement or webcast page, or mission page on their site yet......

[whitelancer64]

Surprised SpaceX has yet to comment on the launch when it’s happening today.hopefully we get word soon.

There were some protests asking SpaceX to drop this customer due to the recent war in Nagorno Karabakh in which Turkey was involved - so I expect them to keep the mission-related announcements relatively low-profile.

Does this mean there might be NO webcast at all?

Thinking about this at first glance seems extreme, but now that I think about it, maybe. We are 12 hours from launch and no announcement or webcast page, or mission page on their site yet......

If no webcast, that would be notable. First time SpaceX hasn't done a webcast since they threatened to stop doing webcasts altogether in June 2014.

[Ken the Bin]

SpaceX has updated their Launches webpage for this launch.

[RocketLover0119]

SpaceX has updated their Launches webpage for this launch.

Info and picture of the fairing. We have dual flight proven fairings from GPS and ANASIS 

[Jansen]

From SpaceX

SpaceX is targeting Thursday, January 7 for launch of the Turksat 5A mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The four-hour launch window opens at 8:28 p.m. EST, or 01:28 UTC on January 8, and a back-up opportunity is available on Friday, January 8, with a four-hour launch window opening at 8:28 p.m. EST, or 01:28 UTC on January 9.

Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported launch of GPS III Space Vehicle 03 and two Starlink missions. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Falcon 9’s fairing is also flight-proven: one half previously supported the GPS III Space Vehicle 03 mission and the other flew aboard the ANASIS-II mission.

[Jansen]

TIME    EVENT
00:01:12   Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket)
00:02:34   1st stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
00:02:38   1st and 2nd stages separate
00:02:46   2nd stage engine starts
00:03:37   Fairing deployment
00:06:17   1st stage entry burn begins
00:08:02   2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO)
00:08:28   1st stage landing
00:26:51   2nd stage engine restarts
00:28:03   2nd stage engine cutoff (SECO-2)
00:33:04   Turksat 5A deployment

[RocketLover0119]

Mission patch. I like this one! 

https://www.spacex.com/static/images/patches/TurkSat5A.png


Have to use a link because it’s to large to attach on iPad for some reason.

[Jansen]

Mission patch attached

[scr00chy]

Visual mission profile

Edit: Previous version was missing payload deployment time, fixed version uploaded

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1347258678940897280

Falcon 9 and Turksat 5A vertical on pad 40; tonight’s four-hour launch window opens at 8:28 p.m. EST, and weather is 70% favorable → spacex.com/launches