Author Topic: SpaceX FH - STP-2 - LC-39A - June 25, 2019 - 02:30 EDT - UPDATES (Read 145374 times)

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #20 on:** 06/19/2019 06:09 pm »

8:30 pm Local Time is the new T-0 for the SF.

intelati · « **Reply #21 on:** 06/19/2019 09:46 pm »

Line of storms around an hour west of the area

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #22 on:** 06/19/2019 10:04 pm »

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Static Fire test at 39A is heading towards a T-0 of sometime around midnight local time, per L2.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #23 on:** 06/19/2019 10:07 pm »

twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1141465735245512704?s=21

Quote

STP-2 Fairing Recovery Update:

The recovery inflatables have been reinstalled on GO Navigator. The Dragon test-article that GO Searcher was carrying has been removed and she may also gain the inflatables shortly.

GO Ms Tree is without a net and may not be ready. 📷 @Cygnusx112

https://twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1141465914807934976

Quote

Those highlighted inflatables in action, for context...

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #24 on:** 06/19/2019 11:45 pm »

Interesting on the fairing attached for static fire:

https://twitter.com/elthiryel/status/1141471888469876736

Quote

“The fairing is a "non-flight" component, and was added for the static fire at the request of the Air Force to collect acoustic data. The fairing containing the 24 spacecraft (...) will be installed (...) after the test-firing.” Source: spaceflightnow.com/2019/06/18/fal…

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #25 on:** 06/20/2019 02:23 am »

Fueling ops underway!

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightNow/status/1141530994819981312

Quote

Vapors have appeared venting at launch pad 39A in Florida, suggesting fueling preparations have started for a hotfire test of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket tonight.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #26 on:** 06/20/2019 03:05 am »

Falcon Heavy is alive and feeding - with big venting seen from 39A via @julia_bergeron - (possibly the big T-20 mins vent) so standby for the Static Fire test. And as always, observation is one thing, SpaceX confirmation of a good test via the Quick Look review is key.

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #27 on:** 06/20/2019 03:30 am »

Strong back retraction has occurred roughly 2 minutes to SF

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #28 on:** 06/20/2019 03:30 am »

STATIC FIRE for Falcon Heavy - via on site observation by @julia_bergeron - standby for the SpaceX tweet after the Quick Look Review.

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #29 on:** 06/20/2019 03:35 am »

Static Fire image from SpaceFlightNow

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #30 on:** 06/20/2019 03:42 am »

Julia was on station:

https://twitter.com/julia_bergeron/status/1141551622495059968

RocketLover0119 · « **Reply #31 on:** 06/20/2019 05:04 am »

Space X quick look review good! All good for Monday!

https://mobile.twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1141569552330870784

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #32 on:** 06/20/2019 05:11 am »

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #33 on:** 06/20/2019 06:15 am »

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #34 on:** 06/20/2019 06:31 am »

https://twitter.com/emrekelly/status/1141494000731545601

Quote

Our first look at #LightSail2 installed on #SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket: http://planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-on-falcon-heavy.html

(First 2 attached images are public domain and last 2 are copyright Bruce Betts / The Planetary Society & are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.)

Raul · « **Reply #35 on:** 06/20/2019 12:48 pm »

NOTMAR Launch Hazard Areas A and B for FalconHeavy STP-2 mission, valid for primary launch day 25 Jun 03:25-08:22 UTC - preferred T-0 03:30 UTC. Backup launch day 26 Jun.

Marked CenterCore-B1057 OCISLY landing 1236 km downrange, with participation of Hollywood tug and Go Quest support. Initially planned landing grayed. And RTLS landing for Side Boosters B1052.2 and B1053.2

Expected Fairing 2 halves landing can be ~1300km downrange, exact position can be updated based on SAT-AIS of fairing recovery fleet.

NOTAMs will be included to the map later.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #36 on:** 06/20/2019 01:29 pm »

Launch hazard and airspace closure areas

Targeteer · « **Reply #37 on:** 06/20/2019 08:34 pm »

June 20, 2019
MEDIA ADVISORY M19-056
Coverage Set for NASA Tech Missions Launching on SpaceX Falcon Heavy
SpaceX Falcon Heavy demonstration.
SpaceX Falcon Heavy demonstration launch on Feb. 6, 2018
Credits: NASA

NASA Television coverage is scheduled for an upcoming prelaunch activity and first nighttime launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, which will be carrying four agency technology missions to help improve future spacecraft design and performance.

The launch window for the Falcon Heavy opens at 11:30 p.m. EDT Monday, June 24, from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch, as well as a live technology show, will air NASA Television and the agency’s website.

SpaceX and the U.S. Department of Defense will launch two dozen satellites to space, including four NASA payloads that are part of the Space Test Program-2, managed by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The four payloads include two NASA technology demonstrations to improve how spacecraft propel and navigate, as well as two NASA science missions to help us better understand the nature of space and how it impacts technology on spacecraft and the ground.

Full NASA TV coverage is as follows:

Sunday, June 23

Noon – NASA prelaunch technology TV show from Kennedy. Subject matter experts will explain each NASA mission and answer questions. Media permanently badged for Kennedy are invited to attend in person. All other media may dial in to ask questions. For dial-in information, please contact Leejay Lockhart at [email protected] or 321-861-3739 by 4 p.m. Friday, June 21.

Participants include:

Todd Ely and Jill Seubert, interplanetary navigators at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who are also the principal and deputy principal investigators for the Deep Space Atomic Clock. They will explain the relationship between time and navigation as well as the new space clock that could change how we navigate on the Moon, to Mars and beyond.
Christopher McLean, principal investigator for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission at Ball Aerospace, and Joe Cassady, executive director of space at Aerojet Rocketdyne. They will explain how a non-toxic fuel and new propulsion system could take the small satellite revolution beyond what it is today.
Nicola Fox, director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, will discuss the Space Environment Testbeds and how its four experiments will reveal the ways local space weather affects spacecraft hardware.
Rick Doe, payload program manager at SRI International, will share how two CubeSats making up the Enhanced Tandem Beacon Experiment will work with six other satellites to study irregularities in Earth’s upper atmosphere that interfere with GPS and communications signals.

Monday, June 24

9:30 p.m. – Live NASA TV coverage begins of the return to Earth of NASA astronaut Anne McClain and two other International Space Station residents, with landing scheduled at 10:48 p.m. (Public Channel)
11 p.m. – NASA TV launch commentary begins ahead of the targeted 11:30 p.m. launch. NASA TV will simulcast the SpaceX STP-2 webcast starting about 15 minutes before liftoff. (Media Channel)

Prelaunch and launch day coverage will include blog updates as milestones occur:

http://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex

Learn more about the NASA technologies aboard this launch:

https://www.nasa.gov/spacex

-end-

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #38 on:** 06/20/2019 09:57 pm »

https://twitter.com/nasa_nerd/status/1141827111919001600

Quote

Basking in the glow of the late afternoon Florida sun, #SpaceX Falcon Heavy stands following last night's successful Static Fire. Next up, lowering and rollback to HIF and fairing replacement containing the STP-2 payloads.

theinternetftw · « **Reply #39 on:** 06/20/2019 10:37 pm »

Press-oriented video package on the Deep Space Atomic Clock payload (B-roll at beginning, interview at end)