SpaceX F9 : SpaceX Transporter-1 Rideshare : 24 Jan 2021 (15:00 UTC)

[Fmedici]

We know everything on SHERPA-FX, the only unknown spot seems to be one payload on the Kepler port.

Ah yes, my mistake.

[mlindner]

Not sure if this was posted before.

There's 36 SpaceBEEs on board. As a reminder 36 SpaceBEEs fit into 3 standard 3U Cubesat deployers.

https://twitter.com/sara_spangelo/status/1352792302851244032

Thanks for the ride!  @SwarmInternet is putting up 36 of the world's smallest two-way satellites, literally doubling our constellation overnight!

(Bonus tidbit of bragging: I've met Sara a bunch of times in college, I worked in the same lab she did when I was an undergrad and she was a PhD student. I also got a tour of their office in the bay area by asking her on LinkedIn in 2019.)

[gongora]

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1353001583978688512

Here is a Maverick Mercury-3 dispenser, used for the VR3X cubesats - can't see it on the stack photo, suspect it is 180 deg from the Nanoracks package.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

L-1 weather forecast is 70% GO

[mlindner]

https://twitter.com/SpaceflightInc/status/1352982798290751488

Let's take a peek inside the stack of #SXRS3 #Transporter1. It's a beauty. #Launchday

I have to say this is quite the ridiculous looking image. Also there's plenty of open spaces on the rings and on various other locations.

[Bean Kenobi]

I couldn't find anything recent about these:

XR-1, LINCS A+B, GNOMES-2, Landmapper-Demo6+Demo7, ADELIS-SAMSON (3 sats), CPOD A+B

But if our counts are correct, only one of them should be onboard, so maybe XR-1 or GNOMES-2?

Regarding XR-1, see here:

* XR-1 might be one of the ICEYE-X satellites.

The XR satellites are US-built copies of the Finnish ICEYE satellites.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/xr-1.htm

01:08:44   28 with EXOport-2 (24 SpaceBEE, 1 ICEYE, Charlie, SOMP-2b and PIXL-1)

Gunter (Skyrocket) now thinks it is an independent satellite :
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/xr-1.htm
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/iceye-x4.htm

[Rondaz]

The two Capella Whitney sats are thought to be on port 4 on the top and middle rings. Capella Space have refused to release photos. This is an artist's impression

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1353022897162485760

[FlattestEarth]

Ok who is going to annotate the pics with known ports dispensers and sats?

[Mat-FoundInSpace]

Started off looking pretty good this morning until the clouds moved in...

[kdhilliard]

The Scrub announcement on the webcast -- for surface electrical fields:
T-6:25: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PSIcspDHbu0&t=692
Andy Tran, Avionics Production Supervisor:

Hey!  Just getting word from the team.  So it's official.  We are scrubbing today for weather, for surface electrical fields.  We do have a backup opportunity tomorrow at 10 AM, so we'll see you then and attempt another launch for Transporter-1.

There wasn't a corresponding callout on the Mission Control Audio stream, as they "continued with the countdown until T-30 seconds for data collection."  For the eventual T-30s hold callout there:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gAXoxNRWN0&t=2549

Hold, hold, hold.  We'll be standing down from today's attempt due to weather.

[cpushack]

Both fairing halves are new. Ms Chief will recover both halves from the water.

These were rumored to be a new fairing design with the vents relocated above the water line

[PM3]

Regarding XR-1, see here:

* XR-1 might be one of the ICEYE-X satellites.

The XR satellites are US-built copies of the Finnish ICEYE satellites.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/xr-1.htm
...

Gunter (Skyrocket) now thinks it is an independent satellite :
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/xr-1.htm
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/iceye-x4.htm

That is older information which has not been updated, because of "might".

[scr00chy]

I can confirm that 4 planet Superdoves on Kepler's port. I don't know about the last 4.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/l210i3/rspacex_transporter1_official_launch_discussion/gkfpst7/

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1353079871191314432

Falcon details. 🔎🚀

Some closeups of B1058.5 and the top of its fairing. Inside this fairing are 143 spacecraft headed to orbit — a new record for a single launch.

Transporter-1 marks the first dedicated rideshare mission for SpaceX.

[Julia B]

Images from remote reset 1/23

[SMS]

https://twitter.com/TSKelso/status/1353072840648445952

[Ken the Bin]

New notices from the NGA.  Note that based on the validity periods, I would put tomorrow's launch attempt at 14:24 UTC (not the 15:00 UTC that SpaceX said) and the four backup attempts at 14:40 UTC.  Obviously we need to go by what SpaceX said, but it doesn't make sense.

231655Z JAN 21
NAVAREA IV 72/21(11,26,27).
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
STRAITS OF FLORIDA.
OLD BAHAMA CHANNEL.
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, ROCKET LAUNCHING
   241419Z TO 241616Z JAN, ALTERNATES
   251435Z TO 251614Z, 261435Z TO 261614Z,
   281435Z TO 281614Z, AND 301435Z TO 301614Z JAN
   IN AREAS BOUND BY:
   A. 28-35-55N  80-35-07W, 28-38-00N  80-32-00W,
      28-34-00N  80-21-00W, 28-10-00N  80-08-00W,
      28-08-00N  80-13-00W, 28-27-20N  80-31-33W,
      28-31-21N  80-33-27W.
   B. 24-38N 79-30W, 24-44N 79-11W,
      23-23N 78-34W, 23-02N 78-49W,
      23-02N 79-06W, 23-22N 79-24W.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 71/21.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 301714Z JAN 21.

231709Z JAN 21
HYDROPAC 314/21(22,29,83).
EASTERN SOUTH PACIFIC.
DNC 06, DNC 29.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, SPACE DEBRIS
   241604Z TO 241739Z JAN, ALTERNATES
   251620Z TO 251737Z, 261620Z TO 261737Z,
   281620Z TO 281737Z, AND 301620Z TO 301737Z JAN
   IN AREA BOUND BY
   65-29S 131-39W, 62-42S 130-01W,
   50-17S 123-06W, 47-40S 120-34W,
   48-34S 118-44W, 56-20S 119-31W,
   65-39S 124-22W, 67-49S 129-24W.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 313/21.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 301837Z JAN 21.

[gongora]

For anyone who hasn't looked at the pictures closely, these Starlinks are different.  Not sure what the new pieces are.  There is speculation about them being ISLs, and that's possible, but I'm not sure if that's what they are.

[Zed_Noir]

The Transporter-1 second launch attempt webcast for January 24th at 15:00 UTC (10:00 AM ET). Should go live at about 14:50 UTC (9:50 AM ET).

[Jansen]

SpaceX is targeting Sunday, January 24 for launch of Transporter-1, SpaceX’s first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 22-minute launch window opens at 10:00 a.m. EST, or 15:00 UTC.

Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported launch of Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission, the ANASIS-II mission, a Starlink mission, and launch of Dragon’s 21st cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

On board this launch are 133 commercial and government spacecraft (including CubeSats, microsats, and orbital transfer vehicles) and 10 Starlink satellites – the most spacecraft ever deployed on a single mission. The Starlink satellites aboard this mission will be the first in the constellation to deploy to a polar orbit.