Author Topic: SpaceX F9 : Transporter-4 Rideshare : CCSFS SLC-40 : 1 April 2022 (16:24 UTC)  (Read 76226 times)

Offline Bean Kenobi

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You're right, the 40th one is the 3rd Nanoavionics cubesat for "undisclosed customer" (on the left picture).

I am pretty sure, that the Nanoavionics cubesat for an "undisclosed customer" is in fact the Pixxel TD-2 (Shakuntala) satellite.

The photo of Pixxel TD-2 looks very much like a Nanoavionics cubesat (white structure and patterns of solar cells).

Agree, but in this case one payload is still missing (whatever it is, deployable or not). If we don't consider the two SUCHAI 3 subsatellites, we only have 39 payloads.

If we consider the two SUCHAI 3 subsatellites, then we have 41 payloads  :(

You're assuming the missing payload is a satellite.  It could be a hosted payload.  You're also assuming we have a real count for the number of payloads.  T-3 taught us that the numbers in the press release may not be accurate.  We don't really know how they counted the stuff on ION.  I'm not even bothering to try making the numbers match with the amount of information we have right now.  I don't even know who integrated all of the ports.

You say : "You're assuming the missing payload is a satellite.  It could be a hosted payload. "
But that's precisely what I said in the text you quoted : "one payload is still missing (whatever it is, deployable or not)."  ;)
About the fact that there would be 40 items, ok, I agree with you, maybe I trusted it too much.  ;D

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B1061 sitting at the docks of Port Canaveral following the successful Transporter 4 mission. Beautiful day!

https://twitter.com/RDAnglePhoto/status/1511170979510190082

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SpaceX aces 12th launch of 2022, delivering dozens of satellites to orbit

https://twitter.com/Teslarati/status/1510731952776699905

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CelesTrak has @18SPCS TLEs for 31 objects from the #Transporter-4 launch (2022-033) of Apr 1.

https://twitter.com/TSKelso/status/1511790128116555776

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All Legs Up! -  #SpaceX #Transporter4 1st Stage B1061.7 arrived Apr 4 back into @PortCanaveral atop JRTI - after Apr 1 launch. seen on the way to picking up our #AX1 media badges this afternoon..

https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1511793160833449994

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TLEs now available for some of the Transporter-4 objects. I was expecting  31 objects and that's what we have, but Iwas also expecting only 3 in the 650 km orbit and 28 in the 500 km orbit - but we have  9 at 650 km and 22 in the 500 km orbit, so that's a puzzle.

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1511844166011179011

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Another SpaceX Falcon 9 #Transporter4 B1061.7 photo..

https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1511793532780044291

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TLEs now available for some of the Transporter-4 objects. I was expecting  31 objects and that's what we have, but Iwas also expecting only 3 in the 650 km orbit and 28 in the 500 km orbit - but we have  9 at 650 km and 22 in the 500 km orbit, so that's a puzzle.
Supposedly just an error with the TLEs, now corrected:
Quote from: Geoff Richards
Looks like the 650 km TLEs for six sats were an error that has now been corrected to expected 500 km.
https://twitter.com/GeoffRichards6/status/1512058968562028551
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Only just catching up on all the SpaceX launches. Blink and you'll miss it, but there was a single clear frame of the stage 2 LOX tank. There's seems to some writing on the top of the COPV helium tanks. Could be "COMMERCIAL".
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Satellite takes 4K selfie over Great Barrier Reef

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NanoAvionics MP42 satellite is equipped with a selfie stick and GoPro camera. See the footage it captured of the Great Barrier Reef after deploying the camera.

Credit: NanoAvionics



https://nanoavionics.com/news/nanoavionics-records-first-ever-4k-resolution-full-satellite-selfie-in-space/
« Last Edit: 06/29/2022 12:55 pm by gongora »
It's Tony De La Rosa, ...I don't create this stuff, I just report it.

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We somehow missed the cremains payload mounted on this one, Magokoro from Japanese company Space NTK.  Appears to just be permanently mounted to the second stage, so deorbited with the second stage.

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/03/d00bc746d3b3-feature-space-burials-not-just-science-fiction-as-celestial-partings-take-off.html

It's the thing I had labeled with a "?" in this pic of the payload stack:
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54106.msg2354943#msg2354943

(also space-track.org has 38 objects shown for this launch, all identified and matching our list in the top post of the thread)
« Last Edit: 03/07/2023 08:07 pm by gongora »

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