Launch success! We've made contact with all 36 SuperDove satellites launched this morning!Great work, team @Planet! Thx for the ride, @SpaceX!🚀Great 1st day back in the office! Welcome to 2023! 😎
Flock 4y has successfully reached orbit and made contact with our mission ops team! These SuperDoves will now go to collect daily data of our changing earth. Learn about Flock 4y’s specs & mission in our blog: go.planet.com/flock-4y
Today, we launched our 2nd demo flight w/@SpaceX. Following deployment from Falcon 9, we established contact w/Vigoride on its first orbital pass & confirmed that both solar arrays are deployed, & the vehicle is generating power & charging its batteries.
CelesTrak has ephemeris-based SupGP data for all 36 FLOCK 4Y satellites deployed on today's #Transporter6 mission: https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/table.php?FILE=planet These should help somewhat in the process of elimination for identifying other payloads.
Exciting day for the Launcher team:• Smooth ride to orbit with SpaceX 🚀• Deployment with our 24” separation system ⚙️• First contact with Orbiter, our first spacecraft, achieved! 🛰️Stay tuned as we continue configuring Orbiter for the next phase of its first mission.
A Planet SkySat captured Falcon 9 booster B1060-15 on Landing Zone 1 at 15:15:53 UTC. This was just 11 minutes after the booster landed during the Transporter-6 mission which flew 114 payloads to orbit.View the interactive image on @Soar_Earth here: https://soar.earth/maps/14076?basemap=Google+Hybrid 🗺️
It’s official!🚀On January 3rd, the @strocast satellite constellation grew with the launch of four 3U #nanosatellites aboard @SpaceX #Transporter6 mission with @dorbit.➡️Read the Astrocast highlights of this successful 🛰️launch: https://www.astrocast.com/news/astrocast-satellite-iot-network-grows-to-18-commercial-satellites/#NewSpace #Falcon9
The Astrocast Satellite IoT Network Grows to 18 Commercial Satellites in Space4 January 2023On Tuesday, January 3rd 2023, Astrocast launched four more Astrocast 3U nanosatellites aboard D’Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off on Transporter-6 rideshare mission. SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission carried 114 payloads, making it the second-largest rideshare mission ever launched. The Transporter-6 rideshare mission took place from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).This launch means yet another milestone accomplished for the Astrocast nanosatellite IoT network in 2022, now consisting of a commercial constellation of 18 satellites in space, making Astrocast one of the TOP 30 satellite operators by the number of satellites in orbit and one of the TOP 3 European low Earth orbit commercial satellite operators. These additional satellites also improve the capacity and reliability of our network, which provides direct-to-satellite and highly secured connectivity to customers around the globe.The Astrocast network went live in January 2021 with the launch of 5 nanosatellites that were commissioned to serve our commercial customers. Later in June 2021, another 5 satellites were successfully deployed on the SXRS-5 Spaceflight mission onboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and only last month, Astrocast launched four Astrocast 3U satellites aboard India’s PSLV-C54 mission with Spaceflight. Working towards deploying our full constellation by 2025, the Astrocast Satellite IoT Service was commercially announced in February 2022, and it offers a Cost-effective, Bidirectional, and Comprehensive service to tackle global IoT connectivity challenges in remote areas of the world.
The exact moment Astrocast’s four nanosatellites separated from SpaceX Falcon9 rocket thanks to D-Orbit’s ION platform.
Jan 4, 2023All original video tracking, not SpaceX or NASA. It was great to have clear skies!! Thanks to Ed Geiger and Pete Carstens for awesome tracking!!
NSF SpaceX launches Starlink 4-15 mission, expands booster fleet [May 14]QuoteOn the other hand, booster B1060 is set to be temporarily retired once it reaches 15 flights later this year; this is understood to be for a deep-dive examination of its systems and components to better understand how to refurbish and reuse boosters up to 20 flights.Apparently, this is not meant to be a complete overhaul but rather just a study into what it takes to efficiently and cheaply refurbish and keep using Falcon 9 boosters beyond the 15-flight mark. After this, the booster will return to the fleet with aims to fly it up to the 20-flight mark by next year.
On the other hand, booster B1060 is set to be temporarily retired once it reaches 15 flights later this year; this is understood to be for a deep-dive examination of its systems and components to better understand how to refurbish and reuse boosters up to 20 flights.Apparently, this is not meant to be a complete overhaul but rather just a study into what it takes to efficiently and cheaply refurbish and keep using Falcon 9 boosters beyond the 15-flight mark. After this, the booster will return to the fleet with aims to fly it up to the 20-flight mark by next year.
...According to the researchers, the TAU-SAT3 satellite, which was developed at the Center for Nanosatellites at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Engineering, is a scientific breakthrough and is intended to pave the way towards demonstrating optical and quantum communication from space using tiny satellites....
SpaceX - Awesome Views Boost Back to Landing - 01-03-2023 Transporter 6https://youtube.com/watch?v=FEYOPvvAGq8QuoteAll original video tracking, not SpaceX or NASA. It was great to have clear skies!! Thanks to Ed Geiger and Pete Carstens for awesome tracking!!
All original video tracking, not SpaceX or NASA. It was great to have clear skies!! Thanks to Ed Geiger and Pete Carstens for awesome tracking!!
SpaceX's Bob returns to @PortCanaveral with a full-fairing catch after the Transporter-6 mission... celebrating with a victory spin and crane wave. Shared via @NASASpaceflight Space Coast Live... courtesy @SpaceOffshore
Here's a real-time clip so you can actually see the two fairing halves. 😅
Booklet linked in a post above says it's TAUSAT2, not 3.https://www.dorbit.space/_files/ugd/64a0e4_0efacfab15a0450aa54cd757885a53b8.pdf
Quote from: Bean Kenobi on 01/04/2023 08:15 pmBooklet linked in a post above says it's TAUSAT2, not 3.https://www.dorbit.space/_files/ugd/64a0e4_0efacfab15a0450aa54cd757885a53b8.pdfYes, as TAUSat 3 was launched on 21 December 2021 in SpX-24.https://www.jpost.com/science/article-692041However, Gunter says the mission was cancelled!https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/tausat-3.htm
STAR SPHERESTAR SPHERE is a project to bring space closer to all and to discover the "space perspectives" to provide an opportunity to think about the global environment and social issues. On Jan. 3, 2023(PST), a remote controllable nano-satellite "EYE" equipped with a camera capable of shooting from space, was launched. Sony will exhibit the "Space Shooting Lab," an experimental simulator that proposes a "space" for experiential photography from space that STAR SPHERE plans to offer in the future, and a mock-up of a nano-satellite equipped with Sony camera equipment.
