0634-EX-CN-2023ROCCI-2 from Orion Space, 18kgQuoteThe first RROCI satellite launched on Transporter 6 on January 3, 2023, but it was never deployed from the launch vehicle, so RROCI is not on orbit. It met its demise when the launch vehicle returned to earth....After the demise of RROCI, the US Space Force issued a follow-on contract to Atmospheric to build, launch, and operate RROCI-2. Atmospheric had some additional components to be able to build a second satellite, which it is doing on an expedited timeframe. Atmospheric recognizes that the federal review process of satellite applications can be lengthy, however, the launch slot in January 2024 is available, and so Atmospheric is trying to finish all of the engineering and regulatory work in time to meet the December 2023 integration date for the launch in January 2024.
The first RROCI satellite launched on Transporter 6 on January 3, 2023, but it was never deployed from the launch vehicle, so RROCI is not on orbit. It met its demise when the launch vehicle returned to earth....After the demise of RROCI, the US Space Force issued a follow-on contract to Atmospheric to build, launch, and operate RROCI-2. Atmospheric had some additional components to be able to build a second satellite, which it is doing on an expedited timeframe. Atmospheric recognizes that the federal review process of satellite applications can be lengthy, however, the launch slot in January 2024 is available, and so Atmospheric is trying to finish all of the engineering and regulatory work in time to meet the December 2023 integration date for the launch in January 2024.
“We have been doing multiple burns that raise the orbit of the spacecraft. Without propulsion, the spacecraft’s altitude decreases by about 50 meters per day. Now that we have been performing these burns, the spacecraft’s altitude has increased by nearly a kilometer and is growing,” said Momentus Chief Executive Officer John Rood. “We have been increasing the frequency of these burns and we are raising the orbit to a target value of 538 km circular altitude. We will use this orbit to release the Zeus satellite for our Qosmosys customer – marking the first time Momentus will achieve a custom orbital delivery service.”Momentus has incrementally been increasing the duration of each MET firing and has reached its goal of 5-minute firings. The electrical power system, including batteries and solar arrays have been supporting the high power (1000+ Watts) operation of the MET. The spacecraft's heat management system has operated effectively, keeping all critical component temperatures well below their maximum thresholds.
Orbital Focus @OrbitalFocusIceye X-22 is also among the missingSpace-Track shows 2x Iceye but the company announced three sats on theflight
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589Yes, not counting that because I've had it privately confirmed that it didn't separate.
The Vigoride-5 satellite's (modest) orbit raising using an H2O thruster, e.g. as reported in this article by @dvorsky, can be seen in this plot based on the TLE data.
I was going through the payloads of this launch once again and I have some doubts:- has it been confirmed that the US government payloads manifested through Maverick Space were just hosted ones?
Quote from: Fmedici on 06/04/2023 09:19 amI was going through the payloads of this launch once again and I have some doubts:- has it been confirmed that the US government payloads manifested through Maverick Space were just hosted ones?I'm not aware of any payloads manifested through Maverick being hosted ones? One of them (RROCI) didn't separate from the launch vehicle.
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1647940329570541574QuoteOrbital Focus @OrbitalFocusIceye X-22 is also among the missingSpace-Track shows 2x Iceye but the company announced three sats on theflightQuoteJonathan McDowell @planet4589Yes, not counting that because I've had it privately confirmed that it didn't separate.
ICEYE has now deployed 27 satellites since 2018, including both commercially available and dedicated customer missions. ICEYE plans to launch four additional SAR satellites in 2023.
Epic Aerospace used a Carbonix separation system
A ground station filing for continued support of Vigoride 5 mentions RROCI not getting deployed (they were supporting both missions).
Quote from: gongora on 02/07/2023 07:36 pmA ground station filing for continued support of Vigoride 5 mentions RROCI not getting deployed (they were supporting both missions).The ZEUS 1 Vigoride payload also was not identified by Space-Track. Complete failure of the tug?
I had given up on the four Astrocast satellites on the @d_orbit ION SCV008 tug which was launched in January, but two new objects from the launch have just been cataloged which appear to have separated from ION on around Nov 28 and Dec 5 - they are likely two of the Astrocasts.
And http://Space-Track.org confirms the two objects are Astrocast-0401 and -0402.
