Launcher’s first spacecraft, Orbiter SN1, is readying for its ride to orbit later this year aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission.The orbital transfer vehicle will include six deployed spacecraft and four hosted payloads.Learn more → launcherspace.com/orbiter
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: GEOMETRIC-1 is a train constellation rideshare mission, consisting of three ~10 kg 6U class satellites (GENMAT-1, NOCLIP-1, and MOXY-1) using a common spacecraft bus intended to reach a stable low altitude (~550 km) high inclination (~89 degrees) Sun Synchronous Orbit lunar Orbit (SSO) on the SpaceX Transport 6 Launch (NET Late October/November 2022) and operate for up to two years. A fourth satellite (ACS-1) has been deferred to the SpaceX Transporter 7 or later launch....GENMAT-1 Technology Development, Demonstration and Deployment focused on correlated geodetic mineralogical data acquisition. GENMAT-1 is a 6U CubeSat equipped with a hyperspectral imager. ...NOCLIP-1 Technology Development, Demonstration and Deployment focused on sharing the Overview Effect sensory experience through Virtual Reality. NPOCLIP-1 is a 6U CubeSat equipped with a wide field 4K resolution camera optimized for the sensory experience....MOXY-1 Technology Development, Demonstration, and Deployment mission focused on Distributed Ledger Technology & Imaging. MOXY-1 is a 6U CubeSat equipped with internal imaging sensors and screen to display and share/advertise digital tokens in space.
0811-EX-CN-2022 Geometric Energy Corporation Quote: GEOMETRIC-1 is a train constellation rideshare mission, consisting of three ~10 kg 6U class satellites (GENMAT-1, NOCLIP-1, and MOXY-1) using a common spacecraft bus intended to reach a stable low altitude (~550 km) high inclination (~89 degrees) Sun Synchronous Orbit lunar Orbit (SSO) on the SpaceX Transport 6 Launch (NET Late October/November 2022) and operate for up to two years. A fourth satellite (ACS-1) has been deferred to the SpaceX Transporter 7 or later launch....GENMAT-1 Technology Development, Demonstration and Deployment focused on correlated geodetic mineralogical data acquisition. GENMAT-1 is a 6U CubeSat equipped with a hyperspectral imager. ...NOCLIP-1 Technology Development, Demonstration and Deployment focused on sharing the Overview Effect sensory experience through Virtual Reality. NPOCLIP-1 is a 6U CubeSat equipped with a wide field 4K resolution camera optimized for the sensory experience....MOXY-1 Technology Development, Demonstration, and Deployment mission focused on Distributed Ledger Technology & Imaging. MOXY-1 is a 6U CubeSat equipped with internal imaging sensors and screen to display and share/advertise digital tokens in space.This company still seems a bit odd. It will be interesting to see if they get their paperwork done in time.Maverick Space Systems is the mission integrator.
And what's with the "Sun Synchronous Orbit lunar Orbit (SSO)"?
Momentus Space LLC (“Momentus”) hereby amends its pending application and requests authority to include a UHF beacon on its Vigoride-5 (“VR-5”) spacecraft. The beacon transmissions will contain data from GPS receivers onboard the spacecraft and will be used to facilitate the acquisition of the satellite after deployment, thereby reducing the probability that Momentus will not be able to communicate with the spacecraft as a result of any anomalies....Momentus also updates its concept of operations to reflect the installation of a failsafe deployment timer, which has a battery backup for the Payload Management Unit.5 The timer system commences upon deployment and begins a countdown that will trigger the release of the single deployable payload6 onboard VR-5 after 7 days.7 In the event that the VR-5 bus experiences a failure and Momentus is unable to command the deployment of the customer payload, the timer system provides a failsafe deployment mechanism.
Momentus' plans for additional launches of the Vigoride vehicle later this year and in 2023 remain as stated in the Q1 earnings call on May 10, 2022, with agreements signed with SpaceX for launches on upcoming Transporter missions in 2022 and 2023, including Transporter-6 currently targeted for November 2022.Momentus has identified the root cause of the anomalies experienced during the initial Vigoride demonstration mission. The Company convened an Independent Review Team of highly experienced space experts who reviewed the root cause findings of Momentus engineers and concurred with their findings. Momentus has made good progress in implementing corrective actions on the Vigoride-5 vehicle that the Company plans to fly on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission.
Launcher’s first Orbiter transfer vehicle and hosted payload platform successfully completes vibration test 🛰 ✅ https://www.launcherspace.com/updates/launchers-first-orbiter-transfer-vehicle-and-hosted-payload-platform-successfully-completes-vibration-test
This second satellite is now slated to fly with two other Lynk spacecraft on a SpaceX Transporter 6 mission slated for December, Miller said.
https://spacenews.com/direct-to-cell-startups-welcome-musks-arrival/[SN August 29]QuoteThis second satellite is now slated to fly with two other Lynk spacecraft on a SpaceX Transporter 6 mission slated for December, Miller said.
December?Quote from: gongora on 08/29/2022 11:25 pmhttps://spacenews.com/direct-to-cell-startups-welcome-musks-arrival/[SN August 29]QuoteThis second satellite is now slated to fly with two other Lynk spacecraft on a SpaceX Transporter 6 mission slated for December, Miller said.Contradicted by:SFN Launch Schedule updated August 31:November launch
The latest Vigoride that will fly on the @SpaceX Transporter-6 mission recently completed vibration testing @experiorlabs. Thank you to our team of smiling engineers who ushered the spacecraft through this important phase of pre-flight testing.
Request to Extend Launch DeadlineUmbra Lab, Inc. (“Umbra”) requests a sixty-day extension of Condition #21 of its license (CallSign S3095),1 requiring launch of all satellites by January 13, 2023. Additional time is requireddue to launch delays beyond Umbra’s control.Umbra is authorized to launch and operate six satellites under its License. Umbra has successfullylaunched three of its six authorized satellites and plans to launch two more satellites on theupcoming rideshare mission scheduled for December 2022. Condition #21 of the License providesthat “[t]his license will be null and void for any satellites not launched before January 13, 2023”(the “Launch Period”). Umbra is not able to meet the requirement for its sixth satellite due to adelay in the launch (until February 15, 2023), imposed by the launch services provider and beyondUmbra’s control. In an abundance of caution to allow for further minor launch delays, Umbrarequests an extension, until March 14, 2023, of the deployment deadline specified in Condition#21.Umbra understands that the Launch Period requirement is based on 47 C.F.R. §25.122(c)(2) andwas imposed to ensure that all authorized satellites deorbit within six (6) years. Umbra will be ableto comply with 47 C.F.R. §25.122(c)(2), regardless of launch date, by deorbiting the satellitewithin six (6) years using the propulsion system. Moreover, Umbra will not operate the satellitepast the end of the License term (January 13, 2028). The later launch is not expected to materiallyshorten the satellite’s lifetime, if at all. Under nominal conditions, the satellite would still havenearly five (5) years to operate, which is close to the maximum expected mission lifetime for thesatellite.Given the modest extension of the Launch Period and Umbra’s ability to ensure that the satellitedemises within the six-year License term through active deorbiting, Umbra submits that this briefextension of time is justified. Further, grant of this extension is in the public interest2 because itwould allow Umbra to continue providing its government and commercial customers with highqualitySAR imagery at a time when such imagery is in high demand as a result of world events.
