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#260 by FutureSpaceTourist on 25 Jun, 2023 03:42
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https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1672799289343442944Quote
The first identifications for the sats launched on Transporter-8 have come in. Current score: 71 payloads launched; 65 deployed/3 failed to deploy/ 3 with deployment pending; 57 tracked; 19 identified
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#261 by gongora on 27 Jun, 2023 14:05
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https://twitter.com/FossaSys/status/1673632024710504448Quote
Designed and assembled at FOSSA´s headquarters, FEROX measures 60 x 20 x 2.5 cm when unfolded and weighs 2kg. It was launched 10 days ago aboard SpaceX Transporter-8 from Vandenberg Air Force Base and is now orbiting at 537km in an SSO LEO. Stay tuned for more updates on #FEROX
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#262 by gongora on 27 Jun, 2023 14:10
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The first identifications for the sats launched on Transporter-8 have come in. Current score: 71 payloads launched; 65 deployed/3 failed to deploy/ 3 with deployment pending; 57 tracked; 19 identified
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1672958598173929473QuoteCorrection: the Orbiter SN3 payloads are reported to have deployed, so the current score for Trans.8 is:
71 payloads launched, 68 deployed, 3 pending; 57 tracked, 19 identified
The Skykraft sats may not have separated yet, so I would say the deployed number is lower if that's the case. -
#263 by realnouns on 27 Jun, 2023 18:01
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A match?
0930-EX-ST-2023 Mission 1711
RTLS from Vandenberg
NET late May [May 25]
Possibly not, M1742 was Transporter-6
According to Raul, Transporter-8 was Mission 1711, which checks out
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1wvgFIPuOmI8da9EIB88tHo9vamo&ll=31.944190306137955%2C-121.17486893432303&z=7
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#264 by FutureSpaceTourist on 01 Jul, 2023 06:19
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https://twitter.com/starfishspace/status/1674878691460128768Quote
The Journey of Otter Pup: the Path Forward
After deployment, Otter Pup is rotating ~100x faster than planned. Here are the steps we'll attempt over multiple months to recover the satellite:
1. Stay alive (maintain comms & power)
2. Detumble
3. Check for damage
4. Commission
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#265 by gongora on 04 Jul, 2023 15:41
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http://exolaunch.com/news_91Quote
Berlin, Germany / Ahmedabad, India — 03 July, 2023 — Azista BST Aerospace (ABA), the Indo-German joint venture aiming to revolutionize the mass production of small satellites for mega-constellations, and Exolaunch, a leading global provider of mission management, integration services and smallsat deployment technologies have launched and deployed AFR-1, ABA’s first satellite, with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the Transporter-8 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 12, 2023 2:35pm PT.
The ABA First Runner (AFR-1) is carrying a payload destined for Earth observation, using an electro-optical sensor with a medium-resolution Ground Sample Distance (GSD) to image a large area. AFR-1 rolled off the ABA factory floor as a showcase of the joint venture’s manufacturing capabilities catering to mass producing satellites in a short amount of time. The satellite model spearheaded by AFR-1 is based on a modular bus which can host a wide variety of payloads with little to no software or hardware updates.
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#266 by FutureSpaceTourist on 20 Jul, 2023 04:08
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https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1681871311721713665Quote
Good progress by @18thSDS today on identifying the objects from Transporter 8. Of 70 payloads released so far , 51 (i.e. 73%) have now been identified. The largest object still missing is the defunct Orbiter SN3.
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#267 by FutureSpaceTourist on 20 Jul, 2023 04:21
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Launch Photos posted by Launcher Space
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#268 by FutureSpaceTourist on 20 Jul, 2023 04:28
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Launcher Space photos of Orbiter SN3
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#269 by gongora on 25 Jul, 2023 17:55
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[Space News] Varda waiting on FAA license to return space manufacturing capsuleQuote
In a July 24 interview, Delian Asparouhov, co-founder of Varda, said the company was still working with the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation for a reentry license for the spacecraft.
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#270 by gongora on 30 Aug, 2023 01:48
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https://twitter.com/StarfishSpace/status/1696544868536049773Quote
Update on the Otter Pup Mission
Starfish is excited to announce the successful stabilization of Otter Pup on-orbit, less than two months after the satellite was deployed rotating at over 330 degrees per second. Read our full update for more on this incredible engineering effort: -
#271 by gongora on 27 Sep, 2023 18:45
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https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1707103455309869264Quote
New object cataloged from the Transporter-8 launch. It's in among the mass of objects in the 520 km range, so not another ION deployment (ION moved to a higher orbit). We were indeed missing one payload from the count- now 72 objects tracked vs 72 expected, with 12 unidentified
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Unidentified sats from T8 are now: FEROX 1 to 4, Pleiades, Skykraft 3D, MDQSAT 1C/1D, ROM-2, Unicorn-2I, SATLLA-2I, and Orbiter SN3. Orbiter is most likely object AE, the only unidentified object with 'medium' rather than 'small' RCS and the one with the lowest drag (red in plot)
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#272 by Fmedici on 23 Nov, 2023 09:19
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#273 by AnalogMan on 15 Dec, 2023 16:42
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67723524
An innovative UK climate satellite has failed in orbit just six months after launch
By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent
December 15, 2023
HotSat-1 was put up to map heat loss from buildings and was doing so successfully until its camera stopped working earlier this week.
SatVu, the London company behind the mission, does not expect to restore operations even though engineers are still in contact with the spacecraft.
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#274 by gongora on 14 Feb, 2024 21:26
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#275 by gongora on 31 Jul, 2024 00:33
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https://twitter.com/aerospacelab_/status/1818443351278207414Quote
💡 Technical #Breakthrough!
@aerospacelab_
successfully closed the link between its VSP-150 #satellite, Gregoire, and its optical ground-station (OGS) in Louvain-la-Neuve. 📡
Receiving optical signals from our satellites is key for demonstrating Aerospacelab’s free optical #space communication (#FSOC) capabilities. This opens the door to high-speed and secure data transfers from space to ground but also in-orbit. 🛰
✅The team can now prove similar links with its other satellites.
✅#Aerospacelab is one of the few companies in the world to demonstrate this capability with both fully in-house designed optical space and ground segments.
✅ This milestone also showcases the agility and performance of the VSP-150 satellite platform.
✅This link closure is the first step in the development of our FSOC technologies, enabling more features to be tested soon, both in orbit and on ground.
Check out this video from our sky-wide camera picking up the satellite signal. 📽