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#100
by
wannamoonbase
on 23 Oct, 2023 19:17
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Vandy RTLS - Can't wait!!
Starlink flights are so routine, it's exciting to see transformer missions that are much more complex.
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#101
by
gongora
on 23 Oct, 2023 20:00
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Vandy RTLS - Can't wait!!
Starlink flights are so routine, it's exciting to see transformer missions that are much more complex.
Transformer missions would be even cooler than Transporter missions
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#102
by
abaddon
on 23 Oct, 2023 20:04
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Vandy RTLS - Can't wait!!
Starlink flights are so routine, it's exciting to see transformer missions that are much more complex.
Transformer missions would be even cooler than Transporter missions
They would indeed be more than meets the eye.
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#103
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 24 Oct, 2023 08:36
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https://twitter.com/exolaunch/status/1716735013775867964🚀MISSION UPDATE🚀 @RogueSpaceCorp's 🛰Barry-1 was integrated with its EXOpod Nova jointly by the Exolaunch, @EnduroSat, and Rogue teams in our Berlin facilities and is ready to launch on @SpaceX Falcon 9.📡Stay tuned for more Transporter-9 news! #LaunchWithExolaunch #GeauxRogue
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#104
by
gongora
on 24 Oct, 2023 16:16
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https://twitter.com/ICEYEfi/status/1716844866896896408We are thrilled to announce our upcoming satellite launch! 🚀
Our cutting-edge ICEYE #SAR satellites are heading to space via @EXOLAUNCH on the @SpaceX Transporter-9 mission, scheduled for NET November 2023. Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to launch day.
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#105
by
gongora
on 25 Oct, 2023 17:02
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ISILaunch
Kanyini (6U, Myriota et al., Australia)
SpIRIT (6U, U. of Melbourne, Australia)
Kanyini has been delayed to 2024 and SpIRIT will be launching on 24 November 2023 on a SpaceX rideshare mission that is not a Transporter!
SpIRIT counting down to launch in the US[Oct 25]
The groundbreaking Australian research nanosatellite is set to blast off with SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission in November.
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#106
by
zubenelgenubi
on 29 Oct, 2023 02:16
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Which first stage will be used for this launch? (semi-rhetorical question)
The May 16 press briefing revealed Falcon 9 first stages are now cleared for use up to twenty times for
Starlink launches.
Available first stages, with UTC date of most recent recovery:
1071.12 Sep 12
1063.15 Oct 9 (maybe)
Winnebago-2 not on this launch because of this?
https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1683862063968563201
I believe we are the first time in human history...
Where a re-entry capsule is in space, but does not have the legal permission to re-enter...
Working on it!
https://spacenews.com/varda-waiting-on-faa-license-to-return-space-manufacturing-capsule/
https://twitter.com/breadfrom/status/1702860659333988438
Update: the FAA says it denied @VardaSpace’s license application on 9/6 because the company didn’t “demonstrate compliance” w regs. Varda asked for a reconsideration, which is pending.
The FAA denied the Varda Space Industries application for a commercial space vehicle operator license on September 6. The company did not demonstrate compliance with the regulatory requirements. On September 8, Varda formally requested that the FAA reconsider its decision.
The request for reconsideration is pending. Please contact Varda for additional information.
Edit/add; see mention of second Varda spacecraft launch:
SN Varda partners with Australian range for capsule landings, October 23, by Jeff Foust
LAS VEGAS — Varda Space Industries has signed an agreement to land spacecraft at an Australian range as it continues work to secure approvals to land its first spacecraft in Utah.
Varda announced Oct. 19 an agreement with Southern Launch, a spaceport operator based in Adelaide, Australia. Under the agreement, Varda’s spacecraft will land at the Koonibba Test Range northwest of Adelaide, a facility covering more than 23,000 square kilometers northwest of Adelaide design to host suborbital launches and spacecraft landings.
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Southern Launch said Varda will use the range as soon as its second mission, scheduled for mid-2024.
Apogeo satellites:
SN Apogeo Space orders second space tug for connectivity constellation, June 6, by Jason Rainbow
Apogeo’s first batch of nine operational satellites is set to fly on this October mission [Transporter-9], according to CEO Guido Parissenti, using an OTV from Italy-based D-Orbit.
3 GHG satellites; my
bold:
GHGSat to Launch 6 New High-Resolution Emission Monitoring Satellites in 2023
PRESS RELEASE FEB 22, 2023
MONTREAL, February 22, 2023 (Newswire.com) - GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution emissions monitoring from space, today confirms the upcoming launches of six additional satellites in 2023. The first three are GHGSat satellites, named Mey-Lin (C6), Gaspard (C7) and Océane (C8), which will travel into orbit this Spring onboard SpaceX's Transporter-7 rideshare mission.
GHGSat's satellite methane sensors have set the standard for performance with an industry-leading combination of low detection threshold and high resolution. The timely and frequent insight the monitoring constellation provides is used by industry, governments and financial services worldwide to proactively drive reductions in emissions.
The demand for data is increasing as awareness of the benefits of addressing methane emissions continues to grow, and nations turn their focus to meeting the commitments made as part of the Global Methane Pledge. With 12 spacecraft in orbit by the end of the year, GHGSat will be doubling its capacity to make more than 1.5M facility measurements in 2023.
Named after the children of GHGSat team members, as per company tradition, Mey-Lin, Gaspard, and Océane completed testing in December and will travel to their launch site in California later this month. All three proprietary payloads feature the same proven, patented high-resolution interferometer currently in orbit, tuned to precisely detect and measure the specific 'signature' of methane in the atmosphere.
Stephane Germain, CEO at GHGSat, said, "Every year since our demonstrator satellite Claire was launched in 2016, we've pushed the boundaries of emissions monitoring from space. We are driven by our ambition to fight climate change by continuing our role as an independent purveyor of the best methane emissions insight in the world, and as a trusted partner to industry, government and financial services customers."
"The new satellites mean we can dramatically ramp up the number of locations and emissions we can monitor worldwide, including increasing daily monitoring over key oil and gas production sites."
GHGSat-C9, C10, and C11 are hosted payloads currently in the final stages of assembly and testing, and will soon be shipped for integration with third-party satellites as announced on September 15 of last year. GHGSat-C10 is the world's first commercial CO2-hosted payload, reaffirming GHGSat's leadership position in the monitoring of greenhouse gases at industrial facilities from space.
An announcement regarding launch dates will follow in due course.
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#107
by
gongora
on 30 Oct, 2023 20:20
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#108
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 31 Oct, 2023 06:20
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There's always a few on these missions...
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231030489935/en/
The relevant bit.
"The Blue Marble Synthesizer will be launched into space on November 7th, 2023, aboard the Space X Falcon 9 rocket. The latter is the first orbital class rocket capable of reflight. The synthesizer will then be deployed from the rocket and start orbiting around earth every 90 minutes."
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#109
by
gongora
on 31 Oct, 2023 16:42
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https://investor.aac-clyde.space/en/press-releases/?slug=aac-clyde-space-delivers-space-data-as-a-service-satellite-e-77376[Oct 31]
AAC Clyde Space has delivered the 6U satellite EPICHyper-3 to the Vandenberg Space Force base in California for a planned launch in November 2023. The satellite will deliver hyperspectral Earth observation data to Canadian company Wyvern Inc., under a Space Data as a Service (SDaaS) contract.
The satellite is the third in the EPICHyper series and follows EPICHyper-1 and EPICHyper-2, both launched earlier in 2023. Under the SDaaS agreement AAC Clyde Space owns and operates the three satellites, while Wyvern owns the hyperspectral data delivered by the satellite.
The satellites are part of AAC Clyde Space's EPIC VIEW family of spacecraft, which are optimized to host cutting-edge imagers, enabling them to deliver multi-spectral and hyperspectral images of the Earth's surface. The image data will be used by farmers around the world to optimise food production yields and detect invasive plants, pests and changes in soil make-up.
"Our Space Data as a Service model capitalises on a demand in the market and is helping to meet the food production needs of our society. Smart farming can optimise yields, increase soil quality, and improve water management - 70% of the world's freshwater withdrawal is used for agriculture. The data delivered by this satellite will help communities and farmers around the world to increase production, minimizing the environmental impact of their activities." says AAC Clyde Space CEO Luis Gomes.
Satellite imagery is employed in the agriculture sector for multiple purposes. The new improved hyperspectral information from satellites provides better resolution and sampling rate that gives farmers better knowledge for an improved and more resource-efficient agriculture. This in turn could help to maximise productivity and reduce costs while increasing environmental sustainability.
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#110
by
gongora
on 31 Oct, 2023 16:45
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https://twitter.com/NanoAvionics/status/1719365655986589780#SmallSats come in all shapes and sizes, and the 3 satellites we manufactured for our customers launching with SpaceX on Transporter-9 NET November show the difference:
🛰️ The 6U "NinjaSat" for @riken_en and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace is the size of a shoebox with a mass of around 10kg. Yet, it will study tiny black holes and supernovae known for their space-time-bending heaviness.
🛰️ The 16U high-resolution nanosatellite for @PROMETHEE_Space is the size of a microwave weighing nearly 30kg. All that mass will deliver 1.5-meter resolution imagery in 7 spectral bands for Promethee's data platform.
🛰️ The washing machine-sized MP42 #microsatellite weighing well over 100kg will put its weight into demonstrating our undisclosed customer technologies in orbit.
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#111
by
gongora
on 31 Oct, 2023 17:51
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#112
by
gongora
on 31 Oct, 2023 17:56
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The payload on Mira...
TrustPoint Advances Commercial PNT System with Upcoming Launch of Second SatelliteDULLES, VIRGINIA, USA, October 31, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- TrustPoint, a global leader in next-generation GNSS infrastructure, products and services, is pleased to announce their second satellite is integrated and ready for launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission. Delivered only six months after the successful launch and deployment of their first satellite, "It’s About Time," on SpaceX’s Transporter-7 mission, this second satellite, "Time We’ll Tell," features an advanced compact Position, Navigation, and Time (PNT) Payload that will further mature and demonstrate TrustPoint’s core technologies as it progresses towards delivering GPS-independent C-Band global time and positioning services from Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
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#113
by
flambo
on 31 Oct, 2023 18:13
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#114
by
gongora
on 31 Oct, 2023 18:17
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There's always a few on these missions...
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231030489935/en/
I think we may fall into this category; if I could add a shameless little plug for our Transporter-9 payload!:
Someone with a payload actually sharing information? I'm all for it. (I actually had fun scrolling through the list of Celestis "passengers" on one of the recent Transporter flights)
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#115
by
zubenelgenubi
on 31 Oct, 2023 18:58
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There's always a few on these missions...
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231030489935/en/
I think we may fall into this category; if I could add a shameless little plug for our Transporter-9 payload!:
Someone with a payload actually sharing information? I'm all for it. (I actually had fun scrolling through the list of Celestis "passengers" on one of the recent Transporter flights)
Noting ION-SCV 013.
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#116
by
Galactic Penguin SST
on 01 Nov, 2023 15:14
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2nd stage re-entry NOTAM (20:57 - 22:16 UTC, Nov. 7-13):
A4000/23 NOTAMN
Q) FAJO/QWMLW/IV/BO/W/000/999/5344S03159E485
A) FAJO B) 2311072057 C) 2311132216
D) DLY 2057-2216
E) AREA BOUNDED BY (4619S 03105E, 5817S 03706E, 5913S 03013E, 4715S
02552E): SPACEX TRANSPORTER-9 ROCKET RE-ENTRY OPS TAKING PLACE.
APPLICABLE AIRSPACE DOWNGRADED TO CLASS G.
F) SFC G) UNL
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#117
by
abeno
on 02 Nov, 2023 08:38
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#118
by
realnouns
on 02 Nov, 2023 12:36
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#119
by
JuaniX
on 02 Nov, 2023 15:31
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There's always a few on these missions...
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231030489935/en/
The relevant bit.
"The Blue Marble Synthesizer will be launched into space on November 7th, 2023, aboard the Space X Falcon 9 rocket. The latter is the first orbital class rocket capable of reflight. The synthesizer will then be deployed from the rocket and start orbiting around earth every 90 minutes."
From:
https://www.physical-synthesis.comYou get to:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/physicalsynthesis/blue-marble-put-a-music-synthesizer-in-spaceMy bold:
The Blue Marble Synthesizer Capsule was successfully loaded into D-Orbit's deployer aboard the SpaceX rocket set to launch in early November.
Sensor and flight data are transmitted to the Konigsberg KSAT Global Ground Network managed by our satellite provider Odyssey Spaceworks, ...
If Odyssey Spaceworks has no other sat on this mission, this sounds like a payload on the OSW Cazorla.
[zubenelgenubi: Kickstarter opened October 4.]
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