SpaceX F9 : Transporter-9 Rideshare : Vandenberg : 11 November 2023 (18:49 UTC)

[gongora]

https://twitter.com/EXOLAUNCH/status/1709463587196924136

🛰 MISSION UPDATE 🛰 Veronika, is ready to #LaunchWithExolaunch after a successful integration with our EXOpod Nova deployer! The 3rd-ever 🇸🇰 Slovak satellite, built by @spacemanictech, carries two Earth observation cameras to help popularize space in the country!

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/exolaunch/status/1709838023695663512

🚀Mission in Progress 🇰🇷 @naraspacetech's team successfully completed the integration of their 16U 🛰️Observer-1A 🛰️ smallsat in our Berlin facilities. It is the 1st gen of NARA's EO constellation and will launch via Exolaunch aboard Falcon 9 on the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission.

[gongora]

https://twitter.com/EXOLAUNCH/status/1710214290563592254

🚀Our #EXOteam integrated multiple satellites manufactured by @NanoAvionics into EXOpod Nova for the upcoming @spaceX
 #Transporter9 mission.

🛰 NinjaSat, a 6U nanosat built for 🇯🇵 @riken_en and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace
🛰 ProtoMéthée-1, a 16U sat built for 🇫🇷 @PROMETHEE_Space

[gongora]

Planet had a recent STA request to communicate with Pelican sats starting November 1.  I guess there could be some on this flight?  up to 160kg, VLEO (325km) operational orbit

[GewoonLukas_]

Planet had a recent STA request to communicate with Pelican sats starting November 1.  I guess there could be some on this flight?  up to 160kg, VLEO (325km) operational orbit

1x Pelican & 36x SuperDove:

Launch loading…

Our first Pelican tech demonstration satellite, Pelican-1, along with 36 SuperDoves, have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in preparation for launch! More details on these satellites: go.planet.com/deliver

https://twitter.com/planet/status/1711786136044274015?t=VZI53VPB9yiz_4IAaiiXaA&s=19

[gongora]

Planet’s Pelican Tech Demonstration Satellite Ready for Launch
October 10, 2023
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced that its Pelican tech demonstration satellite, Pelican-1, along with 36 SuperDoves, have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in preparation for launch next month. Pelican-1, designed and manufactured by Planet, is the first tech demonstration of Planet’s next-generation, high-resolution fleet, which is expected to replenish and improve upon Planet’s existing high-resolution systems in orbit today. The 36 SuperDoves, Planet’s Flock 4q, will contribute to Planet’s daily monitoring PlanetScope mission.

Pelican-1 is a technology demonstration, built to test Pelican’s integrated design and Planet’s common bus platform. This common bus platform, designed and built by Planet, will also host the Company’s future hyperspectral Tanager mission. Planet launches tech demonstrations across all of its new satellite fleets in order to prove out next-generation systems, test its latest technology, and learn from its performance, improving the scalability of its systems along the way. Pelican-1 is not expected to produce commercial data, but rather obtain critical information and learnings needed to iterate the Pelican design and rapidly scale to a fleet using Planet’s agile aerospace approach. When fully operational, the Pelican constellation is planned to improve upon every dimension of Planet’s existing high-resolution SkySat constellation - faster acquisition and delivery of data, better spatial resolution to see finer details, higher revisit to catch fleeting events, and more ways to combine insights with other analytics and sensors.

The 36 SuperDoves launching will contribute to Planet’s flagship daily, global monitoring mission. This data is used by hundreds of customers in defense, civil government, and commercial markets to take informed action, and better contextualize events they’re seeing on the ground today. Planet’s daily scan and deep archive of data for every point on Earth is unique within the industry and provides customers with a continuous and complete view of their areas of interest. Further, the archive acts as a rich training ground for predictive machine learning and advanced artificial intelligence models, accelerating users’ ability to draw insights from the terabytes of data collected by Planet each day.

“The launch of our first Pelican tech demonstration marks an exciting milestone for us,” said Will Marshall, co-founder and CEO of Planet. “This new spacecraft bus is an exquisite system that will underpin both our Pelican and Tanager fleets and we can’t wait to learn and iterate in our agile aerospace model. The 36 SuperDoves also launching are not to be overlooked. They will join the flock we have in-orbit today, which remains the largest earth imaging fleet, providing our unique daily scan that is helping to unlock new markets.”

Planet is committed to delivering best-in-class data and services to its customers and expects this launch of Pelican-1 and 36 SuperDoves will help further the company’s mission of making change visible, accessible, and actionable. As the launch window nears, Planet, alongside its launch partner, will be sharing more details. Stay tuned.

[gongora]

Momentus Customers Integrated and Shipped to SpaceX Launch Site

October 10, 2023 07:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) (“Momentus” or the “Company”), a U.S. commercial space company that offers satellite buses, transportation, and other in-space infrastructure services, has integrated its customers launching on the SpaceX Transporter-9 mission and shipped the payloads to Vandenberg Space Force Base for integration with Falcon 9 ahead of launch, which is targeted for no earlier than November 2023.

Momentus will use a deployer to place five satellites into Low-Earth Orbit for four different customers:

The AMAN-1 Earth Observation satellite will be deployed for SatRev of Poland. The satellite can also be used for other services such as land survey, precision agriculture, weather, environmental and smart cities.

The JINJUSat-1 satellite will be deployed for CONTEC Co. of the Republic of Korea. JINJUSat-1 is spearheaded by three entities: Jinju City, Korea Testing Laboratory, and Gyeongsang National University. Once in orbit, cameras mounted on the satellite will carry out a mission to take pictures of the Earth.

The Picacho satellite will be deployed for Lunasonde - a U.S. sub-surface imaging company with the goal of making underground resources – like water and minerals – easier to find. The Picacho CubeSat is a technology demonstration of
Lunasonde’s sensors. It will measure the power spectral density of low-frequency radio signals in the ionosphere, which will help inform designs for the company’s future satellites.

The Hello Test 1 & 2 satellites will be deployed for Hello Space of Turkey as part of their “Hello for IoT” mission. The two pocketqubes are part of Hello Space’s broader mission to enable worldwide IoT ecosystems and end-to-data data services for various industries. Hello Test 1 & 2 will be Hello Space’s second and third satellites launched to orbit.
...
The Transporter-9 mission will mark Momentus’ final mission of 2023. The Company will next launch its Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle on SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission targeted for no earlier than February 2024. On that flight, Momentus will aim to deploy several customer satellites in Low-Earth Orbit and provide services to a hosted payload. The Company will also release a target satellite and maneuver the OSV into proximity with the target satellite for a Remote Proximity Operations demonstration.

[zubenelgenubi]

Does anyone know/can say when in November that the launch will be?

Edit October 20: Presumably not in earliest November?

[gongora]

https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/sci-tech/un-satelit-construit-de-elevi-romani-va-fi-lansat-in-spatiu-cu-o-racheta-a-lui-elon-musk-2537939
[Oct 11]

The second Romanian satellite built by five students from the Bucharest International Informatics High School has passed the tests and will be launched from Space X in November, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

ROM-3, 2P satellite, launch integrator Alba Orbital

[gongora]

MANTIS (12U) hyperspectral imaging

https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/mantis#overview
https://news.satnews.com/2023/10/12/open-cosmos-mantis-satellite-prepped-for-upcoming-launch/
https://incubed.esa.int/portfolio/mantis/

[gongora]

Spire Global and SNC Announce Strategic Partnership on Space Services Program
[March 7, 2023]
Spire will build four 6U LEMUR satellites for SNC to conduct RF collection and analysis

VIENNA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR), a leading provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, today announced a partnership with Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) on a space services program to address a growing market need for radio frequency (RF) collection and analysis. Spire’s cluster of four 6U satellites will enhance SNC technology that detects and geolocates certain objects based on targeted RF emissions. The program will provide valuable insight into how military and government organizations can better manage RF emissions and safeguard against RF and GPS interference.

“This is an exciting and important strategic partnership for Spire, and we thank SNC for their confidence in our team and our space-as-a-service offering,” Director Intelligence Community Sales, Spire Federal Mark Carhart said. “Spire’s secure, scalable and space-proven satellite platform will enable SNC to advance its RF collection capabilities in an efficient, low-risk and cost-effective manner.”

SNC is a global aerospace and national security leader, delivering tailored solutions to government and commercial customers with technological applications in satellites and space exploration, aircraft integration, navigation and guidance systems, security and threat detection, scientific research, and infrastructure protection. A pioneer in artificial intelligence and machine learning, SNC brings more than 12 years of experience developing advanced algorithms, analytics, process automation and leading laboratories to the project.

“We are excited to partner with Spire and further extend our geospatial intelligence capabilities,” said SNC Executive Vice President Tim Owings. “We’re looking forward to bringing this new commercial data stream and enhanced RF awareness to our customers in the national security and defense areas.”

[gongora]

https://twitter.com/Open_Cosmos/status/1699778438452929021

Get ready for the #Transporter9 mission! Onboard is:

MANTIS: Pioneering @esa InCubed's EO innovation with AI-powered high-res imagery.

PLATERO: Leading the way in sustainable farming with real-time EO and IoT data.

[gongora]

I find the PocketQube to CubeSat adapter interesting...


https://twitter.com/hellospaceist/status/1712743533860323598
https://twitter.com/hellospaceist/status/1708804183577469146

[gongora]

SAT-LOA-20220921-00113
GNOMES-4, FCC license not granted yet

0987-EX-CN-2022
Pony Express 2, FCC permit not granted yet

0549-EX-CN-2023
Spire Mango 2, FCC permit not granted
1607-EX-ST-2023
Spire Mango 2 (updated), FCC permit granted Oct. 12

Umbra Block 2, FCC license granted

SAT-LOA-20230414-00088
YAM-6, FCC license not granted yet, moved to next flight

SAT-LOA-20230504-00103
MuSat-2, FCC license not granted yet

0861-EX-CN-2023
GENMAT-1, FCC permit granted

0878-EX-CN-2023
OMNI-LER1, FCC permit granted

SAT-LOA-20230612-00136
Outpost Mission 2, FCC license granted

SAT-LOA-20230626-00147
OSW Cazorla, FCC license granted

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/aacclydespace/status/1714615375223046626

Our first #Swedish built #satellite is now ready to #launch! 🇸🇪🚀 Ymir-1, a flight proven #VDES EPIC LINK #communications satellite has been delivered to the Vandenberg Space Force base in California for a planned launch in November 2023.
📲

https://investor.aac-clyde.space/en/press-releases/?slug=aac-clyde-space-delivers-swedish-built-satellite-ymir-1-for-69691

[gongora]

There have been some ground station filings referencing Falconsat-X (NET November 1) and Bane (NET late November), both to SSO.

[gongora]

There is a ground station filing for communication with OMNI-LER1.

[zubenelgenubi]

Transporter-9?

1727-EX-ST-2023
SpaceX Mission 1580 from SLC-4E, Vandenberg
RTLS
[NET Sep 19]

1733-EX-ST-2023
Adjusts the frequencies
[NET Sep 20]

Non Starlink missions with FCC applications
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[gongora]

Kongsberg Satellite Services AS (“KSAT”) provides this information pursuant to Section 25.120 of the Commission’s rules1 to supplement its request for 30 day special temporary authority (“STA”) for its earth station in Maui, Hawaii (“Station”) to provide launch and early operation support for the RapidEO satellite (“Satellite”) a satellite operated by L3Harris Technologies Inc. (“L3Harris”) for a U.S. government classified program.

The Satellite is scheduled to be launched on the SpaceX Transporter 9 mission, planned for November 7, 2023. Grant of the STA by November 6, 2023 is needed to meet the communication needs for this classified satellite program.

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/exolaunch/status/1716350489904791900

🚀EXOLAUNCH MISSION UPDATE🚀 @Open_Cosmos' 🛰MANTIS and 🛰Platero satellites are integrated with our 2 EXOpod Nova deployers and ready for launch on @SpaceX  #Transporter9!  We are proud to be entrusted with payloads capturing Europe’s #SpaceAmbitions and taking them to orbit!💫