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SpaceX F9 : Bandwagon 2 Rideshare : Florida : NET November 2024 by gongora on 03 Apr, 2024 00:27
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Discussion thread for SpaceX's Bandwagon 2 dedicated rideshare flight.
Discussion thread for SpaceX Rideshare Program
Discussion thread for Bandwagon 2 / Bandwagon 1
Launch targeting NET November 2024 from Florida, on Falcon 9 (booster 10xx.x) to 45.4 deg, with deployment orbits around 510km and 590km?. First stage B10xx-x will land at LZ-1.
Payloads:
425 Project SAR sat (?kg, South Korea)
Exolaunch
CroCube (1U, Croatia)
CTC-0 (8U, STI)
Hawk 11A/11B/11C (3x ~30kg, microsat, Hawkeye 360)
Jackal (275kg, True Anomaly)
LizzieSat-2 (?kg, Sidus Space)
LizzieSat-3 (?kg, Sidus Space)
SC1 (16U, GITAI)
Tomorrow.io-3, -4 (2x 6U, Tomorrow.io)
XCUBE-1 (6U, XPlore)
Possible Payloads:
Hello Space (2x ?nanosat, Hello Space, Turkey)
Kaladin (3U, Array Labs) 0628-EX-CN-2024
Removed Payloads:
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#1 by gongora on 03 Apr, 2024 00:32
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SAT-LOA-20240401-00072 XCUBE-1 (6U, Xplore)Quote
Xplore seeks authorization for XCUBE-1... to provide Earth imaging in hyperspectral bands for various commercial and USG customers. XCUBE-1 is a 6U cubesat manufactured by Exobotics1 with a weight of 10 kilograms. XCUBE-1 is currently expected to launch Q4 2024 thru Q2 2025 window on a Falcon 9 SpaceX launch vehicle with the Bandwagon 2 rideshare platform. It will operate for a nominal five years of mission life starting at a target altitude of 510 km...
QuoteThe satellite will be launched aboard the SpaceX Bandwagon 2 launch, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, No Earlier Than October 14, 2024
QuoteImaging Subsystem: The XCUBE-1 spacecraft will support a Simera HyperScape100 camera with imaging/frame rate of 2600 Hz line rate and a spatial resolution of 4.8 m. The imager will have a GSD of 4.84 m/pixel. The spectral range is 442 nm – 884 nm.
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#2 by gongora on 05 Apr, 2024 23:45
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0409-EX-CN-2024 SC1 (16U, GITAI)Quote
The overall goal of the SC1 mission is to design and develop a custom spacecraft bus and control system in-house and to improve GITAI’s perception, guidance, navigation and control technologies in an orbital environment in anticipation of a 2026 product launch.
The satellite will be launched as a secondary payload aboard the SpaceX Rideshare Bandwagon-2, from Cape Canaveral, FL, no earlier than October 15, 2024. It will be inserted into a circular orbit at 500-600 km, on an inclination from the equator of 45 degrees
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Following spacecraft commissioning, SC1 will perform maneuver tests to verify the propulsion system’s functionality and performance. After the maneuver tests, SC1 will deploy a tethered payload cube and will observe the cube with two wide field-of-view visual cameras, a 3D LiDAR sensor, a laser rangefinder, and an infrared camera.
The spacecraft is a single unit with the dimensions of 16 stacked 10 cm X 10 cm X 10 cm CubeSat modules (giving an overall dimension of 20 cm X 20 cm X 40 cm.) The total mass will be 19.68 ± 1 kg.
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Propulsion Subsystem: The propulsion system utilizes one thruster (Dawn Aerospace: CubeDrive 0.8U) with Green Bipropellant (N2O+Propylene) and a self-pressurizing tank. The propulsion system is on board to gain flight heritage and for on orbit testing and calibration. No orbit changing is planned.
3D Recognition Payload Subsystem: The payload complement includes a tethered deployable cube with fiducial and reflective markers on the surface for testing GITAI’s proprietary visual and 3D recognition software. The payload sensor suite includes two wide field-of-view visual cameras, a 3D LiDAR sensor, a laser rangefinder and an infrared camera.
WiFi Payload Subsystem: This payload will test the connection stability of the Wi-Fi to communicate between modules within the spacecraft. The WPEA-352ACNRBI Wi-Fi module on the payload computer will communicate with the Raspberry Pi Pico W Wi-Fi module, in the 2.4GHz band.
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#3 by normp9 on 10 Apr, 2024 12:45
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https://investors.sidusspace.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/175/sidus-space-announces-second-agreement-with-heo-forQuote
Under the agreement, Sidus Space will host HEO’s NEI imager, HOLMES-006, onboard LizzieSat-3, as part of the Bandwagon-2 launch scheduled for November 2024
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This marks the second agreement between HEO and Sidus Space, as Sidus Space’s LizzieSat-2 will be hosting HEO’s HOLMES-004 on the same launch. -
#4 by gongora on 25 Apr, 2024 13:48
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Hello Space is launching another pair of IoT nanosatellites in November, could be this flight.
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#5 by OceanCat on 07 May, 2024 18:21
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#6 by gongora on 09 Jun, 2024 01:45
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1082-EX-ST-2024
CTC-0 (8U, Space Telecommunications Inc.)
510km deployment, no propulsion
testing direct-to-device communications (to enable a decentralized financial ecosystem using blockchain)
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#7 by gongora on 11 Jun, 2024 02:15
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1109-EX-ST-2024
Jackal, 275kg, True Anomaly, 510km deployment
test mission with one Jackal spacecraft
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#8 by gongora on 15 Jun, 2024 02:06
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#9 by gongora on 20 Jun, 2024 02:42
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#10 by StraumliBlight on 25 Jun, 2024 18:16
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NOAA Gives HEO’s Holmes a Thumbs UpQuote
NOAA has given Australian non-Earth imaging startup HEO the go-ahead to launch its Holmes camera aboard American sats, the company told Payload.
QuoteHEO’s Tier 1 license is different from other NOAA approvals because it okays only the camera that will ride aboard a sat, while other regulatory licenses approved the entire sat with the imager embedded. Hilary Cohen, HEO’s director of US operations, said it is the first time a standalone remote sensing payload has received a NOAA license.
QuoteWhat’s next: The first Holmes camera is expected to launch in October on Sidus Space’s LizzieSat 2.
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#11 by zubenelgenubi on 27 Jun, 2024 00:23
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Transporter-11 => Bandwagon-2:
CroCube should be removed from this launch. [translated] [Jun 9]
QuoteDue to a delay by SpaceX, the launch of the first Croatian CroCube satellite was moved to "October at the earliest" this year.
CroCube will be launched on a Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the Bandwagon 2 mission.
This mission involves a launch to an altitude of 510 +/- 20 km, with an orbital inclination between 44° and 46°. Bandwagon 2 is a dedicated rideshare flight that will carry dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government users. The launch is contracted, and even though our satellite has been ready for some time, all we have to do is wait and count down to the launch. CroCube will soon be part of the space adventure, contributing to the scientific and technological progress of Croatia.
The launch broker, Exolaunch, specializes in the integration and launch of nanosatellites. CroCube will join other satellites in deployers, special nanosatellite dispensers, and other satellites that will travel together toward American soil. This coordination of different space missions makes Exolaunch a key partner in the process of preparing and launching satellites like CroCube. -
#12 by StraumliBlight on 26 Jul, 2024 13:11
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#13 by StraumliBlight on 27 Jul, 2024 23:31
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4.3 kg 3U Innocube (Innovative CubeSat for Education) should be on this launch [August 2023].Quote
Launch: Set for November 2024 (SpaceX)
https://twitter.com/INNOspaceMaster/status/1791023280025165950
3U ANSER (Advanced Nanosatellite Systems for Earth-observation Research) cubesat confirmed [May 24]Quote“Our team has finished the integration of a new CubeSat – ANSER Leader-S – which will replace the original lost Leader, incorporating a new S-band radio to improve its communications capabilities with the ground. Its launch has been booked with ISILAUNCH in the Netherlands and SpaceX for next October, with a close enough orbit that if all goes well it can join the ANSER – demonstrating the innovative concept of uploading new hardware to an existing mission.”
Satellite with an ION-X thruster [June 30]QuoteDemonstration mission #1 planned with Endurosat 12U platform on-board Space-X Falcon9 for Q3 2024
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#14 by Steven Pietrobon on 28 Jul, 2024 02:26
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4.3 kg 3U Innocube (Innovative CubeSat for Education) should be on this launch [August 2023].
QuoteLaunch: Set for November 2024 (SpaceX)
A November launch would indicate this is on Bandwagon 2.
[zubenelgenubi: Posts split/merged to the Bandwagon 2 launch thread.]