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Voting closed: 02/25/2025 10:35 am
Does Starshield count?
DARLA cubesat (Demonstration of artificial reasoning, learning, and analysis) has switched from the Firefly Elytra-1 launch (0123-EX-CM-2025). [May 28]Quote from: Technical DescriptionThe primary goal of the DARLA mission is to train undergraduate students at Saint Louis University in the spacecraft design lifecycle (from concept through design & analysis to assembly, integration & test and eventually to flight operations). This goal is accomplished through a flight experiment in event detection. On-board software will control a radio receiver to scan the UHF bands for “events”: signals much stronger than the background measured in previous orbits. These events will be catalogued for later analysis and refining of the event-detection algorithm. Similar demonstrations will be run with an on-board visible-light imager, looking for such natural space phenomena as auroras and meteors. Students run the entire project, supported by faculty and industry partners.The satellite will be launched aboard Blue Origin New Glenn launch vehicle, from Cape Canaveral, FL, NET July 1, 2025. It will be inserted into an orbit at 470 km apogee and 470 km perigee, on an inclination from the equator of 54 degrees. Transmission will begin 45 minutes after deployment and cease upon demise. Atmospheric friction will slow the satellite and reduce the altitude of the orbit, until de-orbiting occurs less than a year after launch. See the Orbital Debris Assessment Report for details.The DARLA spacecraft conforms to the 3U CubeSat design specifications with dimensions of 10 cm X 10 cm X 34 cm and a mass not to exceed 2.5 kg.
The primary goal of the DARLA mission is to train undergraduate students at Saint Louis University in the spacecraft design lifecycle (from concept through design & analysis to assembly, integration & test and eventually to flight operations). This goal is accomplished through a flight experiment in event detection. On-board software will control a radio receiver to scan the UHF bands for “events”: signals much stronger than the background measured in previous orbits. These events will be catalogued for later analysis and refining of the event-detection algorithm. Similar demonstrations will be run with an on-board visible-light imager, looking for such natural space phenomena as auroras and meteors. Students run the entire project, supported by faculty and industry partners.The satellite will be launched aboard Blue Origin New Glenn launch vehicle, from Cape Canaveral, FL, NET July 1, 2025. It will be inserted into an orbit at 470 km apogee and 470 km perigee, on an inclination from the equator of 54 degrees. Transmission will begin 45 minutes after deployment and cease upon demise. Atmospheric friction will slow the satellite and reduce the altitude of the orbit, until de-orbiting occurs less than a year after launch. See the Orbital Debris Assessment Report for details.The DARLA spacecraft conforms to the 3U CubeSat design specifications with dimensions of 10 cm X 10 cm X 34 cm and a mass not to exceed 2.5 kg.
Ok the competence begin!!!New Glenn 1 - Starship 0First mission cargo commercial of New Glenn (3 cargos)
I said, will [NG] launch more commercial payloads, not launches in general.
From another thread:Quote from: Tywin on 12/08/2025 01:35 pmI said, will [NG] launch more commercial payloads, not launches in general.Do you consider Starlink launches to be "commercial payloads"? If you exclude Starlink, you should exclude Amazon LEO. Starlink will likely level out at about 40,000 satellites with a 5-year replacement cycle, so 8000/yr, so perhaps 100 launches/yr.
Is Electron launching more commercial payloads than Falcon9?... Then I'm not sure why NG will be launching more than SS.
NG is plausible for a couple reasons related to Starship:- I expect that any and all excess Starship capacity will be absorbed by Starlink, because that's the highest and best use of it.- It will take time for Starship to ramp up to a flight rate where Starlink and Artemis would not absorb all available capacity.- I don't think they care about customer payloads at this point, and I don't think they will for at least a few more years, due to the points above.Quote from: SpaceLizard on 12/08/2025 02:20 pmIs Electron launching more commercial payloads than Falcon9?... Then I'm not sure why NG will be launching more than SS.If this thread is based on quantity, and we are excluding Starlink, then the answer is yes, Electron did launch more commercial payloads than Falcon 9 this year. Of course, they are tiny payloads by comparison.
Quote from: sstli2 on 12/08/2025 02:30 pmNG is plausible for a couple reasons related to Starship:- I expect that any and all excess Starship capacity will be absorbed by Starlink, because that's the highest and best use of it.- It will take time for Starship to ramp up to a flight rate where Starlink and Artemis would not absorb all available capacity.- I don't think they care about customer payloads at this point, and I don't think they will for at least a few more years, due to the points above.Quote from: SpaceLizard on 12/08/2025 02:20 pmIs Electron launching more commercial payloads than Falcon9?... Then I'm not sure why NG will be launching more than SS.If this thread is based on quantity, and we are excluding Starlink, then the answer is yes, Electron did launch more commercial payloads than Falcon 9 this year. Of course, they are tiny payloads by comparison.Please read the initial post for the thread. Tywin is counting individual satellites, not launches,and he excludes "in-house" satellites (i.e., Starlink for SS and Amazon LEO for NG).
Quote from: DanClemmensen on 12/08/2025 02:49 pmQuote from: sstli2 on 12/08/2025 02:30 pmNG is plausible for a couple reasons related to Starship:- I expect that any and all excess Starship capacity will be absorbed by Starlink, because that's the highest and best use of it.- It will take time for Starship to ramp up to a flight rate where Starlink and Artemis would not absorb all available capacity.- I don't think they care about customer payloads at this point, and I don't think they will for at least a few more years, due to the points above.Quote from: SpaceLizard on 12/08/2025 02:20 pmIs Electron launching more commercial payloads than Falcon9?... Then I'm not sure why NG will be launching more than SS.If this thread is based on quantity, and we are excluding Starlink, then the answer is yes, Electron did launch more commercial payloads than Falcon 9 this year. Of course, they are tiny payloads by comparison.Please read the initial post for the thread. Tywin is counting individual satellites, not launches,and he excludes "in-house" satellites (i.e., Starlink for SS and Amazon LEO for NG).Why would anyone care about this metric? All the important stuff is self owned these days.
Quote from: DanClemmensen on 12/08/2025 02:49 pmPlease read the initial post for the thread. Tywin is counting individual satellites, not launches,and he excludes "in-house" satellites (i.e., Starlink for SS and Amazon LEO for NG).Why would anyone care about this metric? All the important stuff is self owned these days.
Please read the initial post for the thread. Tywin is counting individual satellites, not launches,and he excludes "in-house" satellites (i.e., Starlink for SS and Amazon LEO for NG).
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