Dec. 9 • Falcon 9 • IXPELaunch window: 0600-0730 GMT (1:00-2:30 a.m. EST)Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida...January • Falcon 9 • Transporter 3Launch time: TBDLaunch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Targeted Date: October 31, 2021 - 2:21 a.m. EasternMission: NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 Mission to the International Space StationDescription: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission will launch four astronauts aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station. Assigned to the mission are NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer.
October 18, 2021 RELEASE 21-134NASA Selects Gamma-ray Telescope to Chart Milky Way EvolutionNASA has selected a new gamma-ray space telescope, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), that will chart the evolution of the Milky Way, seen here in this illustration.NASA has selected a new space telescope proposal that will study the recent history of star birth, star death, and the formation chemical elements in the Milky Way. The gamma-ray telescope, called the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), is expected to launch in 2025 as NASA’s latest small astrophysics mission....NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the program for the agency.For more information about the Explorers Program, visit:https://explorers.gsfc.nasa.gov
New SSO rideshare dates:https://rideshare.spacex.com/searchTransporter-7: 04/2023Transporter-8: 06/2023Transporter-9: Q4 2023
Cross-post:Quote from: Yiosie on 09/08/2021 10:45 pmSouth Korea's CAS500-4 satellite to be launched by SpaceX.SpaceX to launch Korea’s midsize satellite in 2023Quote from: The Korea HeraldSpaceX will send South Korea’s next-generation midsize satellite into orbit in 2023, Korea Aerospace Industries said Sunday.KAI, the nation’s sole aircraft manufacturer, which developed KF-21 fighters, plans to launch four midsize satellites by 2025 -- No. 2 in 2022, No. 3 and No. 4 in 2023 and No. 5 in 2025. SpaceX rocket will carry the No. 4 into orbit, which will monitor Korean agriculture.KAI selected SpaceX in an open bidding. Though the launch will take place in the US, many details remain unclear at the moment, including the size of the deal and the type of SpaceX rocket.The launch of midsize satellite No. 1 in March was conducted by the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Starting from the launch of satellite No. 2, which will be the first one in Korea led by the private sector, KAI will be responsible for the development of the four satellites’ system design, body development, manufacture, assembly, test and actual launch.
South Korea's CAS500-4 satellite to be launched by SpaceX.SpaceX to launch Korea’s midsize satellite in 2023Quote from: The Korea HeraldSpaceX will send South Korea’s next-generation midsize satellite into orbit in 2023, Korea Aerospace Industries said Sunday.KAI, the nation’s sole aircraft manufacturer, which developed KF-21 fighters, plans to launch four midsize satellites by 2025 -- No. 2 in 2022, No. 3 and No. 4 in 2023 and No. 5 in 2025. SpaceX rocket will carry the No. 4 into orbit, which will monitor Korean agriculture.KAI selected SpaceX in an open bidding. Though the launch will take place in the US, many details remain unclear at the moment, including the size of the deal and the type of SpaceX rocket.The launch of midsize satellite No. 1 in March was conducted by the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Starting from the launch of satellite No. 2, which will be the first one in Korea led by the private sector, KAI will be responsible for the development of the four satellites’ system design, body development, manufacture, assembly, test and actual launch.
SpaceX will send South Korea’s next-generation midsize satellite into orbit in 2023, Korea Aerospace Industries said Sunday.KAI, the nation’s sole aircraft manufacturer, which developed KF-21 fighters, plans to launch four midsize satellites by 2025 -- No. 2 in 2022, No. 3 and No. 4 in 2023 and No. 5 in 2025. SpaceX rocket will carry the No. 4 into orbit, which will monitor Korean agriculture.KAI selected SpaceX in an open bidding. Though the launch will take place in the US, many details remain unclear at the moment, including the size of the deal and the type of SpaceX rocket.The launch of midsize satellite No. 1 in March was conducted by the state-run Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Starting from the launch of satellite No. 2, which will be the first one in Korea led by the private sector, KAI will be responsible for the development of the four satellites’ system design, body development, manufacture, assembly, test and actual launch.
NASA launch director Omar Baez confirms that the previously-flown Falcon 9 booster on IXPE will target a drone ship landing.
Starlab will begin initial operations in 2027, Houston-based Nanoracks said Thursday in a statement. The space station will be able to host as many as four astronauts continuously. Lockheed Martin Corp. will construct and operate Starlab while closely held Voyager Space will oversee financing and capital investment.
Latest article from Philip Sloss states that NASA is currently targeting Launch Period 18 in February 2022 for Artemis 1 (bolds mine):Artemis 1 Orion joins SLS to complete vehicle stackQuoteFinal assembly is the most visible of the preparations, but several weeks of testing and reviews are left to complete for the programs within Exploration Systems Development (ESD) and the division as a whole. Recent forecasts of launch readiness for this first flight across the division and programs are trending towards the end of January 2022, and tentative planning is looking at conducting final programmatic reviews ahead of the two-week-long lunar launch opportunity in February.<snip>The Orion and SLS programs in the ESD division are continuing to analyze launch windows for Artemis 1; NASA has daily opportunities to launch this first Artemis mission to the Moon in an approximately “two weeks on, two weeks off” pattern. Launch Period 17 is currently calculated to provide daily launch windows from January 16 through January 30, more or less; Launch Period 18 would be from about February 12 through February 27.Eventually, launch readiness will have to be synchronized to the lunar launch windows available for Artemis 1. Not only are there time-critical tasks that need to be performed in the days before the countdown, but the EGS, Orion, and SLS Programs also have flight readiness certification reviews to conduct, followed by ones at the ESD division level, and finally at the agency level.The programs, division, and agency want to be ready to fly when the hardware is ready and are looking at schedules for conducting the final flight readiness reviews (FRRs) ahead of finally setting a launch date for Artemis 1. Currently, the programs are tentatively working towards the Launch Period 18 opportunity in February.If the projections for launch readiness were to converge towards the February opportunity, the EGS, Orion, and SLS Programs would hold their program-level review boards in the first part of January, followed by an ESD review at the division level in late January, and, finally, an Agency FRR in early February would be held about a week before the launch period opens. At the end of all those reviews, a launch date would be set following the Agency FRR, but with several tests and milestones still to be completed both in the VAB and out at the launch pad before the ground hardware and the flight vehicle will be ready to fly, those tentative schedule plans are subject to further change.
Final assembly is the most visible of the preparations, but several weeks of testing and reviews are left to complete for the programs within Exploration Systems Development (ESD) and the division as a whole. Recent forecasts of launch readiness for this first flight across the division and programs are trending towards the end of January 2022, and tentative planning is looking at conducting final programmatic reviews ahead of the two-week-long lunar launch opportunity in February.<snip>The Orion and SLS programs in the ESD division are continuing to analyze launch windows for Artemis 1; NASA has daily opportunities to launch this first Artemis mission to the Moon in an approximately “two weeks on, two weeks off” pattern. Launch Period 17 is currently calculated to provide daily launch windows from January 16 through January 30, more or less; Launch Period 18 would be from about February 12 through February 27.Eventually, launch readiness will have to be synchronized to the lunar launch windows available for Artemis 1. Not only are there time-critical tasks that need to be performed in the days before the countdown, but the EGS, Orion, and SLS Programs also have flight readiness certification reviews to conduct, followed by ones at the ESD division level, and finally at the agency level.The programs, division, and agency want to be ready to fly when the hardware is ready and are looking at schedules for conducting the final flight readiness reviews (FRRs) ahead of finally setting a launch date for Artemis 1. Currently, the programs are tentatively working towards the Launch Period 18 opportunity in February.If the projections for launch readiness were to converge towards the February opportunity, the EGS, Orion, and SLS Programs would hold their program-level review boards in the first part of January, followed by an ESD review at the division level in late January, and, finally, an Agency FRR in early February would be held about a week before the launch period opens. At the end of all those reviews, a launch date would be set following the Agency FRR, but with several tests and milestones still to be completed both in the VAB and out at the launch pad before the ground hardware and the flight vehicle will be ready to fly, those tentative schedule plans are subject to further change.
Cross-post re: tentative Artemis I launch window:
Artemis I has a new launch date of NET February 12, 2022 at 5:56pm EST, just before sunset. https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/1451602236220624898QuoteThe launch window on the earliest Artemis 1 launch opportunity Feb. 12 opens at 5:56pm EST and runs for 21 minutes.
The launch window on the earliest Artemis 1 launch opportunity Feb. 12 opens at 5:56pm EST and runs for 21 minutes.
Iridium Satellite LLC (“Iridium”) seeks experimental authority to transmit fromits space stations to the Air Force Institute of Technology’s (“AFIT”) Grissom-1 cubesatas a point of communication, since Iridium’s Part 25 space station license does not coverspace-to-space communications.Iridium requests an experimental license for 18 months, from February 1, 2021, toAugust 1, 2023. So that it can accommodate launch integrator requirements, Iridiumrequests that grant of the license be made on or before December 10, 2021. The 18month time period reflects the 12-month scheduled duration of the mission plus sixmonths to account for any possible launch or other technical delays common tospacecraft missions.A single Iridium modem model 9603 will be installed on Grissom-1, which isscheduled to launch as a payload in February 2022. Grissom-1 is the inaugural flight ofthe Grissom 6U cubesat satellite bus. This maiden flight will validate the bus designedby AFIT and give the full suite of integrated systems onboard. Grissom-1 will carry twopayloads: a passive retro-reflector to assist with cubesat identification via a “licenseplate” uniquely designed into the retroreflector; and a second payload consisting of adiffuse laser that flashes a unique sequence that can be detected optically on the groundto assist with cubesat identification. Additionally, Grissom-1 uses an Iridium 9603modem as a backup transceiver to report errors and critical state of health informationto AFIT when they occur. This is accomplished by cross-linking with an Iridium satellitefor relay to the ground.
NTlA certify Stage 4 spectrum support for the Cadet & SHFT & RSat & NPSAT1 & Grissom-1 S/U CubesatTransceiver ...Air Force operate no more than 3 of the Cadet & SHFT & RSat & NPSAT1 & Grissom-1 S/U Cubesat satellitessimultaneously in orbit.
Oct. 28 • Rocket 3 • STP-27AD2Launch window: 0400-0730 GMT (12:00-3:30 a.m. EDT)Launch site: Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak Island, Alaska
The Orbital Reef team of experts brings proven capabilities and new visions to provide key elements and services, including unique experience from building and operating the International Space Station: Blue Origin – Utility systems, large-diameter core modules, and reusable heavy-lift New Glenn launch system. Sierra Space - Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) module, node module, and runway-landing Dream Chaser spaceplane for crew and cargo transportation, capable of landing on runways worldwide. Boeing – Science module, station operations, maintenance engineering, and Starliner crew spacecraft.
Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress in Dubai, Brent Sherwood, senior vice president of Advanced Development Programs for Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, said an initial version of the outpost will be flying before 2030. It would be built in partnership with Boeing, Redwire Space, Genesis Engineering and Arizona State University.
Sierra Space’s Janet Kavandi says the first Dream Chaser launch is “a little more than a year” from launch; last night she suggested it might slip to early 2023. (Pre-pandemic, it was going to launch late this year.) #iac2021
The October 27th-31st part of the [Astra] launch window appears to have been removed, they're now only talking about the window beginning November 5th:https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1453092583580782593Quote from: Michael SheetzAstra says in an SEC filing that preparations for the launch of rocket LV0007 have begun, but the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska has "not yet completed some planned improvements for the range." The launch is now no earlier than Nov. 5 window:
Astra says in an SEC filing that preparations for the launch of rocket LV0007 have begun, but the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska has "not yet completed some planned improvements for the range." The launch is now no earlier than Nov. 5 window:
