C. G. Niederstrasser @RocketScient1stFirefly Aerospace delays first Alpha flight to April. It looks like it is still a toss up whether Virgin or Firefly will be first to field the next American small launcher.
The backlog of customer requests is immense, Markusic said, to the extent that the company is building three rockets simultaneously right now. The second mission, targeted for June 2020, will be fully filled with paying customers, as will the third mission that's targeted to fly this fall.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-media-to-northrop-grumman-s-february-space-station-launchQuoteNorthrop Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft for 5:39 p.m. EST Feb. 9 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island.
Northrop Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft for 5:39 p.m. EST Feb. 9 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island.
NROL-44 and NROL-82 are projected to launch in fiscal year 2020. NROL-91, NROL-68 and NROL-70 are forecast to launch in fiscal years 2022, 2023 and 2024 respectively.
Astra got an FAA license yesterday for three flights of Rocket v3.0 from Kodiak.LLS 20-118
FALCON 9The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral is scheduled to launch an In-Flight Abort Test of the Crew Dragon capsule from pad 39A on January 18 at 8:00am EST. The launch window stretches four hours to 12:00pm EST. The capsule will separate shortly into flight and parachute into the Atlantic ocean. Then, a Falcon 9 is slated to launch another Starlink mission from pad 40 on late January. And a Falcon 9 with another batch of Starlink satellites from pad 40 is slated for February.
Not sure how reliable this is, but this database shows that ExoCube 2 is launching on LauncherOne on March 15, 2020.
Quote from: scr00chy on 01/13/2020 01:53 pmNot sure how reliable this is, but this database shows that ExoCube 2 is launching on LauncherOne on March 15, 2020.Doesn't this article mean Exocube 2 was finally transferred on a rideshare mission on Falcon 9 ?https://www.kcbx.org/post/cal-poly-slated-join-new-spacex-rideshare#stream/0" Cal Poly is working with the National Science Foundation and NASA to send up the CubeSate ExoCube2 this spring on a rideshare. It will be the university’s fourteenth foray into space. "
Doesn't this article mean Exocube 2 was finally transferred on a rideshare mission on Falcon 9 ?https://www.kcbx.org/post/cal-poly-slated-join-new-spacex-rideshare#stream/0" Cal Poly is working with the National Science Foundation and NASA to send up the CubeSate ExoCube2 this spring on a rideshare. It will be the university’s fourteenth foray into space. "
April • Falcon 9 • GPS 3 SV03Launch window: TBDLaunch site: Cape Canaveral, FloridaMay • Atlas 5 • AFSPC 7/OTV-6Launch period: TBDLaunch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FloridaAugust• Falcon 9 • GPS 3 SV04Launch window: TBDLaunch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida4th Quarter • Delta 4-Heavy • NROL-82Launch time: TBDLaunch site: SLC-6, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California4th Quarter • Atlas 5 • AFSPC-8 (GSSAP 5 & 6)Launch time: TBDLaunch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida4th Quarter • Minotaur 1 • NROL-111Launch window: TBDLaunch site: Pad 0B, Wallops Island, Virginia
FALCON 9The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral is scheduled to launch an In-Flight Abort Test of the Crew Dragon capsule from pad 39A on January 18 at 8:00am EST. The launch window stretches four hours to 12:00pm EST. The capsule will separate shortly into flight and parachute into the Atlantic ocean. Then, a Falcon 9 is slated to launch another Starlink mission from pad 40 on January 20 at about 12:20pm EST. The launch window is instantaneous. The launch time gets 21.5 minutes earlier each day. And a Falcon 9 with another batch of Starlink satellites from pad 40 is slated for late January or February.
Congress provided NOAA funding in the 2020 budget for Space Weather Follow On (SWFO), a satellite destined for Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1. The Commerce Department also gave NOAA the green light in 2019 to begin procuring elements of SWFO, which is designed to carry on work performed by NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory launched in 2015 and the joint European Space Agency-NASA Solar and Heliophysics Observatory launched in 1995.SWFO, a small satellite, is scheduled to ride into orbit in 2024 as a secondary payload on the launch of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a heliophysics mission. The SWFO satellite will house the Naval Research Laboratory’s Compact Coronagraph and suite of instruments to measure solar wind.
Then, a Falcon 9 is slated to launch another Starlink mission from pad 40 on January 21 at 11:59am EST. The launch window is instantaneous.
PlanetIQ is preparing to launch its first small radio occultation satellite into polar orbit in March on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The firm’s second satellite is scheduled to travel in July into dawn-to-dusk orbit on India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.From a business standpoint, PlanetIQ is doing well after raising $18.7 million and winning contracts from NOAA and the U.S. Air Force, said Michael McCarthy, PlanetIQ chief revenue officer.PlanetIQ plans to fill out its constellation quickly, launching 18 to 20 radio occultation satellites between mid-2020 and mid-2022.