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Launch Stuff

#11
Yazata Offline
Tonight's headliner is a night launch from Wallops. This one will be a Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying the same company's Cygnus supply capsule to the Space Station. This is Northrop's piece of the same COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation System) Space Station resupply contracts that SpaceX has been flying with its Cargo Dragons. The Antares rocket has 12 flights, 11 of which have been successful. It isn't reusable

Launch time 1:38 Friday morning UTC, 9:38 PM Thursday EDT, 6:38 PM Thursday PDT.

Details here

https://www.nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2614

Livestream should be on NASA TV here


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/21X5lGlDOfg

Photo of an Antares rocket


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#12
C C Offline
It's cylindrical, so I don't know why the Antares rocket reminds me of a (flying) obelisk like the Washington Monument.
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#13
Yazata Offline
Scrubbapalooza continues! After Delta IV/NROL 44 scrubbed again last night and the Starlinks scrubbed again this morning, Antares/Cygnus just experienced an autosequence abort initiated by the flight computer. They are busily safeing the vehicle as we speak. I appreciate that NASA and/or Northrop is leaving coverage on as they go down the safeing checklist.

They are tentatively planning on a 24 hour recycle and will try to go again tomorrow. That's all contingent on understanding what caused the abort tonight.

This is what they get for putting AI in the computers. The computers just decide "Why the hell am I doing this??"

Edit: NSF is already selling "eat-sleep-scrub-repeat" t-shirts!

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/product/...ub-repeat/
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#14
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Launchapalooza Continues! (Assuming none of these slip, which they might given how congested the Eastern Range may become. Lots of tracking assets will be necessary.)

https://www.nextspaceflight.com/launches/

On the bill for tonight:

1. Antares CRS NG-14 Space Station resupply mission re-do from last night from Wallops. Scheduled for Saturday 01:16 UTC, Friday 9:16 PM EDT, 6:16 PDT.

https://twitter.com/northropgrumman/stat...0705415174

Will be streamed by NASA TV here


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/21X5lGlDOfg

2. Falcon 9 GPS III-4 Global Positioning System satellite from CCAFS Pad 40. Booster will be B1062 on its first flight. Recovery on JRTI. Scheduled for 01:43 UTC, 9:43 PM EDT, 6:43 PM PDT This is just 27 minutes after Antares!! (That's why I suspect that one or the other will be pushed back. Stay tuned.)

Will be streamed by SpaceX here


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JESG7x0X0ek

3. Falcon 9 Starlink from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Booster will be trusty old B 1058 on its third flight. It's the booster that flew Bob and Doug! Recovery on OCISLY Schduled for 12:34 UTC Saturday, 8:34 AM EDT, 5:34 AM PDT

I'm not sure if it will be streamed, if it is you can probably find it at https://www.spacex.com/
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#15
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Both Antares and GPS III-4 are still on for tonight. But indications seem to be that Saturday's Starlink launch has been pushed back to Monday Oct 5. Time still not set as they are still awaiting final range approvals.

Informative article on tonight's Antares/Cygnus launch here

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/10/...o-station/

Informative article on tonight's GPS III-4 launch here

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/10/...ourth-gps/

NSF say they will be streaming both Antares and GPS III-4 tonight as well. Their stream should be here in a few minutes.


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/b_lJCPNEXIw

Photo of Antares on the pad at Wallops Island Virginia (Northrop Grumman photo, the white angular thing in the upper right is their logo.)


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#16
Yazata Offline
Antares is off and has put its Cygnus supply capsule into a good orbit

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/stat...3623956480

Now awaiting SpaceX's GPS launch.

Looks like the Scrubbapalooza continues. The Falcon 9 got down to engine ignition but something wasn't right and there was an abort at T-2 seconds. The GPS satellite requires a precise launch window, so a scrub for the day has been declared.

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/stat...0534834178
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#17
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The Cygnus supply capsule has arrived at the Space Station and the station's Canadian built robot arm has reached out and grabbed it.

In the video clip below, Egypt's Nile delta can be seen below Cygnus and the arm.

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/stat...2568126465
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#19
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The GPS satellite that got scrubbed back Oct 2 above, is back today at 3:24 PST, 6:24 EST, 23:24 UTC)

All the details are here

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/101

Booster is B1062 on its first flight. Recovery will be at sea on OCISLY.

The satellite is a GPS Block III satellite belonging to the US Space Force and built by Lockheed. It is one of a planned constellation of ten designed to provide global positioning services to both military and civilian users. It has improved civilian signals allowing for better accuracy, plus a new military signal called 'M-code' that is designed to resist jamming by potential adversaries. In fact, Space's Falcon 9's don't land by homing in on OCISLY or JRTI. Instead they use GPS to head for a precise spot, and the landing barge sits at that precise spot, again enabled by GPS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_III

SpaceX's stream


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/wufXF5YKR1M

nsf's stream


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dV82gxNY4DQ
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#20
C C Offline
Uhn. Almost forgot to check the video for the booster touchdown. Only thing maybe still up in the air is the fairing recovery, if applicable.
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