Satelita ma zastąpić 15-letniego Badr-6.
Wg wiceprezesa wykonawczego ds. sprzedaży i marketingu „Arabsat” Wael Al-Bati „Badr 8” obejmie swoim zasięgiem oprócz regiony krajów arabskich i Europy także Afrykę.
Satelita jest obecnie w trakcie docierania na orbitę docelową.https://twitter.com/alekhbariyatv/status/1661079547775791107Satelita umieszczony na GTO 27.05. o 04:30 z Cape Canaveral wystrzelona została RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona na orbitę satelitę telekomunikacyjnego Badr 8 (Arabsat 7B). Pierwszy stopień RN (B1062.14) w T+8' 26" wylądował na barce ASDS JRTI na Atlantyku.
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https://twitter.com/Arabsat/status/1661104701637623809https://twitter.com/Arabsat/status/1662298475143241731Falcon 9 launches Arabsat BADR-8 and Falcon 9 first stage landinghttps://twitter.com/Raul74Cz/status/1661225310686257158Deployment of @Arabsat BADR-8 confirmed
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1662324844497883136William Harwood@cbs_spacenews·May 24F9/Badr-8: Good evening; we're standing by for launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying ArabSat Badr-8 communications satellite; liftoff from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral SFS, originally set for 11:25pm EDT, is now targeting 12:45am (0445 UTC), weather permitting
F9/Badr-8: This will be SpaceX's 35th Falcon 9-family launch this year, its 7th this month and its 233rd overall (including 6 Heavies); 1st stage B1062 is making its 14th flight; a successful recovery would be SpaceX's 195th overall
F9/Badr-8: New launch time: 12:55am EDT (0455 UTC)
F9/Badr-8: Countdown is ticking toward a T-0 of 1:10am EDT (0510 UTC); not yet clear if weather will cooperate
F9/Badr-8: Countdown is holding...
F9/Badr-8: New launch time: 1:22am EDT (0522 UTC)
F9/Badr-8: Launch auto-sequence is underway; SpaceX is pressing ahead with propellant loading in hopes the weather will permit an end-of-window launch at 1:22am EDT (0522 UTC)
F9/Badr-8: The T-minus 20-minute "big vent" now visible as oxygen vapor streams away from the strongback, an indicator propellant loading is proceeding normally
F9/Badr-8: SCRUB! Countdown stopped at T-3 minutes and 22 seconds because of weather; another 127-minute launch window opens tonight at 11:25pm EDT (0325 UTC Wednesday)
SpaceX@SpaceXNow targeting Friday, May 26 for Falcon 9’s launch of the @Arabsat BADR-8 mission from SLC-40 in Florida to allow more time for pre-launch checkouts and for weather conditions to improve → http://spacex.com/launches
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1661548900912857090William Harwood@cbs_spacenews·May 27F9/Badr-8: Good evening; we're standing by once again for launch of a Falcon 9 carrying ArabSat's Badr-8 communications satellite; liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS is set for 12:30am EDT (04:30 UTC); weather, as usual this week, is cloudy with rain in the area
F9/Badr-8: 5 minutes from the start of propellant loading, but no updates yet from SpaceX
F9/Badr-8: We did not hear the launch poll, but SpaceX says the Falcon 9's tanks are venting for propellant loading
F9/Badr-8: The T-minus 20-minute "big vent" now visible as oxygen vapor streams away from the Falcon 9's strongback, an indicator propellant loading is proceeding on schedule for a 12:30am EDT launch
F9/Badr-8: 4 minutes to launch; no known issues
F9/Badr-8: LIFTOFF! 12:30am EDT (00430 UTC)
F9/Badr-8: 1st stage engine shutdown, stage separation, 2nd stage engine ignition confirmed; 1st stage booster now heading for re-entry and touchdown on the Just Read The Instructions landing barge stationed downrange in the Atlantic Ocean
F9/Badr-8: SpaceX reports good performance from both stages
F9/Badr-8: 1st stage entry burn complete
F9/Badr-8: SpaceX confirms 2nd stage engine shutdown; good orbit; the vehicle will now coast for about 21 minutes before a short second firing to reach the planned deploy orbit
F9/Badr-8: Successful 1st stage droneship landing confirmed; this was the 14th flight for booster B1062 and SpaceX's 195th sucessful booster recovery B1062 is now within 1 flight of tying fleet leaders B1060 and B1058 with 15 flights each
F9/Badr-8: Interesting "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" sort of views as the Falcon 9's 1st stage engines illuminated low clouds from above as it climbed toward orbit
F9/Badr-8: Standing by for 2nd stage engine restart in about 1 minute...
F9/Badr-8: 2nd stage restart and shutdown confirmed; good orbit; Badr-8 deploy in ~7 minutes...
F9/Badr-8: Badr-8 deploy confirmed as the Falcon's 2nd stage sailed ~900 miles above the Indian Ocean between southeast Africa and Madagascar; and that brings SpaceX's 35th flight this year to a successful conclusion
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1662325374011752449SpaceX Falcon 9 B1062, which recently flew for the 14th time this weekend, also supported @inspiration4x , the first all-civilian mission to orbit in 2021, as well as the first @Axiom_Space mission to the ISS in 2022.
https://twitter.com/jerrypikephoto/status/1663977017052737537MISSION STATS:227th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
238th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
14th launch of Falcon 9 booster B1062
192nd Falcon 9 launch from Florida’s Space Coast
126th Falcon 9 launch from pad 40
181st launch overall from pad 40
168th flight of a reused Falcon 9 booster
2nd SpaceX launch for Arabsat
33rd Falcon 9 launch of 2023
36th launch by SpaceX in 2023
26th orbital launch attempt based out of Cape Canaveral in 2023
https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/05/27/falcon-9-badr-8-launch-coverage-2/After Weather Delays, SpaceX Launches Arabsat-7B Geostationary Missionby Ben Evans May 27, 2023
(...) In wrapping up the 14th mission of her career, B1062 becomes only the fourth booster to have reached this high number of flights and sits just behind her sisters B1058—first used to launch “Bob and Doug” on their historic Demo-2 mission in May 2020—and B1060, both of which reached their record-tying 15th launches in mid-December and early January, respectively. Since then, the active status of B1058 and B1060 has been paused as both have now attained the maximum number of certified flights, although it is believed that SpaceX are in the final stages of certifying both boosters for up to 20 launches. (...)
It was therefore somewhat fitting with as many as two Saudi astronauts together in orbit for the first time that the kingdom’s next-generation communications satellite should spear uphill only a day or two later. The 10,000-pound (4,500-kilogram) Arabsat-7B—also known as “BADR-8”—has a total payload power of 17.8 kilowatts and is targeting a 15-year active operational lifetime at 26 degrees East longitude.
The giant satellite was built by Airbus, with contracts having been awarded in August 2020. Its on-board electric propulsion system is expected to allow it to reach its geostationary orbital “slot” in four to five months. Arabsat 7B also includes Airbus’ TELEO optical communications payload demonstrator, intended to facilitate very high-capacity analog optical feeder-link communications and support a new generation of optical communications technologies for future missions, with a high resistance to electronic jamming. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2023/05/27/after-weather-delays-spacex-launches-arabsat-7b-geostationary-mission/https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-05-arabsat-badr-8-successfully-launched-featuring-airbus-innovativehttps://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-badr-8-to-bolster-arabsats-satellite-fleet/https://isstracker.pl/en/satelity/56757https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/05/arabsat-7b-launch/Arabsat 7B (Badr 8 ) (~4500 kg)
GEO https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/arabsat-7b.htm
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