Armstrong poleciał na orbitę 17.06. o 16:09:35 z Cape Canaveral wystrzelona została RN Falcon 9R, która wyniosła w T+1h 04' 13" na orbitę
o parametrach: hp=1193 km, ha=20200 km, i=55,01° satelitę nawigacyjnego serii GPS III (SV05, Neil Armstrong).
W T+8' 30" pierwszy stopień RN (B1062.2) wylądował na barce ASDS JRTI na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n210616.htm#02Falcon 9 launches GPS III SV05 and Falcon 9 first stage landing4639 wyświetleń•17 cze 2021
Fairing deploy
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1405559572434087937Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing this booster’s second GPS III flight
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1405560831790649345Deployment of GPS III-5 confirmed
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1405581382412169216Jonathan McDowell @planet4589
At about 1745 UTC the second stage made a third burn to lower its perigee into the atmosphere. It reached an apogee of around 18000 km around 2000 UTC and will plunge into the ocean southeast of South Africa about half an hour from now (entry map from @Raul74Cz )
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1405645235984687107Here are some statistics on today's launch:122nd launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
130th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
2nd launch of Falcon 9 booster B1062
109th Falcon 9 launch from Florida's Space Coast
73rd Falcon 9 launch from pad 40
128th launch overall from pad 40
67th flight of a reused Falcon 9 booster
5th Lockheed Martin-built satellite launched by SpaceX
4th GPS satellite launched by SpaceX
19th Falcon 9 launch of 2021
19th orbital launch by SpaceX in 2021
20th orbital launch based out of Cape Canaveral in 2021
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/06/17/falcon-9-gps-3-sv05-mission-status-center/SpaceX launches first national security mission on reused commercial rocketJune 17, 2021 Stephen Clark
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 soars into the sky over Cape Canaveral Thursday with a GPS navigation satellite. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography(...) The touchdown eight-and-a-half minutes after liftoff marked the 88th recovery of a Falcon rocket booster since 2015, but the mission had not yet achieved its primary objective. (...)
About 63 minutes into the mission, the upper stage’s kerosene-fueled engine reignited for a 44-second burn to reshape the rocket’s orbit to an ellipse stretching to an altitude of some 12,550 miles (20,200 kilometers) at its highest point.
After flying into communications range of Space Force ground stations in Hawaii and California, the rocket deployed the GPS satellite at 1:38 p.m. EDT (1738 GMT), nearly an hour-and-a-half after launch.
Lockheed Martin, which built the satellite, confirmed ground teams established contact with the new GPS spacecraft shortly after separation from the Falcon 9 rocket.
Over the next one-to-two weeks, the satellite will use its own orbit-raising engine to maneuver into a circular Medium Earth Orbit 12,550 miles above Earth at an inclination of 55 degrees. If all goes according to plan, the new satellite, nicknamed “Neil Armstrong,” could be transitioned to the control of Space Force operators within two weeks of launch, according to Col. Edward Byrne, senior materiel leader of the Medium Earth Orbit division at the Space and Missile Systems Center.
Including Thursday’s mission, SpaceX has launched 67 reused boosters with a flawless success record since March 2017. But Thursday’s launch was be the first time military officials entrusted a high-priority national security payload with a ride on a reused first stage. (...)
The launch Thursday used a brand new payload fairing, which protects the satellite during launch. Lauderdale said SpaceX could propose reusing the nose cone on future national security missions. (...)
The oldest GPS satellites still in the fleet are not outfitted with M-code.
The M-code signal allows GPS satellites to broadcast higher-power, jam-resistant signals over specific regions, such as a military theater or battlefield. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/06/17/spacex-launches-first-national-security-mission-on-reused-commercial-rocket/SpaceX Delivers 5th GPS Block III Space Force Satellite to OrbitBy Ben Evans, on June 17th, 2021
GPS III-05 is the fifth Block III Global Positioning System satellite and the fourth to have been launched via a SpaceX Falcon 9. Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin(...) In flying a second time, B1062 becomes the 28th Falcon 9 core to launch on more than one occasion since March 2017. And with the ASDS “Of Course I Still Love You” having just last week been despatched to the West Coast in support of future Falcon 9 launches out of Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., “Just Read the Instructions” now becomes the primary booster recovery vessel on the East Coast.
JRTI supported seven offshore Falcon 9 landings at Vandenberg between January 2017 and January 2019, before it was transferred to the Space Coast the following December in anticipation of an increased tempo of missions. Since last June and including today’s recovery of B1062, it has successfully recovered no fewer than 14 Falcon 9 cores. (...)
“The GPS III program continues to make strides in modernizing the GPS constellation for the United States Space Force, maintaining the “gold standard” for position, navigation and timing,” said Col. Edward Byrne, Medium Earth Orbit Space Systems division chief. “SV-05 is not only the first-ever USSF satellite launched on a previously-flown booster, but also is the 24th Military-Code (M-Code) satellite introduced to our constellation, the last needed to bring M-Code to full operational capability.” (...)
In keeping with tradition, the Block III birds are named for long-gone explorers, with the first and second honoring “Age of Sail” navigators
Amerigo Vespucci and
Ferdinand Magellan. The third satellite launched last June initially recognized
Christopher Columbus, but was later renamed for the early 20th-century polar pioneer
Matthew Henson. And last November’s GPS III-04 paid tribute to
Sacagawea, a Lemhi Shoshone woman of Idaho, who at the age of just 16 aided the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory in 1803-1806.
GPS III-05 is named in honor of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon. Photo Credit: NASAGPS III-05 bears the name of
Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, with an expectation that the next four missions will also honor pioneers in the adjunct fields of aviation and spaceflight.
GPS III-06 will recognize
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, with GPS III-07 due to pay homage to America’s first female astronaut,
Sally Ride. GPS III-08 will offer a deferential nod to “Hidden Figures” mathematician
Katherine Johnson, whilst GPS III-09 looks set to be named for the first Asian-American astronaut, STS-51L hero
Ellison Onizuka.
https://www.americaspace.com/2021/06/17/once-flown-falcon-9-smoothly-delivers-fifth-gps-block-iii-satellite-to-orbit/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/06/spacex-gps-reused-booster/https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/spacex-to-break-the-final-frontier-in-reuse-with-national-defense-launch/https://www.space.com/spacex-military-gps-iii-sv05-satellite-launch-rocket-landingAA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4368.msg166620#msg166620https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/navstar-3.htm