Falcon Heavy rozpoczął 250 udaną misję SpaceX! {...}
Podwójne standardy liczenia.
5-tonowy satelita powinien rozpocząć aktywność użytkową pod koniec września, po przeprowadzeniu kontroli jego na GEO.
Satelita składa się z dwóch ładunków: Galaxy-37 do komunikacji w paśmie C oraz Horizon-4 dla usług łączności w paśmie Ku nad Pacyfikiem i USA.Start Falcona 03.08. o 04:45 z Cape Canaveral wystrzelona została RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona na orbitę satelitę telekomunikacyjnego Galaxy-37 (Galaxy-13R, Horizons 4). Pierwszy stopień RN (B1077.6) w T+8' 26" wylądował na barce ASDS JRTI na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n230801.htm#03Falcon 9 launches Intelsat G-37 and Falcon 9 first stage landing#SpaceX #Falcon9 Intelsat #Galaxy37 5 ton comsat blastoff: Fisheye streak to orbit after launch at 1 AM ET Aug 3 from pad 40 to GEO. Single image 2 min 16 sec long duration exposure from my backyard with clouds and the Moon over Cape Canaveral and Titusville
https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1687108949424906240#SpaceX #Falcon9 Intelsat #Galaxy37 5 ton comsast blastoff: Wide angle streak to orbit after 1 AM ET Aug 3 launch from pad 40 to GEO. Single image 2 min long duration exposure from my backyard with thick clouds over Cape Canaveral & Titusville
Flames & trees reflecting in lake
https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1687108949424906240https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1686967702932291584https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1686973921109934080SpaceX launches Intelsat’s last C-band clearing satelliteJason Rainbow August 3, 2023
(...) The Galaxy-37/Horizons-4 satellite started communicating with ground crews and successfully deployed solar arrays shortly after separating from the rocket, which launched at 1:00 a.m. Eastern from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
It will take about three weeks for the chemically powered spacecraft to reach its 127 degrees West orbital position, Intelsat senior vice president of space systems Jean-Luc Froeliger told SpaceNews in an interview. (...)
https://spacenews.com/spacex-launches-intelsats-last-c-band-clearing-satellite/SpaceX Begins August, Reflects on Quarter-Millennium of Launchesby Ben Evans August 3, 2023
(...) Last night’s flight also marked the 250th launch of a Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy vehicle, including 243 Falcon 9 missions since June 2010 and seven Heavies since February 2018, the most recent of which took flight just last week. (...)
Built by Maxar on the bones of its SSL-1300 satellite “bus”, Galaxy-37 was originally earmarked to ride Europe’s Ariane 5, before being remanifested aboard a Falcon 9. Its destined orbital “slot” is at 127 degrees West longitude, where it will replace the aging Galaxy-13, which has been in orbit since October 2003 and is rapidly approaching the end of its operational lifetime. (...)
Across that quarter-millennium of missions, 98 dedicated Starlink flights have emplaced more than 4,800 of these flat-packed internet communications satellites into low-Earth orbit. Added to that steadily burgeoning list have been 53 geostationary missions, 28 uncrewed cargo flights to the ISS and ten human-carrying Crew Dragons, including the first all-civilian voyage to low-Earth orbit in September 2021 with Inspiration4.
Several missions have headed far beyond Earth, notably last month’s launch of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid deep-space observatory. Others have voyaged to lunar distance and in the fall of 2021 the NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was lofted on an expedition to the binary asteroid 65803 Didymos to deploy a high-velocity kinetic impactor to impact its tiny companion, Dimorphos. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2023/08/03/spacex-begins-august-reflects-on-quarter-millennium-of-launches/https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/08/03/intelsat-completes-refresh-of-satellites-with-falcon-9-launch-of-galaxy-37/https://www.intelsat.com/2023/08/03/intelsat-galaxy-37-horizons-4-satellite-successfully-launched/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/07/launch-roundup-spacex-galaxy-37-china-fy-3f/https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=55851.1005:19 AM · Aug 3, 2023F9/Galaxy G-37: Good evening; now 1 hour to launch of Intelsat's Galaxy 37 communications satellite atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral SFS; liftoff from pad 40 is targeted for 12:15am (0415 UTC)
F9/Galaxy G-37: This will be the 243rd single-stick Falcon 9 flight and the 52nd Falcon-family launch so far this year; booster B1077 is making its 6th flight; a successful recovery would be SpaceX's 213th and its 167th at sea
F9/Galaxy G-37: New T-0: 12:45am EDT (0445 UTC)
F9/Galaxy G-37: New T-0: 01:00am EDT (0500 UTC)
F9/Galaxy G-37: Tanks are venting for propellant load
F9/Galaxy G-37: L-minus 20-minute "big vent" now visible, an indicator propellant loading is proceeding per the schedule
F9/Galaxy G-37: LIFTOFF! At 01:00am (0500 UTC)
F9/Galaxy G-37: 1st stage engine shutdown, stage separation, 2nd stage engine ignition confirmed; the 1st stage is flipping around and heading for touchdown on the Just Read The Instructions landing barge stationed several hundred miles down range
F9/Galaxy G-37: Stage 1 entry burn shutdown
F9/Galaxy G-37: 2nd stage engine shutdown No. 1; good orbit; the vehicle will now coast for ~18 minutes before a second burn to complete the climb to a super-synchronous transfer orbit
F9/Galaxy G-37: Stage 1 landing confirmed
F9/Galaxy G-37: The obligatory backyard streak shot
F9/Galaxy G-37: Standing by for 2nd stage engine restart...
F9/Galaxy G-37: 2nd stage engine restart and shutdown; good orbit confirmed; Galaxy 37 deploy expected in 5 minutes
F9/Galaxy G-37: Galaxy 37 deploy confirmed; the Maxar-built satellite will use on-board thrusters to reach its operational geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above the equator at 127 degrees west longitude
F9/Galaxy G-37: The new satellite is part of an Intelsat fleet refresh in the wake of an FCC-required push to free up spectrum for 5G cellular networks; Galaxy 37 primarily will provide television relay service across North America
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1686973724602314754Galaxy 37/Horizons 4 (Galaxy 13R/Horizons 4) (5063 kg)
GEO https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/galaxy-37.htm
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