Trzeci start dnia 27.09. o 18:12:00 z Vandenberg wystrzelona została RN Atlas-5/401, która wyniosła w T+16' 30"na orbitę o parametrach: hp=667 km, ha=679 km, i=89,22° satelitę teledetekcyjnego Landsat 9, a po dwóch manewrach w T+2h 11' 03" na niższą orbitę cztery cubesaty misji NASA ELaNa 34: CUTE, CuPID, Cesium M1A i Cesium M1B.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n210916.htm#08Atlas V launches Landsat 96448 wyświetleń
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https://twitter.com/NightLights_AM/status/1442685183585656839https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1442801650163339270Spacecraft Separation
https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1442624578124091395CubeSat deploy! Four science and U.S. national security rideshare payloads have deployed by the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) Flight System, or EFS, on the Centaur upper stage. http://bit.ly/av_landsat9
https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1442590783601709059ULA@ulalaunch· 27 wrz
We are counting down to today's launch at 11:12amPDT (2:12pmEDT; 1812 UTC), and all systems are "go" here at #Vandenberg's Remote Launch Control Center and the pad. The #AtlasV guidance system test has started, the next major milestone in the count. http://bit.ly/av_landsat9
https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1442458420527894533Atlas 5 launches Landsat 9by Jeff Foust — September 27, 2021
An Atlas 5 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Sept. 27 carrying the Landsat 9 satellite. Credit: ULA
WASHINGTON — An Atlas 5 successfully launched the latest in the Landsat series of Earth science satellites Sept. 27, continuing a program that started nearly half a century ago.The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 401 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:12 p.m. Eastern, quickly disappearing into a dense marine layer of clouds shrouding the coastal spaceport. The Centaur upper stage released the Landsat 9 satellite into a sun-synchronous orbit an hour and 20 minutes after liftoff.
The nearly $750 million Landsat 9 is a near-twin of Landsat 8, launched in 2013 and which remains in service. Landsat 9 features some upgrades to its two instruments, a visible and infrared imager and a thermal infrared sensor. The imager, called Operational Land Imager 2, can measure 16,000 shades in each of nine wavelength bands, versus 4,000 shades in the instrument on Landsat 8, said Michael Egan, Landsat program executive at NASA, at a Sept. 25 prelaunch briefing. (...)
The launch also carried four cubesats as secondary payloads, two sponsored by NASA. The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) will study exoplanets passing in front of, or transiting, their host stars at ultraviolet wavelengths. The Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector (CuPID) cubesat by Boston University will measure X-ray emissions from solar wind particles colliding with the Earth’s atmosphere.
None of the parties involved in the launch have disclosed details about the other two cubesats, sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Defense Innovation Unit and Missile Defense Agency. (...)
https://spacenews.com/atlas-5-launches-landsat-9/New eye on planet Earth rockets into orbit from CaliforniaSeptember 27, 2021 Stephen Clark
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, with the Landsat 9 satellite. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls(...) “Today’s successful launch is a major milestone in the nearly 50-year joint partnership between USGS and NASA who, for decades, have partnered to collect valuable scientific information and use that data to shape policy with the utmost scientific integrity,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in a press release.
“As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify in the United States and across the globe, Landsat 9 will provide data and imagery to help make science-based decisions on key issues including water use, wildfire impacts, coral reef degradation, glacier and ice-shelf retreat, and tropical deforestation,” Haaland said. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/09/27/new-eye-on-planet-earth-rockets-into-orbit-from-california/Mighty Atlas Launches Landsat-9, Rideshares to Orbit on First Four-Burn Centaur MissionBy Ben Evans, on September 27th, 2021
Landsat-9 undergoes assembly and checkout at Northrop Grumman’s facility in Gilbert, Ariz. Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman Corp.(...) Initiation of the Landsat-9 program began in early 2015, with expectations that the mission would carry similar instrumentation to Landsat-8: the Operational Land Imager (OLI-2), built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., of Broomfield, Colo., which is sensitive to the visible, near-infrared and shortwave-infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS-2), supplied by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) of Greenbelt, Md.
The latter will examine land-surface temperatures across two thermal infrared bands. Together, OLI-2 and TIRS-2 will cover wide geographical areas, whilst also providing adequate imagery of urban centers, farms and forests. (...)
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https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4746.msg169813#msg169813Landsat 9
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/landsat-8.htmCuPID
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cupid.htmCUTE
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cute.htmCesium Satellite 1 (CS 1, Cesium M1A)
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cesium-satellite-1.htmCesium Satellite 2 (CS 2, Cesium M1B)