Intelsat 40e/TEMPO to już 54. satelita zbudowany przez Maxar Technologies dla Intelsata w ramach trwającej ponad 40 lat współpracy.
Instrument TEMPO to już drugi z 3. planowanych, który trafi na GEO.
Pierwszym jest GEMS, który został umieszczony na GEO-KOMPSAT 2B.
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3863.msg141659#msg141659
Zbliżamy się do 25. startu SpaceX planowanego w połowie miesiąca.
Start Falcona na GTO 07.04. o 04:30 z Cape Canaveral wystrzelona została RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona na orbitę satelitę telekomunikacyjnego Intelsat 40e.
Pierwszy stopień RN (B1076.4) w T+8' 26" wylądował na barce ASDS ASOG na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n230401.htm#04
Falcon 9 launches IS-40e and Falcon 9 first stage landinghttps://twitter.com/INTELSAT/status/1643983548968493057https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1644204205153083392https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1644181591827120135https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1644181086556094464https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1644178147028369410https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1644341409132978176https://twitter.com/INTELSAT/status/1635354376280875008https://twitter.com/INTELSAT/status/1638205891362029569https://twitter.com/INTELSAT/status/1643327468437135362https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1645458984235675650MISSION STATS:216th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
226th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
4th launch of Falcon 9 booster B1076
184th Falcon 9 launch from Florida’s Space Coast
120th Falcon 9 launch from pad 40
175th launch overall from pad 40
156th flight of a reused Falcon 9 booster
4th SpaceX launch for Intelsat
22nd Falcon 9 launch of 2023
23rd launch by SpaceX in 2023
18th orbital launch attempt based out of Cape Canaveral in 2023
https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/04/06/falcon-9-intelsat-40e-tempo-coverage/SpaceX Flies Hosted Mission for Intelsat & NASA, Heads for Year’s 25th Missionby Ben Evans April 7, 2023
(...) In 2022, it took SpaceX until the third week of June to pass 25 launches in a single year; two years ago, it took until the middle of November; and only as recently as 2020 did the Hawthorne, Calif.-headquartered organization first surpass a quarter-century of flights across the span of an entire calendar year. But with a significant uptick in launch cadence in 2023’s opening months—averaging a flight every 4.2 days—SpaceX is gearing up to pass 25 flights as early as mid-April, as the first of a trio of ambitious missions from the East and West Coasts of the United States went airborne just past midnight Friday, laden with a powerful geostationary communications satellite, co-hosted with a NASA-led payload devoted to high-resolution observations of atmospheric pollutants. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2023/04/07/spacex-flies-hosted-mission-for-intelsat-nasa-heads-for-years-25th-mission/NASA air quality sensor ready for launch with Intelsat satelliteApril 5, 2023 Stephen Clark

1) Artist’s illustration of the TEMPO instrument’s scan of air quality across North America. Credit: NASA
2) NASA’s TEMPO instrument integrated on the Intelsat 40e communications satellite at Maxar’s factory in Palo Alto, California. Credit: Maxar(...)The TEMPO instrument, about the size of a washing machine, will scan North America to measure pollutants in the atmosphere, collecting data for scientists to study how concentrations of chemicals produced from human activity and natural processes change throughout the day. Forecasters will also use the measurements to predict air quality in cities, which can have significant impacts on human health.
“TEMPO will be measuring pollution and air quality across greater North America on an hourly basis during the daytime, all the way from Puerto Rico up to the tar sands of Canada,” said Kevin Daugherty, TEMPO’s project manager at NASA’s Langley Research Center.
For the first time, scientists will receive air quality measurements multiple times per day once TEMPO begins observations after this year. There are similar instruments monitoring air pollution from satellites in low Earth orbit, but those missions provide just a single observation each day. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/04/05/nasa-air-quality-sensor-ready-for-launch-with-intelsat-satellite/https://maxar.com/press-releases/intelsat-40e-performing-well-after-launchhttps://www.intelsat.com/launches/intelsat-40e/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/04/inteslat-40e-tempo/https://www.satbeams.com/satellites?id=2738===
https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1648871244735946755Intelsat 40e / TEMPO (~5440 kg)
GEO https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/intelsat-40e.htm