Wystartowała rakieta Electron 16.12. o 06:44 z Onenui Station wystrzelona została RN Electron/Curie, która wyniosła w T+51' 30" na orbitę
o parametrach: hp=500 km, ha=500 km, i=85° satelity projektu ELaNa XIX: ALBUS, CeREs, CHOMPTT,
CubeSail, DaVinci, ISX, NMTSat, RSat, Shields-1, STF-1 oraz TOMSat EagleScout (AeroCube 11A), TOMSat R3
(AeroCube 11B) i SHFT.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n181216.htm#01
Udany start rakiety Electron (16.12.2018) BY MICHAŁ MOROZ ON 17 GRUDNIA 2018
Start rakiety Electron z 16 grudnia 2018 / Rocket LabW niedzielę 16 grudnia z leżącego w Nowej Zelandii stanowiska Oneneui Station wystartowała mała rakieta nośna Electron. Był to już trzeci udany lot rakiety i jednocześnie druga misja operacyjna zrealizowana przez startup Rocket Lab.
Po 51 minutach i 30 sekundach lotu na orbitę o parametrach 495 na 511 km i inklinację 83 stopni wyniesionych zostało 13 małych satelitów technologicznych zbudowanych w większości przez różne centra NASA. Lot został zakupiony przez amerykańską agencję kosmiczną w ramach CubeSat Launch Initiative.
ALBus (Advanced eLectrical Bus), CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez centrum NASA w Glenn. Demonstracja nowego systemu zasilania oraz paneli słonecznych.
CeREs (Compact Radiation Belt Explorer), CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez centrum NASA w Goddard. Celem misji jest wykonanie pomiarów promieniowania kosmicznego.
CHOMPTT (CubeSat Handling Of Multisystem Precision Time Transfer), CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez Uniwersytet Florydy. Misja zademonstruje technologie precyzyjnego określenia upływu czasu.
DaVinci, edukacyjny CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez studentów North Idaho STEM Charter Academy.
ISX, CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez NASA JPL do pomiaru nieregularności w plazmie kosmicznej.
NMTSat, CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology w celu monitoringu pogody kosmicznej.
RSat-P (Repair Satellite-Prototype), CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez US Naval Academy Satellite Lab. Demonstrator technologii naprawy satelitów na orbicie.
Shields 1, CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez centrum NASA w Langley. Demonstrator nowych materiałów przystosowanych do pracy w warunkach przestrzeni kosmicznej.
STF 1 (Simulation to Flight 1), CubeSat 3U zbudowany w ramach programu NASA IV&V (Independent Validation and Verification) we współpracy z West Virginia Space Grant Consortium oraz West Virginia University. Jest to platforma demonstracyjna dla przyszłych technologii CubeSatowych.
Wizualizacja misji CubeSailCubeSail misja żagla słonecznego zbudowana przez studentów Uniwersytetu w Illinois. Dwa CubeSaty 1,5U rozdzielą się i rozwiną długi na 260 metrów żagiel o powierzchni 20 metrów kwadratowych.
TOMSat EagleScout oraz TOMSat R3, dwa CubeSaty 3U zbudowane przez Aerospace Corporation demonstrujące czujniki obserwujące Ziemię w paśmie widzialnym. Celem demonstracji jest pokazanie, że czujniki na małych satelitach mogą świadczyć pomiary podobnej jakości jak w przypadku Landsata.
SHIFT, CubeSat 3U zbudowany przez DARPA we współpracy z NASA JPL do pomiarów promieniowania kosmicznego.
Cele firmy Rocket LabCelem spółki jest obsługa rosnącego rynku małych satelitów. Rakieta Electron w jednym locie będzie mogła wynieść ładunek o masie do 150 kg na orbitę synchronizowaną słonecznie (SSO) o wysokości 500 km. Przy obecnie realizowanych lotach może być możliwe wyniesienie kilkudziesięciu najmniejszych satelitów taką rakietą.
Spółka otrzymała również szereg inwestycji. Ostatnia Runda D zakończyła się pozyskaniem łącznie 148 mln dolarów kapitału, przy wycenie spółki na ponad 1 mld dolarów. Nieznane są wartości uzbieranego kapitału w Rundzie B (2015 rok) oraz Rundzie C.
Uzyskany kapitał przeznaczony zostanie na zwiększenie mocy produkcyjnej przy rakiecie Electron. W nowej siedzibie głównej firmy w Huntington Beach (Kalifornia, USA) zbudowana została hala montażowa, w której składane będą silniki rakiety Electron oraz systemy elektroniczne.
Same rakiety będą dalej montowane w Nowej Zelandii, chociaż nie wyklucza się, że w przyszłości na potrzeby realizacji startów z portów kosmicznych w Stanach Zjednoczonych, rakiety Electron będą składane również w Kalifornii. Rocket Lab ma przeprowadzać loty kosmiczne również z nowego kosmodromu budowanego w Szkocji.
(PFA, XL)
https://kosmonauta.net/2018/12/udany-start-rakiety-electron-16-12-2018/Rocket Lab preps to launch flock of NASA-funded CubeSatsDecember 12, 2018 Stephen Clark
(...) Ten of the CubeSats set to launch on NASA’s Electron mission are part of the agency’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites, or ELaNa, program. The Electron launch is numbered ELaNa 19, following a series of past CubeSat missions that hitched rides aboard Dragon and Cygnus supply ships bound for the International Space Station, and as secondary payloads on Antares, Atlas 5, Delta 2, Falcon 9 and Minotaur rockets.
NASA typically accepts proposals every year from CubeSat developers at U.S. universities and research organizations, then funds the launch of the best projects. Launch costs for CubeSats can sometimes match, or even exceed, the expense of building the spacecraft itself.
ELaNa 19 is the first dedicated launch for the program, which Skrobot helped kick off a decade ago. The Electron rocket and a Curie upper stage will place the 10 ELaNa-sponsored CubeSats, and three more U.S.-owned CubeSats, into a circular 310-mile-high orbit inclined 85 degrees to the equator, more than 50 miles above the orbit of the International Space Station. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/12/rocket-lab-preps-to-launch-flock-of-nasa-funded-cubesats/NASA, Rocket Lab partner on successful satellite launch from New ZealandDecember 17, 2018 Stephen Clark
The CeREs CubeSat, or the Compact Radiation Belt Explorer, is loaded inside its deployment canister at Rocket Lab’s facility in Huntington Beach, California. Credit: NASA(...) NASA took a hands-off approach with the Venture Class Launch Services contractors, a change from the agency’s close-up oversight of launch companies it pays to send more costly satellites into space — providers such as United Launch Alliance and SpaceX.
Rather than dispatching a team of engineers, managers and technicians to the Rocket Lab launch base in New Zealand, Skrobot said NASA sent one employee from KSC.
“The whole concept behind this is it’s an FAA-licensed (commercial) launch, so we want to keep the crews very small, so we don’t have a lot of insight and oversight,” Skrobot said. “So we sent one individual, an integration engineer/mission manager-type who went down there, and we do have one contractor with him that is supporting the spacecraft.”
Rocket Lab’s launch contract with NASA for Sunday’s flight was valued at $6.9 million, more than an order of magnitude less than what the space agency pays for launches on bigger rockets. (...)
The CubeSats launched aboard the Electron rocket through NASA’s ELaNa program are:
- ALBus, a 3-unit CubeSat from NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, will test technology for a high power density CubeSat and the deployment of solar arrays and antennas using resettable shape memory alloy mechanisms.
- CeREs, also known as the Compact Radiation Belt Explorer, is a 3-unit CubeSat from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. CeREs will examine the radiation belt and how electrons are energized and lost, particularly during events called microbursts — when sudden swarms of electrons stream into the atmosphere, according to NASA.
- CHOMPTT, also known as the CubeSat Handling of Multisystem Precision Time Transfer mission, is a 3-unit CubeSat from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. CHOMPTT will test time transfer technology using on-board atomic clocks synchronized with a ground clock using a laser signal. Time transfer is useful for satellite navigation applications.
- CubeSail consists of two 1.5-unit CubeSats launched together, which will separate once in orbit and unspool a 250-meter (820-foot) solar sail ribbon between the two spacecraft. The CubeSail experiment was developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to test novel approaches to using solar sails for propulsion.
- DaVinci is a 3-unit CubeSat from the North Idaho STEM Charter Academy in Rathdrum, Idaho. DaVinci was developed primarily as an educational tool for Idaho students, but the spacecraft also carries a camera and will test satellite-to-satellite Internet communications through the Globalstar network.
- ISX, or the Ionospheric Scintillation Explorer, is a 3-unit CubeSat developed by SRI International and Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, California. ISX will study plasma irregularities in the upper atmosphere by measuring its affect on digital TV signals produced on the ground.
- NMTSat is a 3-unit CubeSat from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico. NMTSat carries instruments to collect data on Earth’s magnetic field and high altitude plasma density, take atmospheric weather measurements, and conduct an optical beacon experiment.
- RSat is a 3-unit CubeSat from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The RSat spacecraft includes two articulating miniature robotic arms, which will be tested in orbit to assess their suitability for latching onto other satellites in orbit for inspection and repair.
- Shields 1 is a 3-unit CubeSat from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Shields 1 will test new radiation shielding technologies that could be used on future small satellites.
- STF 1, or Simulation-to-Flight 1, is a 3-unit CubeSat developed through a collaboration between NASA’s Independent Verification and Validation Program, West Virginia University, and West Virginia small businesses. STF 1 is the first spacecraft to be built in West Virginia, and it will serve as a testbed for new satellite software that can be developed on any laptop or desktop computer.
“The CubeSats of ELaNa 19 represent a large variety of scientific objectives and technology demonstrations,” said Justin Treptow, NASA’s ELaNa 19 mission manager. “With this the first launch of a Venture Class Launch Service on the Rocket Lab Electron, NASA now has an option to match our small satellite missions with a dedicated small launch vehicle to place these satellites in an optimal orbit to achieve big results.”
In addition to the 10 CubeSats launched through NASA’s ELaNa program, three more nanosatellites flew into orbit on top of the Electron rocket Sunday. NASA also provided a launch opportunity for:
- AeroCube 11 consists of two nearly identical 3-unit CubeSats developed by the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, California. The AeroCube 11 mission’s two CubeSats, named TOMSat EagleScout and TOMSat R3, will test miniaturized imagers. One of the CubeSats carries a pushbroom imager to collect vegetation data for comparison to the much larger Operational Land Imager aboard the Landsat series of satellites, and the other TOMSat CubeSat has a focal plane array on-board to take pictures of Earth, the moon and stars.
- SHFT 2, also known as the Space-Based High Frequency Testbed, is a 3-unit CubeSat owned by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and developed in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The CubeSat launching with Rocket Lab is the second of the JPL-designed satellites, according to DARPA spokesperson Jared Adams, and will study variations in the plasma density of the ionosphere by collecting high-frequency radio signals, including those from natural galactic background emissions, from Jupiter, and from transmitters on Earth. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/17/nasa-rocket-lab-partner-on-successful-satellite-launch-from-new-zealand/https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/13/electron-elana-19-mission-status-center/https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/12/13/mission-timeline-for-rocket-labs-launch-of-nasas-elana-19-cubesats/Rocket Lab launches cubesats for NASAby Jeff Foust — December 16, 2018
A Rocket Lab Electron carrying 13 cubesats lifts off Dec. 16 from the company's Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. Credit: Rocket Lab/Trevor MahlmannWASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron rocket successfully launched a group of cubesats Dec. 16 on a mission funded by NASA as the company looks ahead to more frequent launches in the next year.
The Electron rocket lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 1:33 a.m. Eastern. The rocket placed a kick stage containing the 13 satellites into orbit nine minutes after launch. About 40 minutes, later, the kick stage ignited for a 90-second burn, after which the satellites were placed into 500-kilometer circular orbits at an inclination of 85 degrees.
“All payloads deployed!! Perfect mission,” Peter Beck, chief executive of Rocket Lab, tweeted after the satellites were deployed.
NASA purchased the launch for its CubeSat Launch Initiative program, which provides launches for cubesats developed by academic institutions and NASA centers. This particular flight, known as Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) 19, features three satellites built by NASA centers, six by universities and one by a charter school in Idaho.
The satellites range from those built primarily to give students experience in satellite development to those testing advanced technologies. RSat, developed at the U.S. Naval Academy, will test robotic arms planned for future satellite-servicing spacecraft. CubeSat, from the University of Illinois, will test soil sail technology. The Advanced Electrical Bus, or ALBus, satellite from NASA’s Glenn Research Center will demonstrate new power systems and solar array deployment technologies.
The launch carried three satellites in addition to the 10 that were part of ELaNa-19. Two of the satellites, collectively known as AeroCube 11, were developed by the Aerospace Corporation to test advanced imaging technologies. The third, Space-Based High Frequency Testbed 2, was developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to demonstrate using high-frequency radio signals to study the ionosphere.
NASA awarded Rocket Lab a contract for the launch in October 2015 through its Venture Class Launch Services program, an effort to develop dedicated launch services for cubesats and other smallsats. Previous ELaNa missions all used secondary payload, or rideshare, accommodations on NASA and other government launches, reducing the control they had over schedule and orbit.
“Matching ELaNa-19 with the Electron rocket gives these advanced scientific and educational satellites first-class tickets to space while providing valuable insight for potential NASA missions in the future,” said Justin Treptow, NASA ELaNa-19 mission manager, prior to the launch.
NASA also awarded Venture Class Launch Services contracts in 2015 to Firefly Space Systems and Virgin Galactic. Firefly lost its contract when the company went through bankruptcy, reemerging as Firefly Aerospace.
Virgin Orbit, the company spun off from Virgin Galactic to develop and operate the LauncherOne air-launch system, is nearing its first launch. The NASA contract will be flown on the second LauncherOne flight, on a mission called ELaNa-20 scheduled no earlier than March 2019. That mission will carry 11 cubesats for universities and NASA’s Ames Research Center.
This launch was the third for Rocket Lab this year and second in a little more than one month. The company called this launch “This One’s for Pickering” in honor of the late William Pickering, the New Zealand-born scientist who served as director of JPL from 1954 to 1976.
The company said in a post-launch statement that its next Electron “will be on the pad” in January, but didn’t identify the customer. Company officials have previously said they expect to increase their launch cadence in 2019, flying missions at a rate of at least once per month. The company recently opened a factory in Auckland, New Zealand, designed to support the production of one Electron rocket per week.
“Regular and reliable launch is now a reality for small satellites. The wait is over,” Beck said in the statement. “We’re providing small satellite customers with more control than they’ve ever had, enabling them to launch on their own schedule, to precise orbits, as frequently as they need to.”
Rocket Lab announced
a $140 million Series E round Nov. 15 that will help support that increased launch rate. The funding will support, among other efforts, construction of additional launch pads at Launch Complex 1 and the new Launch Complex 2 the company announced in October at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia.
“This funding also enables the continued aggressive scale-up of Electron production to support our targeted weekly flight rate,” Beck said in a statement then about the new funding round. “It will also see us build additional launch pads and begin work on three major new R&D programs.” The company said it will disclose details about those unspecified research and development efforts “in the new year.”
https://spacenews.com/rocket-lab-launches-cubesats-for-nasa/https://spacenews.com/rocket-lab-scrubs-electron-launch-after-last-second-abort/Rocket Lab Electron launches ELaNa-XIX missionwritten by Thomas Burghardt December 15, 2018
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/12/rocket-lab-nasa-mission-electron-elana-xix/http://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=2210.msg126098#msg126098https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ceres.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/albus.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/chomptt.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/da-vinci.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/isx.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/nmtsat.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/rsat-p.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/shields-1.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/stf-1.htmhttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/cubesail.htm (1 i 2)
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/aerocube-11-r3.htm (11A i 11B)
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/shft-1.htm
Wątek: Starty rakiet (IV kwartał 2018 roku) (Przeczytany 100024 razy)