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#SpaceX #FalconHeavyReusable | #STP2 Mission Deploying a multiple satellites in one launch.. – landing once, twice three times saying #OfCourseIStillLoveYou

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On 24th June 2019, on a New York Monday it’s the Launch of SpaceX Falcon Heavy Reusable, from that NASA- Kennedy Space Center in Florida’s least than twenty year lease of that iconic Launch Complex LC 39A- Launch Complex 39A that launched the Iconic Saturn V Lunar Rocket, also the Iconic golden age STS- Space Transportation System –Space Shuttle….. Launching from that flight now is the Falcon Heavy Reusable powered by twenty seven might merlin engines..  In which previously Falcon Heavy’s side boosters for the STP-2 mission previously supported the Arabsat-6A mission in April 2019. Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters will attempt to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Falcon Heavy’s center core will attempt to land on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Launching from that launch window from On 24th June 2019 2330 hours EDT Eastern Date Time is the STP two missions in which launching various mission types of satellites manifest on a DOD Department of Defense –Space Test Program towards commercial , research civilian satellites.. In which the Mission management is conducted by the Air Force Space and Missile Centre…  From a core of cube Satellites towards deployment of major ones manifest below via Space X

 

Oculus

Oculus-ASR was developed by students at the Michigan Technological University in Houghton, MI through the Air Force Research Laboratory’s University NanoSatelllites Program to provide calibration opportunities for ground-based observers attempting to determine spacecraft attitude and configuration using unresolved optical imagery.

Features spectrally distinct surfaces and shape profiles that can be observed from Earth’s surface

Records attitude time history for error correction in ground-based observations

Cube Sats

E-TBEx: Measures distortion of radio signals traveling through the ionosphere using beacon tones transmitted from eight orbital locations: the six COSMIC-2 satellites and the twin E-TBEx CubeSats

Launch Environment Observer (LEO) & StangSat: Measures thermal and vibration environments during launch and demonstrates Wi-Fi data transmission between Cubesats (2 separate cubesats)

PSAT: Supports global amateur radio data relay capabilities to assist students and researchers around the world

TEPCE: Demonstrates the feasibility of using electrodynamic propulsion by deploying a 1 km electrically conductive tether, performing orbit-changing maneuvers without consuming any fuel

LightSail 2:The Planetary Society’s citizen-funded solar-sailing spacecraft propelled by the Sun

PROX ONE..

Prox-1 is a microsat developed by students at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta through the Air Force’s University Nanosat Program to demonstrate satellite close proximity operations and rendezvous.

Demonstrates small satellite close-encounter operations

Prox-1 deploys the LightSail 2 cubesat developed by the Planetary Society

NPSAT

NPSat hosts two experiments built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to investigate space weather and support space situational awareness (SSA), including ionospheric electron density structures that cause radio scintillations impacting communications and navigation.

Monitors electron content and scintillations using radio frequency (RF) transmissions

Conducts Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography (CERTO) experiment

NRL-built Langmuir probe takes in-situ measurements to improve ionospheric modeling

OTB

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems’ Orbital Test Bed (OTB) is a versatile, modular platform based on a flight-proven “hosting” model to test and qualify technologies. On STP-2, OTB hosts several payloads for technology demonstration, including the Deep Space Atomic Clock designed, built and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on behalf of the Space Technology Mission Directorate to revolutionize how spacecraft navigate.

Flexible technology demonstration platform

Hosts a miniaturized, high-stability atomic clock that will gain or lose less than a second of error in 3 million years

Learn more about General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems and NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock.

GPIM

The Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or GPIM, is a NASA mission that develops a “green” alternative to conventional spacecraft propulsion systems. With the green propellant, launch vehicle and spacecraft fuel loading will be safer, faster, and much less costly. The “shirt sleeve” operational environment GPIM offers will reduce ground processing time from weeks to days.

Demonstrates a new form of safe propulsion

Improves propulsive efficiency while reducing handling concerns

Learn more about Ball Aerospace, Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission.

COSMIC TWO

COSMIC-2 is a partnership between NOAA, the U.S. Air Force (USAF), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), Taiwan’s National Space Organization (NSPO), the UK’s Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), the Brazil Institute of Space Research (INPE), and the Australia Bureau of Meteorology (BoM). This six-satellite constellation will provide next-generation Global Navigational Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) data. Radio Occultation data is collected by measuring the changes in a radio signal as it is refracted in the atmosphere, allowing temperature and moisture to be determined.

International collaboration between Taiwan (NSPO) and the United States (NOAA)

Collects atmospheric data for weather prediction and for ionosphere, climate, and gravity research

DSX

 The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicle Directorate’s Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) spacecraft will conduct basic research on the harsh radiation environment of medium-Earth orbit (MEO). DSX will perform three primary experiments:

The Wave Particle Interaction Experiment (WPIx) will resolve critical feasibility issues for very-low frequency (VLF) wave-particle interaction.

The Space Weather Experiments (SWx) will measure and map the distributions of energetic protons, electrons and low-energy plasma in the inner magnetosphere to improve environment models for spacecraft design and operations.

The Space Environment Effects (SFx) will determine the MEO environmental effects on common electrical components, circuits and materials. This includes NASA’s Space Environment Testbeds (SET) experiments. SET will characterize how radiation driven by the Sun impacts hardware over time, paving the way for mitigating the effects of solar activity on spacecraft design and operations.

#SpaceX #NASA | #TESS #OfCourseIStillLoveYou – with featuring Transiting ExoPlanets Survey Satellite- traditionally …..

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On a Spring Florida Wednesday 18th April 2018, it’s the second attempt of  launching of Space X Falcon Nine Reusable, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launching from SLC 40- Space Launch Complex 40 in which is about least than fifteen Kilometers away from that NASA-KSC’s Iconic Launch Complex 39A that launched the Mighty Saturn five rockets also the STS-Space Transportation Systems – The Space Shuttle..

TESS’s launch window opening on previously on Monday 16th April 2018 from at 1832 hours EDT afternoon eastern daylight time on which that date of the launch was scrubbed due to many sources points to fault in the falcon nine rocket’s GNC- Guidance and Navigation and Control systems in which that the data regarding to the fault issue would be repaired by East Coast Florida Wednesday launch..

Launching from Space Launch Complex 40, with SpaceX traditions of landing off shore with Drone Ship “Of Course I Still love you” that stationed in the Atlantic Ocean…… in which previous two launching s were non-traditional which resulted a Non Drone ship landing but an Oceanic landing to see how it will performed also experimentally what other lessons needed learning with modifications later on..  after  two minutes and thirty seconds into the flight both stages separate in which eight minutes and twenty seconds the Falcon Nine first Stage Carrier rocket lands on the Atlantic Ocean Drone ship …..

 Manufactured by Orbital ATK..  launching into highly elliptical orbit approximately, This time the payload is a singular, featuring the two year operational used  TESS- Transiting ExoPlanets Survey Satellite in which subjectively replace the role in which Kepler Exo Planet finder probe…. As it’s is NASA’s next generation Exo Planetary finder… TESS is in collaboration with NASA led proposal of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research… the provisionment of TESS is to observational data gathering of potential planets of orbiting its host, parent star of using finding light tail dips in the light as the Exo planet transits and dipping of the light intensity.. in which orbiting around..  TESS is expected to data catalogued thousands of candidates with different various of stars, planets with a refined methods of looking for smaller earth size planets in which are rocky types…..

 

#SpaceX #FalconNine | #HISPASAT #30W-6 – a non-traditional flight with a stationary “ Off Course I Still Love you” on a 50th Anniversary Launch- Mission Highlights….

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#SpaceX #FalconNine | #HISPASAT #30W-6 – a non-traditional flight with a stationary “I Still Love you”- Mission Highlights…. also celebrating SpaceX’s 50th Anniversary Launch on brand new first stage Falcon Nine reusable..

On a clear dark Tuesday morning New York time on 6th March 2018, SpaceX was launching from SLC-40-Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is one of the heaviest payloads that SpaceX  is set to launch in which a different modified payload flaring had to be installed for the heavier payload..  Launching was on time as the Launching from SLC-40 was weather wise favourable.. in also Celebrating SpaceX’s 50th Anniversary launching at 12:33 a.m. EST..

The Mission of the launch commentary is provided by John Insprucker, Principal Integrations Engineer of SpaceX… The HISPASAT30W-6 satellite scale wise is about an average city public transportation bus…  HISPASAT30W-6 satellite is previously known as Hipasat IF is operationally design of mission duration of fifteen years.. Building from a SSL 1300 Satellite platform from HIPASAT Group is a Spanish Innovation Satellite provider in provisions of delivering Spanish and Portuguese Content Broadcast, Data communications towards 1250 Televisions and radio channels..  Within the SSL 1300 Satellite platform is with its multiple mission platform equipment onboard, it’s powered with its retractable Solar Arrays 10.5KW with its equipment carrying various 40 Ku Transponders, six Ka Band Beams, and Ten C band Transponders…

The broadcasting range of the HISPASAT30W-6 connects in between the Mediterranean, and the Americas in providing Latin based high end definition Digital media content, also the provisionments of connectivity of mobile, Broadband environments towards the European and Northwest Africa  towards Governments, Corporations, Telecommunications operators in regions of America, Europe and North Africa..

In during this mission is the first stage Falcon Nine reusable core is brand new with a newly paint, in which there was no need to recover the first staging even though it has the landing assets to land onto the off shore drone ship “I Still Love You” is Stationary due to the weather didn’t make the landing recovering launch Criteria in which the weather for recovery was still persistently unfavorable due to the storm weather in the Atlantic therefore it was stationary berth for the remaining for the launch process…  as new Falcon Nine Reusable launched with its powerful nine Merlin Engines..  Then detaching from it secondary stage with its modified payload flaring separated, in the secondary stage powered by a single Merlin Vacuum Engine putting in to the payload into coast orbit towards western Africa into a Geo Stationary Orbit located in 30 degrees west into GTO- Geo Stationary  Orbit….

#SpaceX #FalconNine | #PAZ Mission three satellites within one carrier – a non-traditional launching providing an experimentally internet satellite- Highlights

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On 22nd February 2018- Thursday early beautiful clear mid-morning California like that CW series The OC……….. SpaceX  launched Spanish Satellite naming the Airbus Hisdesat’s PAZ, on a clear Thursday morning awaiting for the first attempt seven days ago in which there was issues that arise in which didn’t mean launch criteria conditions in which on the 21st the weather conditions didn’t met launch criteria with strong upper winds in which the 22nd was an instant go for launch on SLC-4E- Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Air force Base, launching at 0617 in the California Morning…..in which this launch is a non-conventional SpaceX launch meaning they won’t recover any of the first stage in which previously landed for the FORMOSAT Five Mission in the August 2017 launch from the very same launch complex SLC-4E….

SpaceX Falcon Nine awaits with three payloads one provided by Airbus Hisdesat’s PAZ,

Launching, commentary is provided by Tom Praderio, Firmware Engineer from SpaceX whom provided the launch commentary of the PAZ-Peace Satellite also the two test SpaceX payloads in providing provisionments of affordable internet communications with at affordability … In which the primary payload Hisdesat’s Airbus PAZ will be placed in Sun Synchronised- low earth equatorial orbit in where share the same orbit with two others TerraSAR-X also TanDem X Satellites.. at 514 Kilometers with Seven Kilometer per second velocity with an scanning coverage of three hundred thousand square Kilometers..  PAZ is a high end weather satellite in which provides high end imagining of 25cm resolution… given its orbit it can operated in regardless of meteorological conditions that’s given..  PAZ has an operations full life cycle of five and half years serving in between governmental and commercial requirements also it part of Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth monitoring programme.…. Orthough the second SpaceX payload deployed as PAZ is deployed it’s out of range of live streaming the telemetry of its deployment as the live stream of the launch was only a unusually short one.

#SpaceX #FalconNine | #PAZ Mission three satellites within one carrier – a non-traditional launching providing an experimentally internet satellite as fired up int to a Sun Synchronized- low earth equatorial orbit…

Orthough the launch is a non-conventional one, that I will not be landing as a reusable,  in which a recovery ship is underway to recover with its custom made capturing net to see if they could net the deployed nose flaring … in which they almost did..

#SpaceX # FalconHeavy | That Iconic #NASAKSC Launch Complex 39A those twenty seven Merlin Engines will fire up on a date..

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As on 6th February 2018, it’s the initial maiden launch of the SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy  in which is currently undergoing systems checking to see if any modifications that need to be address towards the launch from the twenty year lease of the NASA-KSC’s iconic  Launch Complex 39A that launched the mighty Saturn Fives Rockets towards the lunar mission to the Moon Luna, also it launched the STS –Space Transportation System- The Space Shuttle Program in which provide a Work Truck for NASA’s space operations..  As the SpaceX Launch of the Falcon Heavy  is underway also the massive modifications to Launch Complex 39A as it transitions from the STS program towards Falcon Heavy also the BFR-interplanetary –Space-Airliner  Rocket that in due to replace the Falcon Heavy.. in which provides a template for the Space-Airliner Rocket..

As the preparations for the Launch of the Falcon Heavy, the launch format is Retro, as In Retro going back to the launch format of the STS-Space Shuttle era… As the same design configuration is based off the Space Shuttle as it duplicates the same. With two Falcon nine reusable on either side, one supporting core Falcon nine reusable together with a combine of twenty seven Merlin Engines, with a secondary rocket that deploys the payload to its destination target…….