Tuesday, November 25, 2008

C/NOFS

 2008-017A


P00-3 PL-602 Comm/Nav Outage Forecasting System. CNOFS will be built by Spectrum Astro for launch and on-orbit delivery on Pegasus in Feb 2004. Low inclination orbit from KMR. Will develop models to map equatorial ionosphere and forecast ionos scintillation.

Orbit 375 x 720 x 13. Delayed to early 2008 following damage to solar panels 2.8m long 1m dia, modified SA-200B. Operation by AFRL and SMC/TE. Mass 360 kg Hexagonal cylinder + 6x 10m booms.

CINDI is Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamic Investigation and consists of the IVM and NWM instruments.


C/NOFS 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2008 Apr 16  1604:00 L-1011 T/O from KMR 
 1702:48  Drop 
  T+1:21 St 1 burnout 
  T+1:30 St 1 sep 
  T+2:10 fairing sep
  T+2:49 St 2 burnout 
  527 s coast 
  T+8:58 St 2 sep 
  T+9:09 St 3 burn 
 1712? T+10:16 St 3 burnout 
 1713? T+11:16 Stage 3 sep 
2008 Apr 25    97.29 405 x 852 x 13.0 

Payload:

  • PLP Planar Langmuir Probe, plasma density (AFRL-VS/Hunton)

  • VEFI Vector electric field instrument (GSFC/Pfaff)

  • CINDI

    • IVM Ion velocity meter (SMEX MO) (UTD/Heelis)

    • NWM Neutral Wind Meter, in situ composition and flow (UTD/Earle)

  • CORISS C/NOFS Occultation Receiver for Ionospheric Sensing and Specification, gives electron density profile from GPS satellite rising and setting. (AeCorp/Straus)

  • CERTO Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography, ionospheric radio beacons (NRL/Bernhardt

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Trailblazer

 2008-F01


SpaceDev (Poway, Calif.) MMB-100 Trailblazer developed for the US MDA DSE (Distributed Sensing Experiment) and then cancelled; bus to be launched with no payload as a test payload for Falcon 1 as part of DoD Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) program.

Mass is 83.5 kg.

Launch with Nanosail-D PPOD and PreSat PPOD. The SPASS Secondary Payload Adaptor and Separation System was developed by the Malaysian company ATSB and Space Access Technologies of Ashburn, VA.

Planned orbit is 330 x 685 km x 9 deg. Total payload 170 kg. Falcon 1 uses an improved Merlin 1C engine.


F1-3 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2008 Aug 3  0334  Launch by Falcon 1  KMR Omelek  
 0336  T+2:10 Inertial guidance, 35 km, 1.050km/s 
 0336  T+2:20? Vehicle anomaly  
 0336  T+2:43 Stage 2 burn 
 0336  Stage 1 recontact stage 2  
  T+3:13? Fairing sep 
  Apogee 217 km  
  Impact Pacific 


Planned sequence 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

  T+2:28 MECO 
  T+2:39 Stage 1 sep 
  T+2:43 St 2 burn,  
  T+2:48 At 100 km  
  T+3:13 Fairing sep 
  T+9:37 SECO 
  T+9:47 Trailblazer sep 
  T+13:57 PRESat sep 
  T+18:07 NanoSail-D sep

Sunday, November 16, 2008

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TSL:Sweet Valley info

 Located at 34.2 degrees North and 119.4 degrees West,Sweet Valley sits at an elevation of 80 feet above mean sea level and is 3 miles inland on average. The town sits on the Aitken-Cleaves-Miller Shale Deposit’s western edge running off into the Greater Cortez Vale,formed by the outflow of the Northern Cortez Sea around 9 million years ago.

In terms of the landscape itself,the greater town of Sweet Valley is built running on a 60 degree slope from the Anacapa Hills down to the shoreline where are the town’s beaches. This is resemblant of the way Santa Barbara is built but on a slightly higher elevation.

The physical area of Sweet Valley is 76 square miles,of which 65 square miles is land and 11 square miles is water.

The town of Sweet Valley is governed by an elected mayor-council government. Elections are held usually every 5 years,in theory at the pleasure of the town government. 

Mayors of Sweet Valley:

  1. Jordan Kane (1864-1875)
  2. Michael Hanlon (1875-1882)
  3. Louis Stein (1882-1890)
  4. Jeremy Patman (1890-1896)
  5. Martin Belson (1896-1903)
  6. Arthur Chesney (1904-1912)
  7. Beric Dayne (1912-1922)
  8. Lewis Pearce (1922-1929)
  9. Thomas Hecht (1929-1944)
  10. Richard Dellon (1944-1953)
  11. Marcus Brooks (1953-1959)
  12. Belinda Sherwood (1959-1967)
  13. Richard McGuire (1967-1974)
  14. Cameron Bacon (1974-1980)
  15. Jack Bradley (1980-1988)
  16. Anthony Gilbert (1988-1992)
  17. Peter Santelli (1992-1997)
  18. Alice Wakefield (1997-2005) 
  19. Stacey Arnette (2005-2014)
  20. Mark Mitchell (2014-2019)
  21. Julie Patman (2019-2032)

At the accession of Alice Wakefield the Sweet Valley municipal council consisted of:

  • Mayor Alice Wakefield 
  • Deputy Mayor Arthur Dayne
  • Town Manager Robert Pfeiffer
  • Deputy Manager Dyan Fowler 
  • Police Chief Frank Delacorte 
  • Fire Chief Bill Wittner
  • Harbormaster Matthew Belasca
  • Town Attorney Jamie McGuire
  • SVHS Principal Marcus Egbert (honorary)
  • Town Comptroller Beverly Harris
  • Planning Director Andrew McKay
  • Parks and Recreation Manager Mark Walker

Since the days of Jack Bradley,the Mayor and Deputy Mayor positions have become ceremonial for the most part. The Town Manager and their Deputy hold much of the power usually associated with the Mayoral office.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Nigcomsat 1

 2007-018A


NASRDA (National Research and Development Agency of Nigeria). 5150 kg DFH-4 bus to go to 42E. Launch by CZ-3B/E in 2007. The enhanced rocket had 4 x LB-41/YF-25 strapons, an L186/YF-21C stage 1, an L35/YF-24E stage 2 and an H18/YF75 stage 3. Compared to CZ-3B, the strapons had an additional 1t of prop, the stage 1 had extra 6t. The solar array drive mechanism failed, limiting the ability of the satellite to operate.


Nigcomsat 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2007 May 13  1601  Launch by CZ3B  XSC 
  T+2:07 Booster sep 
  T+2:27 St 1 sep 
  T+3:52 Fairing sep
  T+5:32 St 2 sep 
  T+5:32 St 3 MES-1 
 1611? T+10:31? MECO-1  160? x 450? x 28.5? 
 1622? T+21:21? MES-2 
 1624  GTO perigee 
 1625? T+24:20? MECO-2 
 1627  St 3 sep 
2007 May 14    754.39 218 x 41927 x 25.3 
2007 May 22  0000 LAM  1442.08 35806 x 36001 x 0.2  
2007 May 22    1436.12 35771 x 35802 x 0.2 GEO 42.0E 
2008 Apr 17   solar array drive failure 
2008 Nov 10  0100  Solar array charging failure 
2008 Nov 11    1436.04 35773 x 35797 x 0.1 GEO 42.5E 

Friday, November 14, 2008

Molniya 191

 1998-054A


A Molniya-1T satellite was launched on 1998 Sep 28 from Plesetsk.


Molniya-1T 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1998 Sep 28  2341:27  Launch by 8K78M  PL 
 2346:13 T+4:46 Blok A sep 
 2346:23  T+4:56 KhO sep 
 2350:13 T+8:46 Blok-I MECO 
 2350:17  T+8:50 Blok-I sep   
1998 Sep 29  0034:43  T+53:16 BOZ burn 
 0035:09 T+53:56 BOZ sep 
 0035:09  ML burn 
 0038:13 T+56:46 ML MECO 
 0038:21  T+56:54 ML sep   
1998 Sep 30    733.26 420 x 40695 x 62.8 
1998 Oct 5    717.58 422 x 39921 x 62.8 
2006 Aug 4    717.72 1245 x 39106 x 64.1 

WildBlue 1

 2006-054A


SS/Loral satellite 5000 kg.

SS/L built two sats for WildBlue Comms, Inc. to provide multimedia and data broadband internet services. Ka-band at 109.2W and 73.0W. Financial support by Arianespace which will launch.

Originally called iSky 1, the company was renamed WildBlue Communications. Anik F2's Ka-band payload will be used for initial WildBlue service pending WildBlue 1's launch.

Launch mass 4735 kg, 1995 kg dry (AE PK) or 2014 kg dry (EADS PK). Size 5.5 x 2.3 x 2.4m with 31.1m span.

Launch by L534 on flight V174 with a medium fairing. WB1 is in the upper position on an 1194H adapter and a Sylda 5C. Underneath the Sylda, AMC 18 is on another 1194H. Sylda is 5.8m high.


WB1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2006 Dec 8 2208 Launch by Ariane 5ECA 
  T+2:20 EAP sep 
  T+3:07 Fairing sep
  T+8:55 EPC MECO 
 2217 T+9:01 EPC sep  -1282 x 233 x 6.87  
 2217 T+9:05 ESC-A burn  
  T+10:30 223 6.97 km/s 
  T+11:30 218 km 7.12 km/s  -577? x 218  
  T+12:10 215 7.23 
  T+12:30 213 7.28  -104? x 213  
  T+13:00 210 7.37  181? x 209  
 2232 T+24:45 ESC-A MECO 
 2234 T+26:52 Wildblue-1 sep 
 2238 T+30:46 Sylda 5 sep 
 2240 T+32:02 AMC 18 sep 
2006 Dec 9    632.24 267 x 35779 x 2.0 
2006 Dec 11?  LAM 
2006 Dec 12    1391.37 34036 x 35776 x 0.1 
2006 Dec 14?   LAM 
2006 Dec 18    1433.23 35717 x 37543 x 0.0  
2006 Dec 23    1436.11 35781 x 35793 x 0.0 GEO 109.2W 
2007 Jan 25    1436.11 35782 x 35791 x 0.0 GEO 111.1W 

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