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

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