Saturday, June 18, 2016

XSS-11

 2005-011A


XSS-11 Experimental Satellite System will be a 100 kg microsat built by LMA/Denver for the AFRL as a 'Davis-class' space demonstration mission. XSS-11 will demo autonomous on-orbit operations with minimal intervention from the ground. The experiment is part of NASA's Space Technology 6 project and of STP. Launch by Minotaur in Nov 2004. Customer was SMC Det 12.

In Sep 2005 it was announced that XSS-11 had completed several rendezvous operations with its final stage.


XSS-11 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2005 Apr 11  1335  Launch by Minotaur  V SLC-8 
  T+1:05? Stage 1 sep, Stage 1 burn 
  T+2:15? Stage 2 sep, Stage 3 burn 
  T+2:27? Fairing 
  T+ 3:30? Stage 3 burnout 
  T+10:30? Stage 3 sep 
 1345 T+10:40? Stage 4 burn 
 1346 T+11:50? Stage 4 burnout 
 1348? Stage 4 sep  102.1 847 x 873 x 98.8  
2005 Jul   (late) Rendezvous with Stage 4, 1.6km  
  Image stage 4 
  Sep burn 
2005 Aug  Rendezvous 2 
2005 Aug  Rendezvous 3 
2005 Aug?  Rendezvous 4? to 0.5 km  
2005 Nov 9   Rendezvous to 0.3 km?  
2006 Jan 22    102.05 846 x 865 x 98.9 
2006 May    100.15 756 x 774 x 99.2 
2006 Aug 11   Rendezvous with DMSP-5D2 F6 

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