Saturday, March 24, 2018

LKW-4

 2018-025A


Launched to 1330 LTDN SSO.


LKW 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2018 Mar 17  0710  Launch by CZ-2D  JQ 
 0720? Stage 2 sep  490 x 502 x 97.3 
 0728?  Stage 2 deorbit 
 0754? Stage 2 impact Antarctic? 

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

SBIRS-GEO 3

 2017-004A




SBIRS 3 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2017 Jan 21  0042  Launch by Atlas V 401 AV-066  CC SLC41 
  T+4:03 BECO 
  T+4:09 Atlas sep  103 km Az 97.4  
  T+4:19 Centaur MES1 11min 
  T+4:27 PLF sep 
 0057 T+15:22 MECO1 alt 300 km  177 x 1243 x 26.86 
 0107 T+25:00 MES-2 
 0110 T+28:38 MECO2  185 x 35786 x 23.29  
 0125 T+43:48 Centaur sep  185 x 35847 x 23.29 
   634.7 179 x 35992 x 23.0 (UN) 
 0620?  Deorbit burn Centaur 
 1130? Centaur entry over Pacific E of Phillipines 
2017 Jan 21    606.85 133 x 34597 x 23.4 
2017 Feb 21    1436.12 35779 x 35795 x 0.0 GEO 93.0E

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Daichi 2

 2014-029A


JAXA Advanced Land Observing Satellite, ALOS-2

3.4m box with 9.9m SAR and 16.5m solar panel span. 14 day repeat orbit cf ALOS-1 46? days.

Launched into 12:00LTDN SSO.


ALOS-2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2014 May 24 0305:14  Launch by H2A  Y1 
  T+2:05 SRB-A sep 
  T+4:30 Fairing sep 
  T+6:36 MECO 
  T+6:44 St 1 sep 
 0312:04 T+6:50 SEIG at 320 km 3.1 km/s 
 0320:28 T+15:14 SECO 
 0321:18 T+16:04 ALOS sep 
 0329:52 T+24:38 RISING-2 sep 
 0334:24 T+29:10 Uniform-1 sep 
 0338:34 T+33:20 Socrates sep 
 0342:44 T+37:30 SPROUT sep 
2014 May 27    97.38 630 x 635 x 97.9  
2014 Jul 19    97.33 629 x 632 x 97.9 

Payload:

  • PALSAR-2 L-band SAR 3 x 10m, 5.1 kW, 25 to 490 km swath, 1.257 GHz, 3m resolution

  • SPAISE-2 AIS receiver

  • SOFIE SOI-FPGA In-orbit Eval. Equipment to test Si-on-insulator diode focal plane array, with CIRC?

  • CIRC Compact IR Camera, MELCO. - IR imagery for wildfire detection, 8-12 mu, 200m res

Worldview 4

 2016-067A


GeoEye (Dulles, VA) satellite with an ITT camera at 0.25m resolution.

2087 kg, Lockheed Martin CSS LM-900 bus, with ITT payload. Size is 5.3m x 2.5m with 7.9m span.

GeoEye-2 was renamed WorldView-4. 7 cubesats on the Atlas ABC in the ENTERPRISE deployer (smaller than NPSCUL, 12U capacity; Tyvak and Cal Poly dispensers) with Prometheus A/B, Aerocube 8C/D, U2U, CELTEE, RAVAN.

Prometheus DoD Nanosat project - over the horizon comms Opticube (Cal Poly) = U2U? RAVAN



 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

2016 Nov 11  1830:33 Launch by Atlas 401  V SLC3E 
  T+4:03 BECO 
  T+4:09 Atlas sep 
  T+4:27 Fairing sep
 1846:09 T+15:36 MECO-1 
 1849:48 T+19:15 Centaur sep 
 2042 T+2:11:46 DoDNP Sat 1,2 First ENTERPRISE cubesat deploy 
 2045 T+2:15:00? batch 2 - Aerocube 8C 8D 
 2054? T+2:22 batch 3 CELTEE Opticube 
 2055 T+2:25:46 Last cubesat deploy, RAVAN 
 2118? Centaur MES-3 
 2120  Centaur MECO-3 to solar orbit 
 2154  Centaur venting complete 
2016 Nov 12  0354  AV-062 past EL1:4 
2016 Nov 15  0020? AV-062 departs Earth sphere 

October 1,2026

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