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SpaceX F9 - Transporter 1 - SLC-40

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  1. Grendal

    Grendal SpaceX Moderator

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    #1 Grendal, Jan 9, 2021
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    Launch Date: January 24
    Launch Window: 10:00 AM EST, 7:00 AM PST (1500 UTC)
    Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
    Core Booster Recovery: ASDS - OCISLY
    Booster: B1058-5
    Fairings: New
    Mass: Approx 5000 kg - 133 satellites (a record)
    Orbit: SSO

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 1 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. The launch will include 10 Starlink satellites.

    First flight of a Falcon 9 with a third stage.

    3rd launch of the year for SpaceX.


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    Transporter-1 | Falcon 9 Block 5 | Everyday Astronaut
     
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    Grendal SpaceX Moderator

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    No clue. It's the Sherpa transporter thingy.
     
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    Wow 3 stages? First of its kind for SpaceX?
     
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    It looks like for this launch it doesn't have propulsion. It appears that will be a smart dispenser allowing communication with the payloads.
     
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    Delayed a week. Now the third launch of the year.
     
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    Booster was re-assigned. Now it's B1058-5. Now we have a launch time too.
     
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    80% chance of good weather at the launch site. Starlink 16 showed us that weather in the recovery area can still mess up a launch even when the forecast at the launch site is very good.
    [​IMG]
     
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    24 hour slip.
     
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    First Webcast from NSF. I will post the SpaceX one when it pops up. Weather is 60% for tomorrow:
     
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    Payload deployment process because "it's a doozy!":
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    OMG! People worry about rockets having issues but what are the odds that all that deployment will go off without a hitch?
     
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    Planet SuperDoves!?!?!?!
     
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    Scrub for today due to surface electrical fields (weather). Backup opportunity tomorrow.
     
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    SuperDoves are a pretty significantly upgrade over their ‘baseline’ Dove satellites. I don’t think the resolution is much different (resolution is primarily a function of physical size) but they can do a bunch more spectral bands.
     
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    I can't wait for this one - normally deployment is the most boring part of the mission - this time it'll be pretty exciting to watch real time.
     

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