{"id":18331,"date":"2019-03-28T12:15:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T16:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18331"},"modified":"2019-03-29T00:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T04:20:23","slug":"space-transport-roundup-mar-28-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18331","title":{"rendered":"Space transport roundup &#8211; Mar.28.2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images dealing with space transport:<\/p>\n<p>** <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketlabusa.com\/\">Rocket Lab<\/a> will try again<\/strong> this evening (22:30 UTC time) to launch an Electron rocket with a DARPA technology demo satellite on board: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketlabusa.com\/launch-info\/launch-complex-1\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Launch Complex 1 | Rocket Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ <strong>Update<\/strong>: The launch was a success:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Payload deployed. Precise orbital insertion by Electron&#8217;s Kick Stage. Mission Success!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rocket Lab (@RocketLab) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLab\/status\/1111427291857379329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is at about 12:30 into this recording of the webcast:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OaUSf0D95vs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Rocket Lab is currently targeting no earlier than\u00a0<strong>22:30, Thursday 28 March UTC<\/strong> (11:30 am, Friday 29 March NZDT) [18:30 EDT, March 28] for the next Electron mission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The mission is the\u00a0Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2) launch for DARPA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The mission\u00a0will lift-off from Launch Complex 1 carrying a prototype reflect array antenna designed to improve radio communications in small spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rocketlab\">@RocketLab on Twitter<\/a> for regular updates.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Technical issues and bad weather have delayed the launch from earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>** <strong>First launch by China&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onespacechina.com\/en\/\">OneSpace<\/a> <\/strong>went poorly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2019\/03\/maiden-launch-of-onespace-os-m-rocket-fails\/\">Maiden launch of OneSpace OS-M rocket fails \u2013 NASASpaceFlight.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/qa-chinas-onespace-ready-for-first-orbital-launch-attempt\/\">Q&amp;A | China\u2019s OneSpace ready for first orbital launch attempt &#8211; SpaceNews.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1577395\/china-private-rocket-company-onespace-attempts-orbital-launch\/\">China private rocket company OneSpace attempts orbital launch \u2014 Quartz\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[ <strong>Update<\/strong>: OneSpace vows to overcome this setback: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/news\/sci-tech\/2019-03-28\/detail-ifzfwnmy4088213.shtml\">Private launch firm: &#8216;We will never flinch or quit&#8217; &#8211; ecns.cn<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;We will endeavor to launch another OS-M carrier rocket, as well as two to three OS-X suborbital rockets before the end of this year,&#8221; [Shu Chang, CEO of OneSpace,] said late Wednesday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, where the first OS-M rocket mission was undertaken.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;I accept today&#8217;s failure,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Other solid-propellant carrier rockets before ours also have had setbacks in their development, but all of them passed through hard times and eventually succeeded. Explorations in science and technology have successes and failures. We will never flinch or quit.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>]<\/p>\n<p>Video made by an observer:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uTzsj0XRMxY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>An interview held before the launch with OneSpace CEO [Shu Chang]:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CcHDoocGW5Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>** <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sncorp.com\/what-we-do\/dream-chaser-space-vehicle\/\"><strong>Sierra Nevada&#8217;s Dream Chaser<\/strong><\/a> should start delivering cargo to the ISS by late 2020. Here is a new video showing how cargo would be loaded into the vehicle: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/325719382\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SNC\u2019s Dream Chaser\u00ae Milestone 5 Load\/Unload on Vimeo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/vimeo.com\/325719382<\/p>\n<p>And here is an older video showing how the Dream Chaser would operate:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/vimeo.com\/263546804<\/p>\n<p>** <strong>Long-distance rocket transport services<\/strong> could reduce travel times between major global cities to 30-60 minute hops but whether such services are economically viable remains to be proven: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespacereview.com\/article\/3680\/1\">Could suborbital point-to-point really be worth $20 billion a year in 2030? &#8211; The Space Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>All that said, the commercial aviation revenue is projected to be $885 billion in 2019. Introducing a point-to-point suborbital product could convince 5\/8ths of one percent of current long-haul fliers to choose suborbital point to point. That is the percentage required to hit $20 billion a year at $12,000 per flight. That supports UBS\u2019 claim that when the suborbital point-to-point market does finally arrive, it could be much bigger than the orbital, lunar or Mars markets.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>** <strong>The smallsat launch market is too small<\/strong> to support the many small launch systems currently in development around the world: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/how-the-space-industry-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bubble\/\">How the space industry learned to stop worrying and love the bubble &#8211; SpaceNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>If there\u2019s one part of the space industry that seems the most primed for a shakeout, it\u2019s the small launch vehicle sector. So many ventures have announced plans to create rockets for dedicated launches of smallsats that it\u2019s hard to keep track of just how many are in development. At events like the SmallSat Symposium in Silicon Valley in early February, it was common to hear estimates of 100 or more vehicles in work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Carlos Niederstrasser of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems has been keeping track of small launch vehicles programs for several years. As of January, he had identified 112 such vehicles worldwide in various phases of development. That figure, though, includes at least 10 that have since gone defunct and another 10 whose status is unknown. Many of the others are still little more than concepts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The number of failed launch ventures will \u201cstart increasing significantly in the next two years,\u201d he warned in a presentation at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington in January. \u201cIt has to. The market is simply not going to be able to support 112 of these companies moving forward.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>** <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/SpaceX.com\">SpaceX<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>**** <strong>Second Falcon Heavy launch<\/strong> is set for April 7th and an engine test firing on the pad could happen next Monday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-next-falcon-heavy-static-fire\/\">SpaceX&#8217;s first Block 5 Falcon Heavy days away from critical static fire test &#8211; Teslarati<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The first commercial launch of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket \u2013 this time in a Block 5 configuration \u2013 is as few as ten days away from a targeted window beginning at 6:36 pm EST (22:36 UTC), April 7th. That target hinges on whether Falcon Heavy is ready and able to roll out to Pad 39A and successfully conduct its first integrated static fire, currently scheduled on April 1st.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>The payload for this mission \u2013 communications satellite Arabsat 6A \u2013 had its original Lockheed Martin manufacturing and SpaceX launch contracts signed back in the first half of 2015, while the 6000 kg (13,200 lb) spacecraft was effectively completed once it was shipped from California to Florida at the start of 2019. After approximately 12 months of delays from an original launch target shortly after Falcon Heavy\u2019s 2018 debut, Arabsat 6A\u2019s four-year journey will hopefully reach completion in a geostationary transfer orbit. At the same time, the US Air Force says that it will be watching this launch \u2013 and the one meant to follow soon after \u2013 as a critical test along the path to fully certifying the powerful rocket for military launches.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**** <strong>Crew Dragon launch with astronauts<\/strong> could come as early as July or as late as November: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-astronaut-launch-target\/\">SpaceX&#8217;s Crew Dragon to launch astronauts in July, says Russian source &#8211; Teslarati<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A source familiar with Russia\u2019s aerospace industry recently informed state newspaper RIA Novosti that NASA has provided Russian space agency Roscosmos with an updated planning schedule for International Space Station (ISS) operations, including a preliminary target for SpaceX\u2019s first Crew Dragon launch with astronauts aboard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>According to RIA\u2019s source, NASA informed Roscosmos that the agency was tentatively planning for the launch of SpaceX\u2019s Demonstration Mission 2 (DM-2) as early as July 25th, with the spacecraft departing the ISS, reentering the atmosphere, and safely returning astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth on August 5th. In a bizarre turn of events, Russian news agency TASS published a separate article barely 12 hours later, in which \u2013 once again \u2013 an anonymous space agency source told the outlet that \u201cthe [DM-2] launch of Crew Dragon is likely to be postponed to November\u201d. For the time being, the reality likely stands somewhere in the middle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**** <strong>Launch and landing highlights compilation video<\/strong> was quietly released recently by SpaceX:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z4TXCZG_NEY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>**** <strong>Preparations for the Starhopper demo vehicle<\/strong> to begin its first low altitude &#8220;hops&#8221; continues at the company&#8217;s Boca Chica Beach facilities in South Texas: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2019\/03\/starhopper-first-flight-starship-superheavy-updates\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Starhopper progressing toward Static Fire test; Starship\/Superheavy updates \u2013 NASASpaceFlight.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Testing of SpaceX\u2019s Starhopper suborbital vehicle in Boca Chica, Texas, achieved a new milestone on Monday with another Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) and pre-burner test of the Raptor engine. This is another step towards engine ignition, which will technically result in its first hop, albeit by just inches due to being tethered to the pad.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**** <strong>A Starship must withstand intense heating<\/strong> when it enters the atmosphere of Earth or Mars: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starship-official-render\/\">SpaceX&#8217;s steel Starship glows during Earth reentry in first high-quality render &#8211; Teslarati<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Aside from a unique lack of ablation for Starship\u2019s stainless steel hull and curious hexagonal steel heat shield tiles, SpaceX may end up having to implement a wholly unproven technology known as transpiration cooling, in which some of Starship\u2019s liquid methane propellant would be intentionally pushed out from micro-scale holes drilled or perhaps laser-cut in certain hexagonal plates. After traveling through the steel skin\/shield and out of the holes, the liquid methane would almost instantly vaporize into gas and then plasma as it confronts the spacecraft\u2019s superheated bow shock wave, reducing the thermal loads on tiles with such an active cooling solution installed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>It\u2019s unclear what the resulting methane-rich plasma plume might look like but it\u2019s not out of the question that SpaceX\u2019s graphic design team have either done the math themselves, so to speak, or asked engineers to verify what color Starship\u2019s plasma tail might end up looking like. As shown in the latest render, a plume of hues ranging from light blue and indigo to red through white seems entirely plausible. Regardless, Starship is bound to look spectacular during orbital reentries thanks to its metallic skin and shield and planned hot structure, meaning that the entire windward half of the vehicle could end up glowing red, orange, yellow, and even white-hot, precisely like the thermal testing video Musk recently shared.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>**** <strong>Two webcams now watch<\/strong> SpaceX Boca Chica Beach facilities to allow you to monitor StarShip activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LabPadre\/videos\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpaceX Boca Chica, Texas Live View From South Padre Island &#8211; LabPadre<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spadre.com\/\">South Padre Island Texas &#8211; SpaceX Boca Chica Starship Cam &#8211; spadre.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>**** <strong>Crew Dragon from the recent demo mission<\/strong> without any astronauts on board is lifted from the recovery boat to the dock at Port Canaveral in this video courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.USLaunchReport.com\">www.USLaunchReport.com<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWOHJEVKMpQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>**** <strong>SpaceX raises more funding<\/strong> to pay for its many projects including the Starlink broadband Internet constellation, that presumably would be launched with the help of both the Falcons and StarShips: <a href=\"https:\/\/citywire.co.uk\/investment-trust-insider\/news\/baillie-gifford-defies-musk-critics-with-262m-capital-injection-in-spacex\/a1214306\">Baillie Gifford defies Musk critics with \u00a3262m capital injection in SpaceX &#8211; Citywire<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1610398297\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1610398297&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=d5a5186356a0ac2412b80d64262bdb05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos<\/em><\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1610398297\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1610398297&amp;asins=1610398297&amp;linkId=f7edf45d29fd89517f105c663a460fe9&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images dealing with space transport: ** Rocket Lab will try again this evening (22:30 UTC time) to launch an Electron rocket with a DARPA technology demo satellite on board: Launch Complex 1 | Rocket Lab [ Update: The launch was a success: Payload deployed. Precise orbital insertion by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=18331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space transport roundup &#8211; Mar.28.2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4LF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17320,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17320","url_meta":{"origin":18331,"position":0},"title":"Videos: Rocket Lab launches Electron rocket with NASA sponsored CubeSats","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Rocket Lab today successfully launched an Electron rocket from the Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The vehicle reached low earth orbit and its kick stage later circularized its orbit and then deployed 13 small satellites sponsored by NASA, including several university built CubeSats: https:\/\/youtu.be\/KZwLJMPuos8 Here is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amateur\/Student Satellite&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amateur\/Student Satellite","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Trevor-Launch-71-1024x683.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17050,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17050","url_meta":{"origin":18331,"position":1},"title":"Lots of rocket launches planned for next 10 days","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Several rocket launches around the world are scheduled for the next couple of weeks. 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