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Welcome to issue 3. 14 of the Rocket Report! Basically, for us it’s Pi week. In addition, you may realize that we did not publish a rocket report last week, which is because the risk of Hurricane Laura provided an unforeseen but significant distraction for the author. are back with a bigger edition than ever before.
As always, we settle for reader presentations, and if you don’t need to miss a problem, subscribe to the box below (the form might not appear in amp versions of the site). Each report will come with a small shape, medium and heavy rockets, as well as a quick review of the next 3 calendar launches.
Rocket Lab is effectively back in flight. Flying for the first time since a failure two months ago, Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket introduced Capella Space’s first advertising radar remote sensing satellite into orbit on Sunday after taking off from New Zealand, Spaceflight Now reports. the rest of 2020, adding the company’s first flight from a new platform on Wallops Island, Virginia.
Construct a larger connector array. Investigators traced the cause of the Fourth of July fault on a defective single electrical connector on the floor at the time, which was indifferent in flight and resulted in premature engine shutdown. Rocket Lab said it has implemented advanced testing for greater stumbling on faulty connectors, and it turns out that the good luck of Electron’s return-in-flight project has supported this idea (sent through Ken the Bin and JohnCarter17).
After 14 months, Vega also returns in fgentle. On September 2 at 22:51 local time in Kourou, French Guiana, European soft thrower Vega finished his 15th successful project, marking his return to fgentle. The carpool project put 53 satellites into orbit for 21 customers, Arianespace said.
Back to businessArray . . The flight recoil project following a rocket failure in July 2019 originally scheduled for March, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed the European spaceport. Once this project is complete, Arianespace hopes to advertise the Vega as an affordable carpool vehicle for institutional and advertising clients (sent via platykuritc and Ken the Bin)
PLD Space is testing its rocket engine. Spanish startup PLD Space has completed critical testing of the company’s Teprel-B rocket engine, SpaceNews reports. The engine pushes the suborbital launcher to a Miura 1 stage. Miura 1 is designed to release one hundred kg of payload at an altitude of 150 km. , providing up to 3 minutes of microgravity.
One step closer to qualifying the engineArray . . . PLD Space stated that it had passed a series of thrust vector control tests on the Kerosene-powered Teprel-B rocket engine. The final touch of the Teprel-B vector thrust control tests follows a hit “explosion test” in March of the Miura 1 composite overpacked deformation tank, used to pressurize flight at rocket propulsion level. (presented via JohnCarter17, platykurtic and Ken the Bin)
Rocket Lab obtains an FAA launch license for Wallops. Rocket Lab said this week that it had received key approval from the U. S. Federal Aviation Administration for the Virginia spaceport. With its “launch operator license” for the LC-2 station in Wallops, the company can make multiple launches from the site without having to ask the company for a specific mission license for individual flights, TechCrunch reports.
Last year’s release?. . . Rocket Lab celebrated its official opening rite for the Virginia-based LC-2 expired last year, but COVID-19 and its related outages likely delayed the first scheduled activities on the site. The company has not yet set a release date for the first project from its global launch pad (sent through Danneely and Ken the Bin).
Scotland’s launch site is taking a new step. After receiving approval of Highland Council plans, with up to 12 legal releases consistent with the year, a spaceport assignment introduced vertically in northern Scotland is taking the next regulatory step. Highlands and Islands Enterprise said it asked the Scottish Court of Land for consent to build and operate the facility.
Crofting means small-scale agriculture . . . The consent of the Scottish Land Court is required as the allocation would be carried out on cultivated land, which has recently been classified as non-unusual pastures. animals for periods around the days of release. Construction is expected to begin next year, and a first forward-looking release is expected by the end of 2022 (sent through Ken the Bin)
SpaceX launches its 100th rocket. Weather situations were deficient on the afternoon of Sunday, August 30 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, but enough time was cleared for SpaceX to launch the SAOCOM-1B project. It was a historic project for two reasons, Ars reports, because SpaceX filed a rocket for the hundredth time and flew a rare project down a Florida polar corridor for the Argentine area agency.
Three other Array rockets. The project count includes five Falcon 1 releases, 3 Falcon Heavy projects and nine Falcon nine releases. Sunday’s project also represented the first rocket launch from Florida, optimized for equatorial launches, into a polar orbit in 50 years. made imaginable through a modernized flight termination formula that protected the Florida coast. On Thursday, the company completed its 101st project.
The recovery of the Sea Launch spaceport will require $470 million, while the floating spaceport, recently at a shipyard near Vladivostok, Russia, will require an investment of about $470 million to prepare it for further launches, according to estimates by the Russian deputy prime minister. Yuri Borisov, reports TASS news firm.
Sitting fallow for five years Array. . The last launch of the maritime platform took place in May 2015. “This is an unprecedented unique design in the world,” Borisov said. “Some other people have plans to build something similar. It would be very ridiculous of us if we made the decision not to repair the Sea Launch and use its services. Technically, all this is possible. ” We will do this when the investment is allocated and maintenance begins (sent through JohnCarter17 and Ken the Bin)
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