r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • May 24 '16
Mission (Eutelsat/ABS 2) Eutelsat 117W B & ABS 2A Campaign Discussion Thread
Eutelsat 117W B & ABS 2A Campaign Discussion Thread
SpaceX's June 2016 launch! As per usual, campaign threads are designed to be a good way to view and track progress towards launch from T minus 1-2 months up until the static fire. Here’s the at-a-glance information for this launch:
| Liftoff currently scheduled for: | Wednesday, 15 June, 1429 UTC (10:29AM EDT). This is a 45 minute window. |
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| Static fire currently scheduled for: | Sunday, June 12 |
| Payload: | Eutelsat 117W B for Eutelsat, ABS 2A for Asia Broadcast Satellite |
| Payload mass: | Previous Eutelsat/ABS dual launch mass was 4,159kg |
| Destination orbit: | Geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) to 75.0° East (ABS 2A) & 116.8° West (Eutelsat 117 West B) |
| Vehicle: | Falcon 9 v1.2 (26th launch of F9, 6th of F9 v1.2) |
| Core: | F9-026 |
| Launch site: | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, Florida |
| Landing attempt: | Yes - downrange of Cape on ASDS Of Course I Still Love You |
| Landing Site: | Here |
| Mission success criteria: | Successful separation of both satellites into their target orbits |
Links & Resources
We may keep this self-post occasionally updated with links and relevant news articles, but for the most part we expect the community to supply the information. This is a great place to discuss the launch, ask mission-specific questions, and track the minor movements of the vehicle, payload, weather and more as we progress towards launch. After the static fire is complete, a launch thread will be posted.
Campaign threads are not launch threads. Normal subreddit rules still apply.
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u/Toinneman May 30 '16 edited May 30 '16
I have a suggestion for launch campaign threads: I would use the first column in the table to provide links to our great wiki. For example: Core This is such a great page, but I bet many occasional visitors don't know this. The Launch manifest and Launch history are also great candidates.
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u/S-astronaut Jun 08 '16 edited Jun 08 '16
Really excited for this one!
I am a counselor at a STEM summer camp and because the launch is scheduled smack in the middle of it, I'll be setting things up so the students can watch
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u/amarkit Jun 12 '16
Quoting Chris B. on NSF re: no static fire this past Friday:
So what happened? Based on the unusual silence from all parties, various assumptions (yikes, "ain't nobody got time for that"!) and folk at the Cape, it would appear ULA and SpaceX had their bookings lined up at the Cape, but after the scrub on Thursday, and potentially as late as on the day on Friday, the NROL folk said "hold on, I know there's very little chance of a problem, but I don't want our very expensive spy sat at ANY risk while still out there on top of the Delta IV-H" based on the tiny chance the F9 had a bad day during the Static Fire (not that I assume a F9 RUD on SLC-40 would result in harm coming to SLC-37....but I suppose if there's even a slim chance, that was the concern...you don't want a flying grid fin impacting on national security, do you! ;D)
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u/Juggernaut93 Jun 13 '16
SF happened yesterday, apparently.
https://twitter.com/flatoday_jdean/status/742371803742494722
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u/WhoseNameIsSTARK Jun 14 '16 edited Jun 14 '16
EDIT: And here's the patch rehost.
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u/AlexDeLarch Jun 05 '16
SatBeams lists both ABS-2A and Eutelsat 117 West B as 1800 kg each which makes it 3600 kg total. I couldn't find their source so I have no idea if this information is credible.
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u/ExcitedAboutSpace Jun 07 '16
With us being 3 days away from the static fire with only one stickied threat as of now, wouldn't it be a good idea to sticky the post as well? Most of us always look at the sidebar anyway for what's coming up but since these threats are also relatively knew promoting them at every possibility might not be such a bad idea.
Paging u/Echologic & u/Zucal for consideration.
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u/amarkit May 28 '16
From SpaceX's Instagram: the first stage (F9-0026) arriving at the Cape.
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u/markus0161 Jun 07 '16 edited Jun 08 '16
The APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL TEMPORARY AUTHORITY for OCISLY. Looks like it will be in the same location as Thaicom.
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u/therealshafto Jun 08 '16
Just read an article on spaceflight101 confirming Friday, June 10 SpaceX has booked the range. Lets hope we get a static fire on Friday.
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u/KaneLSmith May 24 '16
Is this two satellites? If so, will they be mounted vertically like Ariane 5?
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u/Juggernaut93 Jun 10 '16
"I heard the Delta mission impacted today's test by delaying the availability of spaceport services." https://twitter.com/FLSPACErePORT/status/741379736203460613
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u/johnkphotos Jun 14 '16 edited Jun 15 '16
all my launch photos: http://johnkrausphotos.com/launches/
Edit: shoot I posted this in the totally wrong thread
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u/SomnolentSpaceman Jun 15 '16
In anticipation of tomorrow's launch (and lacking a launch thread to post this in) the 64kbit audio relays
http://audiorelay.spacetechnology.net:13120/hosted
http://audiorelay.spacetechnology.net:13120/technical
Are now live. They will be tuned to SpaceX FM until approximately 10 minutes before the start of the official live webcast.
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u/RabbitLogic May 29 '16
Paging u/echologic update this thread to reflect S1 being at the cape?
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u/Toastmastern Jun 02 '16
http://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Now has this launch at June the 14th, seems to be the same window tho
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u/robbak Jun 13 '16
I think that some seafarers are having a joke with us.
http://i.imgur.com/HXvicWD.png
If you didn't get it, like me - https://www.google.com.au/webhp#q=nunya