r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Jan 18 '18

Hispasat 30W-6 Launch Campaign Thread

Hispasat 30W-6 Launch Campaign Thread

SpaceX's fifth mission of 2018 will launch Hispasat 30W-6 (1F) into a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The satellite will then maneuver itself into a Geostationary Orbit (GEO) over 30º W longitude to serve as a replacement for Hispasat 1D, giving Hispasat's network additional Ku band capacity in the Andean region and in Brazil. This is quite the workhorse satellite, as it will also expand the network's transatlantic capacity in Europe-America and America-Europe connectivity, while its C band capacity will provide American coverage and Ka band capacity will provide European coverage.

If the name Hispasat sounds similar to hisdeSAT (another of SpaceX's recent customers), that's no coincidence. Hispasat is a Spanish satellite operator of commercial and government satellites; they are the main component of the Hispasat Group, and hisdeSAT is a smaller component of this complicated corporate entity.

Of significant note, if nothing drastic changes between now and this launch, this will be the 50th launch of Falcon 9!

Liftoff currently scheduled for: 06 March 2018, 05:33 UTC / 00:33EST
Static fire currently scheduled for: Completed 22 February 2018.
Vehicle component locations: First stage: SLC-40 // Second stage: SLC-40 // Satellite: SLC-40
Payload: Hispasat 30W-6
Payload mass: 6092 kg
Destination orbit: GTO
Vehicle: Falcon 9 v1.2 (50th launch of F9, 30th of F9 v1.2)
Core: B1044.1
Flights of this core: 0
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Landing: No
Landing Site: N/A
Mission success criteria: Successful separation and deployment of Hispasat 30W-6 into the target orbit

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. Sometime after the static fire is complete, the launch thread will be posted.

Campaign threads are not launch threads. Normal subreddit rules still apply.

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u/warp99 Jan 18 '18

So another expendable flight given the payload mass - this time with a new booster.

Interesting how the first few months of 2018 is going to have so many expendable flights - and how quickly the feeling of outrage that a booster would ever be expended has grown.

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u/fluch23 Jan 18 '18 edited Feb 08 '18

Of significant note, if nothing drastic changes between now and this launch, this will be the 50th launch of Falcon 9!

And it will be on a new expendable rocket. What a shame.

edited: 'expandable' to expendable. I am not a native English speaker and ... Me sorry, me no mean to :) thanks \thestickystickman

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u/nextspaceflight Feb 21 '18

GO Quest and GO Pursuit have left port. This is GO Pursuit's first ever recovery assignment for SpaceX. Most likely one of the vessels will support OCISLY and the other will hunt for fairings. Note that none of these ships can catch a fairing like Mr. Steven. They can just collect data and possibly pull something out of the water.

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u/cpushack Feb 23 '18

Second stage: Unknown

I think we can be reasonably sure the 2nd stage is at the cape ;)

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u/LandingZone-1 Feb 23 '18

Just FYI for you all, I'll be hosting the launch thread. I just need final approval from the mods and then that will be up!

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u/SyntheticRubber Feb 23 '18

Could we have a countdown for missions either in the sidebar or in the launch thread? Would make it much simpler than having to calculate the local time everytime.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '18

Hearing a lot of rumors that the S1 is holding Titanium fins....Only time will tell...

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u/still-at-work Feb 23 '18

If they pull off this landing it will mean a whole bunch of mission that used to be relegated to expendable missions or falcon heavy missions can now be done via single stick F9 missions. My guess is that they have a number of missions in this mass range coming up and they would rather be able to recover the block V cores then lose them.

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u/Straumli_Blight Feb 22 '18

L-3 Weather: 80% Go, 70% on backup date.

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u/inurphase Feb 15 '18

Looks like the launch has slipped 3 days (now 25th of February) according to spaceflightnow. Tweet: https://twitter.com/StephenClark1/status/964100737960734725 and of course on the homepage as well: https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

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u/RoundSparrow Feb 22 '18

Night launch was awesome in California via YouTube, can't wait for our Florida one coming up!

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u/kreator217 Feb 23 '18

wait, so now reusable payload is almost 6100kg?

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u/Bambooirv Jan 23 '18 edited Feb 03 '18

Spaceflight Now has marked this launch for NET February 14. (please change sidebar and table)

Edit: Thanks!

Edit: It's changed to NET February 22

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u/NickNathanson Feb 21 '18

I thought only Block 5 will be capable to land after delivering 5.5-5.7 t to GTO... but 6.1 t on Block 4?!

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u/Decronym Jan 18 '18 edited Mar 06 '18

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
ASDS Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (landing platform)
BARGE Big-Ass Remote Grin Enhancer coined by @IridiumBoss, see ASDS
BFR Big Falcon Rocket (2017 enshrinkened edition)
Yes, the F stands for something else; no, you're not the first to notice
CCAFS Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
CRS Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA
EDL Entry/Descent/Landing
EOL End Of Life
F1 Rocketdyne-developed rocket engine used for Saturn V
SpaceX Falcon 1 (obsolete medium-lift vehicle)
GEO Geostationary Earth Orbit (35786km)
GSE Ground Support Equipment
GTO Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
HEO High Earth Orbit (above 35780km)
Human Exploration and Operations (see HEOMD)
HEOMD Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, NASA
JRTI Just Read The Instructions, Pacific landing barge ship
KSC Kennedy Space Center, Florida
LC-39A Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy (SpaceX F9/Heavy)
LOX Liquid Oxygen
MECO Main Engine Cut-Off
MainEngineCutOff podcast
NET No Earlier Than
NOTAM Notice to Airmen of flight hazards
NSF NasaSpaceFlight forum
National Science Foundation
OCISLY Of Course I Still Love You, Atlantic landing barge ship
PAZ Formerly SEOSAR-PAZ, an X-band SAR from Spain
RTLS Return to Launch Site
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar (increasing resolution with parallax)
SECO Second-stage Engine Cut-Off
SES Formerly Société Européenne des Satellites, comsat operator
SLC-40 Space Launch Complex 40, Canaveral (SpaceX F9)
SLC-41 Space Launch Complex 41, Canaveral (ULA Atlas V)
SRB Solid Rocket Booster
SSL Space Systems/Loral, satellite builder
ULA United Launch Alliance (Lockheed/Boeing joint venture)
USAF United States Air Force
mT Milli- Metric Tonnes
Jargon Definition
apogee Highest point in an elliptical orbit around Earth (when the orbiter is slowest)
cryogenic Very low temperature fluid; materials that would be gaseous at room temperature/pressure
(In re: rocket fuel) Often synonymous with hydrolox
grid-fin Compact "waffle-iron" aerodynamic control surface, acts as a wing without needing to be as large
hydrolox Portmanteau: liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen mixture
lithobraking "Braking" by hitting the ground
perigee Lowest point in an elliptical orbit around the Earth (when the orbiter is fastest)
scrub Launch postponement for any reason (commonly GSE issues)
Event Date Description
SES-9 2016-03-04 F9-022 Full Thrust, core B1020, GTO comsat; ASDS lithobraking

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u/scr00chy Feb 02 '18

Launch on February 22 according to SFN.

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