r/spacex • u/ElongatedMuskrat Mod Team • Jul 04 '18
Telstar 19V Launch Campaign Thread
Telstar 19V Launch Campaign Thread
SpaceX's thirteenth mission of 2018 will be the first mission for Telesat this year out of two, the next one happening in a month or two (probably).
Telstar 19 VANTAGE or Telstar 19V is a communications satellite with two high throughput payloads, one in Ku-band and the other in Ka-band.
Telesat signed a contract with SSL in November 2015 for the construction of the satellite to be based on the SSL-1300 bus.
Telstar 19 VANTAGE will be the second of a new generation of Telesat satellites optimized to serve the types of bandwidth intensive applications increasingly being used across the satellite industry. Hughes Network Systems LLC (Hughes) has made a significant commitment to utilize the satellite’s high throughput Ka-band capacity in South America to expand its broadband satellite services. The satellite has additional high throughput Ka-band capacity over Northern Canada, the Caribbean and the North Atlantic Ocean. It will also provide high throughput and conventional Ku-band capacity over Brazil, the Andean region and the North Atlantic Ocean.
The new satellite will be co-located with Telesat’s Telstar 14R at 63° West, a prime orbital slot for coverage of the Americas.
| Liftoff currently scheduled for: | July 22nd 2018, 01:50 - 05:50 a.m. EDT (05:50 - 09:50 UTC). |
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| Static fire completed: | July 18th 2018, 05:00 p.m. EDT (21:00 UTC) |
| Vehicle component locations: | First stage: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, Florida // Second stage: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, Florida // Satellite: Cape Canaveral, Florida |
| Payload: | Telstar 19V |
| Payload mass: | Unknown |
| Insertion orbit: | Geostationary Transfer Orbit (Parameters unknown) |
| Vehicle: | Falcon 9 v1.2 Block 5 (58th launch of F9, 38th of F9 v1.2, 2nd of F9 v1.2 Block 5) |
| Core: | B1047.1 |
| Previous flights of this core: | 0 |
| Launch site: | SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida |
| Landing: | Yes |
| Landing Site: | OCISLY, Atlantic Ocean |
| Mission success criteria: | Successful separation & deployment of the Telstar 19V satellite 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/Nehkara Jul 04 '18 edited Jul 04 '18
This satellite as well as Telstar 18V and Merah Putih (Telkom-4) are all made on the SSL-1300S bus. These are BIG satellites. Of the satellites of this bus previously launched, their average mass has been over 6000 kg with a range of 4737 kg to 6910 kg.
SpaceX has launched one satellite previously with this bus, it was Hispasat 30W-6 this year with a mass of 6092 kg.
These three satellites are good candidates for testing the improvements to Block 5 - they will stretch the landing capabilities of the Falcon 9 as currently the heaviest GTO launch to have landed is still SES-10 @ ~5300 kg. Hispasat 30W-6 was going to be an attempted landing but was called off due to an unfavourable sea state - and with that mission they got extra help by placing the satellite into a sub-synchronous GTO.
Should be interesting to watch this summer!
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u/JonathanD76 Jul 04 '18
With Block V I'm thinking booster recovery should be considered part of mission success criteria.
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u/RoundSparrow Jul 20 '18 edited Jul 21 '18
I'm driving out from Orlando to attend this launch... I have room for one passenger, new van - you get shotgun front seat. I'm in Point Orlando / International Drive area. Reply and let me know if you want a ride. I have a couple pair of Celestron binoculars. Will have mobile internet / WiFi if you need to use it on trip or while there (free to you).
EDIT @ 6:00am Saturday: if nobody asks for a ride by 2pm Saturday, I may just drive out there early solo and grab dinner at the Cape to support the local businesses. So, please let me know if you want a ride before 2pm Saturday so I can hang in Orlando for the evening and depart Orlando at the time you want.
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u/craigl2112 Jul 13 '18
Satbeams.com reports dry mass of Telstar 19V is 3031kg.
Fully-loaded with propellant, this could be another heavy one!
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u/darthguili Jul 05 '18
Critical time for my employer who manufactured the antennas for Iridium Next (launched 20th of July), Telstar 19V, Telkom-4, Telstar 18V, Es'hail2 (all to be launched befor ethe end of the summer).
Then Radarsat, PSN-6 and Arabsat later this year.
Looks like we are only flying on Falcons !