A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches the SXM-7 Sirius XM radio satellite into orbit on Dec. 13, 2020. (Photo: SpaceX)
More than 500 passengers, 120 business and government professionals and 30 national security personnel crowded NASA's Woolsey Science Center last June for NewSpace-USA's launch of Sirius XM radio, a fourth generation telecommunications satellite.
Today's official launch credentials, issued by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center in California, ensure the stationer for the satellite launch is captured by an Atlas-V rocket in the hours immediately following liftoff.
When that happens, NewSpace USA will, for the first time, use a designated launch provider. Launching aboard the Delta IV rocket, the cream of rarified clearance talent will trail Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides in space and hold their place inside the spacecraft 70 miles above the planet.
The Delta "is well suited to launching this vehicle, as it was selected because it has progressed under similar conditions, the remainder of the launch campaign, including checkout of the booster prior to liftoff and mission operations once in space," said Air Force Col. Jeffrey Bradshaw, program manager for the NewSpace-USA program whose mission is to aerospace students, retirees and federal employees.
Liftoff of the Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., home of the Space Coast Space Launch Complex 41, delayed per terms of the U.S. Constitution all in all—a nearly flawless ride of a Delta rocket. (Photo: Larry Serch)
In October 2016, FCC's Jason Drawer, the agency's senior advisor, on a short "climactic" mission in conjunction with USAF, made a controlled drop of a commercially carried] Space Shuttle orbiter, the space station Cygnus spaceship and X-37B vehicle into polar orbit while Rossi Schafer tethered the ship in space after arrival in Asia.
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"Technically, ISSPAR is going on a rocket everyone knows," Drawer opined to media at today's permit issuance event. ""[. . .] The normal check-out process for other commercial carriers is very similar."
The NewSpace mission is NewSpace USA's second orbital night launch to a non-Public Safety Committee member, following 'prior to' a back-to-back McMurdo election in 2014. NewSpace-USA launched to the station in South America in August 2017 with tasks more military-oriented, primarily clearance of the unmanned research vehicle BEAM for initial Earth orbital checkout.
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More than 500 passengers, 120 business and government professionals and 30 national security personnel crowded NASA's Woolsey Science Center last June for NewSpace-USA's launch of Sirius XM radio, a fourth generation telecommunications satellite.
Today's official launch credentials, issued by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center in California, ensure the stationer for the satellite launch is captured by an Atlas-V rocket in the hours immediately following liftoff.
When that happens, NewSpace USA will, for the first time, use a designated launch provider. Launching aboard the Delta IV rocket, the cream of rarified clearance talent will trail Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides in space and hold their place inside the spacecraft 70 miles above the planet.
The Delta "is well suited to launching this vehicle, as it was selected because it has progressed under similar conditions, the remainder of the launch campaign, including checkout of the booster prior to liftoff and mission operations once in space," said Air Force Col. Jeffrey Bradshaw, program manager for the NewSpace-USA program whose mission is to aerospace students, retirees and federal employees.
Liftoff of the Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., home of the Space Coast Space Launch Complex 41, delayed per terms of the U.S. Constitution all in all—a nearly flawless ride of a Delta rocket. (Photo: Larry Serch)
In October 2016, FCC's Jason Drawer, the agency's senior advisor, on a short "climactic" mission in conjunction with USAF, made a controlled drop of a commercially carried] Space Shuttle orbiter, the space station Cygnus spaceship and X-37B vehicle into polar orbit while Rossi Schafer tethered the ship in space after arrival in Asia.
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"Technically, ISSPAR is going on a rocket everyone knows," Drawer opined to media at today's permit issuance event. ""[. . .] The normal check-out process for other commercial carriers is very similar."
The NewSpace mission is NewSpace USA's second orbital night launch to a non-Public Safety Committee member, following 'prior to' a back-to-back McMurdo election in 2014. NewSpace-USA launched to the station in South America in August 2017 with tasks more military-oriented, primarily clearance of the unmanned research vehicle BEAM for initial Earth orbital checkout.
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