SpaceX launched a safe communication satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in NASA on Wednesday night from a Spanish communication company, Landsat.
The Spanishat New Generation 1 (SNG1) satellite is supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and is manufactured by Airbus Defense and Space. The Launch Complex 39A to Falcon 9 rocket lift took place at 8:34 pm at EST (0134 UTC), which was inaugurating a two -hour window.
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On Wednesday night, the 45th weather squadron for the liftoff estimated very idiomatic conditions, anticipated a potential obstruction of 95 percent of the seasons with just thick clouds.
“Overall, the launch weather conditions look like a field of high pressure and high pressure on the surface above the Florida Peninsula. [Wednesday]”Launch Weather officials wrote.” The only watch item makes the jet-inspired cirhostratus streaming in the area, which shows a small risk of violation of a thick cloud layers rule if the base is quite low. “
The mission was the 430th Falcon 9 to date. SpaceX said that SNG 1 satellite required a “additional display” from Falcon 9 rockets so that it could be sent to Geosicronous Transfer Orbit, it did not recover the first phase booster, tail number B1073.
Because of this, the booster had a lack of both grid wings for the recovery steering and stability -along with the stability. Last time SpaceX flew a spent Falcon 9 rocket on October 7, 2024, when it launched a Hera Spacecraft for ESA to initiate its journey to the Didimos binary asteroid system.
SNG 1 was the 21st flight of Mission B1073. Spacex first used it to launch the Hakuto-R Mission1, CRS-27 and 13 Starlink Missions of Ispace.
The expansion of B1073 still leaves SpaceX with 17 flight proven boosters in its lineup. B1067 is its most blown booster, which has completed 25 missions till date as the company works to certify its booster for every 40 flights.
Safe communication
The SNG 1 satellite is the first of the two for the Spanysat NG program and 30 degrees will work in the geostationary Earth’s orbit in the position of the west. SNG 2 will work in a 29 degree pre -east position when launching.
Together, they are designed to provide effective command and control in the operation of the armed forces beyond the line of vision in two-thirds of the Earth’s two-thirds. ” Their coverage region extends from the United States and South America to the Middle East and Europe and from Singapore.
“Spanceat NG represents the next generation of secured satellite communication in Europe,” said Laurent Jafart, director of ESA, Connectivity and Secure Communications, in a statement. “This launch is a major milestone in providing more adaptable and safe communication services that will benefit government users beyond Europe and beyond.”
Each satellite weighs about 6.1 tonnes (~ 13,448 pounds) and is 7.2-meter-Lumb (23.6 ft). They are built in the Eurosar Neo Satellite bus of Airbus and reviewed an important design in December 2021.
Designed for safe military communication, satellites facilitate what Airbus says “state -of -the -art direct radiating array (DRA) system[, which] In addition, it covers advanced facilities such as the ability to switch between thousands of times between different coverage areas, the ability to reduce coverage areas and detection of terrestrial emissions of unknown origin with high accuracy Capacity of. ,
Antennas come from a series of Spanish space industry partners and were coordinated through the ESA’s PACIS3 project. According to Airbus, “Include re-transmitted and involve the depress of ex-band active antennas and individually with stereble-band antenna.”
“X-band active antennas are the most challenging active antennas that have ever been developed in Europe, which is the condition of the Hijdsat and Spanish space industry on the edge of space technology in active antennas, which means high competition in the global market means Hai, “Garcia Primo, CEO of Landsat.
The satellites are designed for every 15 -year operating lifetime, which prevent technical issues.
