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One week after a Falcon 9 booster headed west, NASA has confirmed the date for SpaceX’s first California launch more than 16 months ago.
At Texas on August 20, in Arizona on August 23, and at the entrance to the Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) on August 24, the SpaceX rocket is definitely a Falcon 9 booster B1063 or B1064. Regardless, it will – for the first time – fly on a unique mission provided by NASA – with cost-effective upper level and (probably costly) payload fairing.
Known as the Sentinel-6A or Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich, the late scientist and NASA director built a 1,500 kg (3300 lb) Airbus-built satellite to measure and analyze sea level after benefiting from several important Earth science missions. Earth’s atmosphere is almost everywhere on Earth.
As previously discussed in Deslorati, the westbound SpaceX booster was almost exclusively for the Sentinel-6A late last month.
NASA awarded a $ 97 million launch deal to SpaceX in 2017, guaranteeing that the Sentinel 6A would fly on a new Falcon 9 booster. The fact that the booster seen in traffic last week has never been seen east of Texas strongly suggests that the Sentinel 6A is definitely SpaceX’s next VAFB release, a new Falcon 9 SpaceX tested in McGregor before shipping to California.
This is the Falcon 9 B1063, which did not open the booster that arrived on VAFB on August 24. Germany’s SARah-1 radar imaging satellite is the only West Coast launch in SpaceX manifest, which may guarantee sending a new booster to California, but the latest indications are that the Q 2220kg (4850 lb) spacecraft will be launched in Q1 2021 (a delay Q42020) As part of the ride sharing process.
The SARah-1 may have been unveiled on SpaceX’s first exclusive rightshare mission scheduled to launch in December 2020. In any case, as the most complex and expensive one-space shuttle, both the SARah-1 and Sentinel 6A are responsible for slipping to the right from their current launch targets, i.e. the Balkan 9B 1063 may now spend at least 2-3 months in storage between the start of its first launch run.
Teslaratti.com – August 25, 2020
Now, three days after the successful completion of SpaceX The first East Coast polar release in half a century, NASA already exists Unexpectedly revealed SpaceX’s first dedicated rightshare mission – mentioned above and is now being considered Transporter-1 – is on track to launch in December 2020. However, SpaceX moved from California to Florida, which now killed the opportunity for the new booster SARah-1 at SpaceX’s Vandenberg launch facility.
The next day, NASA’s Release Services Project (LSP) Office, Sentinel-6A officially announced the launch of PDT (UTC-7), November 10, 2020 at Falcon 9. SpaceX has revealed that the launch date of Force Base (VAFP) from its first company, Vandenberg Air June 2019, the NASA update has not slipped a single day after more than two months of reviews.
Both SpaceX’s operational drone ships are currently stationed in Florida, including the Falcon 9 booster, which will land again in Landing Zone-4, a thousand feet from the Sentinel-6A, SLC-4E launch pad.
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