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POTF Weekly Issue 1 Volume 1 4/2/2017
By: FalcolnSkymere Date: April 2, 2017, 9:13 am
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Space Section
WASHINGTON — SpaceX plans to conduct the debut launch of the
Falcon Heavy rocket this summer using two boosters that have
already flown on other missions, SpaceX Founder and Chief
Executive Elon Musk said March 30.
Speaking after the company’s success in launching its first
pre-flown first stage with the SES-10 satellite aboard, Musk
said SpaceX has worked out most of the challenges associated
with getting three Falcon 9 cores to fly together — a task that
has proven much more complex than it originally appeared.
“Falcon Heavy is one of those things that at first it sounded
easy,” Musk said. “We’ll just take two first stages and use them
as strap-on boosters. And like, actually no, this is crazy hard,
and required a redesign of the center core, and a ton of
additional hardware. It was actually shockingly difficult to go
from a single core to a triple-core vehicle.”
Falcon Heavy is designed to lift more than 54 metric tons to low
Earth orbit, 22 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit, or
13.6 metric tons to Mars. When SpaceX first revealed the Falcon
Heavy in 2011, the company anticipated a first mission in 2013,
but complexities in getting the vehicle to work, combined with
delays from two Falcon 9 failures, dragged out that timeline.
“Our expectation is probably a late summer launch of Falcon
Heavy,” he said.
Musk tweeted March 31 that SpaceX is also considering trying to
retrieve the Falcon Heavy demo flight’s upper stage for full
reusability. The probability of success is low, he said, but
could be worth trying anyway. Yesterday Musk mentioned trying to
return the second stage from Falcon 9 missions as well, and as
an added bonus from the SES-10 mission, already accomplished a
surprise recovery of the Falcon 9 payload fairings.
The first stages reused in the Falcon Heavy’s tentative 2017
debut will go towards SpaceX’s plan to refly about six boosters
this year.
“For Falcon Heavy, two of the side boosters are pre-flown
boosters, so that alone will be two cores right there,” Musk
said.
SES is considering using two more “flight-proven” Falcon 9
rockets this year, which would fulfill five of the six reusable
rocket missions SpaceX is gunning for, according to SES Chief
Technology Officer Martin Halliwell.
Halliwell said SES has three more launches with SpaceX this
year, and is willing to use flight proven rockets again to help
normalize the concept of using reusable launchers.
“My belief is that within 24 months, people like SpaceX, or
SpaceX specifically, will offer a service to orbit, and it will
be irrelevant,” Halliwell said. “It will be irrelevant if it’s
new or if it’s pre-flown — it will be irrelevant within 24
months.”
Musk said the rocket cores for Falcon Heavy’s first flight are
two to three months away from completion. He emphasized that the
first launch will carry a lot of risk, and as such, SpaceX
doesn’t plan to carry a valuable payload or payloads with it.
“We will probably fly something really silly on Falcon Heavy
because it is quite a high risk mission,” he said.
SpaceX will seek to recover all the boosters from the first
Falcon Heavy flight, assuming all goes according to plan. Musk
said the two side boosters would land back at Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, followed by the center core returning to a drone
ship in the Atlantic.
SpaceX anticipates having Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch
Complex-40 — the pad damaged in the September 2016 explosion of
a Falcon 9 during a fueling procedure — operational again before
launching Falcon Heavy. SpaceX needs to exercise this caution
because were a Falcon Heavy launch to go awry from Pad 39A, the
company would be out of launch sites in Florida. Musk said
SLC-40 would serve as the go-to location for Falcon 9 missions,
and SpaceX would keep Falcon Heavy launches at Pad 39A.
Musk also said SpaceX is prioritizing fulfilling launch
commitments to its backlog, which is mainly waiting on Falcon 9
missions. A number of those customers have faced protracted
delays and some, such as Spaceflight Inc., have sought
alternative launchers after the wait became too much to bear.
SpaceX does have customers for Falcon Heavy as well. The U.S.
Air Force, Intelsat, Inmarsat, ViaSat and Arabsat all booked
Falcon Heavy missions, though Inmarsat and ViaSat have since
sought alternative rides. ViaSat switched its ViaSat-2 satellite
to a mid-2017 Arianespace Ariane 5 launch. Inmarsat reserved a
Proton launch as a backup for Europasat/Hellas-Sat-3, a
condo-satellite split between Inmarsat and Greek satellite
operator Hellas Sat, the latter of which is a subsidiary of
Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat.
Currently both Arianespace and Proton’s commercial services
provider, International Launch Services (ILS), are experiencing
delays of their own. Arianespace has been unable to launch for
nearly two weeks due to territory-wide protests in French Guiana
where it launches. Russia’s Proton rocket has been grounded
since late 2016 due to quality control issues with second and
third stage engines, and is not expected to return to flight
until May. Although Inmarsat had reserved a 2017 ILS launch,
delays with Proton have pushed that mission back too. ILS’s
commercial manifest for 2017 includes three commercial missions:
one for EchoStar, one for AsiaSat and one for Hispasa.
See More at: www.spacenews.com
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Next Issue: 4/8/2017
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