Anik over at Nasaspaceflight.com just gave added E13 to 2008 with a TBD launch date.
Bunch of satellites going up in the future.
Bunch of satellites going up in the future.
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Of course the real question is when E11 is going up. Will it continue to be a Sea Launch, or will they move to another LV?
Yeah.
Other than a Oct return to flight and E11 along with another scheduled for October, I have not seen anything else.
E* did pledge to stick with them, and maybe since Sea Launch appears to be getting it together the plans will hold.
I still dont know if I want E11 to be the return to flight test.
Other than a Oct return to flight and E11 along with another scheduled for October, I have not seen anything else.
E* did pledge to stick with them, and maybe since Sea Launch appears to be getting it together the plans will hold.
I still dont know if I want E11 to be the return to flight test.
I'm sure Echostar is also getting a spectacular deal to launch this time. It would stand to reason SeaLaunch would discount this launch to get them back in the game.
"I still don't know if I want E11 to be the return to flight test."
"The issue that caused the rather spectacular failure is unlikely to occur again IMO."
Why do you say that? I don't think this is the first time something was left behind that shouldn't have been. Heck, remember Apollo 13, as well as other Russian flights. And these are built more on an assembly line than our hand crafted piece built almost one off kind of manufacturing. Each approach has it's advantages.
"The issue that caused the rather spectacular failure is unlikely to occur again IMO."
Why do you say that? I don't think this is the first time something was left behind that shouldn't have been. Heck, remember Apollo 13, as well as other Russian flights. And these are built more on an assembly line than our hand crafted piece built almost one off kind of manufacturing. Each approach has it's advantages.
From Sea Launch's Odyssey heading to Vancouver - failure update - NASA SpaceFlight.com
"In what is a key stage of Sea Launch's return to flight plans, the refurbished Odyssey Launch Platform will head to Vancouver, where special engineering work will be carried out on replacing the flame deflector that was blown off during January's launch failure.
The explosion of the Zenit 3SL, carrying the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies, was caused by a small foreign object - believed to be a loose bolt in the LOX tank - which was sucked into the RD-171 engine's turbomachinery, sources note. "
"In what is a key stage of Sea Launch's return to flight plans, the refurbished Odyssey Launch Platform will head to Vancouver, where special engineering work will be carried out on replacing the flame deflector that was blown off during January's launch failure.
The explosion of the Zenit 3SL, carrying the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies, was caused by a small foreign object - believed to be a loose bolt in the LOX tank - which was sucked into the RD-171 engine's turbomachinery, sources note. "
