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Still need payload health and amateur payload check out...

 

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Nov. 19  Falcon 9 • Spaceflight SSO-A

 

Launch time: 1832 GMT (1:32 p.m. EST; 10:32 a.m. PST)


Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

 

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch with Spaceflight’s SSO-A rideshare mission, a stack of satellites heading into sun-synchronous polar orbit. Numerous small payloads will be launched on this mission for nearly 50 government and commercial organizations from 16 countries, including the United States, Australia, Finland, Germany, Singapore and Thailand. Delayed from July. [Oct. 25]

https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/

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Ground controllers are receiving signals from Qatar’s Es’hail 2 communications satellite after its successful launch today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, confirming the spacecraft is alive in a good orbit. https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/11/15/falcon-9-eshail-2-mission-status-center/ …

https://twitter.com/spaceflightnow/status/1063186461879689216

 

Launch & Landing of SpaceX Falcon 9 with Es'Hail 2

video is 10:02 min

 

 

Es’hail-2 deployment

video is 2:59 min

 

 

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This was a bit funny.

 

If one watches carefully, there is also another object on the left of the booster just after the first. Both come from the octaweb...camera makes it look a bit odd...my guess is ice or tps.

 

 

Around the T +6:00 minute mark of upper launch clock.

 

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Two objects cataloged from today's Falcon 9 launch (Es'hailsat 2 and the F9 second stage), in 200 x 37688 km x 25.0 deg geotransfer orbit, confirming successful launch.

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1063275518743781376

 

 

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Builder @MitsubishiHVAC says Es'hail-2 carries the 1st geo-orbit amateur radio payload.

https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/1063326130084687873

 

 

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See you in orbit #eshail_2 #phase4a. Thank you @SpaceX and @eshailsat !

https://twitter.com/amsatdl/status/1063180594979524608

The amateur package.

 

 

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Manufacturer @MitsubishiHVAC says @eshailsat -2 telecom sat healthy in orbit, to be handed over to owner Es'hailSat in January. Mission success for @SpaceX; Ku-/Ka-band sat to operate 16+ yrs from 26E for MENA TV/govt services. It's the 16th Melco DS 2000 model launched.

https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/1063323807010693120

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