New Missions Added!
The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has added four more missions to the ATS database. Each mission goes to a similar orbit, with launch dates between 2009 and 2018. NPOESS has allocated 25% capacity for additional instrumentation. ATS users interested in including their instrument package on any of the NPOESS spacecraft should follow one of the links below.
NPOESS C2 - NPOESS C3 - NPOESS C4 - NPOESS C5 |
CubeSat Article on Space.com!
Space.com has a great article regarding all the progress university CubeSat programs are making.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/050928_cubesats.html |
New Mission Added!
The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has added a mission to the ATS database. NPOESS has allocated 25% capacity for additional instrumentation. ATS users interested in including their instrument package on NPOESS should follow the link below.
NPOESS C1 Information |
Successful Test Firing of Falcon I
SpaceX successfully conducted a five-second test firing of their Falcon I vehicle at Vandenberg AFB.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sfn_050528_falcon1.html |
Successful Test Launch of Nanosatellite Launch Vehicle (NLV)
Garvey Spacecraft Corporation of Long Beach, California, in conjunction with California State University, Long Beach successfully launched a test version of their planned Prospector 6 (P6) vehicle, capable of placing 10 kg into LEO.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050526_prospector6_test.html |
Falcon I Launching in August
The long-awaited and long-delayed debut of the privately-built Falcon 1 rocket has a launch date in sight.
http://www.space.com/adastra/050523_musk_nss.html |
New Functionality Added!
Access To Space now provides a quick visual reference that shows the types of orbits for missions in the database. See the LEO missions on one graph, and all the missions on another. Just click on the link below to see.
New Mission Visualization Graphs |
