Among the satellites launched by SpaceX into orbit are devices for tracking hypersonic missiles

SpaceX announced the launch of a launch vehicle (LV) with a group of satellites as part of the US Space Forces (Space Development Agency) mission. As specified in the American company, it was about 10 communications satellites launched into low orbit.

The Falcon 9 launch vehicle took off from the West Coast, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket booster eventually returned to Earth, landing at the Vandenberg Landing Zone. The mission itself was scheduled for March 30, however, SpaceX management delayed the launch by several days for unspecified reasons.

The rocket carried 2 SpaceX space satellites, whose task is to track ballistic and hypersonic missiles, as well as 8 spacecraft manufactured by York Space Systems to transmit data from space-based sensors to the Earth's surface.

The Space Development Agency (SDA) was established in March 2019 to assist the Pentagon in building a more viable space architecture in low Earth orbit, located within 2 km above the Earth's surface.

Thus, the creation of hundreds of relatively cheap satellites allows the US Department of Defense to significantly expand its galaxy of large and expensive spacecraft.

It is worth noting that all 10 spacecraft (SC) are part of the Tranche 0 mission, which involves the launch of 28 such SC into orbit in the form of two groups. The first will include 10 satellites (8 of them belong to the so-called transport layer to ensure data transmission). Up to $2025 billion is expected to be allocated for these purposes until 1.

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[AAK]

Musk manages to put 10 reconnaissance satellites into orbit in one launch, Borisov, EMNIP, this number has not been launched even in a year ...

[Mishka78]

Quote: AAK

Musk manages to put 10 reconnaissance satellites into orbit in one launch, Borisov, EMNIP, this number has not been launched even in a year ...

I also have a low opinion of the current Roskosmos (what with Rogozin, what with Borisov, the Soviet legacy is ending, a new minimum ..), but then you made a garden. Maybe Musk has been preparing this launch for 5 years? There is little source data for such hard conclusions.

[Infinity]

Quote: Mishka78

Musk has been preparing this launch for 5 years?

Prepare one launch for 5 years? The payload can be prepared for 5 years, but not the launch itself. SpaceX is the launch contractor fulfilling the contract, and for the Falcon 9, this is already 21 (!!!) launches in 2023, all successful. And another Falcon Heavy was launched in January. That's what it means to make rockets like sausages!
The number of satellites depends on their mass, the mass of the payload adapter, the launched orbit (the higher, the more energy is needed and the less the launch vehicle can take), the launch vehicle itself and its configuration, the launch point. If they launch 1 apparatus, then either into a high orbit, or it itself is heavy, or more and unnecessary into this orbit. By the way, if old electronic components are used, then the mass of the satellite will be greater (this is for those who sincerely do not understand why everyone is so worried about our microelectronic industry, they say, well, there are no chips, we buy from the Chinese, but rockets are great! Not everything is so simple ).

[topol717]

Quote: Infinity

By the way, if old electronic components are used, then the mass of the satellite will be greater

The electronics on the satellite may be 3-5% of the total mass of the satellite.
The batteries and life support systems of this electronics, it is necessary to keep the temperature from -40 to +60, as well as the engines and the fuel supply for these engines, that's what the bulk of it takes.

[slipped]

Quote: Infinity

and for Falcon 9, this is already 21 (!!!) launches in 2023, all successful. And another Falcon Heavy was launched in January. That's what it means to make rockets like sausages!

Does not mean. This means that Musk has set up production of the same type of serial MCA, which are quickly ready for launch. The rest of the spacecraft they do not take out often.

Quote: Infinity

The number of satellites depends on their mass,

The number of satellites depends on the breadth of their tasks. If these are low-orbit spacecraft of 150 kg each, there can be three and a half dozen of them on a rocket or more if the rocket is heavy.

Quote: Infinity

this is for those who sincerely do not understand why everyone is so worried about our microelectronic industry, they say, well, there are no chips, we buy from the Chinese, but the missiles are great! Not so simple.

In general, the passage towards missiles is incomprehensible - launch our medium Soyuz-2 and more than 70 small spacecraft in one launch.

[slipped]

Quote: Mishka78

There is little source data for such hard conclusions.

He just talked bullshit

[tralflot1832]

Advertising. A hypersonic missile differs from the usual one only in speed. Both of them have a fiery torch from their "ass".

[bayard]

Quote: tralflot1832

.Both of the "ass" a fiery torch.

Here, they are going to discover and lead them according to the faket.

[Bingo]

Well, wow ... But nothing that just go-from did not understand to this day why FALCON is precisely because the supposedly private mask has such a name, because this is the name of the DAPRA program on hypersonic carriers, under which NASA built this very private rocket, and the Pentagon immediately poured liquid into his pants, even before the launch of the Starlink program, on the supposedly civilian Internet, a very, very private and very civilian program - he tumbled a presentation of new low-orbiting spy satellites at a press conference of the Pentagon, which was not at all private, accompanying them with a photograph allegedly Starlink communications satellite?
It is you who tell the sect of the holy Mask that you have proved for the third time. that this is a state program, the rest have long understood

[South Ukrainian]

Well, suppose you can track them, only to bring them down, it will be impossible for a long time.

[tralflot1832]

It's like masochism, looking at the monitor and counting down to measure how much of this life is left.

[Aviator_]

It's like masochism, looking at the monitor and counting down to measure how much of this life is left.

Quite right. Even if the satellite is above the launch site, for example, "Dagger", which is not obvious, given its low orbit, what would be the use of a few minutes of tracking the projection of the flight path on the Earth's surface? Brad PR.

[Bingo]

Quote: tralflot1832

It's like masochism, looking at the monitor and counting down to measure how much of this life is left

No, it looks like a sawmill, as usual.
- Anti-missile system?
- Anti-missile!
- Works!
- But how!
And that the work consists in broadcasting the slowly creeping flugenhalmen ...

[km-21]

Russia urgently needs to acquire technology to destroy enemy satellites. At the same time, it is necessary to develop inertial, radar, optical-location systems for navigation, communications and reconnaissance. The Americans, of course, are also developing similar technologies. However, in the event of a complete exchange, Russia has an advantage, since American combat systems are much more dependent on satellites than Russian ones.

[topol717]

Quote: km-21

Russia urgently needs to acquire technology to destroy enemy satellites.

In general, they have long been invented and even tested, now they only have time to correct the orbit of the ISS, because there are a lot of debris. Another 3-4 such tests and space can be forgotten.

[Bledar]

Russia urgently needs to acquire technology to destroy enemy satellites.

You won’t believe it, but they already got it - the S-500 is called

[oldmetal]

Not only s-500. There is also a new missile defense system. She thinks the satellite will shoot from low orbit without any problems. And yet there is "Peresvet".

[Grandfather Fichteau]

Musk will finish the game .. Russia's patience is running out.
I'm sure we have the ability to land this constellation of satellites.

[evgen1221]

And you can also shoot into orbit every meter of satellites. Then not a single missile will fly by at all, it will collide with some kind. Everything, peace to the world, no intercontinental, send by mail.

[Sedov]

Here Borisov has someone to take an example from. We are all fundamental. We will raise engineers, we will create some kind of national project for this. And they test launches. It went, it didn't. Well, with microelectronics, of course, they are also not bad. Oh, we would have a Mask ..

[jack oliver]

track them? - The US can't build one or Intercept one - so - what is the point ?

[Grandfather Fichteau]

Quote from Jack Oliver

track them? - The US can't build one or Intercept one - so - what is the point ?

Hands up! Schnel! I don't know anymore