SpaceX Falcon 9 - JCSAT-16

 SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust - JCSAT-16 - Launching August 14, 2016

Screenshot from SpaceX Webcast “In the Heat of the Night” launch of JCSAT-16

Mission Rundown: SpaceX Falcon 9 FT - JCSAT-16

Written: January 30, 2021

Lift Off Time	August 14, 2016 - 05:26 UTC - 01:26 EDT
Mission Name	JCSAT-16
Launch Provider	SpaceX
Customer	SKY Perfect JSAT Group
Rocket	Falcon 9 Full Thrust serial number B1026
Launch Location	Space Launch Complex 40 - SLC-40 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
Payload	SSL 1300 Communication Satellite
Payload mass	4 600 kg ~ 10 100 pounds
Where did the satellite go?	Geostationary Transfer Orbit - 184 x 35 912 km x 20.85° with a final orbit at 35 800 km on 162°East position
Will they be attempting to recover the first stage?	Yes - A drone ship has been towed downrange
Where will the first stage land?	OCISLY is waiting about 591 km downrange
Will they be attempting to recover the fairings?	No - Engineers are looking for ways to do this
Are these fairings new?	Yes - Two Type 1 boat hull sized fairings - 34 x 17 feet with 10 evenly spaced ventilation ports in a circle
This will be the:	– 28th flight of all Falcon 9 rockets – 8th flight of Falcon 9 Full Trust “V1.2” booster  – 3rd Falcon 9 booster to be used only once – 26th SpaceX launch from SLC-40 – 6th booster landing overall – 8th mission for SpaceX in 2017
Where to watch Where to read more	SpaceX link Want to know or learn more link check out Tim Dodd

Launch debriefing (This is what happend)

T-00:16:28 Hosts: - T-00:00:02 T 00:00:00 T+00:01:19 T+00:02:34 T+00:02:48 T+00:03:36 T+00:06:30 T+00:08:20 T+00:08:54 T+00:26:12 T+00:26:30 - - T+00:32:17 -

SpaceX live feed at 00:31 Michael Hammersley, Tom Praderio, Kate Tice and John Insprucker - They all got night duty TEA-TEB Ignition - Full Thrust check Liftoff at 17:00 - Rocket downlink delayed 4 seconds MaxQ at 18:19 MECO 19:34, stage separation 19:40 SES-1 at 19:48 - Delay confirmed Faring separation at 20:36 Entry burn 23:30 by 3 Merlin 1D+ for 21 seconds Landing burn 25:20 by 1 Merlin 1D+ for 31 seconds SECO at 25:54 and coasting SpaceX resumes live feed at 43:12 - Audio SES-2 - SECO-2 in 66 seconds gave a velocity boost from 26 568 km/h to 35 240 km/h at 43:30 Second stage accelerates up to max. 4,5 g SpaceX shows deployment at 49:17 Rap up from SpaceX at 49:44

Eutelsat 117  B  ABS-2A	CRS-9	JCSAT-16	AMOS-6	Iridium-1 Next
CRS-10	Echostar 23	SES-10	NROL-76	Inmarsat-5 F4

Just dropping something off

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will launch JCSAT-16 at 01:26 EDT on August 14, a commercial communications satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). SKY Perfect JSAT is a leading satellite operator in the Asia-Pacific region and provides high-quality satellite communications to its customers using its fleet of 16 satellites. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 also successfully launched JCSAT-14 back in May.

The Payload

JCSAT-16 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SKY Perfect JSAT Group and designed and manufactured by SSL on the SSL 1300 platform. It has a launch weight of 4,600 kg (10,100 lb), a power production capacity of 8.5 kW and a 15-year design life. Its payload is composed of Ku band and Ka band transponders. SKY Perfect JSAT Group plans to use JCSAT-16 as an in-orbit backup satellite for the Ku- and Ka-band satellites serving the Japanese market.

In April 2014, SSL announced that it had been awarded a contract by SKY Perfect JSAT Group to manufacture two satellites: JCSAT-15 and JCSAT-16. The latter would be an 8.5 kW satellite with Ku band and Ka band payload for a broad range of orbital locations. It would be used as a back-up to the existing fleet.

On September 10, 2014, JSAT announced that it had signed a launch service contract with SpaceX for the launch of JCSAT-16 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. On April 3, 2016, it was announced that Kratos had been selected for supplying a 9 m (30 ft) Ku-band antenna for JCSAT-16 TT&C at its Superbird Platform West ground station. Also, it was stated that the satellite had passed the critical design review.

On July 13, 2016, SSL delivered JCSAT-16 to the launch site in Cape Canaveral for launch processing and integration. This was the second launch of the year for JCSAT and also the second time the company used the SpaceX launch services, both times also happening in 2016. On August 4, 2016, JSAT announced that the expected launch date of JCSAT-16 was on August 14, 2016.

On the scheduled launch August 14 at 05:26 UTC, SpaceX successfully launched the JCSAT-16 satellite into a 184 km × 35,912 km × 20.85° orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket. The first stage successfully landed afterwards. At 5:58 UTC, the satellite separated from the upper stage. The satellite manufacturer, SSL, announced that 33 minutes after launch, the satellite was in good health and sending signals.

While JCSAT-16 was supposed to serve as on-orbit backup at the 124° East longitude position, it will be repositioned at the 162°East position to replace Superbird-B2, a satellite past its design life. Originally Superbird-8 was going to replace Superbird-B2, but a mishap during transport to the launch site in March 2016 meant that it would be delayed between one and two years.

UPS… My bad

The guest you get when least expected. A second stage COPV after an unscheduled reentry.

In late September 2016, parts of Falcon 9 second stage reentered the atmosphere and landed over Java and Madura, Indonesia. Some parts like the Helium COPV (Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessel) landed mostly intact and damaged an animal enclosure, but there was no further damage or harm. But if you read this local article about it, you might learn a lot more about it. Use Google translate though. It’s in Indonesian.

Meanwhile on the phone Elon Musk must be asking this:

Tell me the exchange rate on Indonesian Peso and US Dollar and the price of a pig?

Don’t worry, things that go up must come down. Just ask the Priest who throws all the money from the collection plates up in the air and says:

God. Keep the money you want, and I’ll pick up what you don’t want.

Old Dave Allen sketch joke. His last I believe.

Author William Graham link link

Coauthor/Text Retriever Johnny Nielsen link to launch list