GTM-3 Mission

[fausto]

GTM-3 (General Test Mission - 3) is the flight of Jarvis H rocket carrying a Verrazzano automated vehicle into lunar orbit. It will be used as a docking target for a future Antares LR spacecraft manned mission to lunar orbit scheduled for September. Mission goal is lunar orbit rendez-vous strategies testing.

MISSION SPECIFICATIONS:

Launcher: jarvis-H
Launch base: Cape Canaveral
Payload: VAS Verrazzano 29,000 kg
Vehicle mass at launch: 2,431,000 Kg
Launch date: Wednesday, April 17 at 20:55 UTC
Lunar orbit target date: Sunday, April 21 at 20:50 UTC
Launch window: 3 minutes.

In case of scrub next launch window opens Thursday, May 2nd

The entire mission will broadcasted live on Orbiter Live Missions:

http://www.livestream.com/orbiterlivemissions

 

[fausto]

Last Saturday Jarvis H rocket integrated with Verrazzano launcher was rolled out to its launch site (Pad J B)
Weather conditions are almost good with 65 % GO conditions. Little cloudly and small probabilities of rain. Wind within nominal values

 

[fausto]

Live coverage started:

http://www.livestream.com/orbiterlivemissions

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t- 22 minutes!

 

[IronRain]

I'm sorry but I will watch the replay. I really like the FOI missions but Antares will make its debut if everything goes well..

 

[orb]

You should really be launching Antares on the Jarvis LV today. What a coincidence that would be. :lol:

 

[orb]

I'm sorry but I will watch the replay.

And now you can watch the Jarvis (LV) launch live. Launch of Antares (LV) was scrubbed.

 

[fausto]

TLI complete! We're on the way to the moon!

Launch replay:
http://www.livestream.com/orbiterli...dd1e&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb

 

[Therius]

I'll be tuning in the next few days. Good luck with the mission!

 

[fausto]

Verrazzano vessel is 200'000 km (130'000 miles) away from earth and we're approaching third middle curse correction burn scheduled for today at 19:30 UTC.
We're perfectly on path and lunar transfer is nominal

http://www.livestream.com/orbiterlivemissions

 

[fausto]

Lunar Orbit Insertion t - 1 day!
Fourth mid correction burn complete.
Distance from Moon 87,000 km (57,000 miles)
Tomorrow Verrazzano will enter moon gravity influence!

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Lunar Orbit insertion T - 4 h 46 min
distance from Moon: 20,000 km (13,000 miles)
velocity 1.082 km/s (0.7 miles/sec)
Perfectly on path. LOI will be performed 250 km above lunar north pole with 3000 km apoapsis. Delta V: 515 m/s

http://www.livestream.com/orbiterlivemissions

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LOI T- 30 minutes