教育立方体卫星将由维珍轨道的运载器一号空射火箭发射
Ten NASA-sponsored CubeSats are preparing to fly on the agency’s next Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission, making this the first payload carried by Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket.
With the small satellites safely secured inside the payload fairing, and the fairing mated to the rocket, Virgin Orbit is gearing up for ELaNa 20, the Dec.19, 2020, Launch Demo 2 flight from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
In this image, Virgin Orbit teammates complete a dry run of the payload encapsulation process in Aug. 2020 inside their “Nebula” payload processing facility.
Image Credit: Virgin Orbit/Greg Robinson
美国宇航局资助的10颗立方体卫星正准备执行该机构下一次教育性质的纳米卫星发射(ELaNa)任务,这将是维珍轨道公司的运载器一号空射火箭携带的首个有效载荷。
随着小型卫星安全地固定在有效载荷整流罩内,并且整流罩与火箭对接,维珍轨道公司正在为2020年12月19日在加州莫哈韦航空航天港为ELaNa 20日进行发射演示飞行作好准备。
在这张图片中,维珍轨道公司的团队于2020年8月在他们的“星云”有效载荷处理设施内完成了有效载荷封装过程的模拟运行。
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图片来源:Virgin Orbit / Greg Robinson