{"id":15778,"date":"2016-01-16T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T10:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/launch-timeline-for-falcon-9-jason-3-mission\/"},"modified":"2016-01-16T18:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T10:02:02","slug":"launch-timeline-for-falcon-9-jason-3-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/launch-timeline-for-falcon-9-jason-3-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch timeline for Falcon 9\/Jason 3 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s ascent to orbit with the Jason 3 satellite, a joint project between European and U.S. weather agencies to monitor wave height and sea level in the world\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n

The 224-foot-tall rocket will lift off Sunday at 10:42:18 a.m. PST (1:42:18 p.m. EST; 1842:18 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.<\/p>\n

Data source: NASA<\/p>\n

T-0:00:00: Liftoff<\/b><\/p>\n

\"After
After the rocket\u2019s nine Merlin 1D engines pass an automated health check, the Falcon 9 is released from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:01:10: Mach 1<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9 rocket passes the speed of sound. The first stage\u2019s nine Merlin 1D engines produce 1.3 million pounds of thrust at sea level, ramping up to 1.5 million pounds of thrust in vacuum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:01:18: Max-Q<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9 rocket reaches Max Q, the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:30: MECO<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s nine Merlin 1D first stage engines shut down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:36: Stage 1 Separation<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9\u2019s first stage separates from the second stage six seconds after MECO, beginning maneuvers to land on a barge downrange from Vandenberg in the Pacific Ocean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:45: Stage 2 Ignition<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The second stage Merlin 1D vacuum engine ignites for an approximately 6-minute burn to inject the Jason 3 satellite into a parking orbit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:03:15: Fairing Jettison<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The 5.2-meter (17.1-foot) diameter payload fairing jettisons once the Falcon 9 rocket ascends through the dense lower atmosphere. The 43-foot-tall fairing is made of two clamshell-like halves composed of carbon fiber with an aluminum honeycomb core.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:09:00: SECO 1<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Merlin 1D vacuum engine turns off after placing the Jason 3 satellite in temporary parking orbit, beginning at 46-minute coast in orbit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:09:00: Stage 1 Landing<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9\u2019s first stage booster descends to a vertical landing on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship, christened \u201cJust Read The Instructions,\u201d in the Pacific Ocean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:55:06: Stage 2 Restart<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9\u2019s second stage engine ignites again for a 12-second burn to circularize its orbit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:55:06: SECO 2<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Merlin 1D vacuum engine shuts down after reaching a target orbit about 824 miles (1,326 kilometers) high with an inclination of 66 degrees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:55:48: Jason 3 Separation<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The 1,124-pound (510-kilogram) Jason 3 satellite deploys from the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s second stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+1:02:00: Jason 3 Solar Arrays Deployed<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Jason
Jason 3\u2019s two solar array wings will deploy one at a time starting about two minutes after separation from the Falcon 9 second stage. Both wings should be extended by the flight\u2019s 62-minute mark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s ascent to orbit with the Jason 3 satellite, a joint project between European and U.S. weather agencies to monitor wave height and sea level in the world\u2019s oceans. The 224-foot-tall rocket will lift off Sunday at 10:42:18 a.m. PST (1:42:18 p.m. EST; 1842:18 GMT) from Vandenberg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3353,479,3776,993,975,2500,311,1574],"class_list":["post-15778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asds","tag-falcon-9","tag-jason-3","tag-just-read-the-instructions","tag-noaa","tag-oceanography","tag-reusability","tag-space-launch-complex-4-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}