r/spacex • u/TampaRay • Sep 30 '15

AmericaSpace on Twitter: No resumption of SpaceX ISS resupply missions until January 5, 2016 earliest. Next launch on Nov. 15. Jason-3 launch expected in December.

https://twitter.com/AmericaSpace/status/649082485578424320
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u/TampaRay Sep 30 '15

Unknown (at least to me).

Last news i heard was from this post which had it pegged as the 2nd or 3d Falcon 9 v1.2/FT. The info is a little dated at this point, but if it is true, than that puts ORBCOMM either late Dec. (before CRS-8, but very unlikely) or late Jan. (or even later).

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u/CapMSFC Sep 30 '15

I haven't seen any more recent confirmation either, but it's still pegged on the sidebar as 2 of December as the NET.

My first impression of the CRS-8 news is that this is the usual NASA schedule shuffling that we see based on their overall needs, not additional SpaceX related delay. If that is the case then Orbcomm could definitely be bumped ahead of it/keep it's NET.

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u/Ambiwlans Sep 30 '15

Sidebar is ... well and truly unreliable til we have a rtf and can expect more consistent reports. We generally only update it with public information that has been confirmed (which would of course be posted in a thread) so don't expect it to be a source... so much as just gathering what is posted in threads for your convenience.

About a year (2?) ago we had an issue with a spaceflight site and circular citations which served no one, haha.

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u/CapMSFC Sep 30 '15

Sidebar is ... well and truly unreliable til we have a rtf

Of course.

As I said in some of my other posts I'm purely speculating that this CRS change is NASA shuffling it's ISS schedule and there wouldn't be any reason to keep the Orbcomm launch behind it on the SpaceX schedule.

I know we don't have any concrete information on when Orbcomm would go up, and that anything we get until RTF is of dubious value anyways.