Artemis: what, when, weather and where to watch

[crud]

LAUNCH

What: Artemis I rocket launch on 42-day mission to the moon

When: Monday, during 8:33-10:33 a.m. EDT window; backup windows on Friday Sept. 2 and Monday, Sept. 5

Weather: 70% chance for good conditions

Where to watch: Live coverage begins on NASA TV at nasa.gov/live and its social media channels at 6:30 a.m.

https://nordot.app/936694529475821568?c=592622757532812385

[dem4decades]

1. Am I the only one that thinks of Artemis Gordon when you see this? Wild Wild Space?

[PCIntern]

2. That's funny...

And I hadn’t thought of that but what I did think was that Apollo was never a great name for an expedition in a science-fiction story but Artemis certainly is. I have spent my conscious lifetime reading science fiction going all the way back to Fantasy and Science Fiction and Analog magazines as well as collections of the pulp publications from the 40’s and 50’s in the early 60s and a garden-variety space story would have a ship called Artemis. Just my two cents…

[Biophilic]

7. Nope and can't get him out of my head now.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. NASA is also on C-band satellite

https://www.nasa.gov/content/nasa-tv-on-satellite-galaxy-13

NASA Television programming on the Galaxy 13 domestic satellite is moving from transponder 11 to transponder 15. This move is in line with the Federal Communications Commission’s initiative to free up C-band bandwidth on domestic satellites in support of future 5G terrestrial communications efforts. As part of that transition, the modulation format will be changed from DVB-S/QPSK to DVB-S2/8PSK effectively reducing the transponder’s required bandwidth. See more detailed specifications below. Currently, both transponders are active. Distribution of NASA TV programming on transponder 11 will end on Aug. 29, 2022. It is important that all affiliates and end-users begin to transition to the new transponder to prevent the loss of NASA TV programming.

NASA Television’s channels NTV-1 (the Public/Education Channel) and NTV-3 (formerly the Media Channel) are in high definition. NTV-1 provides expanded programming of events of interest to the public and to educational audiences. NTV-3 provides mission coverage, news conferences and video/audio material relevant to local, national, and international news-gathering organizations. NASA's Ultra High Definition (UHD) NTV-4 channel provides various live and previously recorded programing in a 2160p video format.

All NASA Television channels are available on the Galaxy 13 domestic satellite. Specific parameters for each channel are listed below.

News networks, their reporters, and other broadcast media organizations must tune their satellite receivers to the NTV-3 to ensure reception of clean feeds for all mission coverage, news conferences, and other agency distributed news and information. NASA TV is available in continental North America, Alaska, and Hawaii on Galaxy 13. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-S2) compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) will be needed for reception on transponder 15. Below are parameters for each channel:

Satellite: Galaxy 13
Orbital Location: 127 Degrees West Longitude

Transmission Modulation Format: DVB-S2/8PSK
​Downlink: 4009.00 MHz
L-band Frequency: 1141.00 MHz
Transponder: 15
Transponder Downlink Polarization: Vertical
Symbol Rate: 15.000 Msps​
Data Rate: 36.225 Mbps
FEC: 5/6

NTV-1 (Public-Education) HD
Program 101

Video Compression Format: MPEG-2
Video PID = 0x112 hex / 274 decimal,
AC-3 PID = 0x113 hex / 275 decimal,
MPEG I Layer II Audio PID = 0x114 hex / 276 decimal.

NTV-3 (Media) HD
Program 103

Video Compression Format: MPEG-4
Video PID = 0x1031 hex / 4145decimal
AC-3 PID = 0x1034 hex / 4148 decimal
MPEG I Layer II Aud PID = 0x1035 hex / 4149 decimal

NTV-4 (UHD)
Program 104
Compression Format: HEVC @ 14 Mbps
Video PID: 0x1041 hex/4161 decimal
MPEG I Layer II Audio PID: 0x1044 hex/ 4164 decimal
​AAC-LC PID: 0x1045 hex/4165 decimal

[Hortensis]

4. Thanks, Crud, and Hermit. I was wishing we were down in Florida,

where we could relax on the patio with our coffee and watch out over the marsh to the east for the distant vapor trail. The fact that we've missed the past several launches when we were there because of cloud cover is irrelevant. It's a real event and we wanna be (sorta) there.

[llmart]

5. I'm a bit bummed out this morning because I thought I would be there.

My son is a NASA engineer at KSC and he didn't find out until Friday that he was one of the lucky ones to get a car pass to attend the launch. He's been on the Artemis program since he started working there. I had all intentions of hopping a flight if I heard he had gotten a pass but it was too short notice.

I'll follow his facebook page this morning just to see his photos. It's starting to look like it may not go. In that case, there will still be time for me to get down there by Friday, the next launch date.

[llmart]

6. Well, the launch has been scrubbed for today.

Next opportunity will be this Friday.