The team greets daily! The launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from the American company SpaceX, which was actually planned for Easter Sunday, cannot take place on Wednesday either. The next attempt is scheduled for Friday.
The Austrian Space Forum (ÖWF) announced this on Wednesday. The OeWF is responsible for the scientific management of the minisatellite ADLER-2, which is on board the rocket. The probe is funded by Upper Austrian Findus Venture GmbH, built by US technology company Spire Global under the leadership of Austrian Peter Platzer. The new mini-satellite is about twice the size of ADLER-1, which is only 10x10x30 centimeters and has been in space for more than a year. ADLER-2 will be launched into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Space Base in California, USA, which is also at an altitude of about 500 kilometers.
ADLER-1 should crash in a controlled manner
The main purpose of the ADLER mission, according to the OeWF, is to collect data that will allow advanced computer simulations to assess the spread of space debris and ultimately search for safe orbits for probes. So that ADLER-1 itself does not become an object of investigation – ie space junk – it must be brought to a controlled crash. During its time in orbit, the minisatellite was hit about 100 times by tiny scrap particles, according to the OeWF (krone.at reported).
Source: Krone
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