![]() ![]() ![]() At last week’s post-Flight Readiness Review (FRR) news conference, NASA leaders noted that Ax-2 is ideally aiming to fly either Sunday or Monday, but if it misses either date it would nominally stand down to make way for the high-priority CRS-28 Cargo Dragon research mission, scheduled to launch on 3 June. EDT Monday 22nd and 30 percent if teams opt for a third date on Tuesday 23rd. Weather remains the overarching concern, with a roughly 60-percent probability of acceptable conditions for Sunday’s opening launch attempt, deteriorating to only 20-percent-favorable for the backup opportunity at 5:14 p.m. This exercise is customary prior to the maiden voyage of any Falcon 9 and B1080 marks the third brand-new “single-stick” booster to have entered SpaceX’s ranks so far in 2023. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 launch carrying 51 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday at 1:09 p.m. Posted at 8:59 PM, and last updated 7:23 PM, (UPDATE: 6:20 p.m.) - A Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Team Vandenberg Launches the NASA DART Mission. Several hours after the DDR, with the Ax-2 crew back in their crew quarters, B1080 was put through a Static Fire Test of her nine Merlin 1D+ engines. Her Ax-2 crew- Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot John Shoffner and Mission Specialists Ali Al-Qarni and Rayyanah Barnawi of Saudi Arabia-on Friday performed a Dry Dress Rehearsal (DDR) of their launch-day processes and procedures, donning their customized SpaceX launch and entry, riding their Tesla Model X cars out to the pad and boarding Freedom to familiarize themselves with the spacecraft.ĭragon Freedom sits atop the B1080 core at Pad 39A, being readied for her Sunday evening liftoff. In readiness for Sunday’s post-sunset launch from historic Pad 39A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), the brand-new B1080 Falcon 9 core, with the once-flown Freedom perched at her tip, was rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to the pad late Thursday. EDT liftoff of Dragon Freedom and her four-person Ax-2 crew, bound for a ten-day research and educational outreach stay on the International Space Station (ISS). And it forms the second of a planned weekend triple-header for SpaceX, following Friday’s just-past-midnight Starlink launch and Sunday evening’s targeted 5:37 p.m. Falcon 9's launch of the NROL-85 mission will take place from Space. to carry 47 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. Originally scheduled for Friday, the launch was postponed due to technical difficulties. A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base Thursday at 12:19 a.m. It marked SpaceX’s fifth Falcon 9 launch of May, following on the coattails of four back-to-back Starlink missions-totaling 185 of these flat-packed internet communications satellites-from the East and West Coasts, inside the month’s first three weeks. SpaceX has rescheduled its Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base to be no earlier than Saturday. PT, Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. ![]()
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