The Falcon 9 booster for the Anasis-II mission is a rocket that makes history. It was the booster used to send NASA astronauts to the ISS in May.
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SpaceX has had an unfortunate Falcon 9 rollback run recently, with a Starlink and Anasis-II mission launch delayed in the past two weeks.
Anasis-II is a South Korean military satellite that was originally scheduled to launch on July 14. But SpaceX announced that it was rejecting the explosion “to take a closer look at the second stage, changing hardware if necessary” a day before launch. SpaceX also had it postponed its latest Starlink release on July 8 and then again on July 11.
On Saturday, Elon Musk’s space flight company announced that the Anasis-II mission will now launch on Monday, July 20.
Orientation on Monday, July 20 for the launch of Falcon 9’s ANASIS-II from SLC-40
– SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 18, 2020
The Anasis-II mission will take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The new start window opens in 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET Monday and it closes just under four hours later.
You can watch the live stream, via SpaceX’s YouTube channel, below. It usually begins airing about 15 minutes before launch.
If the launch of Anasis-II occurs before the next Starlink mission, which is currently awaiting a new release date, it will be the 12th of SpaceX We launched this year, the 90th flight of a Falcon 9 and the second in general for this particular reinforcement. The booster was first flown in May to take NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station – The first time that a commercial company has done so. Ergo, it has some history.
The payload, Anasis-II, is South Korea’s first military communications satellite. Due to its use in the military, there isn’t much information about it except that it is based on the Eurostar E3000 satellite bus, according to the Everyday Astronaut.
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