Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX A crew of four astronauts will launch today (November 15) on its first operational flight to NASA and you can watch the historic historic flight online.
Flight Pad 39 is scheduled to explode from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:27 p.m. (November 16, 0027 GMT) The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was loaded with four Crew-1 astronauts carrying a Crew Dragon capsule. .
You can Watch live here And on the Space.com homepage, courtesy of SpaceX, starting at 3:15 p.m. EST (1915 GMT). You can too See the projection directly from SpaceX here 15 minutes before the lift.
The mission, which is being launched after a 24-hour delay due to poor weather conditions in the sh Fashore landing zone of the Falcon 9, is the 21st launch this year for SpaceX and its workhorse rocket.
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Tune in to space.com For live launch coverage of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission. NASA’s webcast begins at 3:15 p.m. EST (1915 GMT).
Today’s highly anticipated flight is SpaceX’s first operational mission of its Dragon Crew capsule, called Crew-1. The spacecraft is bound for the International Space Station, with three NASA astronauts and a Japanese spaceflyer.
The Crew-1 mission is funded by NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, a fellow NASA astronaut. Victor Glover As a pilot. Onboard will be NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Sochi Noguchi. Crew-1 will return to orbit for Glover’s first spaceflight and its cremates. The mission will last about six months.
Today’s flight will mark another in two days from space cost – If The weather cooperates. Friday evening (Nov. 13), United Launch Alliance (ULA) The Atlas V rocket blows up the total amount of a spy satellite From the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to U.S. For National Reconnaissance Office Fees. The launch was thought to have taken place 24 hours after the launch of SpaceX’s crew. However, the teams decided Stand down due to bad weather at the rocket landing site.
It will also mark the 98th launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and the first phase recovery in 65th. SpaceX’s drone ship “Just Read Instructions” (JRTI) is frozen in the Atlantic Ocean awaiting its planned recovery attempt. About nine minutes after the lift off, the first phase of the two-stage rocket is expected to land on the deck of the huge ship.
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Crew-1 astronauts Kennedy arrives at the Space Center Inspired by dress rehearsals on Sunday (Nov. 8) and Thursday (Nov. 12) spent the week preparing for the last minute ahead of their flight. During that test, the crew practiced suiting up, driving towards the pads, and then getting into the vehicle.
On Friday (Nov. 13), NASA and SpaceX officially approved the launch offer during a review of the launch’s readiness. The only concern was the weather. After careful review, the teams decided to postpone the 24-hour launch due to bad weather conditions to reach the landing site.
SpaceX recovers one or two of its boosters: by landing them here on a cap or on a platform floating on the ocean. When NASA contracted SpaceX to launch the crew, the agency required the rocket manufacturer to use new vehicles for each launch. However, NASA recently changed its mind, and moved SpaceX to reuse both the first-stage booster and the Dragon capsule. As SpaceX says it plans to refill the booster used in this mission – the B1061 designated shiny new booster by SpaceX – on the next crew mission, Crew-2, currently aims to launch on March 30th.
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Just Read Instructions Departed from Port Canaveral on Thursday (November 12) is bound for the designated recovery zone where it will wait for the first phase of the rocket to return to Earth on Sunday and gently land on the deck of the huge ship. However, rough seas from the remnants of a tropical storm Eta forced the team to ensure a 24-hour stay so that the ship could track in a timely recovery zone and the booster would land safely.
SpaceX has also deployed a fleet of its dragon-recovery ships. If something went wrong during Low Quest and it was necessary to leave in flight, Go Quest, Go Finder and Go Navigator are at various locations around Florida.
Officials with the 45th Weather Squadron said conditions at the Cape were slightly worse than the original launch on Sunday. Meteorologists now predict that 50% chance of favorable conditions For liftoff. Cumulus clouds, flight by rain as well as the electric field being the main cause of concern, which means that the launch itself can flash lightning.
If the mission is unable to take the field on Sunday, the next attempt will be on Wednesday (November 18).
Editor’s note: You can watch SpaceX’s Crew-1 launch for NASA starting at 3:15 pm EST (1915 GMT) on Sunday at Space.com.
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