The Falcon 9 that took human spaceflight back to US soil is occupied once more.
The Falcon 9 rocket booster that sent NASA space explorers to the International Space Station in May is planned to get reused again Friday, when SpaceX plans to send 60 more Starlink satellites to circle on its column of fire.
Elon Musk’s brand name reusable rocket will make its third flight when it lifts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 10:57 a.m. PT (1:57 p.m. ET).
This particular unit sent space travelers Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to circle in May and afterward dispatched a South Korean satellite in July. Up until this point, SpaceX has figured out how to dispatch and land similar rocket up to multiple times.
The dispatch was initially booked for Thursday, yet it got scoured and pushed back a day because of a “recovery issue.” It could be that SpaceX didn’t like the look of the climate in the Atlantic where the first stage and the fairing were set to be recouped.
One portion of the nose cone, or fairing, on the rocket has additionally observed two past flights, them two prior Starlink missions.
This ought to be a genuinely normal dispatch. It will be the 13th Starlink mission up until now, and SpaceX is at last anticipating handfuls more as it develops its broadband uber heavenly body.
Following the dispatch and partition of the rocket’s subsequent stage and payload, the first-stage booster will again return of Earth to arrive on a droneship in the Atlantic.
SpaceX will stream the whole thing by means of the feed above, beginning at around 10 minutes before dispatch.