SpaceX is ready to launch its 19th Commercial Resupply Mission (CRS) for the International Space Station at the moment, with a liftoff time scheduled for 12:51 PM EST (9:51 AM EST). The launch will take off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, and can use a Dragon cargo capsule that SpaceX has already flown twice beforehand, first in 2014 after which once more in 2017. The stream above ought to begin at round 15 minutes previous to liftoff, so at round 12:36 PM EST.
This launch may also embrace a restoration try for the Falcon9 booster getting used, which can carry out a managed return to Earth and intention to land on the floating drone touchdown ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ which will probably be ready within the Atlantic Ocean.
On board the Dragon sure for the ISS will probably be round 5,700 lbs of provides, together with experiment and analysis supplies to help the continuing science mission of the station and the astronauts on board. One of these items of cargo is a brand new ‘robot hotel’ that may present a protected parking house for mission-critical robots on the ISS once they’re not in use.
The CRS-19 mission has a backup window of Thursday, December 5 at 12:29 PM EST (9:29 AM PST) ought to at the moment’s launch not go off as deliberate for any cause.
