1 month ago

NASA (CRS)

SpaceX's 21st ISS resupply mission on behalf of NASA and the first under the CRS-2 contract, this mission brings essential supplies to the International Space Station using the cargo variant of SpaceX's Dragon 2 spacecraft. The external payload for this mission is the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock. Falcon 9 and Dragon launch from LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center and the booster is expected to land on an ASDS. The mission will be complete with return and recovery of the Dragon capsule and down cargo.
1 month ago

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1 month ago

NASA

SpaceX will launch Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich into low Earth orbit for NASA, NOAA, ESA, and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites aboard a Falcon 9 from SLC-4E, Vandenberg Air Force Station. Sentinel-6(A) is an ocean observation satellite providing radar ocean surface altimetry data and also atmospheric temperature profiles as a secondary mission. The booster for this mission is will land at LZ-4.
2 months ago

NASA (CCtCap)

SpaceX will launch the first operational mission of its Crew Dragon vehicle as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability Program (CCtCap), carrying 3 NASA astronauts and 1 JAXA astronaut to the International Space Station. This mission will be the second crewed flight to launch from the United States since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011.

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