Launch hazard area issued by 45th Space Wing for 7/21 #SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from CCAFS on CRS-18. Instantaneous window at 1935 ET (2335 UTC). Landing Zone 1.
I stand corrected, was looking at the wrong pad. Falcon 9 is Vertical. #CRS18
That’s because, on July 23, a SpaceX Dragon capsule will be launched to the ISS on the CRS-18 mission, the second mission to the ISS this year for Elon Musk’s company. Along with cargo and experiments on board, it will also have a variety of CubeSats and the Slingshot deployment system on board.
Although the full flight manifest hasn’t been released, one of the spacecraft is known to be the RFTSat from Northwest Nazarene University in Idaho to test a way to monitor spacecraft in orbit using a radio frequency tag. Another is the NARSScube-2 satellite, to test out technology for small satellites in orbit, from the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) in Egypt.
Did not notice any venting or action just now at pad 40@NASASpaceflight
Good info, Zach. Keep us informed! (And based on that, unlikely to be top of the hour/opening of the window for the test, but that's not unusual)
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