Monday, July 20, 2020

SpaceX Completes Launch Of ANASIS-II

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has again successfully put another payload into space, this time, a military communications satellite for South Korea. The launch--which happened at 5:30pm ET--is the fastest turnaround for a Falcon 9 rocket, using the same Falcon 9 that carried NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station in May. Behnken and Hurley are still in space, at the ISS. The rocket runaround took SpaceX only 51 days between flights for the same Falcon 9 first stage booster.