Wednesday, July 24, 2019

SpaceX To Attempt 18th Resupply Mission To ISS Today

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning to launch another resupply rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) today--its eighteenth--in a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, later this evening. According to SpaceX, its eighteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-18) is targeted for launch at 6:24 p.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40). The launch, if successful, will be the third use of a Dragon spacecraft, which also was used in the CRS-6 mission in April of 2015 and CRS-13 mission in December of 2017. The SpaceX Dragon is filled with approximately 5,000 pounds of supplies for the ISS, and is expected to return to Earth with about 3,000 pound of cargo in about four weeks.