Monday, July 20, 2020

SpaceX Plans Launch Using Same Falcon 9 As Crew Dragon Launch

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is planning yet another launch today, a Falcon 9 launching a payload for South Korea--using the same Crew Dragon that launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into space just a couple of months ago. According to SpaceX, it is targeting launching its ANASIS-II mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for 5:00p.m. EDT. SpaceX plans to land the Falcon 9's first stage on a droneship in the Atlantic. SpaceX launched Hurley and Behnken to the International Space Station atop the same Falcon 9 on May 30th, less than two months ago. The launch--if successful--will mean that SpaceX will have launched a rocket into space twice, even before the return of the astronauts who went into space on the rocket's first launch. ANASIS-II is a military payload for South Korea.