Thursday, December 6, 2018
SpaceX Launches New Payload To ISS
Hawthorne-based SpaceX has launched yet another payload into space--only two days after a successful launch of a satellite payload at Vandenberg. SpaceX and NASA put another resupply mission, the Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-16), to the International Space Station (ISS) into space on Wednesday at 1:16pm ET, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission is the sixteenth delivery of supplies to the ISS for SpaceX. NASA said the SpaceX rocket is delivering around 5,600 pounds of supplies and payloads to the ISS. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is expected to dock at the ISS on Saturday. As part of the launch, SpaceX attempted a landing of its booster at its landing zone at Florida, but ended up in the water instead: Elon Musk posted a video of the ocean landing.
Tracking shot of Falcon water landing pic.twitter.com/6Hv2aZhLjM
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 5, 2018