![]() ![]() ![]() NASA TV will not broadcast the de-orbit burn and splashdown, and updates will be posted on the agency’s space station blog. After re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, the spacecraft will make a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida. Falcon 9 will be launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base which is just northwest of. Today, ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will command a deorbit burn. The SpaceX rocket Falcon 9, is expected to launch 46 Starlink satellites into the low-Earth orbit Sunday. The Dragon spacecraft successfully departed the space station one month after arriving at the orbiting laboratory to deliver about 5,800 pounds of cargo including crew supplies and scientific investigations. Falcon-9 is a liquid fueled orbital launch vehicle for medium to heavy sized missions, which is developmened by SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp.). The station was flying about 259 miles over the Pacific Ocean at the time of release at 11:05 a.m. LIMITED FOUNDERS EDITION WITH SIGNED CERTIFICATE On May 30th, 2020, SpaceX launched Demonstration Mission-2, putting their first astronauts into orbit. PDT) on Friday, August 19, flight controllers on the ground sent commands to release the uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module. The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft backs away from the space station moments after undocking from the Harmony module’s forward port during an orbital sunrise.
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