Tag: SpaceX-3

SpaceX-3: “The Word is Go”

SpaceX-3: “The Word is Go”

At a noon press conference at the Kennedy Space Center today, ISS program manager Mike Suffredini, speaking from via phone, announced that the SpaceX-3 mission will remain on schedule for a Monday launch at 4:58: PM EDT. There had been concerns that the launch would slip due to the failure of a backup computer command […]

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SpaceX-3 Mission to ISS Now Scheduled for April 14

SpaceX-3 Mission to ISS Now Scheduled for April 14

Image Credit: NASA NASA released the following media advisory late Friday afternoon: The next SpaceX cargo mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract is scheduled to launch Monday, April 14, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying its […]

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SpaceX Flight to ISS Delayed by Air Force Range Troubles

SpaceX Flight to ISS Delayed by Air Force Range Troubles

Earlier this week, a classified National Reconnaissance Office mission aboard an Atlas V was delayed into April due to a fire which broke out in an Air Force downrange radar tracking station “near” Cape Canaveral. Overnight, SpaceX confirmed that the same problem has forced a new delay in the SpaceX-3, Dragon resupply mission to the […]

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