The CRS-19 resupply mission to the Space Station is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday Dec 4 at 12:51 PM EST. (9:51 PST, 17:51 UTC)
It's going to be a SX Falcon 9 carrying a cargo Dragon. The booster is going to be a brand-new never-flown block 5, B 1059. (It probably still has that showroom new-booster smell.) They originally were going to fly B 1056.3 an older thrice-flown booster on this mission, but decided to swap it and fly that older booster to launch an upcoming communications satellite to geosynchronous orbit. Those higher missions require so much more fuel that the booster isn't recovered, so they decided to recover the newer one and expend the older one. B 1059 is set to be recovered at sea on OCISLY.
Here's where OCISLY (being towed by the ocean-going tug Hawk) and Go Quest (the support ship for OCISLY where the humans stand off a safe distance when the boosters come down) were today on their way out to the landing zone.
https://twitter.com/SpaceXFleet/status/1...0046201856
The Dragon capsule will be making its third trip to space. It previously visited the Space Station on SpaceX's 4th and 11th supply flights.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1199463905258590208
NASA says that they will be streaming the launch. NASA will also stream Dragon CRS-19's arrival at the Space Station on Saturday when it will slide up close to the Station where Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA's Andrew Morgan, assisted by American Jessica Meir who will be monitoring telemetry, will use the Canadarm (it's a giant Canadian-built robot arm) to grab it and plug it onto a docking port. On top of that, NASA will be streaming a briefing about the cargo being carried on this mission (lots of scientific experiments and hopefully no green slime) on Tuesday (tomorrow). Details and schedule here
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-...tivities-3
More NASA stuff about the mission here.
https://www.nasa.gov/spacex
SpaceX will probably have their own stream of the Wednesday launch on their website. They usually do. The SpaceX streams typically include video from onboard cameras and shots of the booster landing. (Or not.) That would be here:
https://www.spacex.com/
Several other sites will have streams too. They will probably take the SX stream and voice over it with their own commentary. I'll get info on that and edit this post with those details.
It's going to be a SX Falcon 9 carrying a cargo Dragon. The booster is going to be a brand-new never-flown block 5, B 1059. (It probably still has that showroom new-booster smell.) They originally were going to fly B 1056.3 an older thrice-flown booster on this mission, but decided to swap it and fly that older booster to launch an upcoming communications satellite to geosynchronous orbit. Those higher missions require so much more fuel that the booster isn't recovered, so they decided to recover the newer one and expend the older one. B 1059 is set to be recovered at sea on OCISLY.
Here's where OCISLY (being towed by the ocean-going tug Hawk) and Go Quest (the support ship for OCISLY where the humans stand off a safe distance when the boosters come down) were today on their way out to the landing zone.
https://twitter.com/SpaceXFleet/status/1...0046201856
The Dragon capsule will be making its third trip to space. It previously visited the Space Station on SpaceX's 4th and 11th supply flights.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1199463905258590208
NASA says that they will be streaming the launch. NASA will also stream Dragon CRS-19's arrival at the Space Station on Saturday when it will slide up close to the Station where Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA's Andrew Morgan, assisted by American Jessica Meir who will be monitoring telemetry, will use the Canadarm (it's a giant Canadian-built robot arm) to grab it and plug it onto a docking port. On top of that, NASA will be streaming a briefing about the cargo being carried on this mission (lots of scientific experiments and hopefully no green slime) on Tuesday (tomorrow). Details and schedule here
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-...tivities-3
More NASA stuff about the mission here.
https://www.nasa.gov/spacex
SpaceX will probably have their own stream of the Wednesday launch on their website. They usually do. The SpaceX streams typically include video from onboard cameras and shots of the booster landing. (Or not.) That would be here:
https://www.spacex.com/
Several other sites will have streams too. They will probably take the SX stream and voice over it with their own commentary. I'll get info on that and edit this post with those details.