Complex launch late Monday night / early Tuesday of Falcon Heavy rocket
Posted by
Chris in Tampa on 6/24/2019, 8:03 am
Take a read at the first link of all the things that will be involved in this launch.
"On its third flight Monday night, SpaceXs Falcon Heavy rocket will fly to three different orbits with two dozen spacecraft on a mission set to last more than six hours, prompting SpaceX founder Elon Musk to declare it the companys 'most difficult launch ever.'
The triple-core rocket, made by combining three Falcon 9 boosters on a single launcher, is set for liftoff from pad 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a four-hour launch window opening at 11:30 p.m. EDT Monday (0330 GMT Tuesday)."
About this complex launch:
https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/06/23/falcon-heavy-to-flex-muscles-on-demanding-demo-launch-for-u-s-air-force/
Live webcast late Monday night / early Tuesday morning:
https://www.spacex.com/webcast
It will even carry some satellites on a project that NOAA is part of:
"'COSMIC-2 will gather information about the vertical temperature and humidity of the atmosphere in the tropics, which holds most of the moisture that drives global weather patterns,' said Louis W. Uccellini, Ph.D., director, NOAAs National Weather Service. 'The high quality and large number of observations from the COSMIC-2 data stream will improve the accuracy of our weather forecast model outputs for our national and global areas of responsibility.'"
https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/noaa-readies-for-cosmic-2-satellite-launch
"'It really allows us to enhance our predictive capabilities for hurricane systems,' Elsayed Talaat, director of the Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis for NOAA's Satellite and Information Service, said during a media call. 'We want to be able to forecast these systems more accurately to be able to better mitigate the severe impact that storms like Harvey, Maria, Irma, Florence and Michael have had on the U.S. in the past two years alone.'"
https://www.space.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-noaa-hurricane-forecasting-stp2.html |
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