“Residents of the communities of Cape Canaveral, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Courtenay, Merritt Island, Mims, Port Canaveral, Port St. A sonic boom is the thunder-like noise a person on the ground hears when an aircraft or other type of aerospace vehicle flies overhead faster than the speed of sound,” noted SpaceX. “There is a possibility that residents of northern and central Brevard County, Fla. SpaceX also informed local Florida area residents that the landing could be accompanied by a sonic boom, just as occurred routinely when NASA space shuttle orbiters returned from missions to space to land at the shuttle landing strip on the Kennedy Space Center. “If successful, this test would mark the first time in history an orbital rocket has successfully achieved a land landing.” “Previous attempts to recover the first-stage of the Falcon 9 have been attempted out at sea using the company’s Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships.” “SpaceX is attempting a secondary test objective of landing the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on land for the first time at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1,” SpaceX said in a statement. Air Force rocket and missile testing range last used in 1978 for test launches of the Atlas ICBM and subsequently for operational Atlas launches. They installed several concrete landing pads for use as a landing site by the firms Falcon 9 and triple barreled Falcon Heavy boosters. SpaceX has built Landing Zone 1 by renovating and furbishing an area previously known as Space Launch Complex 13 (SLC-13). Media are also not allowed to watch and photograph from their customary locations on site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. And much of the military base and NASA installations have been evacuated for safety reasons. The secondary test objective of SpaceX is to land the Falcon 9 rockets first stage on land by a pinpoint propulsive soft landing for the first time in history at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 complex, located several miles south of launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral.īecause of the proximity to populated areas, SpaceX required special approvals for the surface landing test from the Air Force and the FAA. They are fueled and stacked on the satellite dispenser and encapsulated inside the payload fairing. The primary mission is to carry a payload of eleven small commercial communications satellites for Orbcomm on the second OG2 mission. Technicians will start fueling operations with liquid oxygen and RP-1 propellants in the afternoon. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for Orbcomm OG2 launch stands vertical at pad 40 at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The Falcon 9 rocket is flying in a newly upgraded configuration and is poised for blastoff. “The primary concerns Monday are with the cumulus cloud rule associated with isolated coastal rain showers and the thick cloud rule due to the frontal boundary’s possible northern movement back into the area,” said the Air Force.
21 if needed – until todays scrub.Īir Force meteorologists are currently predicting an 80 percent chance of favorable weather conditions at launch time on Monday, compared to a 90 percent chance on Sunday. The backup launch opportunity was available on Dec. “Currently looking good for a Sunday night attempted orbital launch and rocket landing at Cape Canaveral,” SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday, Dec 19. The SpaceX webcast is planned to start about 25 minutes before liftoff, beginning at approximately 8:05 p.m. You can watch the dramatic events unfold via a live SpaceX webcast available at /webcast. The goal is to recover and eventually reuse the boosters in order to significantly cut the cost of access to space, as often stated by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The bold and history making landing attempt of the boosters first stage back at the Cape at Landing Zone would come after high altitude separation from the upper stage and around 10 to 20 minutes after launch, and has garnered much attention.
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