11/10/2023 0 Comments Nasa wallops launchJanuary 2024: NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9. The launch date is dependent on spacecraft traffic to the ISS and in-orbit activity planning and constraints that have to be coordinated with NASA. This mission is targeting a 14-day stay, and will fly up with one of the SpaceX Crew Dragons. The commercial flight brings four crew for a short stay on the ISS. No crew has been announced, but NASA requires it to be commanded by a former NASA astronaut with experience on the space station such as the Ax-1 and Ax-2 commanders. No earlier than January 2024: Axiom Space was awarded the right to fly Axiom-3. The side boosters will be flying for the fifth time, previously used on the Psyche mission, two Space Force missions and one commercial flight with plans for another double land landing at Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. TBD, 4th quarter of 2023: SpaceX Falcon Heavy from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A on USSF-52, the third mission for the Space Force. Also flying will be another human remains payload for Celestis Inc., this time brining the ashes of more than 150 people to space including “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and actor James Doohan who played “Scotty” on the TV series. TBD, 4th quarter of 2023 (Delayed from May 4): First-ever launch of United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur on Certification-1 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41: Slated to carry commercial company Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander to the moon, and the first two test satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet constellation. This would mark a record 58th launch from the Space Coast for the year. It’s another southerly trajectory flight so will be visible down much of the Florida east coast south of Cape Canaveral after launch. Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts a 95% chance for good conditions with the same conditions in the event of a 24-hour delay. running through early Monday at 1:50 a.m. There are six more backups Sunday night beginning at 9:51 p.m. 21: SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-24 mission with 23 of its Starlink satellites launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 targeting 10:23 p.m. This marked the Space Coasts’ 57th launch of the year, which matched the total it had in 2022. This is the first-stage booster made its 16th flight with a recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic. 17: SpaceX Falcon 9 on Starlink 6-23 mission with 22 of its Starlink satellites launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:36 p.m.
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