A United Originate Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the labeled NROL-101 put a question to satellite tv for laptop for the U.S. Nationwide Reconnaissance Office stands at Living Originate Complicated 41 of Cape Canaveral Air Force Put in Florida ahead of its deliberate November 2020 liftoff.
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Update for 4: 20 p.m. EST on Nov. 13: SpaceX’s Crew-1 mission has been delayed to Sunday (Nov. 15) at 7: 27 p.m. EST (0027 GMT on Nov. 16).
The deliberate birth of a U.S. put a question to satellite tv for laptop this afternoon (Nov. 13) might possibly possibly possibly kick off a binge of 4 liftoffs in four days, if we’re lucky.
The Nationwide Reconnaissance Office’s labeled NROL-101 spacecraft is scheduled to birth atop a United Originate Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket at 5: 13 p.m. EST (2213 GMT) this day from Cape Canaveral Air Force Put in Florida. You might possibly possibly possibly stumble on that mission dwell here at Living.com, courtesy of ULA, or actual away thru the firm.
Loads of different rockets will then settle to the skies in relatively lickety-split succession, if all goes in accordance with belief. For example, SpaceX is scheduled to birth its Crew-1 mission on Saturday (Nov. 14) at 7: 49 p.m. EST (0049 GMT on Nov. 15). Crew-1, the firm’s first operational, contracted crewed mission for NASA, will ship four astronauts to the World Living Put for a six-month defend.
Next up is Rocket Lab, which will loft its “Return to Sender” mission from Unusual Zealand on Sunday (Nov. 15) for the length of a nearly three-hour window that opens at 8: 44 p.m. EST (0144 GMT on Nov. 16). “Return to Sender” will elevate 30 satellites to Earth orbit and feature a cushy splashdown and restoration of the first stage of Rocket Lab’s Electron booster.
Rounding out the spaceflight quartet will most possible be Arianespace, whose Vega rocket will birth two Earth-studying satellites from French Guiana on Monday (Nov. 16) at 8: 52 p.m. EST (0152 GMT on Nov. 17).
And there might possibly be more action stunning past this four-day stretch: SpaceX’s birth of the labeled NROL-108 mission for the Nationwide Reconnaissance Office might possibly possibly possibly happen as early as Nov. 18, in accordance with Spaceflight Now. Elon Musk’s firm moreover plans to birth the Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich Earth-observation satellite tv for laptop, a joint effort of NASA and quite loads of European partners, on Nov. 21.
So fetch enraged, nonetheless be ready for a that you might possibly possibly possibly imagine letdown besides: There will not be any guarantee that any of those rockets will fetch off the bottom on time, because the scuttling of a identical “launchapalooza” this past August showed.
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