{"id":13718,"date":"2018-06-28T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/launch-timeline-for-spacexs-15th-space-station-resupply-mission\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T18:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T10:05:19","slug":"launch-timeline-for-spacexs-15th-space-station-resupply-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/launch-timeline-for-spacexs-15th-space-station-resupply-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch timeline for SpaceX\u2019s 15th space station resupply mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 5,900 pounds of supplies and experiments.<\/p>\n

Liftoff is set for 0942 GMT (5:42 a.m. EDT) Friday from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad.<\/p>\n

It will be the 57th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and SpaceX\u2019s 12th launch of the year. Working under contract to NASA, Friday\u2019s launch will be the 15th of least 26 SpaceX resupply missions to depart for the space station.<\/p>\n

SpaceX does not intend to recover the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s first stage on Friday\u2019s mission. The booster is already a veteran of one launch in April, when it propelled NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite toward orbit.<\/p>\n

T-0:00:00: Liftoff<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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After the rocket\u2019s nine Merlin engines pass an automated health check, hold-down clamps will release the Falcon 9 booster for liftoff from pad 40.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:01:10: Mach 1<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9 rocket reaches Mach 1, the speed of sound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:01:19: Max Q<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9 rocket reaches Max Q, the point of maximum aerodynamic pressure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:45: MECO<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9\u2019s nine Merlin 1D engines shut down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:48: Stage 1 Separation<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Falcon 9\u2019s first stage separates from the second stage moments after MECO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:02:56: Second Stage Ignition<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The second stage Merlin 1D vacuum engine ignites for an approximately five-and-a-half-minute burn to put the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:08:31: SECO<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket shuts down after reaching a target orbit with a low point of approximately 124 miles (200 kilometers), a high point of approximately 223 miles (360 kilometers) and an inclination of 51.6 degrees. The second stage will reignite for a de-orbit burn after a long-duration coast demonstration, falling back into the atmosphere over the Atlantic Ocean for a destructive re-entry around six hours after liftoff.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:09:31: Dragon Separation<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Dragon spacecraft separates from the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s second stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T+0:11:00: Solar Arrays Deployed<\/b><\/p>\n

\"The
The Dragon spacecraft\u2019s two solar array wings extend one-at-a-time to a span of 54 feet (16.5 meters).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 5,900 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 0942 GMT (5:42 a.m. EDT) Friday from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[584,1838,880,2923,291,1736,1395,159],"class_list":["post-13718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-canadarm-2","tag-canadian-space-agency","tag-cimon","tag-commercial-space","tag-complex-40","tag-dragon","tag-earth-observation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}