{"id":16427,"date":"2015-03-31T20:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-cargo-launch-now-set-for-april-13\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T20:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T12:55:49","slug":"spacex-cargo-launch-now-set-for-april-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-cargo-launch-now-set-for-april-13\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX cargo launch now set for April 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5351\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5351\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16848159582_64ab6527d5_z.jpg\" alt=\"File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo carrier prepared for launch on a previous mission. Credit: SpaceX\" width=\"621\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16848159582_64ab6527d5_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16848159582_64ab6527d5_z-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo carrier prepared for launch on a previous mission. Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The launch of SpaceX\u2019s next resupply run to the International Space Station has been rescheduled for April 13, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s liftoff from Cape Canaveral was due for no earlier than April 10, but the launch date has been delayed to April 13. Officials did not provide a reason for the delay.<\/p>\n<p>Blastoff from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad is set for 4:33 p.m. EDT (2033 GMT). The 20-story rocket will have one second to lift off when the space station\u2019s orbital path passes over Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will send SpaceX\u2019s Dragon supply ship into orbit in pursuit of the space station. The Dragon capsule will carry several tons of provisions and experiments to the complex, where the lab\u2019s Canadian-built robot arm will grapple the SpaceX-owned spaceship after a laser-guided final approach.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragon spacecraft will stay at the space station about one month, then return to Earth in May with a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, returning research specimens and other equipment to scientists and engineers on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The April 13 flight will be SpaceX\u2019s fourth Falcon 9 launch of the year, and the company\u2019s sixth operational logistics mission to the space station.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX won a $1.6 billion contract in 2008 for 12 resupply flights to the outpost. NASA recently awarded a contract extension to SpaceX, giving the company 15 flights through 2017.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX shuffled the order of its upcoming launches earlier this month to inspect rockets at Cape Canaveral for leaky helium pressurization systems after discovering a problem in the Falcon 9 factory in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of a European-built communications satellite for the government of Turkmenistan was supposed to take off March 21, but SpaceX opted to delay the mission to around April 24, allowing the space station resupply flight to launch next in the queue.<\/p>\n<p>The launch for Turkmenistan \u2014 with a satellite named TurkmenAlem52E\/MonacoSat \u2014 is apparently still on track for late April.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s cramped manifest continues in May with a planned test of an abort system for a human-rated version of the Dragon spacecraft expected to loft astronauts into orbit by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo carrier prepared for launch on a previous mission. Credit: SpaceX The launch of SpaceX\u2019s next resupply run to the International Space Station has been rescheduled for April 13, officials said Tuesday. The Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s liftoff from Cape Canaveral was due for no earlier than [&hellip;]<\/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":[1395,3790,479,4073,1602,1542,316,4054],"class_list":["post-16427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dragon","tag-expedition-43","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-flight-17","tag-iss-cargo","tag-space-launch-complex-40","tag-spacex","tag-spacex-6"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427"}],"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=16427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}