SpaceX Dual Vision: These photos show two Falcon 9 rockets on their pad for launch from the rear
If a recent SpaceX Missile photos have you see twice, you are not alone.
ONE Posts on Twitter Monday (January 31) shows two Falcon 9 rockets on their pads at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and surrounding areas Cape Canaveral . Space Stationprior to their respective launches.
An image of both rockets under a twilight sky is dark orange. In front is a Falcon 9 atop Pad 39A at NASA’s KSC, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than Tuesday (February 1). In the background is a separate Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Italian Earth observation satellite called the second generation FM2 satellite Cosmo-SkyMed.
That rocket is set to launch tonight (January 31) at 6:11 p.m. EST (2311 GMT) after four delays. It is sitting atop Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral. You will be able to Watch the premiere herepowered by SpaceX, starting approximately 15 minutes before launch time.
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A second SpaceX photo reverses the view, with the Falcon 9 at SLC-40 in the foreground and the Starlink encapsulated booster in the back at KSC. That photo, apparently taken at a different time over the weekend, shows two rockets under a clear Florida sky.
While both launches were delayed, Starlink flights are largely waiting for SpaceX to launch the second generation FM2 satellite Cosmo-SkyMed. The Starlink Falcon 9 rocket will launch 49 more Starlinks to add to SpaceX’s constellation of nearly 2,000 active satellites. It is scheduled to launch no earlier than Tuesday at 2:17 p.m. EST (1917 GMT) from NASA’s 39A Launch Complex.
Both SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets have performed a number of missions before. Their first-stage boosters are also slated to return to Earth to land on a land-based platform at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station or an offshore drone so they can fly. can be used again.
SpaceX operates two of its Florida launchpads under agreements signed with the agency and the Air Force earlier in the decade, as both entities seek to turn the Cape launch facility into a “multi-user spaceport.” for both federal and commercial customers”, according to a Released in 2014.
SpaceX also performs human missions using Launch Pad 39A, including Crew Dragon missions to the International Space Station and Inspiration4 The all-people mission in 2021 has put four people into Earth orbit. The next crew launch from KSC is scheduled for April 2022, for the Crew-4 mission.
SpaceX also has a third Falcon 9 launch pad in California at Vandenberg Space Force Base. SpaceX says there’s still another Falcon 9 rocket waiting for a mission of its own.
A Falcon 9 rocket will launch a classified NROL-87 payload from Vandenberg on Wednesday (February 2). That mission is scheduled to begin at 3:18 p.m. EST (2018 GMT).
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