SpaceX knocks out 3 launches from 3 pads in less than 28 hours
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- Jul 28, 2024
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For SpaceX, the three launches brought its 2024 total among the three launch pads to 73. The three rockets at its three pads were primed since Falcon 9 had been grounded for more than two weeks by the FAA after a mishap on a Falcon 9 launch caused a failure in its upper stage during a launch from California. The FAA cleared SpaceX to return to flight late Thursday, and it had its first rocket up less than two days later.
For the Space Coast, the early Saturday and Sunday launches brought the total missions to 52 for the year, with all but three coming from SpaceX.
The other three have been from United Launch Alliance, which has its fourth launch planned for Tuesday morning with an Atlas V targeting liftoff during a four-hour window from 6:45-9:45 a.m. from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41. It’s flying the USSF-51 mission for the Space Force.
SpaceX then has a busy lineup for August with another Starlink mission from KSC as early as Aug. 2 and a resupply mission to the International Space Station flying Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft from Canaveral as early as Aug. 3.
It also has two human spaceflights lined up, both of which could fly in August.
The Crew-9 rotational mission with three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut is aiming for liftoff as early as Aug. 18 in the Crew Dragon Freedom headed for the ISS while billionaire Jared Issacman and three passengers are ready to launch in the Crew Dragon Resilience on the Polaris Dawn mission.
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