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Space station resupply mission launched
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on Monday morning.
ORLANDO, Fla. - SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on Monday morning.
The launch window for the Falcon 9 Dragon CRS-2 SpX-28 was originally scheduled to open at 12:35 p.m. Saturday, but SpaceX said they want to allow for more time for vehicle preparations and for weather conditions to improve. The launch was then moved to Sunday around noon, but that was ultimately scrubbed also.
The latest launch window opened on Monday at 11:47 a.m. SpaceX.
The flight was conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
This was the fifth flight of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat I-6 F2, and one Starlink mission.
Cargo Dragon 2 will bring supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that happen onboard the orbiting laboratory, SpaceX said.
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CRS-28 is the fourth flight for the Dragon spacecraft, which previously flew CRS-21, CRS-23, and CRS-25 to the space station.
SpaceX also launched a batch of Starlink satellites to space from Cape Canaveral on Sunday at 5:58 a.m.