SpaceX scrubbed a Starlink delivery mission by Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday and rescheduled the launch from California for Friday. The Starlink 7-11 mission now scheduled for launch at 6:15 p.m. PST (9:15 p.m. EST (0215 UTC).
週四,SpaceX 取消了獵鷹 9 號火箭的星鏈發射任務,並將發射地點重新安排在周五。星鏈 7-11 任務現定於下午 6 點 15 分發射。太平洋標準時間(美國東部標準時間晚上 9:15(0215 UTC))。
The company scrubbed the launch Thursday after loading propellants aboard the rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base. It did not give a reason for the delay.
該公司週四在范登堡太空部隊基地向火箭裝載推進劑後取消了這項發射。它沒有給出延遲的原因。
This will be SpaceX’s 7th launch of the year so far and its third from the Golden State. Onboard is a batch of 22 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, which will join the constellation of more than 5,300 currently on orbit.
這將是 SpaceX 今年迄今的第七次發射,也是金州的第三次發射。機載有一批 22 顆 Starlink V2 Mini 衛星,這些衛星將加入目前在軌道上運行的 5,300 多顆衛星星座。
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage of the mission about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.
Spaceflight Now 將在升空前約 30 分鐘對此任務進行現場報道。
The first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1063 in the SpaceX fleet, will be making its 16th launch and landing on this flight. It previously supported the launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft the Transporter-7 rideshare mission and 10 Starlink flights in its past.
支援此任務的第一級助推器(尾號為 SpaceX 機隊的 B1063)將在本次飛行中進行第 16 次發射和著陸。先前,它支援了 NASA 雙小行星重定向測試 (DART) 太空船的發射、Transporter-7 共乘任務以及過去的 10 次星鏈飛行。
About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1080 is set to land on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ which is positioned in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California. This will be the 80th booster landing for OCISLY and the 208th droneship landing to date for SpaceX.
升空後約 8.5 分鐘,B1080 將降落在位於下加利福尼亞州海岸附近太平洋的「當然我仍然愛你」無人機上。這將是 OCISLY 的第 80 次助推器著陸,也是 SpaceX 迄今為止的第 208 次無人機著陸。
Meanwhile, the company continues to monitor the progress of the Ax-3 mission, which launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Thursday afternoon. Four astronauts are flying aboard Crew Dragon Freedom to dock to the International Space Station on Saturday morning.
與此同時,該公司繼續監控 Ax-3 任務的進展,該任務於週四下午從 NASA 甘迺迪太空中心發射。週六早上,四名太空人將搭乘載人龍飛船自由號與國際太空站對接。
A Falcon 9 lifts off from Kennedy Space Center carrying an international crew on a commercial mission to the space station. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now.
獵鷹 9 號載著國際機組人員從甘迺迪太空中心升空,執行飛往太空站的商業任務。圖:亞當伯恩斯坦/Spaceflight Now。