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CRS SpX-31 Launch Thread! (sh.itjust.works)
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Another six months, another Cargo Dragon resupply to the ISS!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-05 02:29 | |


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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-11-04, 21:29 (EST) | | Launch Window | Instantaneous | | Docking scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-05 15:15 | | Launch site | LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA | | Payload | Dragon SpX-30 | | Booster | B1083-5 | | Landing | LZ-1 | | Dragon | C208-5 | | Customer | NASA | | Mission success criteria | Successful transportation of cargo to and from ISS |

Webcasts

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| | NASA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q27yY-W1cr8 | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETTvygOAL2I | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gxKyhlAsCs | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqcXNwl2kHg | Everyday Astronaut | | The Launch Pad | | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1853620836663718179 | The Space Devs |

Stats

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☑️ 19th launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 21 days, 10:23:30 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 46th landing on LZ-1

☑️ 37th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 364th Falcon family booster landing, 374th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 104th Falcon 9 launch this year, 390th overall

☑️ 106th SpaceX mission this year, 406th overall (excluding Starship flight tests)

☑️ 109th SpaceX launch this year, 420th overall (including Starship flight tests)


Mission Details 🚀

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https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1853432145479622790

Falcon 9 and Dragon vertical at pad 39A ahead of tonight’s launch of Dragon’s 31st commercial resupply mission to the @Space_Station

Images

Nominal booster entry burn.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Stage 2 shutdown, nominal orbit insertion.

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hosted webcast has started. Youmei Zhou is hosting.

This mission will be the first to demonstrate reboost capabilities from Dragon.

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and stage 1 boostback burn.

Dragon nosecone deployment confirmed.

Dragon separation confirmed.

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