Monday, June 10, 2019

Next West Coast SpaceX Mission Scheduled For Wednesday

Fans of Hawthorne, California-based rocket and spacecraft developer SpaceX have another opportunity to catch a launch in San Luis Obispo, as SpaceX attempts to launch three Earth observation satellites on Wednesday. The launch--currently scheduled for 7:17 a.m. PDT on Wednesday--will place the Radarsat Constellation Mission into space for the Canadian government. Those satellites are being used for monitoring of maritime conditions, for responding to disasters, and other imaging efforts. The launch is scheduled for Launchpad SLC-4E at Vandenberg. Image: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the launchpad at Vandenberg Air Force Base at an earlier launch, in January of 2019.