Monday, December 3, 2018

Spaceflight's Satellite Launch Mission Now Set For 10:34am Monday

Seattle-based Spaceflight's busload of small satellite into space--the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express--is hoping to get into space this Monday morning, after two delays of the launch mission. SpaceX, the rocket launch and spacecraft developer which is launching Spaceflight's SSO-A mission into space, said this mroning that it hoping to launch the Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base this morning. SpaceX said the launch window for the mission opens at 10:32 a.m. PST, and closes at 11:00 a.m. PST. Spaceflight is hoping to put 64 small satellites into space, it's first dedicated rocket for its satellite customers. The launch will be on a SpaceX Falcon 9 which was first used to launch the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 mission into space in May of 2018, and the Merah Putih mission into space in August. Spaceflight said it expects deployments of the many satellites to occur over a period of six hours. The original launch window for the SpaceX launch from Vandenberg was last Wednesday, which was delayed due to high winds from the storm system which came through the West Coast last week. Image: SSO-A Smallsat Express sitting on the Falcon 9 earlier this morning, via SpaceX