Falcon 9: Dragon CRS-11 to ISS (re-flown Dragon, neutron star interior explorer)

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This will be the first Flight Proven Dragon mission, its first mission being Dragon CRS-4.*

Pad: LC-39A
Orbit: ISS logistics
Date: NET June 1
Time: **1755 Eastern, 2155 GMT
Stage landing: LZ-1

Major payloads

MUSES (Multi-User System for Earth Sensing)*

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/s...ents/1282.html

Teledyne Brown is developing the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES), an Earth imaging platform, as part of the companys new commercial space-based digital imaging business. MUSES hosts earth-viewing instruments (Hosted Payloads), such as high-resolution digital cameras, hyperspectral imagers, and provides precision pointing and other accommodations. It hosts up to four instruments at the same time, and offers the ability to change, upgrade, and robotically service those instruments.

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The Roll-Out Solar Array (ROSA) is will test physical changes to the array in space during the CRS-11 mission.

ROSA unrolled



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The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) will see into neutron stars -the most powerful cosmic particle accelerators known.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/new-nasa-mission-to-study-mysterious-neutron-stars-aid-in-deep-space-navigation

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Rolled out, preparing to go vertical.

Presser

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Lightning Flight Rule violation. Scrub to Saturday.

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If weather cooperates and this launch goes...

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Still counting.....

Exact launch time adjusted to 1707;38 EDT.

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NASA YouTube Event at 1730;00 EDT

https://youtu.be/vV0l93PF6Xk

NASA webcast reports 90% GO!