CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX scrubbed immediately’s (July 31) launch try of the Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA.
Launch officers referred to as the scrub simply over a minute earlier than liftoff, resulting from a financial institution of cumulus clouds that appeared over within the skies over NASA’s Kennedy Space Center right here.
“Sadly, the climate is simply not enjoying alongside with immediately’s pleasure on the launch for NASA SpaceX‘s Crew-11,” NASA commentator Derrol Nail mentioned throughout immediately’s launch protection.
“We might actually see the clouds form of going over prime of our heads, getting near the pad, and the standoff space is a 10-mile radius across the pad for these darkish clouds, cumulous clouds, and that may be a security issue,” Nail added. “That’s since you do not need to ship a rocket by a tall cloud like that — that might generate some power from the rocket passing by it.”
The subsequent launch alternative is Friday (Aug. 1) at 11:43 a.m. EDT (1643 GMT), NASA officers mentioned. There’s one other likelihood on Saturday (Aug. 2) at 11:21 a.m. EDT (1621 GMT).
When it launches, Crew-11 will see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket take off from Launch Complicated 39A at KSC. Atop the rocket is the corporate’s Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft making its sixth flight, a reuse report for Crew Dragon automobiles.
The four crewmembers of Crew-11 are NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) and Oleg Platonov of Russia’s area company Roscosmos.
When it launches, Crew-11 will embark on a roughly 40-hour flight to meet up with the International Space Station, orbiting at a velocity of about 17,500 mph (28,000 kph) some 248 miles (400 kilometers) above the floor of Earth.
As its identify implies, Crew-11 would be the eleventh operational astronaut mission SpaceX has flown for NASA, by the company’s Industrial Crew Program, which sees NASA ship astronauts to and from the ISS on personal spacecraft.