Wednesday, March 15, 2017

SpaceX - EchoStar XXIII rescheduled to early tomorrow (March 16th) [Update - initial launch scrubbed due to high winds]

If you're on the East coast, you'll have to stay up a little while, but on the West coast the launch will be at 10:35 pm.

SpaceX - EchoStar XXIII (23) Mission PatchSpaceX is targeting the March 16th for the launch of the EchoStar XXIII mission which will place a EchoStar Corp. commercial communications satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO).

The launch will be the second from the historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  The launch window opens at 1:35 am ET (10:35 pm PT, 5:35 am UTC).

Due to the mission parameters - primarily the payload weight and the GTO insertion - SpaceX will not attempt a recovery of the Falcon 9 rocket.

Live coverage is available on the SpaceX webcast page or on the SpaceX YouTube channel.  Coverage starts 20 minutes before the launch.
Press Kit available on the SpaceX site here.

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