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#NASA –KENNEDY SPACE CENTER |#HURRCON1- shutdown for the time being due to Hurricane Mathew..

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As of yesterday at “NASA –Kennedy Space Center” is currently shutdown for the time being, due the oncoming Hurricane Mathew that’s bearing towards the lower east coast of Florida, of the United States.. Closed down for the time being in between 1300 hours EDT on 5th as towards 7th October 2016…… currently NASA-KSC has issued a HurrCon One meaning that the direction of the Hurricane Mathew is impending ….

 As of early hours  last night the completion of hurricane preparations at NASA-KSC was fully utilized, as staff was sent homewardly, as also a stationary crew, the Damage Assessment and Recovery Team is standing by to recover and asses what needs to be done after wind levels have drop below the 50 Knots level. As the Hurricane Mathew tropically storms force winds with expectations towards later this evening following the hurricane winds on initially Friday mornings at 0600 hours EDT.. Also The Kennedy Space Center visitor complex is closed for the time being as well till a reopening on 8th or 9th October 2016..……

 However a team of 139 personal from the Kennedy Space Center ride out crew located in Emergency Operations Control Center in Launch control Center at Complex 39 is there to be on standby for the duration of the Path of the Hurricane Mathew to assess what needed to be done.. As it prepares for the tropical force strong winds begins effective hitting the Cape Canaveral tonight as  it braces for the Hurricane on Friday  morning then riding it out wards to its decline expecting  at 1600 hours EDT Friday afternoon.. Currently the storm winds peaks up towards 125 Mph-201 Kph towards wind gust of 150Mph-241Kph….

SPACE X-FALCON NINE | Webcast of AMOS-6 Launch is within three days – 3rd September 2016..

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On 3rd of September 2016 –United States Eastern Date time “Space X” will be launching a five point five Tons AMOS-6 Affordable Modular Optimized Satellite, in which its the main payload of launching a Commercial Satellite in which the AMOS-6 is well intended to be the successor to the AMOS-2.. AMOS-6 is launched into Geostationary Transfer Orbit, in which constructed by IAI- Israel Aerospace Industries …..AMOS-6 will consist of newer technologies than from its sisters, with electric propulsion; in servicing of communications life of 15 years…also it’s the communication satellite extends the servicing networks to its customers of Spacecom, with higher powers, also with larger Ku Band transponders in which leaves room for growth potential in which one aspects of services will provide direct to home, video distribution, broadband internet communications  its final orbit position is located at 4 degrees west..  to communication customers in the Middle East, Central Eastern Europe, pan Europeans customers…     it is expected to be launched from Cape Canaveral air force station on Space launch complex 40, in Florida……..

ULA- UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE | Delta IV AFSPC-6 – twin payloads on a ride share…

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On 19th August 2016 from Space Launch complex SLC-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on a very need coffee early morning at 12.00 EDT, “United Launch Alliance” launched a twin – share United States Air Force payload, in which it is two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites….  Into near near-geosynchronous orbit… The twin GSSAP satellites are built by “Orbital ATK” in which this payload is design specifically design for enhancing the perception of operations of the US Air force’s U.S. Strategic Command space enhanced awareness operations.. one part of the operations of the launch is to bring awareness of spaceflight in bring satellite collision avoidance controls..  Also this is a dedication tribute launch to one of ULA’s Dearest work colleague, friend… Ramey Hill…

SPACE X | Landed Falcon nine first stage – test firing- you might want to turn up the volume.. ?

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Yes….. You heard me; you might want to turn up the volume and the level of resolution for this test firing for “Space X Falcon nine reusable” as this test firing was done at their Texas rocket development facility on 28 July 2016 on its nine flower array clusters of nine Merlin engines …… As this first stage was used in the launch for the on fifth of May 2016 SpaceX did it again with a successful landing on its remote drone barge… After a major launch on sending a communications satellite package payload, the JCSAT-14 into geostationary orbit on which providing intense high quality communications towards the Asian and pacific region in which the JCSAT network is a hive of fifteen in providing that communications by SKY Perfect in partnership with  JSAT Corporation …. During the re-entry its GTO positioning  is subject to unlike easy before this time it’s extremely velocities also the combinations of re-entry burning through back downwards towards with extremely blistering velocity towards the drone ship… The next launch preparations is for the JCSAT- 16, in which is going to be placed in Geo-stationary Orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida as it’s the same customer as the fifth of May 2016 presumably its going to be a drone ship landing.. . Just to put Amazon Jeff Bezos- Blue Origin of edge with his successful landings with New Shepard…

 

SPACE X- NASA | CRS-9 Falcon- resupplying the International Space Station….

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On 18th July 2016,  “ Space X” is on it ninth resupply mission to the International Space Station on “Commercial Resupply Services number nine CSR-9“…. The morning launch from launch complex 40 went without any problems in which the window of launch went on as normal at 12.45 am eastern date time (0445 UTC). Orthough this flight will be relativity textbook easy than the off shore drone ship landings it’s been the first for a while when Space X tries to perfect the process in landing on landing pad with lots of parameters hence using the offshore landing ship to learn from in getting it right..

As into ten minutes of the flight heading into orbit Dragon Nine with its supplies, of research, equipment, vital supplies in which the crew and the International Space Station need  with various experiments ranging from Magnetic Levitation to Frozen wax with highly modified  Bio molecule Sequencer that’s design for the space station.. also for long term to see how DNA responds for the long term travel beyond the moon.. Dragon Nine is expected to arrive at the International Space Station within two days’ time…