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#SpaceX | #FalconHeavy – is readying up for it’s for its Milestone launch towards The Planet Mars with #Tesla Cherry Red Roadster..

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On the months leading to December 2017 SpaceX was in the development process of preparing for its assembly of its largest powerful rocket combination in its carrier rocket fleet…During that month the Falcon Heavy makes way towards the twenty year leased on the Iconic NASA-KSC Launch Pad 39A in which It launched the Saturn V rockets towards the moon, Lunar Apollo Program also the Iconic STS-Space Transportation System- The Space Shuttle Program.. Making its way fully assembled towards the static test firing of the Falcon Heavy in which slated for an early 2018 launching schedule….

In which the Falcon Heavy has combination clusters of three a jointed Falcon nines connected at the first staging level with a combine of twenty seven Merlin Engines with a combine 5.13 million pounds of thrust at lift-off  with the secondary interstage that’s powered by a single merlin engine… The three cores of the Falcon Heavy static test firing are consisting with proven flight with two side mounted falcon boosters -B1023.2 and B1025.2- with a new central core- B1033…….. In which was a milestone for SpaceX in which was slated to have a fully stacked Falcon Heavy before the year of 2017..  for FIT Checking in which testing of all systems with a static test firing  before actual launch of the vehicle to sort any issues to be necessary modifications and improvements to the vehicle also its following in its fleet.. Also is compatibilities with the Launch Complex 39A..

 

In was previously intended to be launched before the year 2017 is out, but it best to sort any and further issues in hand… in which the process of the Falcon Heavy would be launched on the same modified procedure like the STS-Space Transportation Systems– Space Shuttle program.. in which the Falcon Heavy has the same design configuration in which the payload of which the first two is the Zuma also Tesla Cherry Red Roaster to the planet Mars to test case study the systems required to make adjustments to other improvements in its fleet.. it should be noted the probable launch schedule for the Falcon Heavy is for the later haft of January 2018 launch window after it undergoes numerous Launch readiness testing also reviews before its maiden flight….

#SpaceX | #Iridium4Next – Pre Christmas launch of the Falcon nine with those Clustered Merlin engines…

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On the eves of Christmas Eve on 22nd December 2017 West Coast time- California (23rd December 2017- Hong Kong –New Zealand) – is the launch of the SpaceX – Falcon nine in which this launch is a non-traditional Falcon nine launch for Space X due to it would not be landing back on a Drone Ship on either “Just Read the Instructions” that “I Still Love You” … of the west coast.. From Vandenberg Air force Base California… the previously of the used Falcon nine in which was used in the Iridium 4 payload deployment SLC-4E in June 2017…..

The launch window of SpaceX- Iridium4Next sets of ten satellites is set to be launch from Launch Complex 4E in which originally design previously for the Atlas then modified for SpaceX’s requirements.. The window launch is at 1727 Pacific Savings Time in which there’ll be a forwarding back window just in case on following day of the same time…

The Next Generation of Iridium 4 Next Satellites, manufactured by Thales Alenia Space, is set to replace the existing satellite networks with innovative next generation data communications provisionments with eighty one planned to orbit around Planet Earth..  in a constellation formation  in which the communication provisionments is delivering high velocities of Data Communications in services providing for aviation, Marine time, internet Data provisions communications with terrestrial towards non and government organisations.. one of many innovations is the Aviation surveillance tracking  systems that will gives real time air traffic controls of global visibility with ADS-B Equipped Aircraft..

#SpaceX |SpaceX‘s Rocket Development testing facility in McGregor –Texas – “they test rockets here too.. ?“

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One of many facilities of SpaceX is it’s testing facilities one of two, one is located in McGregor Texas in which is currently used for its multitude various iconic new engines, research, also development before its roll out onto to actual practical launch pad for commercial use..  in which this one is also responsible of testing out reusable testing launching systems that which made SpaceX iconic with its Falcon nine reusable systems in an accelerated rapid turnaround..

The McGregor Texas Facilities, is designed to primarily at first to test out the grasshopper system in which makes the Falcon nine also its next generation of SpaceX rocket reusable in which of it’s High altitude and velocity systems..  Also it’s where the Dragon reusable manned and Unmanned is tested out also..  Within the Facilities it’s a certification processing department for the merlin engines that orthough it manufactured in company’s California’s Hawthorne Headquarters, most of the systems get certified before it rolls onto the East Coast launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center iconic Launch Complex 39A, nearby on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on its currently under repairs launch complexes.  Apart from the East Coast it also has a West Coast launch complex at Vandenberg Air force Base, in where it also has a Space Shuttle Vertical Assembly Building with a ready to launch pad nearby..

The McGregor Facility makes sense in which it’s basically rural farm land it accommodate safety to the public besides the resident cattle nearby…..Also it makes testing new and current equipment with its three test stands that’s dedicated to the Falcon nine reusable..  Also engine testing.. With its current testing to date over four thousand Merlin Engines with fifty more clustered Merlin engine testing….  In which is presumably the McGregor facilities is going to get more development as the BFR-interplanetary Rocket takes shape as a interplanetary also a Space-Airliner systems aswell.. From a Quiet farmland that rustle tamely cattle in the area with a abandon world war two Mutations factory transforming into an industry that became from the late 20th century…..

#ROCKETLAB | #NewZealandMade #Electron Rocket- Awaiting the maiden flight from Mahia Peninsula launch complex one…… !

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As exciting preparations underway in New Zealand’s north island west coast line in Mahia Peninsula   on 22nd May 2017, with the launched window at in between 0900 to 2000 hours New Zealand Time..  in which this is the first commercial company in New Zealand in joining the Space industry in the provisions of providing affordable unique launch carriers … in which in its Home-grown Uniqueness is New Zealand Made comes to  mind is Rocket Lab..

As the building up to the to the launch window,  various launch complex sites was considered in various parts of New Zealand in which gives a suited launch location Mahia Peninsula was chosen  to be the newly acquired first launch complex for Rocket lab’s carbon fibre hulling rocket  the Electron.. In which stands at seventeen meters long, that’s half the length of a Captain Jean Luc Picard’s Sovereign Class Captain’s Yacht in which sits at 33.5 meters long.…. in which can carry up to a 150 kilogram payload.. with an altitude range of  500 kilometers..

The home grown Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket comes with many New Zealand made innovations, in the hulling shell of the rocket is made out from durable Carbon fibre with its innovative home grown clustered Rutherford Oxygen-Kerosene 3D printed Engines in which akin to the same design linage to the Soyuz, SpaceX, Blue Origin engine clustering…. The Electron is interesting innovative it’s takes many elements of Plug and Payload in which the payload make it easier to install at the Assembly building facilities. .   then readily install on the launch complex launcher ramp on the same design elements like the Russian’s Soyuz’s, Space X  in which there’s been some interesting challenges in building the launch complex from the ground up but with the team that thinks innovatively like Admiral Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen “Scotty” Scott Chief engineer of the constitutional class Enterprise they can’t go wrong..….

#SPACEX #NASA | #CRS-10 Falcon Nine reusable Launch from that Historical# NASAKSC Launch Pad 39A- Live webcast…

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As “Space X- Falcon nine Reusable” is getting set to return to launch and return to operationally orderly  on 18th February 2017, with the return to resupply the International Space Station with the CRS-10 Tenth mission of the Cargo Resupply Servicing number ten…. In preparation for the return to service mission it’s launched from one of the most iconic Launch Pads in Space history, that very launch Pad in question is the soon to be remodelled, modified Space Launch Complex pad 39A the very one that seen the many launches from the Apollo Mission towards the Moon, among that it’s the STS- Space Transportation System- Space Shuttle programme ….but given that’s belayment there will be a backup launch  on the following day in which on the initial window if successful the Falcon nine will separate after ten minutes then meet up within two days latterly.. Also the Falcon Nine reusable will land in LZ-1 Landing Zone one at Cape Canaveral Air force Station…..  in which there will be two webcast of the event one is “the Hosted” the other is the “Technical webcast.. “

In preparations for the upcoming CRS-10 launch, numerous testing had to be done to check out any systems with its new historical launch platform modify for it’s used for the upcoming ultra and Heavy versions of Space X falcon nine variants.. One such testing is the Static test firing of the Falcon Nine’s reusable Merlin cluster Engines to see if all are in working order also its systems..  On 12th February 2017…..

The Falcon nine reusable, including its CRS-10 payload assemble in the adjacent new constructed horizontal assembly building – HIF- Horizontal integration Facility nearby the SLC-39A is railway out to launch pad among too with the TE- Transporter Erector in the same traditional….. The launch window for CRS-10 is windowed for 1001 Hours morning Eastern Standard Time, in which is 1501 hours Greenwich Time with a ground landing this time instead of a drone ship landing…