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#SpaceX #CRS14 | #FalconNine resupplying the #ISS- International Space Station with a Dragon Cargo…… in a Non Traditional approach…

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On Spring Afternoon Monday 2nd April SpaceX is preparing to resupply the ISS – International Space Station in which is current the Falcon nine is currently being ready for the flight ahead for the CRS 14- Commercial  Resupply Service number 14…… launching from SLC40- Space Launch Complex 40 at East Coast  this time last was the Californian West Coast.. Launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida launching window 1630 Hours Eastern Daylight Time..  in which follows a just in case window occurs at 1603 Hours Eastern Daylight Time if the first attempt did not meet the Launch Criteria commitment…..

Both Falcon and Dragon CRS MODULE are flight re certified, due previously used in previously launches of supporting CRS 12 resupply mission also the Dragon was previously used in CRS 8 resupply with the International Space Station.. As this is a Non Traditional SpaceX launch in which the carrier Falcon Nine will not be recovered with an off shore drone ship… in which due to the nature of the payload in which has critical components of research, Hardware and supplies to the International Space Station in which supporting investigative research…..

During Wednesday, once the CRS 14 Dragon is in orbit making its way to the International Space Station, it will be retrieve by the ISS’s Robotic Arm transferring supplies equipment to the station also returning materials back to the Earth after a one month duration stay docked , then leaving to re enter Earth after a five hour readiness to allow a thirty minute conventional splash down in the Pacific Ocean in where located off shore of Baja California

#SpaceX #FalconNine | #HISPASAT #30W-6 – a non-traditional flight with a stationary “ Off Course I Still Love you” on a 50th Anniversary Launch- Mission Highlights….

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#SpaceX #FalconNine | #HISPASAT #30W-6 – a non-traditional flight with a stationary “I Still Love you”- Mission Highlights…. also celebrating SpaceX’s 50th Anniversary Launch on brand new first stage Falcon Nine reusable..

On a clear dark Tuesday morning New York time on 6th March 2018, SpaceX was launching from SLC-40-Space Launch Complex 40 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is one of the heaviest payloads that SpaceX  is set to launch in which a different modified payload flaring had to be installed for the heavier payload..  Launching was on time as the Launching from SLC-40 was weather wise favourable.. in also Celebrating SpaceX’s 50th Anniversary launching at 12:33 a.m. EST..

The Mission of the launch commentary is provided by John Insprucker, Principal Integrations Engineer of SpaceX… The HISPASAT30W-6 satellite scale wise is about an average city public transportation bus…  HISPASAT30W-6 satellite is previously known as Hipasat IF is operationally design of mission duration of fifteen years.. Building from a SSL 1300 Satellite platform from HIPASAT Group is a Spanish Innovation Satellite provider in provisions of delivering Spanish and Portuguese Content Broadcast, Data communications towards 1250 Televisions and radio channels..  Within the SSL 1300 Satellite platform is with its multiple mission platform equipment onboard, it’s powered with its retractable Solar Arrays 10.5KW with its equipment carrying various 40 Ku Transponders, six Ka Band Beams, and Ten C band Transponders…

The broadcasting range of the HISPASAT30W-6 connects in between the Mediterranean, and the Americas in providing Latin based high end definition Digital media content, also the provisionments of connectivity of mobile, Broadband environments towards the European and Northwest Africa  towards Governments, Corporations, Telecommunications operators in regions of America, Europe and North Africa..

In during this mission is the first stage Falcon Nine reusable core is brand new with a newly paint, in which there was no need to recover the first staging even though it has the landing assets to land onto the off shore drone ship “I Still Love You” is Stationary due to the weather didn’t make the landing recovering launch Criteria in which the weather for recovery was still persistently unfavorable due to the storm weather in the Atlantic therefore it was stationary berth for the remaining for the launch process…  as new Falcon Nine Reusable launched with its powerful nine Merlin Engines..  Then detaching from it secondary stage with its modified payload flaring separated, in the secondary stage powered by a single Merlin Vacuum Engine putting in to the payload into coast orbit towards western Africa into a Geo Stationary Orbit located in 30 degrees west into GTO- Geo Stationary  Orbit….

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……..