Falcon 9 Full Thrust | SpX CRS-8
SpaceX · Falcon 9 Full Thrust · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 28th launch · 3rd this year · humanity's 5,553rd orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Apr 8, 20:43 – Apr 8, 20:43 UTC
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SpX CRS-8
SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft on their eighth operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. Among the cargo was the Bigelow Aerospace’s BEAM module, which was attached to the station and will stay so for 2 years. BEAM is an expandable habitat module that will undergo tests to determine its worthiness during the stay. The flight was conducted under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Resupply · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
- B1021 · flight 1 · Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship @ Of Course I Still Love You · landed ✓ · zone record 209/217
Watch
- SpaceX Mission Launches to Re-supply the ISS — NASA
- SpaceX CRS-8 Lifts Off from Cape Canaveral — NASA's Kennedy Space Center
- CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast — SpaceX
