The rocket has powered off of the pad! At 8:28 p.m. EST, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA Kennedy Area Middle’s Launch Complicated 39A in Florida, beginning the Dragon spacecraft’s roughly 33-hour journey to the Worldwide Area Station for NASA.
Dragon will ship new science investigations, provides, and gear for the Expedition 70 crew presently aboard the orbiting laboratory. Arising within the subsequent minute, the Falcon 9 will cross via Max Q – the second of peak mechanical stress on the rocket.
At about two minutes and 17 seconds after liftoff, the principle engine within the rocket’s first stage will shut off, adopted by the primary and second levels separating.
