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Upgrades at SpaceX’s most-used launch pad in Florida will get a trial run Thursday with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo ship heading for the Worldwide Area Station.
SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft is about for launch at 4:55 pm EDT (20:55 UTC) Thursday from Area Launch Complicated 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida. This mission, often called CRS-30, is SpaceX’s 30th resupply mission to the house station since 2012.
The automated Dragon provide ship will take off on prime of a Falcon 9 rocket, then head for a month-long keep on the Worldwide Area Station, the place it would ship greater than 6,000 kilos of {hardware}, recent meals, and experiments for the lab’s seven-person crew.
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