Space X is making final preparations for its second cargo flight to the International Space Station, currently scheduled for the end of next week. The flight is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on 1 March, and is expected to carry about 680kg of cargo as part of NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract. Orbital Sciences, the other company with a commercial cargo resupply contract with NASA is scheduled to test its engines later today.
On Monday, SpaceX will complete a practice countdown at its Launch 40 complex at Cape Canaveral, which will culminate with a brief static fire of the first stage engines. The actual launch is scheduled for 15:10 GMT next Friday. After a roughly 20-hour flight and rendezvous with the space station, the Dragon spacecraft should dock with the ISS early on 2 March.
By: Jason Paur, Edited by: Ian Steadman
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/25/spacex-second-iss-flight
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