How to watch SpaceX’s rescheduled South Korean military satellite launch today
- by Lorene Schwartz
- in People
- — Jul 22, 2020
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 20 launched Anasis-2, South Korea's first military communications satellite.
The ANASIS-II payload was also verified to have been sent correctly to its target orbit.
On May 30, the same rocket vaulted a gumdrop-shaped spacecraft, Crew Dragon, into orbit with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley strapped inside.
The Falcon 9 booster for the Anasis-II mission is a history-creating rocket.
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The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that launched Monday's mission was previously used in SpaceX's historic May 30 launch of two astronauts to the International Space Station.
On Saturday, Elon Musk's spaceflight company introduced the Anasis-II mission is now set for start on Monday, July 20, and a handful of hrs right before the scheduled start, climate appeared 100% favorable. It's especially impressive when you consider that the first time this first stage was used, it was for what is easily SpaceX's most critical launch to date - the first carrying actual human beings on board.
SpaceX's customer for this launch was Lockheed Martin on behalf of the government of South Korea.
The Anasis-II satellite was built by Airbus as part of a 2014 financial offset program for South Korea's purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the US. The launch had originally been planned for last week, but had to be delayed so the company could "take a closer look at the second stage" and "swap hardware if needed". This is a file in conditions of the time required to get better a booster and flip it close to for re-use - breaking the 63-working day time of the booster utilised for Starlink's fourth output launch in February. SpaceX's next two launches are expected to occur within the next two weeks, giving the company plenty of opportunities to (hopefully) replicate today's historic fairing recovery success. Simply because of its link to the navy, there is certainly not a whole lot of data about it, other than that it is based mostly on Airbus' Eurostar E3000 satellite bus, according to the Everyday Astronaut. Prior to today, NASA set that record in 1985 when it launched the same Space Shuttle orbiter (STS Atlantis) twice in 54 days - a truly incredible feat for such a complex vehicle. The time between Demo-2 and ANASIS-II, if launched on Monday, will be just 51 days. The webcast underneath should really start out about 15 minutes ahead of the start window opens. For the first time ever, SpaceX has successfully caught both halves of Falcon 9's payload fairing with twin recovery ships GO Ms. Tree and Ms.
