SpaceX CRS-5 Still on for Early Saturday Morning
As of 10:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) tonight, January 9, SpaceX’s fifth operational cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is still on schedule for launch at 4:47 am EST tomorrow morning.
The launch of Space X CRS-5, or SpX-5, has been delayed several times since its original December 9, 2014 launch date. Most recently it was scrubbed just over one minute before launch on January 6 because of a malfunctioning thrust vector control actuator in a second stage engine. SpaceX reportedly has replaced that actuator and is on track for tomorrow morning’s launch. The weather forecast is 80 percent favorable.
NASA TV coverage of the launch begins at 3:30 am EST.
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