Billionaire Elon Musk aerospace company SpaceX has fired up the rocket ahead of weekend Dragon cargo launch for NASA. SpaceX conducted a static-fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center yesterday.
SpaceX is targeting Saturday, August 28 for Dragon’s launch of its 23rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-23) mission. A backup launch opportunity is available on Sunday, the private aerospace company added. Shortly after the test, SpaceX tweeted that the static fire test was a success and that the company planned to launch on Saturday as scheduled.
“Static fire test complete targeting Saturday, August 28 at 3:37 a.m. EDT for Falcon 9 launch of Dragon’s 23rd cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS),” SpaceX wrote a tweet. Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported SpaceX’s Crew-1 and Crew-2 missions, which launched astronauts to the International Space Station, and the launch of SXM-8.
