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posted by martyb on Wednesday December 05 2018, @05:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-time-for-sure dept.

Monday's SpaceX launch was a success with both the landing and with the booster recovery. Unfortunately, the second launch mentioned in that story had to be delayed:

Moldy Mouse Food Postpones SpaceX Launch:

SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said.

[...] Some 40 mice are part of the experiment aimed at studying the effects of microgravity in the immune system.

The launch will be the 16th for SpaceX, as part of an ongoing contract with NASA to send supplies to the astronauts living at the space station.

Some 5,600 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of food, experiments and other gear is packed onto the unmanned Dragon cargo ship, which will blast off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Launch is scheduled for 1 hour after this story goes live.

The launch will be live-streamed on YouTube starting approximately 15 minutes before launch time.


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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday December 06 2018, @06:04AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday December 06 2018, @06:04AM (#770505) Homepage
    Because the "squirt matter at high speed out of the bottom through a nozzle" subsystem is the same as the "squirt radio waves out of the top" subsystem?
    Or because the transmitting antenna is highly diectional?
    Or because the extra tens of meters of unexpected movement of the antenna was smooshing all the radio waves on top of each other, thus making it unintelligible?

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