After several postponements, Jared Isaacman and his team will be heading into space this Friday, September 6. The SpaceX rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The launch of SpaceX’s rocket for a groundbreaking space mission including the first private spacewalk in history, Polaris Dawn, is scheduled to take place on Friday after being postponed last week, US authorities announced on Tuesday, September 3.
A four-hour launch window is scheduled to open at 3:33 a.m. local time (9:33 a.m. Paris time) on Friday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with other options on Saturday and Sunday, according to the U.S. aviation regulator (FAA).
Several postponements
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has yet to comment on the new launch window. The Polaris Dawn mission, which includes a billionaire, a pilot and two employees, was already delayed by 24 hours after a “helium leak” was detected on August 26 on a fuel line that powers the rocket.
It was then postponed again on Friday “due to unfavorable weather forecasts,” according to SpaceX. The commander of this five-day mission is American billionaire Jared Isaacman, who has worked with Elon Musk’s company for several years.
The trip is intended to test SpaceX’s first spacesuits, which are white and futuristic-looking. The spacewalk, which promises to be spectacular, was to be broadcast live on the third day of the mission.
In another piece of good news for SpaceX after a complicated week, its Falcon 9 rockets, the company’s most widely used, were cleared for takeoff by the FAA on Friday after a rare incident that led to them being grounded.
