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To: BenLurkin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9
The next launch will be Falcon 9 Flight 20, currently scheduled for December 2015. The mission payload will be 11 Orbcomm-OG2 second-generation satellites.[127] Flight 20 will also be the first flight of the upgraded Falcon 9 v1.1 full thrust (with a 30 percent increase in power).

Falcon 9 first stage trucks into the Cape ahead of OG-2 mission
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/11/falcon-9-first-stage-cape-og-2-mission/
20NOV2015

SpaceX’s Return To Flight (RTF) milestone remains on track for December, as the Falcon 9 first stage – tasked with the launch of the ORBCOMM-2 mission – arrived at its Cape Canaveral launch site early on Friday. The launch of the OG-2 mission will also be the debut of the Full Thrust version of the SpaceX workhorse.

No launch date has been set, with a preliminary target of mid-December currently the most-likely estimate based on what is now a confirmed shipping of the first stage to SpaceX’s launch site at Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40.

Providing the Static Fire proceeds as planned, engineers will take the flow into a Launch Readiness Review (LRR), which will then confirm the launch date for the OG-2 mission with eleven new satellites for the company.

Providing the latest Falcon 9 mission with OG-2 is successful, SpaceX is set to pick up the pace to move through its busy order book. Launch dates for future missions remain speculative ahead of the company’s RTF goal – although a large amount of Falcon 9 hardware is ready to race into space.

List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches


5 posted on 11/22/2015 12:59:10 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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They’re still on track to test the Falcon Heavy in May? I don’t know how Elon Musk is able to buy pants that fit.


6 posted on 11/22/2015 1:29:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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