posted 02-25-2020 02:19 PM               

Please use this topic to discuss SpaceX's twentieth Dragon cargo flight (CRS-20) to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract.

posted 02-25-2020 02:20 PM               

SpaceX is now targeting March 6, 2020 at 11:50 p.m. EST [0450 GMT March 7] for launch of its 20th commercial resupply services mission (CRS-20) to the International Space Station.

During standard preflight inspections, SpaceX identified a valve motor on the second stage engine behaving not as expected and determined the safest and most expedient path to launch is to utilize the next second stage in line that was already at the Cape and ready for flight. The new second stage has already completed the same preflight inspections with all hardware behaving as expected. The updated target launch date provides the time required to complete preflight integration and final checkouts.

posted 03-01-2020 10:36 AM               

Falcon 9 static fire test complete — targeting March 6 launch from Pad 40 in Florida for Dragon's twentieth resupply mission to the space station, the final flight of the first version of Dragon.

The Dragon spacecraft supporting this mission previously flew in support of our tenth and sixteenth commercial resupply missions – this will be the third Dragon to fly on three missions.

The Falcon 9 booster supporting this mission previously flew in support of our most recent launch to the space station, CRS-19.

posted 03-06-2020 08:36 PM               

SpaceX is targeting Friday, March 6 for launch of its twentieth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-20), which will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Launch is targeted for 11:50 p.m. EST, or 4:50 UTC on Saturday, March 7.

Dragon will separate from Falcon 9's second stage about nine minutes after liftoff and attach to the space station on Monday, March 9.