Watch Live: NASA, SpaceX To Launch Resupply Mission Carrying Experiments, Supercomputer

SpaceX and NASA are gearing up for a Monday launch to the International Space Station. The launch is part of the collaboration between the private company and the government agency to bring supplies to the ISS.

As of Sunday, United States Air Force 45th Weather Squadron was predicting a 70 percent chance of suitable weather for a launch on Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was delayed due to poor weather predicted over the weekend accompanied by thunderstorms, unsuitable conditions for a rocket launch.

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The launch is currently set for Monday at 12:31 p.m. EDT weather permitting. Launch weather concerns are mostly some cumulus clouds expected Monday. If this launch is successful it would put SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft at the ISS around 7 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The Dragon would be grappled to the station by NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and Paolo Nespoli from the European Space Agency.

This launch will be the 12th resupply mission conducted by SpaceX for NASA. This time the Dragon will be launching on a Falcon 9 rocket and will bring up nearly 6,000 pounds of supplied for those on board the ISS. The materials include the necessary supplies for more than 250 experiments happening on board the station.

One of those experiments that the supplies will support involves growing food in space for the astronauts to consume. They’ve been growing food on the station since 2015, the experiments began in 2014. In addition to the materials for experiments, the payload will also include a supercomputer created by Hewlett Packard called the Spaceborne Computer. This computer will be a year-long experiment that tests its resilience in space. The goal is for the high-performance computer that is an off-the-shelf model will function seamlessly in space in preparation for missions in the future like those to Mars.

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The last time the Dragon capsule was attached to the ISS it stayed for a month and returned to Earth on July 3. This time will likely not be different although the exact length of the stay has not been announced yet.

Coverage of the launch on Monday will begin at 12 p.m. EST and will continue until 2 p.m. After that there will be a post-launch news conference. Then on Wednesday coverage of the installation of Dragon to the Harmony module of the station will begin at 8:30 a.m. All of this can be viewed on NASA’s TV website as well as on its YouTube channel

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