Falcon 9 Block 5 | Cygnus CRS-2 NG-24 (S.S. Steven R. Nagel)
This is the 24th flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 23rd flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 Block 5
Falcon 9 is SpaceX's two-stage, partially reusable orbital rocket and the world's most frequently flown launch vehicle. The current Block 5 variant, flying since May 2018, is optimised for rapid reuse: its first-stage booster lands on drone ships or at the launch site and can fly again with minimal refurbishment. Individual boosters have surpassed 20 flights on a single airframe, fundamentally changing the economics of orbital launch.
70 m (229 ft)
3.7 m (12 ft)
22,800 kg (expendable) / 17,400 kg (reusable)
8,300 kg (reusable)
2
June 4, 2010 (Block 5: May 11, 2018)
Engines
9× Merlin 1D (first stage), 1× Merlin 1D Vacuum (second stage)
Propellant
RP-1 (kerosene) / Liquid Oxygen
Reusable
YesNotable
- First orbital-class rocket to land and refly its first-stage booster
- Single booster record: B1067 has flown 34+ times on one airframe — the most of any orbital rocket booster in history
- Workhorse of the Starlink broadband constellation — hundreds of Starlink flights
- Has flown NASA astronauts, classified payloads, commercial satellites, and interplanetary spacecraft
T-Minus
Instantaneous
This mission has a zero-second launch window. The rocket must lift off at the exact planned second — if it misses for any reason, the launch is scrubbed and rescheduled. Instantaneous windows are typical for missions that must match a precise orbital plane (e.g. ISS rendezvous) or hit a narrow interplanetary trajectory.
85%
Hourly forecast: overcast · precip 4% · clouds 100% · wind 12 mph · gusts 17 mph · vis 27.0 km
As of 2026-04-10 · Open-Meteo forecast
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Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL
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