A little more than seven days after a Falcon 9 promoter was spotted heading west, NASA has affirmed the date for SpaceX’s first California launch in over 16 months.

Seen in Texas on August twentieth, Arizona on August 23rd, and at the passage to Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) on August 24th, the SpaceX rocket is very likely Falcon 9 sponsor B1063 or B1064. In any case, it – close by a disposable upper stage and (likely additionally extra) payload fairing – will be flying just because on a genuinely interesting crucial by NASA.

Known as Sentinel-6A or Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, after the late researcher and NASA chief answerable for bringing a few significant Earth science missions to realization, the 1500 kg (3300 lb) Airbus-manufactured satellite is intended to gauge sea stature and investigate the Earth’s environment anyplace on Earth.

As recently examined on Teslarati, the SpaceX supporter spotted traveling west toward the end of last month was in all likelihood implied for Sentinel-6A.

Presently, only three days after SpaceX effectively finished the main East Coast polar dispatch in 50 years, NASA has as of now startlingly uncovered that SpaceX’s previously committed rideshare mission – referenced above and now regarded Transporter-1 – is still on target to dispatch in December 2020.

Notwithstanding, SpaceX has moved the dispatch from California to Florida, murdering the likelihood that the new supporter now at SpaceX’s Vandenberg dispatch offices was intended for SARah-1.

The extremely following day, NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) office uncovered that Sentinel-6A is formally focusing on a 11:45am PDT (UTC-7), November tenth, 2020 dispatch on Falcon 9.

Beside giving SpaceX its first firm Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) dispatch date since June 2019, the NASA update additionally uncovered that the strategic slipped a solitary day after over two months of surveys.

Because of the reality both of SpaceX’s operational drone ships are presently positioned in Florida, Sentinel-6A will incorporate an ensured Falcon 9 supporter arriving back at Landing Zone-4, arranged only a thousand feet or so away from the SLC-4E platform.