SpaceX mission-name: Transporter-3 or ISILaunch 36P

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13 January 2022

falcon 9 — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

The Cape Peninsula University of Technology is reaching a significant milestone today with the launch of its third satellite mission into space. The Rocket to be used is the Falcon 9. It will also be a milestone for South Africa and Africa, as a continent.

Watch the launch LIVE here.

The MDASat (Marine Domain Awareness) constellation has two main priorities namely ocean economy and healthcare, and has been mandated by the Department of Science and Innovation to enhance South Africa’s ocean’s sovereignty.

SpaceX, the company founded by SA born entrepreneur Elon Musk, will be launching the constellation on 13 January 2022 at 17:25pm (Florida time 10:25am), at the Cape Canaveral launch site in the USA.

The webcast starts about 10 to 15 minutes before lift-off and ends shortly after payload deployment.

More information: www.spacex.com/launches

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