CRS-27 Mission

SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, March 14 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s 27th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-27) mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instantaneous launch window is at 8:30 p.m. ET (00:30 UTC on March 15) and a backup launch opportunity is available on Wednesday, March 15 at 8:08 p.m. ET (00:08 UTC on March 16). This is the seventh flight of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Hispasat Amazonas Nexus, SES-22, ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1, and three Starlink missions. Following stage separation, Falcon 9 will land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. CRS-27 is the third for this Dragon spacecraft, which previously flew CRS-22 and CRS-24 to the space station. Dragon will autonomously dock with the space station on Wednesday, March 16 at approximately 7:52 a.m. ET (12:52 UTC). A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff.