Soo.... weather. This cloud line from the front is approaching the Cape. This is part of what the contention will become for 10:00 EST (15:00 UTC) and later to the close of the window at 14:00 EST (19:00 UTC). #SpaceX #IFA #InFlightAbort #Falcon9 #Dragon

Final checks for Rosalind the rover 🔴 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Rosalind Franklin rover completed a series of environmental tests at the end of last year. This included final thermal and vacuum tests where the rover is heated and cooled to simulate the temperatures of its journey through space and on the surface of Mars. For example, Rosalind Franklin can expect temperatures dropping to –120°C outside, and –50 °C inside the rover once on Mars. It must also be able to operate in less than one hundredth of Earth’s atmospheric pressure – and in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Now the focus moves to final checks on the rover systems. This includes checking the alignment of instruments working together, such as the imaging systems, and a final functional test of the integrated system after the environmental campaign. Once these verifications on the rover are completed, a functional check of the interfaces with the surface platform and descent module that will deliver it safely to the surface of Mars will be performed…