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  • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - MAY 30:  NASA commercial crew astronauts Doug Hurley (L) and Bob Behnken blast off from historic Launch Complex 39A aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the crew Dragon capsule bound for the International Space Station.  (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

    How NASA knows when it's a 'go' for launch

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    08.25.2020

    The launch window -- the span of time that a rocket can successfully launch during -- will therefore be different for putting an Earth-observing satellite into LEO versus launching a Dragon Capsule to precisely rendezvous with the ISS.