SpaceX to launch cargo mission to the space station on Friday

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New Delhi: After scuttling several earlier attempts this month, California-based space company SpaceX is all set to launch its 13th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA on Friday.

The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft face a 90 percent chance of favourable weather, as predicted by meteorologists.

The launch will take place from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Carrying about 4,800 pounds of cargo including critical science and research equipment, the Dragon spacecraft will spend a month attached to the space station.

The mission will carry investigation that could help lower the risk to human life and critical hardware by orbital debris, NASA said.

It will also deliver crew supplies, equipment and other scientific research to crew members living and working aboard the station.

One such investigation will attempt to pull fiber optic wire from ZBLAN, a heavy metal fluoride glass commonly used to make fiber optic glass.

(With IANS inputs)