SpaceX has announced a new launch date for its Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), now scheduled for October 1. This update follows a delay caused by an oxidizer leak detected in the propulsion system of Crew-13's Dragon spacecraft, which led to the postponement of the original launch date of September 12.
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The Crew-13 flight is planned to lift off at 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, using a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission will transport four astronauts: NASA's Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, Canadian Space Agency's Josh Kutryk, and Sergey Teteryatnikov from Russia's federal space corporation Roscosmos. The astronauts are set to arrive at the ISS approximately nine hours after launch, around 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT on October 2).
Crew-13 will relieve the current astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-12 mission, who have been aboard the ISS since mid-February. There will be a brief overlap between the two crews before Crew-12, consisting of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency's Sophie Adenot, and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, returns to Earth.