Overview
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Oct. 13, launching the CRS‑35 mission and sending Cargo Dragon C211 toward the International Space Station.
- The launch produced a bright, expanding 'jellyfish' cloud when water vapor and carbon dioxide in the exhaust froze into ice crystals high in the atmosphere and were lit by dawn sunlight.
- SpaceX said the Dragon is carrying more than 6,300 pounds of science and supplies, including time‑sensitive experiments that will return to Earth on a later Dragon flight.
- The mission continues reusable operations, marking the fourth flight for Dragon C211 and the eighth flight for the Falcon 9 first stage used on this launch.
- The plume was widely photographed from Florida and Georgia up along the rocket’s north‑eastern path, and the capsule is scheduled to autonomously dock to the ISS Harmony module on Oct. 15.