Tag: Canadarm 2
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket dazzles at dawn
Powering into a pre-sunrise sky over Florida’s Space Coast on Friday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket provided a memorable show as it climbed into sunlight, delivering a Dragon cargo craft to orbit on a trip to the International Space Station. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket lifted off at 5:42 a.m. EDT (0942 GMT) Friday from Cape…
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SpaceX launches AI-enabled robot companion, vegetation monitor to space station
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket takes off at 5:42 a.m. EDT (0942 GMT) Friday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Credit: SpaceX A commercial SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule packed with a robot assistant for the International Space Station’s crew, pouches of extra strong coffee, and a NASA science instrument designed to track the health of plants on Earth…
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Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship arrives at space station
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Commercial SpaceX cargo capsule readied for launch Friday
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is carrying a spare latching end effector (top) and NASA’s ECOSTRESS instrument to the space station inside the vehicle’s trunk. Credit: SpaceX A Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship, primarily using previously-flown hardware, are scheduled for liftoff before dawn Friday at Cape Canaveral on SpaceX’s 15th cargo launch to the International…
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Launch timeline for SpaceX’s 15th space station resupply mission
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 5,900 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 0942 GMT (5:42 a.m. EDT) Friday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad.…
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SpaceX test-fires reused rocket in preparation for space station cargo mission
File photo of a Falcon 9 static fire test at Cape Canaveral. Credit: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now A rocket booster SpaceX used to launch a planet-hunting NASA observatory two months ago fired again Saturday at Cape Canaveral, clearing a major pre-flight checkout before blastoff June 29 with a space station supply ship. After running the rocket…
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Spacewalking astronauts complete robot arm work
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: NASA TV Astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japanese crewmate Norishige Kanai floated outside the International Space Station Friday, repositioned two robot arm grapple mechanisms following repair work last month and carried out a variety of “get-ahead” tasks before calling it a day. Floating in the Quest airlock,…
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Software patch fixes station robot arm; Monday spacewalk repair called off
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of an astronaut attached to the space station robot arm grapple fixture from a spacewalk in 2002. Image: NASA. A corrective software patch uplinked to the International Space Station has fixed a problem with a newly installed grapple fixture on one end of the…
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Newly installed space station robot arm grapple fixture not operating properly
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The grapple mechanism installed on one end of the space station’s robot arm during a spacewalk Tuesday is experiencing problems with one of two control channels. Rather that use the fixture without redundancy, it will be removed during a re-planned spacewalk Monday and the original fitting will be…
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Spacewalkers complete repairs to station robotic arm
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT) after the end of EVA. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo from a spacewalk last year repairing the space station’s robotic arm. Credit: NASA Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station early Tuesday and replaced one of the grapple fixtures on the…