Tag: CRS
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Antares/Cygnus in final pre-launch processing, Range aims for improved launch security
Orbital ATK has completed rollout of its Antares rocket tasked with launching the Cygnus OA-9E cargo and science resupply mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff is targeted one day later than originally planned on Monday, 21 May 2018 at 04:39 EDT (08:39 UTC) from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia. As…
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Dragon’s CRS-14 mission concludes with splashdown in Pacific Ocean
After 31 days of berthed operations, the CRS-14 Dragon from SpaceX wrapped up her mission to the International Space Station. Bringing back thousands of pounds of experiments and equipment for recovery, including Robonaut, the Dragon spacecraft was released from the ISS on Saturday ahead of splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja…
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Dragon cargo craft’s return to Earth delayed to Saturday
The Dragon cargo craft was grappled by the space station’s robotic arm April 27 in preparation for its departure. Credit: NASA A commercial Dragon cargo capsule will remain at the International Space Station until Saturday, three days later than previously planned due to high sea states observed by the SpaceX recovery team in the spaceship’s…
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Station science excellent; Commercial Cargo-2 contracts making good strides
Firmly entrenched in its utilization phase, the International Space Station is in excellent science shape, providing a stable and beneficial platform for microgravity research in Low Earth Orbit. The Station’s overall status continues to greatly outpace expectations as NASA looks to continue utilizing ISS as a science testbed for its Orion and deep space exploration…
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Dextre busy at work removing CRS-14 Dragon payloads
Just a few days after arriving at the International Space Station (ISS), humans and robots to busily removing the array of payloads from both the inside and the outside of the CRS-14 Dragon. Now berthed to Node 2, ISS crewmembers are removing packages of supplies from within the pressurized module, while the Canadian robot Dextre…
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CRS-14: SpaceX Falcon 9 conducts second flight with previously flown Dragon
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft began its fifteenth mission to the International Space Station Monday with a launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff, from Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, occurred at 16:30 Eastern Time (20:30 UTC). Monday’s launch carried CRS-14, the fourteenth flight of Dragon under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services…
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Falcon 9 set for CRS-14 mission completes Static Fire testing
SpaceX has conducted the milestone Static Fire test on the Falcon 9 set to launch the CRS-14 Dragon to the International Space Station (ISS). The test occurred a few hours into the six hour test window that opened at 11 AM Eastern at Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40. The latest CRS mission will once again involve hardware that highlights…
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SpaceX’s CRS-13 Dragon returns home
SpaceX’s CRS-13 Dragon unberthed from the ISS ahead of a return to a Pacific Ocean splashdown on Saturday, concluding the spacecraft’s latest resupply mission. Dragon returned with 4,100 pounds of cargo, highlighting her unique downmass capability for NASA. Splashdown occurred around 10:36 Eastern Time (07:36 local time on the West Coast). Dragon has enjoyed yet…
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OA-8E Cygnus completes mission after 12 days of free-flight activities
The eighth Cygnus resupply mission to the orbital outpost departed ISS and completed 12 days of free flight events ahead of a destructive re-entry that occurred on Monday. Before the end of its mission, Cygnus conducted a variety of activities, including the deployment of 14 Nanoracks Cubesats as well as several experiments for Orbital ATK…
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CRS-13 Dragon arrives at Station filled with science experiments
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule for resupply mission CRS-13 has arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday for the second time in its career, bringing with it 4,861 lbs of supplies – the largest percentage of which are scientific experiments that will add to the Station’s current list of 329 active scientific investigations. CRS-13 Dragon –…