Tag: Deployable Space Systems
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Cargo Dragon docks at space station
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Tuesday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Closing out an automated 18-hour rendezvous, a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with 7,000 pounds of supplies and equipment, including two add-on roll-out solar blankets, caught up with the International…
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SpaceX launch sends upgraded solar arrays to International Space Station
Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX’s 28th resupply mission to the International Space Station. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SFN Live”] [tabbyending] SpaceX’s 28th resupply mission to…
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Third set of upgraded solar arrays ready for ride to International Space Station
Update at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 UTC): SpaceX has announced the launch has been delayed until Sunday “to allow more time for vehicle preparations and for weather conditions to improve”. Launch time on Sunday would be at 12:12 p.m. EDT (1612 UTC). Ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center prepare an upgraded roll-out solar array…
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Launch of asteroid deflection demonstrator slips to November
NASA’s DART spacecraft is prepared for thermal testing in February. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman The launch of a NASA spacecraft designed to smash into an asteroid to try out a technique that could protect Earth from threatening space rocks has slipped from July until November, at the earliest, after development delays partially caused by…
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Astronauts complete spacewalk to prep for station power system upgrades
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT) after end of spacewalk. STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Two astronauts floated outside the International Space Station Sunday for the first in a series of spacewalks to upgrade the lab’s aging solar power system, assembling a support fixture that eventually will hold a new solar…
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Boeing says assembly complete on first set of new space station solar arrays
An artist’s concept shows the International Space Station with new solar arrays in place. Credit: Boeing Engineers from Boeing and a team of subcontractors have finished building the first pair of six new solar arrays to bolster the International Space Station’s aging electrical system ahead of their launch to the orbiting outpost as soon as…