Tag: Dragon
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 ignited for test-firing ahead of launch next week
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch a Dragon supply ship with several tons of cargo and experiments for the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. A SpaceX Falcon…
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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship splashes down
SpaceX’s robotic Dragon cargo spaceship looms above the International Space Station just before its release from the station’s robotic arm. (NASA / CSA Photo / David Saint-Jacques) A robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean today, bringing two tons of scientific experiments and other hardware back to Earth a month after…
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CRS-17 Dragon returns home from ISS mission
SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon spacecraft concluded the EOM (End Of Mission) phase of her mission following unberthing from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday. Dragon’s release from the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) occurred at 16:00 UTC, with splashdown in the Pacific Ocean around 21:10 UTC on Monday. The CRS-17 Dragon was launched on…
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Dragon capsule returns to Earth from space station with 2.1 tons of cargo
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft is grappled by the International Space Station’s Canadian-built robotic arm before release Monday. Credit: David Saint-Jacques/CSA/NASA Closing out a 30-day mission, a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule departed the International Space Station on Monday for a fiery trip back to Earth, culminating in re-entry back into the atmosphere and a parachute-assisted splashdown…
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Live coverage: Dragon cargo capsule returns to Earth
Live coverage of the departure of SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship from the International Space Station and its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with several tons of experiment samples and cargo. SpaceX and NASA will not provide live video coverage of the splashdown. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page.…
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X-ray communications experiment delivered to space station
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) instrument and the U.S. military’s Space Test Program-Houston 6 (STP-H6) payload, which carries the X-ray communications experiment, inside the trunk of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft before launch. Credit: NASA A novel communications experiment developed by NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station to prove…
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Cancer treatment investigation among science delivered by SpaceX Dragon to Station
Following a flawless arrival Monday morning at the International Space Station, the bulk of the month-long science initiatives from the Dragon spacecraft have begun for the Station’s four United States Operating Segment (USOS) crew members from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency. Among the multitude of investigations launched aboard SpaceX’s CRS-17 Dragon include an experiment…
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SpaceX cargo ship reaches space station
Credit: NASA TV A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship caught up with the International Space Station early Monday and then stood by while Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, operating the lab’s robot arm, locked onto the spacecraft to wrap up a two-day rendezvous. “Well done, well captured,” a flight controller radioed from the Johnson Space Center in…
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Following Falcon 9 Saturday launch, CRS-17 Dragon arrives at the ISS
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft – on its CRS-17 resupply mission to the International Space Station – has arrived at the orbital outpost on Monday. Dragon launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 02:48 Eastern Time (06:48 UTC) on Saturday. Dragon’s CRS-17 mission is being flown as part of NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)…
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SpaceX launches space station resupply mission, lands rocket on drone ship
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 2:48:58 a.m. EDT (0648:58 GMT) Saturday. Credit: SpaceX With a thundering, sky-lighting predawn blastoff from Cape Canaveral, a Falcon 9 rocket fired into orbit early Saturday with a Dragon cargo capsule in pursuit of the International Space Station. Less than nine…