Tag: International Space Station
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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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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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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…
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Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by problem on landing ship
File photo of SpaceX’s drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You.” Credit: SpaceX An electrical problem on SpaceX’s drone ship parked just off the coast of Cape Canaveral prompted SpaceX to scrub a Falcon 9 launch attempt early Friday, delaying the start of a resupply mission to the International Space Station by 24 hours.…
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Launch timeline for SpaceX’s 17th space station resupply mission
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Saturday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying nearly 5,500 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 0648 GMT (2:48 a.m. EDT) Saturday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. It…
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Live coverage: SpaceX cargo ship captured by space station’s robotic arm
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s 17th operational Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SpaceX Webcast”] [tabbyending]
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SpaceX resupply launch delayed by malfunction on space station
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) with NASA’s confirmation of the delay. A portion of a solar array wing on the International Space Station is visible in this image. Credit: NASA A SpaceX Dragon supply ship packed with nearly three tons of experiments, crew provisions and supplies will remain on the ground…
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Live coverage: NASA replaces failed power distribution unit on space station
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. Check here for…
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Falcon 9 rocket completes static fire test, aims for launch early Wednesday
A plume of exhaust appears at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) Saturday as the Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin main engines ignite for a hold-down test-firing. Credit: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now A week after a test-firing of SpaceX’s new crew capsule went awry, SpaceX successfully completed a hold-down firing…
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Carbon-monitoring instrument poised for launch to International Space Station
An astronaut on the International Space Station captured this image of the Florida peninsula April 20. Credit: NASA A $110 million NASA science instrument twice targeted for cancellation by the Trump administration is set for launch Tuesday inside the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule for delivery to the International Space Station, where it…