Tag: ISS Cargo
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Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in hold-down test for station resupply launch
Updated at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) with details on wildfire. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket rocket fires its nine Merlin 1D engines Sunday. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX ran through countdown and fueling procedures with a Falcon 9 rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, culminating in ignition of the booster’s nine first stage…
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Live coverage: SpaceX prepares for station cargo launch
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket mission from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket will launch a Dragon capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Video: SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A
Four days before its scheduled blastoff on a resupply run to the International Space Station, a Falcon 9 rocket ran through a countdown rehearsal and engine test Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two-stage rocket was fueled with kerosene and liquid oxygen Sunday morning, then ignited its nine Merlin 1D main engines…
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Live coverage: Dragon cargo craft 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. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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SpaceX’s Dragon supply carrier wraps up 10th mission to space station
Updated at 1:40 p.m. EDT (1740 GMT) with image and splashdown time. SpaceX’s Dragon capsule descends under parachutes toward the Pacific Ocean early Sunday. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft ended a four-week mission Sunday with a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, returning from the International Space Station with more than 3,600 pounds of…
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Sierra Nevada to resume Dream Chaser flight tests
Artist’s concept of a Dream Chaser spacecraft arriving at the International Space Station. Credit: Sierra Nevada An atmospheric test model of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser space plane is being readied for tow and landing tests at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California this spring. The partially-assembled test craft arrived at the California test site,…
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Russian freighter links up with International Space Station
The Progress MS-05 supply ship is seen on final approach to the space station Friday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now The International Space Station received its second cargo shipment in less than 24 hours Friday with the automated linkup of a Russian Progress refueling and resupply freighter. The Progress MS-05 spaceship closed in to dock…
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Photos: Russian cargo craft fires away from snow-covered cosmodrome
Russia’s Progress MS-05 supply ship lifted off Wednesday on top of a Soyuz-U rocket, climbing into orbit from a snow-covered launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the way to the International Space Station. The robotic cargo freighter is carrying more than 2.5 tons of dry goods, propellant, water and oxygen to the…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket soars into overcast sky from pad 39A
Check out one more gallery of photos from Sunday’s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. These images show the Falcon 9 rocket’s preflight preparations at pad 39A, the final loading of the Dragon supply ship with time-sensitive cargo, and the lifting of the 213-foot-tall…
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SpaceX supply ship completes journey to space station
ESA astronaut Homas Pesquet tweeted this image of the Dragon spacecraft hovering just below the space station Thursday. Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA Running a day late after aborting a rendezvous to resolve a navigation glitch, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft made a smooth final approach to the International Space Station on Thursday, floating in range of the…