Tag: ISS Cargo
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SpaceX lands rocket on ocean-going drone ship
A split-screen view during SpaceX’s launch webcast showed the Falcon 9 first stage booster after touchdown on the drone ship, while the Dragon cargo capsule is deployed from the Falcon 9’s upper stage in orbit. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster descended under engine power to a floating landing platform in the Atlantic…
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Video: Launch camera replays from Friday’s Falcon 9 blastoff
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket’s flight from liftoff to orbit
This video replay shows the Falcon 9 rocket’s flight from liftoff until deployment of the Dragon supply ship, including the dramatic touchdown on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket took off at 4:43 p.m. EDT (2043 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Email the author. Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter:…
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Mostly clear skies predicted for Friday’s SpaceX launch
A Falcon 9 rocket sits on its launch pad this week awaiting liftoff Friday at 2043 GMT (4:43 p.m. EDT). Credit: SpaceX Mostly clear skies and brisk westerly winds are forecast at launch time Friday afternoon for SpaceX’s first resupply mission to the International Space Station in nearly a year. There is a 90 percent…
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SpaceX adds abort function for Dragon cargo flights
The Dragon spaceship set for liftoff Friday is pictured during launch preparations. Credit: SpaceX Taking a lesson from a launch failure last June, SpaceX wrote coded commands for future Dragon cargo capsules to deploy their parachutes for an emergency landing in the event of rocket explosions, starting with Friday’s resupply flight to the International Space…
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Timeline for the Falcon 9 rocket’s 23rd flight
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying nearly 7,000 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 2043:32 GMT (4:43:32 p.m. EDT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. It will be…
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Static fire complete in run-up to launch of SpaceX supply ship
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is pictured inside the hangar at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad before rollout leading up to Tuesday’s static fire test. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX ran a Falcon 9 rocket through a customary preflight checkout Tuesday, filling it with super-cold propellants and firing its nine Merlin first stage engines in preparation for…
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Progress supply ship docks with the International Space Station
The Progress MS-02 supply craft approaches the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now A Russian refueling and resupply freighter docked with the International Space Station on Saturday after a two-day pursuit with maneuvering propellants, food and provisions for the research lab’s crew. The Progress MS-02 supply ship, flying with upgrades to its…
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Russian space station resupply mission lifts off
A video frame from a live webcast of Thursday’s launch of a Progress space station supply ship. Credit: Roscosmos A Soyuz rocket launched Thursday with a Progress cargo freighter carrying more than 5,300 pounds of fuel, water, and supplies for the International Space Station’s six-person crew. The Progress MS-02 spacecraft blasted off at 1623:57 GMT (12:23:57…
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Photos: Progress supply launch viewed from space station
Astronauts living on the International Space Station captured amazing views of a Soyuz rocket streaking into orbit from Kazakhstan with nearly 3 tons of supplies destined for the massive research complex. Sailing more than 250 miles over Central Asia, the station crew recorded photos of the Soyuz rocket speeding above cities and barren badlands downrange…