{"id":18583,"date":"2018-04-03T00:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-sends-reused-cargo-ship-to-space-station-on-reused-falcon-9-rocket-again\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T00:54:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:54:25","slug":"spacex-sends-reused-cargo-ship-to-space-station-on-reused-falcon-9-rocket-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-sends-reused-cargo-ship-to-space-station-on-reused-falcon-9-rocket-again\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX sends reused cargo ship to space station on reused Falcon 9 rocket \u2026 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_409164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-409164\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-409164\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180402-spacex-630x415.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX Falcon 9 launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180402-spacex-630x415.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180402-spacex-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180402-spacex-1260x829.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180402-spacex.jpg 1639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-409164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from its Florida launch pad. (NASA via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX sent nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments to the International Space Station today, using a Falcon 9 rocket booster and a Dragon capsule that have both been flown before.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket rose from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 4:30 p.m. ET (1:30 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a perfectly nominal mission, as we like around here,\u201d SpaceX launch commentator John Federspiel said during a webcast from the company\u2019s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. \u201cFalcon 9 performed its job splendidly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the second \u201crefurbish-and-reuse\u201d mission of its kind. The first flight of a refurbished Falcon 9 first-stage booster with a reused Dragon took place last December.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, SpaceX made use of a booster that launched a different Dragon resupply mission last August. The Dragon for today\u2019s mission was previously flown to the space station and back two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>There won\u2019t be a third go-round for this booster. SpaceX is upgrading its Falcon 9 rocket technology and didn\u2019t plan to do further refurbishments on the rocket being launched today. Instead, the first stage descended and went through an exercise that tested re-entry maneuvers for future boosters.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Jensen, SpaceX\u2019s Dragon mission manager, said the booster made a \u201chard landing\u201d in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SpaceX CRS-14: Falcon 9 launches CRS-14 Dragon spacecraft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8TbJd4-2_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The uncrewed Dragon capsule is now on track to catch up with the space station for a rendezvous on Wednesday. Astronauts will use the station\u2019s robotic arm to bring the Dragon in for its hookup, and start the process of unloading 5,800 pounds of payload.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In addition to the usual food, water and other basics, the cargo includes a wide range of scientific experiments:<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor<\/strong>&nbsp;will survey severe thunderstorms in Earth\u2019s atmosphere and upper-atmospheric lightning from a perch on the exterior of the European Space Agency\u2019s Columbus module. ASIM will focus on weird phenomena known as red sprites, blue jets and elves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The NASA Sample Cartridge Assembly<\/strong>, also known as the MSL SCA-GEDS-German&nbsp;experiment, is aimed at determining the scientific principles for a fabrication process known as liquid phase sintering. The technology can be used to 3-D print metal parts, but it\u2019s trickier to do in zero gravity than it is on Earth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Materials ISS Experiment Flight Facility<\/strong>, or MISSE-FF, will provide a platform for testing how materials, coatings, and components react in the harsh environment of space, including radiation exposure, cycles of heating and cooling, and hits by micrometeoroids. MISSE-FF is the latest in a series of MISSE experiments to test materials in space. Past experiments had to be installed during spacewalks, but this one can be put into place using the station\u2019s robotic arm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comparative Real-Time Metabolic Activity Tracking<\/strong>&nbsp;for Improved Therapeutic Assessment Screening Panels examines zero gravity\u2019s effects on the metabolic impact of five different therapeutic compounds, using an experimental type of bioluminescent human tissue culture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over the course of a month, the station\u2019s astronauts will unload the Dragon and repack it with more than 3,900 pounds of cargo to be returned to Earth. One of the payloads will be NASA\u2019s Robonaut 2, an arm-equipped android that has broken down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had, we believe, an issue with the \u2018brain stem\u2019 of the Robonaut, so we\u2019ll bring it home, take a look at it. That\u2019s our best assessment of what we think is the problem,\u201d Joel Montalbano, deputy manager of NASA\u2019s space station program, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe engineering teams will go ahead and take a look at it, and see what the next steps are,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you fly it again? Can we fix it? What happened, and why did it break?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from its Florida launch pad. (NASA via YouTube) SpaceX sent nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments to the International Space Station today, using a Falcon 9 rocket booster and a Dragon capsule that have both been flown before. 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