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SpaceX<\/strong> and NASA<\/strong> are continuing the investigation of what caused the engine shutdown during the launch of the first commercial resupply mission to the ISS on Oct. 7. While SpaceX already delivered a Falcon 9 rocket to Cape Canaveral for its next mission, the investigation will delay it even more. It is now expected to launch early March. <\/p>\n NASA\u2019s Advisory Council\u2019s Human Exploration and Operations Committee learned of other anomalies that didn\u2019t affect the mission. First, the Dragon capsule lost use of a flight computer from an apparent radiation hit, but Dragon had two more working computers \u2013 it only needs one to fly. Radiation hits are also suspected of damaging a GPS unit and other components. Three of the 18 sensors on the spacecraft\u2019s Draco thrusters failed but this didn\u2019t violate flight requirements. <\/p>\n Additionally, after splashdown, all three coolant pumps and power for the freezer holding biological samples failed but nothing was damaged. <\/p>\n NASA officials have not expressed urgency for the next Dragon mission stating that there is still \u201cplenty of time\u201d to solve the issues and launch. SpaceX is under a $1.6 billion contract to launch 12 missions for the agency. <\/p>\n The Dragon capsule for March\u2019s launch is scheduled for delivery to Cape Canaveral next month.<\/p>\n \n Tags: SpaceX, NASA, Dragon Capsule, Falcon 9 Publication Date: 11\/24\/2012 SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft on the barge after being retrieved from the Pacific Ocean after splashdown. Image credit: SpaceX SpaceX and NASA are continuing the investigation of what caused the engine shutdown during the launch of the first commercial resupply mission to the ISS on Oct. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\")
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