Following a a success release of NASA’s SpaceX thirty first industrial resupply undertaking, new medical experiments and load for the company are certain for the Global House Station.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, sporting greater than 6,000 kilos of provides to the orbiting laboratory, lifted off at 9:29 p.m. EST Monday, at the corporate’s Falcon 9 rocket from Release Advanced 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Middle in Florida.
Are living protection of the spacecraft’s arrival will start at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, on NASA+ and the company’s website online. Discover ways to watch NASA content material via various platforms, together with social media.
The spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously dock at roughly 10:15 a.m. to the ahead port of the distance station’s Cohesion module.
The resupply undertaking will give a boost to dozens of study experiments carried out all over Expedition 72. Along with meals, provides, and kit for the workforce, Dragon will ship a number of new experiments, together with the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment, to inspect sun wind and the way it paperwork. Dragon additionally delivers Antarctic moss to watch the mixed results of cosmic radiation and microgravity on crops. Different investigations aboard come with a tool to check chilly welding of metals in microgravity and an investigation that research how house affects other fabrics.
Those are only a pattern of the loads of investigations carried out aboard the orbiting laboratory within the spaces of biology and biotechnology, bodily sciences, and Earth and house science. Such analysis advantages humanity and lays the groundwork for long term human exploration during the company’s Artemis marketing campaign, which is able to ship astronauts to the Moon to arrange for long term expeditions to Mars.
The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to stay on the house station till December when it’s going to leave the orbiting laboratory and go back to Earth with analysis and load, splashing down off the coast of Florida.
Be informed extra about house station actions through following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Fb, ISS Instagram, and the distance station weblog.
Be informed extra in regards to the industrial resupply undertaking at:
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Claire O’Shea / Josh Finch
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov / claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov
Stephanie Plucinsky / Steven Siceloff
Kennedy House Middle, Fla.
321-876-2468
stephanie.n.plucinsky@nasa.gov / steven.p.siceloff@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones
Johnson House Middle, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov
