SpaceX has delayed the departure of its newest Dragon cargo ship International space station Saturday (January 22) at least one day due to bad weather upon landing. NASA said it could see the next unlocking attempt live on Sunday.
That Dragon The cargo ship CRS-24 is scheduled to land from the space station at 10:40 a.m. EST (1540 GMT) on Saturday and return to Earth on Monday morning. But bad weather prevented the departure of the likely location of the splash town in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. SpaceX.
NASA spokeswoman Sandra Jones said in a NASA TV update on Saturday that “SpaceX and NASA have ruled out the scheduled launch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft today due to strong winds in the Splash Down Zone of the Gulf.”
You can watch SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft lift off live from the space station on this page on Sunday. Source from NASA TV, EST (1515 GMT) starts at 10:15 am. The takedown of the document is scheduled for 10:40 a.m. EST (1540 GMT), allowing for Splash Down weather.
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There will be no live broadcast of Dragon Splash Down from SpaceX, although it is expected to take place on Monday evening or Tuesday morning, weather permitting. An update in Splash Down is coming via NASA Space Station Blog And the SpaceX Twitter page.
The cargo ship Dragon would recover nearly 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of science when it hit Earth.Sitoskeleton“It uses cell signals to understand how the human body changes under the force of microgravity. 12 years old Light imaging microscope Retired after more than a decade of studies studying the structure of matter and plants in orbit.
The capsule was originally meant to be released on Friday and thrown onto Saturn Process is delayed One day to return due to bad weather. According to NASA, if the dragon were removed by Saturday morning, it would explode in the early hours of Monday morning.
Dragon spaceship The cargo exploded in the process, CRS-24 on SpaceX, also known as December 21 Falcon 9 rocket And presenting science and early Christmas gifts to the orbital campus Two days later.
The Dragon is the only cargo ship that can send scientific experiments to researchers on Earth because all other spacecraft burn up in the atmosphere when they re-enter. Dragons are often used to carry biological specimens that need urgently to be converted into scientific facilities; The splash in the Atlantic Ocean will allow NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on the east coast of Orlando, to rapidly transfer samples.
Exhibit 66 team members have been packing and organizing Dragon items for at least the past two weeks. NASA Space Station Blog, Including replacing science freezer components that provide valuable refrigerated science models.
Editor’s Note: This story was updated to reflect the 24-hour weather delay for the launch of SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft on the International Space Station.
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