SpaceX’s latest DragonX freighter is expected to take off from International Space Station Today (January 23) after two days of delay due to bad weather at the landing site and you can watch it live online.
from Dragon The CRS-24 freighter will depart from the space station at 10:40 a.m. EDT (1540 GMT) today. You can watch it live on this page from 10:15 AM EST (1515 GMT), Courtesy of NASA TV..
The Dragon was scheduled to leave the station earlier on Monday, but bad weather at potential spray sites in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida prevented departure, the British newspaper Guardian reported. SpaceX.
“SpaceX and NASA have waived today’s scheduled departure of the upgraded SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft due to high winds in the Gulf launch areas,” NASA spokeswoman Sandra Jones said in an update to NASA Television on Saturday.
Related: International Space Station Live Updates
There will be no live coverage of SpaceX’s Dragon stream, although it is expected to take place late Monday or early Tuesday, weather permitting. Updates to the sprinkler come via NASA space station blog and SpaceX’s Twitter page.
The Dragon freighter will return nearly 5,000 pounds (2,267 kg) of flag to Earth when dispersed, including “cytoskelet“Which uses cell signals to understand how the human body changes in microgravity. 12 year old Optical microscope It was discontinued after more than a decade of use in studying the structure of matter and plants in orbit.
The capsule was originally intended for Friday to dock and Saturday to spray, but Action postponed One day due to bad weather to return. If the dragon had come out Saturday morning, it would have fallen in the early hours of Monday, according to NASA.
dragon spacecraft Explodes in the charging mission, called CRS-24, December 21 on top of SpaceX Falcon 9. raket She delivered both the flag and a set of early Christmas gifts to the orbital complex after two days.
Dragon is the only freighter that can bring science experiments back to researchers on Earth, as all other spacecraft burn up on their reentry. The dragon is often used to carry biological samples that need to be quickly transported to a scientific facility; Spraying into the Atlantic Ocean can quickly transport samples to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the Florida coast, east of Orlando.
Expedition 66 crew members have been packing and organizing dragon supplies for the past two weeks, according to NASA home blog, including swapping scientific freezer components containing precious refrigerated scientific samples.
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the 24-hour weather delay of SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft as it lifts off from the International Space Station.
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