Dragon ready for first cargo mission to ISS
Posted: Sun, Oct 7, 2012, 9:12 AM ET (1312 GMT)
A Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly a ton of equipment and supplies is cleared to launch Sunday night. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 8:35 pm EDT Sunday (0035 GMT Monday) in an instantaneous launch window. There are no technical issues with the launch and forecasts call for a 60% chance of acceptable weather at launch time. Dragon is flying a mission designated CRS-1, the first of twelve commercial resupply missions NASA has contracted with SpaceX. The Dragon will be bringing experiments and related equipment, along with some other supplies, to the station; it will bring back items from the station a few weeks later. The Falcon 9 is also carrying a prototype next-generation satellite for ORBCOMM, an operator of a constellation of low Earth orbit communications satellites.
A Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly a ton of equipment and supplies is cleared to launch Sunday night. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 8:35 pm EDT Sunday (0035 GMT Monday) in an instantaneous launch window. There are no technical issues with the launch and forecasts call for a 60% chance of acceptable weather at launch time. Dragon is flying a mission designated CRS-1, the first of twelve commercial resupply missions NASA has contracted with SpaceX. The Dragon will be bringing experiments and related equipment, along with some other supplies, to the station; it will bring back items from the station a few weeks later. The Falcon 9 is also carrying a prototype next-generation satellite for ORBCOMM, an operator of a constellation of low Earth orbit communications satellites.
Related Links:
| <<previous article | next article>> |
|
news in brief
|
|
|
|
news links
|
|
Friday, May 24
NASA's JPL to 'lasso' an asteroid
Pasadena Sun — 9:07 am ET (1307 GMT) Buzz Aldrin, Moonwalker, Says U.S. Must Shoot for Mars
Bloomberg News — 9:06 am ET (1306 GMT) Waves and hurricanes forecast on Titan
SEN — 9:06 am ET (1306 GMT) NASA Adrift in Interplanetary Space
American Thinker — 9:06 am ET (1306 GMT) Will astronauts live on the moon by 2020? Nasa report predicts private firms will travel to the lunar surface
The Daily Mail — 9:04 am ET (1304 GMT) |
