11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Update: The SpaceX Dragon CRS-24 cargo ship will be successfully undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module today at 10:40 am and will return to Earth on Monday, January. 24. The rap story will be posted shortly.
SpaceX’s latest dragon cargo ship International Space Station You can watch it live online today (January 23rd) after a two-day delay due to bad weather at the landing site.
The Dragon The CRS-24 cargo ship is scheduled to undock from the space station today at 10:40 EST (1540 GMT). This page is available live from 10:15 EST (1515 GMT). Courtesy of NASA TV..
The dragon was previously scheduled to leave the station on Saturday for a splashdown on Monday, but was unable to depart due to bad weather at a potential splashdown location in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast. SpaceX。
“SpaceX and NASA have abandoned today’s planned departure for the upgraded SpaceX Dragon supply spacecraft due to strong winds in the Gulf Splashdown Zone,” NASA spokesman Sandra Jones said on Saturday. Said during the NASA TV update.
Related: Live update from the International Space Station
There is no live broadcast of SpaceX’s Dragon Splashdown, but it is expected to occur at the end of Monday or early Tuesday, if weather permits.Splashdown updates will be done through NASA Space station blog And SpaceX’s Twitter page.
The dragon cargo ship returns about 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of science to Earth when it scatters.cytoskeleton“It uses cell signaling to understand how the human body changes with microgravity. 12 years old. Photoacoustic imaging microscope Some are retired after more than a decade of use to study the structure of orbiting substances and plants.
The capsule was originally intended to be undocked on Friday and splashed down on Saturday, The procedure was delayed Due to bad weather on the way home, in one day. According to NASA, if the dragon undocks on Saturday morning, a splashdown will occur before dawn on Monday.
Dragon spacecraft It was blown up in that cargo mission, Called CRS-24, December. 21 Above SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Delivered both science and Christmas gift sets to an orbiting complex 2 days later。
The dragon is the only cargo ship that can bring scientific experiments back to researchers on Earth. Because all other such spacecraft burn out in the atmosphere during re-entry. Dragons are often used to bring back biological samples that must be quickly transferred to a scientific facility. Once scattered across the Atlantic Ocean, samples can be quickly transferred to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the Florida coast east of Orlando.
According to the Expedition 66 66 members, the members of the Expedition 66 have been organizing dragon supplies together for at least the past two weeks. NASA Space Station BlogIncludes replacement of scientific freezer components that host valuable refrigerated scientific samples.
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the 24-hour weather delay of the SpaceX Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft undocked at the International Space Station.
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