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At 9:29 p.m. EST, over 6,000 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the company’s 31st commercial resupply services mission for NASA. The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched Dragon to the International Space Station from Florida last Monday carrying over 6,000 pounds of science, supplies, and hardware.
SpaceX will use a monster Dragon for the effort, so the planned ISS reboost using the current generation of Dragon will be useful. The ISS is in low Earth orbit, roughly 250 miles (400 km) above ...
The ninth flight of the Dragon spacecraft with people as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program launched March 3, 2024, for a six-month science mission aboard the International Space Station.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, Nov. 4, on the company’s 31st commercial resupply services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 9:29 p.m. EST. Dragon will deliver several new experiments ...
The Dragon spacecraft, also known as the pressurized section, allows for the transport of people as well as environmentally sensitive cargo. Dragon is equipped with Draco thrusters that allow Dragon to maneuver while on orbit and 8 SuperDracos that power the spacecraft’s launch escape system.
On Tuesday, March 5 at 2:28 a.m. ET, SpaceX’s Dragon autonomously docked with the International Space Station. Approximately 27 hours earlier at 10:53 p.m. ET on Sunday, March 3, Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft and Crew-8 to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down off the Florida Coast on Sunday, bringing an end to a historic commercial mission in which four astronauts reached new orbital heights and completed a ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Dragon spacecraft into orbit carrying NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, for a science expedition aboard the orbital laboratory.
SpaceX announced a new capability for the Dragon spacecraft on Sept. 27 in the unlikely event of a parachute failure. Dragon now has built-in redundancy to propulsively land using its...