SpaceX's Dragon Company successfully launched and headed for the ISS
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Today, at 4:35 Moscow time, Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, successfully launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle from a spaceport at the US Air Force Base Cape Canaveral in Florida, which launched the spacecraft Dragon into space. This launch was the first of 12 launches launched by SpaceX under a contract with NASA.
The 50-meter Falcon 9 launch vehicle successfully broke away from the launch pad, “pierced” the partially cloudy sky and went along a wide arc over the oceans to a “meeting” with the International Space Station (ISS). The cargo compartment of the Dragon spacecraft is filled with 400 kilograms of cargo for the ISS, including food, clothing, scientific instruments and some equipment for the space station, including a specialized refrigerator in which some medical samples will be delivered from orbit to Earth. But a cargo of chocolate-vanilla ice cream was sent to the orbit in this refrigerator for the crew.
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Recall that in May of this year, SpaceX carried out a trial launch of the Dragon spacecraft, which arrived and successfully docked with the space station. With this successful test, the company provided the “green light” to the contract with NASA in the amount of $ 1.6 billion, under which 12 flights of Dragon cargo spacecraft will be made, which will deliver various cargoes to the ISS and back to Earth.
Since the completion of the Space Shuttle program, which took place last year, Russian, European and Japanese cargo space ships have been supplying the ISS with cargo. Now, America can be added to this list in the person of SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corp., whose Antares launch vehicle will have to go into space later this year.
If the entire flight of the Dragon spacecraft passes according to a pre-planned scenario, the spacecraft will be loaded with a ton of spent scientific equipment, the results of experiments and will be sent back to Earth on October 28, 2012.
Today, at 4:35 Moscow time, Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, successfully launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle from a spaceport at the US Air Force Base Cape Canaveral in Florida, which launched the spacecraft Dragon into space. This launch was the first of 12 launches launched by SpaceX under a contract with NASA.
The 50-meter Falcon 9 launch vehicle successfully broke away from the launch pad, “pierced” the partially cloudy sky and went along a wide arc over the oceans to a “meeting” with the International Space Station (ISS). The cargo compartment of the Dragon spacecraft is filled with 400 kilograms of cargo for the ISS, including food, clothing, scientific instruments and some equipment for the space station, including a specialized refrigerator in which some medical samples will be delivered from orbit to Earth. But a cargo of chocolate-vanilla ice cream was sent to the orbit in this refrigerator for the crew.
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Recall that in May of this year, SpaceX carried out a trial launch of the Dragon spacecraft, which arrived and successfully docked with the space station. With this successful test, the company provided the “green light” to the contract with NASA in the amount of $ 1.6 billion, under which 12 flights of Dragon cargo spacecraft will be made, which will deliver various cargoes to the ISS and back to Earth.
Since the completion of the Space Shuttle program, which took place last year, Russian, European and Japanese cargo space ships have been supplying the ISS with cargo. Now, America can be added to this list in the person of SpaceX and Orbital Sciences Corp., whose Antares launch vehicle will have to go into space later this year.
If the entire flight of the Dragon spacecraft passes according to a pre-planned scenario, the spacecraft will be loaded with a ton of spent scientific equipment, the results of experiments and will be sent back to Earth on October 28, 2012.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/154051/
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