Nasa Invites Media To Next Spacex Resupply Launch To Infinite Station
Media accreditation is open for SpaceX'second 28th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on the company'second Falcon ix rocket is targeted no before than 12:34 p.thousand. EDT Sat, June three, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA'second Kennedy Space Center inward Florida.
SpaceX'second Dragon volition deliver novel science investigations, nutrient, supplies, and equipment for the international crew, including the side by side duad of IROSAs (International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays). These solar panels, which gyre out using stored kinetic free energy, volition expand the energy-production capabilities of the infinite station. This will be the tertiary set up launching inward the SpaceX Dragon's trunk, in addition to once installed, will aid render a xx% to 30% increase in power for infinite station enquiry as well as operations.
Media prelaunch in addition to launch activities volition accept home at Kennedy. Attendance for this launch is open up to U.southward. citizens. U.due south. media must employ by xi:59 p.k. Mon, May 15. Media wishing to have part in individual must apply for credentials at:
https://media.ksc.nasa.gov
Credentialed media volition receive a confirmation e-mail upon blessing. NASA's media accreditation policy is available online. For questions about accreditation, or to asking exceptional logistical needs, please email ksc-media-accreditat@postal service.nasa.gov. For other questions, please contact Kennedy'second newsroom at: 321-867-2468.
To advance climate monitoring efforts, students from York University inward Toronto, Ontario, are providing a photographic camera that volition find snow in addition to water ice coverage in northern Canada. Other investigations launching include Genes inwards Space-x, a educatee-designed deoxyribonucleic acid experiment sponsored by ISS National Laboratory, in addition to the adjacent generation of seeds for NASA'second Plant Habitat-03, which studies plant adaptation to the infinite surround.
Cargo resupply by U.south. companies significantly increases NASA'second ability to comport more investigations aboard the orbiting laboratory. Those investigations Pb to new technologies, medical treatments, together with products that improve life on globe. Other U.due south. regime agencies, individual manufacture, together with academic together with enquiry institutions tin likewise comport microgravity inquiry through our partnership amongst the ISS National Laboratory.
Humans have occupied the space station continuously since Nov 2000. In that time, 266 people too a multifariousness of international together with commercial spacecraft have visited the orbital outpost. It remains the springboard to NASA's next slap-up spring in exploration, including time to come missions to the Moon nether Artemis, as well as ultimately, human being exploration of Mars.
For more data nigh commercial resupply missions, see:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialresupply
SOURCE NASA
SpaceX'second Dragon volition deliver novel science investigations, nutrient, supplies, and equipment for the international crew, including the side by side duad of IROSAs (International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays). These solar panels, which gyre out using stored kinetic free energy, volition expand the energy-production capabilities of the infinite station. This will be the tertiary set up launching inward the SpaceX Dragon's trunk, in addition to once installed, will aid render a xx% to 30% increase in power for infinite station enquiry as well as operations.
Media prelaunch in addition to launch activities volition accept home at Kennedy. Attendance for this launch is open up to U.southward. citizens. U.due south. media must employ by xi:59 p.k. Mon, May 15. Media wishing to have part in individual must apply for credentials at:
https://media.ksc.nasa.gov
Credentialed media volition receive a confirmation e-mail upon blessing. NASA's media accreditation policy is available online. For questions about accreditation, or to asking exceptional logistical needs, please email ksc-media-accreditat@postal service.nasa.gov. For other questions, please contact Kennedy'second newsroom at: 321-867-2468.
To advance climate monitoring efforts, students from York University inward Toronto, Ontario, are providing a photographic camera that volition find snow in addition to water ice coverage in northern Canada. Other investigations launching include Genes inwards Space-x, a educatee-designed deoxyribonucleic acid experiment sponsored by ISS National Laboratory, in addition to the adjacent generation of seeds for NASA'second Plant Habitat-03, which studies plant adaptation to the infinite surround.
Cargo resupply by U.south. companies significantly increases NASA'second ability to comport more investigations aboard the orbiting laboratory. Those investigations Pb to new technologies, medical treatments, together with products that improve life on globe. Other U.due south. regime agencies, individual manufacture, together with academic together with enquiry institutions tin likewise comport microgravity inquiry through our partnership amongst the ISS National Laboratory.
Humans have occupied the space station continuously since Nov 2000. In that time, 266 people too a multifariousness of international together with commercial spacecraft have visited the orbital outpost. It remains the springboard to NASA's next slap-up spring in exploration, including time to come missions to the Moon nether Artemis, as well as ultimately, human being exploration of Mars.
For more data nigh commercial resupply missions, see:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialresupply
SOURCE NASA
