The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft lifted off on the company's Falcon 9 rocket at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) on time from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Among the cargo is the first of two international docking adapters, which will allow U.S. commercial spacecraft to doc...
The Crew Dragon capsule docked autonomously with the station 420 kilometers above the Indian Ocean, a day after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Footage from NASA TV showed the capsule floating toward the ISS before slowly docking with it. The new arrivals will spend six m...
The two astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, took over manual control for a while, firing the thrusters (进器) to adjust the position of the spacecraft. They then turned control back to an onboard computer for the final steps, 5.(引起)docking at 10: 30 a.m. Eastern Daylig...
SpaceX delays launch of new docking port to the International Space Station Update, July 24 at 6:24 PM ET: SpaceX was forced to delay the launch due to bad weather over the launch site. The company will try again tomorrow, Thursday... AVGA Vishwanathan - 《Mechanical Systems & Signal ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Crew Dragon capsule, is launched carrying four astronauts on a NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 23, 2021.Joe Skipper/Reuters ...
The second step was developing advanced space flight techniques and technologies including extra-vehicular activity and orbital docking. This phase included the launch of Tiangong-1, a transitional platform to test the docking technology, and the Tiangong-2 space lab. So far, a total of 16 major...
India successfully launches SpaDeX docking test flight (Image credit: ISRO) The India Space Research Organisation has successfully launched its twin Space Docking Experiment satellites to kick off a first-ever docking test for the country. The launch occurred on time at 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GM...
Dragon is also toting acrucial docking adapter, which will allow future crewed spacecraft — including the manned version of Dragon, which is scheduled to begin flying astronauts next year — to link up with the ISS more easily, NASA officials have said. ...
launch of Mengtian and its following rendezvous and docking with the space station combination would offer a perfect period for the in-orbit building and assembly stage for the China Space Station, and henceforth the space station would become fully operational with two space labs, space observers...
The Long March-5B has the largest fairing of China's carrier rockets, specially designed to carry the space station modules. A rotary separation scheme ensures the fairing can separate from the payloads safely in space. To meet the requirements of rendezvous and docking of the modules, the Lo...