Dragon Departure From Space Station Delayed Due to Adverse Weather

SpaceX Cargo Dragon Spacecraft Docked ISS

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft docked to the Worldwide Area Station. Credit score: NASA

On account of hostile climate situations on the focused splashdown zone off the coast of Florida, SpaceX has waived off at this time’s deliberate departure of an upgraded SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft.

SpaceX and NASA are actually concentrating on 10:40 a.m. EST on Sunday, January 23 for undocking from the Worldwide Area Station of a SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft full of greater than 4,900 kilos of invaluable scientific experiments and different cargo.

NASA Tv and the company’s web site will broadcast its departure stay starting at 10:15 a.m. EST.

ISS Configuration SpaceX Cargo Dragon

The Worldwide Area Station configuration reveals the SpaceX Cargo Dragon docked to the Concord module’s space-facing port. Credit score: NASA

Splashing down off the coast of Florida permits fast transportation of the experiments to NASA’s Area Station Processing Facility on the company’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida, permitting researchers to gather knowledge with minimal pattern publicity to Earth’s gravity.

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