A SpaceX cargo capsule is about to move again towards Earth this morning (Dec. 6), and you’ll watch the motion reside.
A robotic Dragon freighter will undock from the Worldwide House Station’s (ISS) Concord module as we speak at 11:05 a.m. EST (1605 GMT), if all goes in response to plan.
NASA will stream the departure reside, starting at 10:50 a.m. EST (1550 GMT). House.com will carry the feed as properly, if the company makes it out there.
This Dragon is flying SpaceX’s thirty first contracted ISS resupply mission for NASA, which explains the flight’s title: CRS-31. The capsule delivered about 6,000 kilos (2,700 kilograms) of meals, tools and scientific experiments to the station on Nov. 5.
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Dragon will carry cargo down from the ISS as we speak as properly — “1000’s of kilos of provides and scientific experiments designed to make the most of the house station’s microgravity surroundings,” NASA officers wrote in a CRS-31 undocking preview.
Dragon is the one operational ISS freighter that may do such two-way deliveries. The others — Northop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft and Russia’s Progress automobile — deplete in Earth’s ambiance when their cargo missions are finished.
The CRS-31 Dragon is predicted to splash down off the coast of Florida on Saturday (Dec. 7), enabling “fast transportation of the experiments to NASA’s House Techniques Processing Facility at Kennedy House Heart,” as company officers wrote within the replace.
NASA won’t livestream Dragon’s splashdown, however somewhat give updates through its ISS weblog.
