Created 25-Aug-25
Modified 25-Aug-25
Visitors 5
9 photos
excerpts from Spaceflightnow.com:
A Cargo Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket in the early hours Sunday morning to begin a day-long journey to the International Space Station. It carried with it more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and science experiment supplies for the astronauts onboard and a new propulsion package for orbit raising maneuvers.
The launch marks SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-33) mission to the orbiting outpost. Docking at the forward port of the Harmony module is anticipated on Monday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 UTC), marking the 50th Dragon vehicle to reach the ISS.
“These missions have flown well over 300,000 pounds of cargo and supplies to the orbiting lab and well over 1,000 science and research projects that are not only helping us to understand how to live and work effectively in space, …but also directly contributing to critical research that serves our lives here on Earth,” said Sarah Walker, SpaceX’s director of Dragon Mission Management.
The Cargo Dragon spacecraft, serial number C211, making its third trip to the ISS, will be onboard when NASA and it’s international partners mark 25 years of continuous human presence in low Earth orbit about the station.
C211 will remain docked to the space station for nearly five months, marking SpaceX’s first, long-duration cargo mission. The main reason for this is to all Dragon to perform multiple orbital reboosts of the ISS to keep it in its desired position.
Full story here:
A Cargo Dragon spacecraft from SpaceX lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket in the early hours Sunday morning to begin a day-long journey to the International Space Station. It carried with it more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and science experiment supplies for the astronauts onboard and a new propulsion package for orbit raising maneuvers.
The launch marks SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-33) mission to the orbiting outpost. Docking at the forward port of the Harmony module is anticipated on Monday, Aug. 25, at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 UTC), marking the 50th Dragon vehicle to reach the ISS.
“These missions have flown well over 300,000 pounds of cargo and supplies to the orbiting lab and well over 1,000 science and research projects that are not only helping us to understand how to live and work effectively in space, …but also directly contributing to critical research that serves our lives here on Earth,” said Sarah Walker, SpaceX’s director of Dragon Mission Management.
The Cargo Dragon spacecraft, serial number C211, making its third trip to the ISS, will be onboard when NASA and it’s international partners mark 25 years of continuous human presence in low Earth orbit about the station.
C211 will remain docked to the space station for nearly five months, marking SpaceX’s first, long-duration cargo mission. The main reason for this is to all Dragon to perform multiple orbital reboosts of the ISS to keep it in its desired position.
Full story here:
© Dennis Huff
