NASA said on Saturday that the launch of four astronauts on the International Space Station on SpaceX’s first operational crew, the Dragon Mission, has been delayed since Oct. 31. “In early November – not early,” time will be given to resolve the issue with SpaceX. The Falcon 9 rocket engines that recently blocked an attempt to launch from a GPS navigation satellite.
Engine Concerns GPS at Cape Canaveral on October 2. Appeared during the launch attempt of the Falcon 9 rocket with satellite, controlling the computer the last second of the calculation to leave the mission just two seconds before the liftoff.
Aaron Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, tweeted after the abortion that the countdown was shut down after an “unexpected increase in pressure in a turbomachine gas generator”, referring to equipment used on the rocket’s Merlin’s main engines. The gas generators on the Merlin 1D engine run the turbopumps of the engines.
While the Falcon 9, the US space force’s next GPS navigation satellite, has been the launching ground, SpaceX advanced with the launch of a separate Falcon 9 rocket on October 6, from the neighborhood at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. That mission has successfully put 60 more Starlink Internet satellites into orbit.
In a statement on Saturday, NASA said the crew dragon launch delay Oct Oct. Space1 to SpaceX will allow more time to complete “hardware testing and data reviews, as the company will evaluate the negligible behavior of Falcon 9 first-stage engine gas generators observed during recent non-mission attempts to launch a NASA mission.”
The crew will use the same type of Falcon 9 rocket that Dragon Mission launches GPS and Starlink.
NASA said it has a “complete understanding” of SpaceX’s launch and test data. SpaceX has developed the Crew Dragon spacecraft and flew the capsule under the guise of a millionaire dollar deal with NASA.
“We have a strong working relationship with the SpaceX partner,” said Kathy Luders, associate administrator at NASA’s Directorate of Human Exploration and Operations. “SpaceX does SpaceX missions, it really gives us an incredible insight into this business system and helps us make informed decisions about the status of our mission. Teams are actively working on this discovery on engines, and we should be a lot smarter in the coming weeks. “
NASA Commander Mike Hopkins, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Shannon Waker and Japanese astronaut Sochi Noguchi will board the Crew Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station, and will embark on a journey that will last about six months. A four-person crew will explode from Pad 39 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The crew named their crew Dragon spaceship “Resilience”.
The reusable crew capsule was secured from October 2 in its costly unprepared trunk section at SpaceX’s processing facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Hopkins and his crumates will join NASA flight engineer Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryazikov and Sergei Kud-Sverkov on the space station. Ryzykov, Kud-Sverkov and Rubins are scheduled to launch on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday.
The first operational Crew Dragon flight, named Crew-1, follows a 64-day Crew Dragon demonstration mission with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behneken. Hurley and Behnek set sail for the space station on May 300 and returned to Earth with a splash down in the Gulf of Mexico on Mexico Gust On, following the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. The astronauts orbited from the spaceport.
In the books now with test flights, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is preparing to launch a series of regular crew rotation flights to the space station, ending NASA’s sole reliance on the Russian Soyuz mission for crew transport.
The launch of the US-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freelich oceanographic satellite on the Falcon 9 rocket is due to take place on November 10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA said on Saturday. According to NASA, the Dragon Ripley mission to the space station is targeted to launch from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in late November or early December.
The space agency said on Saturday that NASA and SpaceX would use data from the company’s hardware tests and reviews to ensure that this crucial mission is carried out with the highest level of security.
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