NASA’s SpaceX Dragon cargo freighter, loaded with approximately 5,000 pounds of scientific experiments and other cargo from the International Space Station, will depart Tuesday, July 6, bound for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday, July 8, completing the company’s 22nd commercial resupply services mission for NASA.Live coverage of the departure will begin at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 6, on NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app. NASA will not provide coverage of the splashdown.Ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will command Dragon to undock from the space-facing port on the station’s Harmony module at 11 a.m., with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough monitoring aboard the station. The cargo craft will physically separate from the station five minutes later before firing its thrusters to move a safe distance away prior to a deorbit burn that will begin its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Dragon is expected to make its parachute-assisted splashdown around 12 a.m. Thursday, July 8.Splashing down off the coast of Florida enables quick transportation of the science aboard the capsule to NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and back into the hands of the researchers. This shorter transportation timeframe allows researchers to collect data with minimal sample exposure to gravity.
July 7, Wednesdaya.m. – Coverage of the undocking of the SpaceX CRS-22 cargo craft from the International Space Station; undocking scheduled at 11:05 a.m. EDT (All Channels)
The next US EVA (2 ?) will take place in August
Quote from: vp. on 07/02/2021 08:57 amThe next US EVA (2 ?) will take place in AugustYes, one EVA in August for preparation to 4A IROSA installation.
So :- One EVA for préparation to 4A Irosa (supports in Cygnus ?)- One EVA for Bartolomeo activation- One EVA for 6R (RS-node) power inverter
Northrop Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket for no earlier than 5:55 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 10, from Pad-0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island.
NASA Television Upcoming Events:QuoteJuly 21, Wednesday10:30 a.m. - Coverage of the Launch of the “Nauka” Multipurpose Laboratory Module to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Launch is scheduled at 10:58 a.m. EDT)July 29, Thursday8:30 a.m. - Coverage of the Docking of the “Nauka” Multipurpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station (Docking scheduled at 9:25 a.m. EDT) (All Channels)launch scheduled:July 21, 2021 at 14:58 GMT;docking scheduled:July 29, 2021 at 15:25 GMT;
July 21, Wednesday10:30 a.m. - Coverage of the Launch of the “Nauka” Multipurpose Laboratory Module to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Launch is scheduled at 10:58 a.m. EDT)July 29, Thursday8:30 a.m. - Coverage of the Docking of the “Nauka” Multipurpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station (Docking scheduled at 9:25 a.m. EDT) (All Channels)
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Wednesday, July 21, for Crew Dragon Endeavour’s International Space Station port relocation operation. Kimbrough, McArthur, Hoshide Pesquet will suit up in their launch and entry spacesuits for Crew Dragon’s automated relocation maneuver from the forward to the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module. The maneuver frees up the forward port to prepare for the arrival of NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission at the microgravity laboratory at the end of July.
July 23, Friday8:45 a.m. – Coverage of the undocking of the Progress 77 cargo craft and the Pirs docking compartment from the International Space Station; undocking scheduled at 9:17 a.m. EDT (All Channels)
In accordance with the State Commission decision, the Proton-M carrier rocket with the new Nauka laboratory module is scheduled to launch from Site 200 of the Baikonur cosmodrome on July 21, 2021 at 14:58:21 UTC. Reserve dates: July 22 and 23. Its flight to the International Space Station will take 8 days, and docking to the nadir port of the Zvezda service module is scheduled for July 29, expected at 13:26 UTC. In this regard, undocking of the Progress MS-16 cargo vehicle with the Pirs docking module is scheduled for July 23 (subject to the Nauka launch on July 21). Four hours after undocking, the Progress is to enter the dense layers of the atmosphere and non-combustible structural elements of the ship and the module will sink in the non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean.
International Space Station@Space_StationThe @SpaceX #CargoDragon vehicle undocked from the station today at 10:45am ET. It returns to Earth on Friday at 11:29pm. More... https://go.nasa.gov/3xrpTNz
The capsule will fire its Draco thrusters at 10:45 p.m. EDT (0245 GMT) for a nine-minute deorbit burn to slow the craft’s velocity enough to drop back into the atmosphere.After plunging through the atmosphere, with a heat shield to protect against scorching temperatures, the Dragon capsule will deploy four parachutes a few minutes before splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico at 11:29 p.m. EDT (0329 GMT).
And a Falcon 9 will launch the cargo Dragon CRS-23 resupply mission to the ISS from pad 39A on mid-late August around 5-6am EDT
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet will board the Crew Dragon spacecraft about 4:30 a.m. and undock from the forward port of the station’s Harmony module at 6:45 a.m. The spacecraft will dock again at the station’s space-facing port at 7:32 a.m.
Date: Fall 2021Mission: SpaceX Commercial Resupply Mission-23Description: The next flight in the series of SpaceX cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station. Launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
