La nave de carga SpaceX Dragon se está alejando de la estación espacial momentos después de que se desconectara del puerto delantero del módulo Harmony durante un amanecer orbital. Crédito: televisión de la NASA
A las 11:00 a. m. EDT (8:00 a. m. PDT) del viernes 19 de agosto, los controladores de vuelo en tierra enviaron órdenes para liberar a los no tripulantes.[{» attribute=»»>SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module. The station was flying about 259 miles over the Pacific Ocean at the time of release at 11:05 a.m.
The Dragon spacecraft successfully departed the space station one month after arriving at the orbiting laboratory to deliver about 5,800 pounds of cargo and crew supplies, including around 4,000 pounds of scientific investigations.
Today, ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will command a deorbit burn. After re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, the spacecraft will make a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida. NASA TV will not broadcast the de-orbit burn and splashdown, and updates will be posted on the agency’s space station blog.
Dragon arrived at the space station on July 16, following a launch two days earlier on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the company’s 25th commercial resupply services mission to the space station for NASA.
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