SpaceX Dragon Capsule to be launched by NASA in late August
It would be the 23rd commercial supply mission of the orbital laboratory that will transport a variety of scientific material and supplies to the ISS
NASA reported that on Saturday, August 28 at 3:37 a.m., a Falcon 9 rocket will take off from a Kennedy Space Center platform, with the cargo capsule at its peak.
The twenty-third commercial supply mission of the laboratory aims to transfer a variety of scientific materials and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), which will be carried out through a Dragon box from SpaceX.
Materials that provide protection from radiation will also be transferred, such as “concrete, fiberglass composites and substances that can offer radiation protection to investigate how they respond to the harsh environment of space.”
According to the information released by NASA, with the transfer of these materials, a “study on the prevention and treatment of bone density loss” may be carried out. In addition, it will be developed a study that will allow the examination of some “diagnostic devices that could detect and mitigate vision disorders.”
This takeoff after the final suspension of the Starliner capsule, recently carried out, due to the detection of faiilure in 13 valves of the propulsion system. But the engineers decided “they decided to disassemble the capsule of the Atlas V rocket to transfer it to a ship where they would open four of those valves that still remained closed, and to carry out a “deep analysis.”
M. Rodríguez
Source: Forbes.com
