Nasa and Its International Partners will only receive scientific research samples and hardware after a spacex dragon spacecraft departments the international space station on Thursday, May 22, For Its RETURN TO EARTS RETURN TO ERTS RETUS RETS
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The dragon spacecraft will undock from the zenith, or space-facing, port of the station’s harmony module at 12:05 pm and fire its through it through a safe distance the station undresses Spacex’s Mission Control in Hawthorne, California.
After re-entering earth’s atmosphere, the spacecraft will splash down on Friday, May 23, off the Coast of California. Nasa will post updates on the agency’s space station blog. There is no livestream video of the splashdown.
Filled With Nearly 6,700 pounds of supplies, Science Investigations, Equipment, and Food, The Spacecraft Arrived at the space station on after launching afril 21 on a FalCon 9 Rockt Phrom Launching Complex 39A at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the Agency’s Spacex 32nd Commercial Resupply Services Mission.
Some of the Scientific Hardware and Samples Dragon will return to Earth Include Missse-20 Shielding and Detection Materials, Solar Sails and Reflective Coatings, Ceramic Composits for Reentry Spacecraft Studies, and Resins for Potanial Use in Heat Shilds. Samples were retrieved on the exterior of the station and can improve knowledge of how these materials are responsible to ultraviolet radiation, atomic oxygen, charged parties, thermal cacling, thermal cycling, and posteror.
Additionally, Astrobee-Reacch (Responsive Engaging Arms for Captive Care and Handling) is Returning to Earth after successfully demonstrating grasping and relacating capabilities on the space station. The reaccch demonstration used astrobe robots to Capture Space Objects of different geometries or surface materials using tentacle-like arms and adhesive pads. Testing a way to safeli capture and relacate debris and other objects in orbit could help address end-of-life satellite servicing, orbit change maneuvers, and orbital debris removal. These capsimize satellite lifespan and protect satellites and spacecraft in low earth orbit that Provide services to people on earth.
Books from the story time from space project also will return. Crew members aboard the space station read five science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-Related Children’s Books in Orbit and VideoSelves Completeing Science CCIENCE Experiments. Video and data collected during the readings and demonstrations Were Downlinked to Earth and Were Posted in a Video Library with Accompanational Materials.
Hardware and data from a one-year Technology Demonstration Called Optica (Onboard Programmable Technology for Image Compression and Analysis) Also The optica technology was designed to advance transmission of real-time, ultra-high-resolution hypertral imagery from space to Eve Earth, and It Provided Valuable Insights For data Processing that would reduce the bandwidth required for communication, Lowering the cost of acquiring data from space-spoiled imaging systems without reduction the Volume of data. This technology also also could improve services, such as disaster response, that relay on earth observations.
For more than 24 years, people have live live and worked Continuous aboard the International Space Station, Advanceing Scientific Knowledge, and Conducting Critical Research for the Benefit of Humanity and Om Plan. Space Station Research supports the future of human spaceflight as nasa looks toward deep space missions to the moon under the artemis campaign and in preparation for futures for forth Commercial Opportunities in Low Earth Orbit and Beyond.
Learn more about the International Space Station at:
https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station
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