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SpaceX adds abort function for Dragon cargo flights

April 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

Taking a lesson from a launch mishap last June, SpaceX wrote coded commands for future Dragon cargo capsules to deploy their parachutes for an emergency landing in the event of rocket failures, starting with Friday’s resupply flight to the International Space Station.

Timeline for the Falcon 9 rocket’s 23rd flight

April 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying nearly 7,000 pounds of supplies and experiments.

SpaceX ready to return to the space station

April 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

Ground crews loaded time-critical experiments, including 20 mice to help scientists study muscle atrophy, into SpaceX’s commercial Dragon cargo capsule Thursday, a day before a launch planned from Cape Canaveral toward the International Space Station.

Mostly clear skies predicted for Friday’s SpaceX launch

April 7, 2016 Stephen Clark

Mostly clear skies and brisk westerly winds are forecast at launch time Friday afternoon for SpaceX’s first resupply mission to the International Space Station in nearly a year.

Videos: Previewing SpaceX’s eighth International Space Station resupply launch

April 7, 2016 Justin Ray

Watch the pre-launch news conference on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket flight of the Dragon cargo craft to the International Space Station.

Dawn mission expected to go into overtime at Ceres

April 6, 2016 Stephen Clark

NASA’s robotic Dawn spacecraft is now getting its closest look at the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest resident of the asteroid belt, and mission managers say the probe has enough leftover propellant to keep flying into early 2017, several months beyond the prescribed end of its survey.

SpaceX adds abort function for Dragon cargo flights

Timeline for the Falcon 9 rocket’s 23rd flight

SpaceX ready to return to the space station

Mostly clear skies predicted for Friday’s SpaceX launch

Videos: Previewing SpaceX’s eighth International Space Station resupply launch

Dawn mission expected to go into overtime at Ceres

Static fire complete in run-up to launch of SpaceX supply ship

‘Hubble Hugger’ and chief of NASA science division to leave agency

Chinese research craft launched on two-week mission

Opportunity rover snaps photo of Martian dust devil