Crew-6 to launch this Monday
Crew-6 – consisting of 4 crew members – is already at Kennedy Area Heart in Florida this week. They’re making ready to launch to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) – driving aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, powered by a Falcon 9 rocket – on Monday, February 27, 2023.
It’ll be NASA’s sixth mission to ISS utilizing a SpaceX Dragon.
You’ll be able to watch the launch – at present set for 6:45 UTC (1:45 a.m. EST) on February 27 – by way of the livestream at this link or within the video participant beneath.
ISS arrival the following day
Following launch, Dragon ought to arrive at ISS on Tuesday, February 28. It then takes a few hours earlier than docking is full, and the crew can be a part of the crew already aboard ISS.
The crew of 4 plans to remain on the ISS for roughly seven months.
The final Crew mission, Crew-5, efficiently carried 4 astronauts to the ISS in October 2022.
Area station woes
So crew transport is progressing. However ISS itself has had its share of woes over the previous months. First a Soyuz spacecraft, after safely delivering three astronauts to ISS in September, began leaking coolant whereas docked with the space station. Then a Progress provide craft docked on the ISS started leaking coolant in February. It’s doable that micrometeoroids – tiny bits of rock or different materials in space, crashing into ISS – are guilty.
“Exterior impression” blamed for coolant loss (…once more, this time on the Progress MS-21 cargo ship).
DETAILS: https://t.co/QA5zHmYE03 pic.twitter.com/h7GWfWPJuJ— Anatoly Zak (@RussianSpaceWeb) February 21, 2023
Backside line: Crew-6 will launch to the Worldwide Area Station on February 27, 2023. The 4 crew members arrived at Kennedy Area Heart on February 21.
