Astronauts on board the International Space Station captured this footage of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule carrying NASA crew members to safety after their Falcon 9 rocket failed. After taking off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday morning around 6:46 am EST (11:46 UTC), the spacecraft exploded 69 seconds later during launch. This is reportedly both SpaceX and NASA’s first ever loss of a mission in over 10 years.,
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5:20 p.m. ET, November 10, 2021
5:20 p.m. ET, November 10, 2021
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Reporting about the space program.
The weather in Florida isn’t looking ideal right now, but the rain clouds are expected to clear before the launch time of 9:03 p.m., with a 70 percent chance of success.
5:13 p.m. ET on November 10, 2021
5:13 p.m. ET on November 10, 2021
Joey Roulette
Reporting about the space program.
Inside a NASA building at Kennedy Space Center, the four astronauts are getting ready to launch. They’ll get into the backs of two white Tesla sedans in the next hour and go to the launch pad.
5:03 p.m. ET on November 10, 2021
5:03 p.m. ET on November 10, 2021
The I.S.S. as seen from the Dragon Crew-2 spacecraft as it undocked on Monday, as shown on NASA TV. NASA/Associated Press/NASA/NASA/NASA/NASA/NASA/NASA/NASA
The International Space Station was compelled to adjust itself on Wednesday, approximately six hours before NASA’s Crew-3 mission went into orbit, to avoid a piece of debris created by a Chinese antisatellite missile test in 2007.
The trash was supposed to crash into the “pizza box,” a square-shaped zone 2.5 miles deep and 30 miles wide with the station smack dab in the centre. NASA officials maintain a careful check on the zone, utilizing data models from the US Orbit Command on the placement of objects in space.
When the zone was threatened, the agency collaborated with Russia’s space agency in Moscow to deploy thrusters that lifted the zone’s height by just under a mile.
During a press conference on Tuesday, NASA’s space station manager, Joel Montalbano, said, “It simply makes sense to go ahead and execute this burn and put this behind us so we can secure the safety of the crew.”
The debris comes from China’s Fengyun-1C meteorological satellite, which launched in 1999 and was deactivated in 2002 but still orbited. In 2007, China launched a ground-based ballistic missile against the defunct satellite, destroying it and scattering nearly 3,000 pieces of debris. At the time, the missile launch prompted criticism from the US and other nations.
According to Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who watches space objects, the satellite’s debris was projected to pass near to the space station this coming Thursday night. However, now that the station is relocated, the risk of a collision is negligible.
A significant component of the debris cloud will likely remain in orbit for decades, posing a hazard to the space station and other missions.
Since its development started a year ago in 1999, the station has performed 29 such operations. In certain cases, astronauts were forced to board their spacecraft and prepare for an emergency escape in the event that the space station was attacked and damaged.
Antisatellite experiments have only been conducted by the United States, Russia, China, and India. The most recent was in 2019, when India detonated a bomb on a defunct satellite to demonstrate its capacity to send military power into space.
The SpaceX mission to the International Space Station in April, which carried four astronauts from NASA, Japan, and France, had a space debris scare. The astronauts were warned by SpaceX mission control that a piece of space debris was expected to fly past the capsule, but nothing came near, and the crew arrived at the space station safely on April 24.
The signal was the result of a “reporting mistake,” according to US Space Command, and “there was never a collision hazard since there was no object at risk of colliding with the spacecraft.” Nonetheless, the event reignited debate about the rising hazard of space trash and other objects in low-Earth orbit.
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4:08 p.m. ET on November 10, 2021
4:08 p.m. ET on November 10, 2021
On Wednesday, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was positioned on the launchpad. Credit… NASA/EPA/Joel Kowsky/Shutterstock
The astronauts on the Crew Dragon are slated to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at 9:03 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. Beginning at 4:45 p.m., NASA will provide a webcast of the launch on NASA TV and its YouTube account.
Crew Dragon is planned to arrive at the space station around 7:10 p.m. on Thursday, and the live broadcast will continue until then. The astronauts will join the station soon after and participate in a live-streamed greeting ceremony to meet the station’s present residents at 9:20 p.m.
According to Space Force weather experts, the weather near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Falcon 9 will launch from, is projected to be good for an on-time liftoff, with just a 30% possibility of severe weather that may cause a delay.
But, as Will Ulrich, a launch weather officer with the Space Force’s 45th Space Wing at Cape Canaveral, Fla., put it, “it’s not simply what occurs on the launchpad.”
Officials also keep an eye on weather conditions along the route Falcon 9 uses to reach to space, which runs north along the East Coast and is known as the ascension corridor. If Crew Dragon’s emergency abort mechanism is activated to rescue the astronauts from a malfunction with the rocket after launch, the capsule must land in favorable weather somewhere in that corridor.
“Unfortunately, those circumstances are a bit less favorable,” Mr. Ulrich projected. “My partners are going to be keeping an eye on that climb corridor.”
The Crew-3 launch would be moved back to Thursday or Friday night if weather conditions along the ascent route worsened.
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4:08 p.m. ET on November 10, 2021
4:08 p.m. ET on November 10, 2021
Matthias Maurer, Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, from left, on Tuesday. Credit… NASA/EPA/Joel Kowsky/Shutterstock
According to NASA statistics, three of the four astronauts on Crew-3 are travelling to space for the first time, bringing the total number of people who have visited space to over 600.
The mission’s commander, Raja Chari, is 44 years old and will be the fifth astronaut of Indian heritage to journey to space – and the 599th person overall. He was a test pilot and an Air Force colonel who flew combat flights in Iraq before joining NASA’s astronaut corps in 2017. He was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and studied aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Matthias Maurer, Crew-3’s mission specialist, is a European Space Agency-affiliated German astronaut. After working as a paramedic, a materials scientist, and an engineer, Mr. Maurer, 51, joined the European astronaut corps in 2015. He spent 16 days onboard Aquarius, a research and training habitat for future space flights that rests 62 feet below the ocean’s surface in the Florida Keys, alongside a group of other astronauts and scientists in 2016.
Mr. Maurer will be the 600th human to enter space, having been appointed as Crew-3’s first mission specialist.
In 2017, Kayla Barron, 34, also became a member of NASA’s astronaut corps. She earned a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 2010, and a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Cambridge a year later. She was one of the first women to serve on a Navy submarine and served as an officer on three trips aboard a ballistic missile submarine.
She will be the 601st person to enter space, as well as a mission expert.
Ms. Barron and Mr. Chari are both members of NASA’s Artemis astronaut corps, a group of 18 astronauts who are eligible to fly to or near the moon as part of NASA’s multibillion-dollar plan to establish a lunar outpost and test technology for future Mars trips.
Tom Marshburn, 61, will be Crew-3’s fourth astronaut, and will go on his third trip to space after joining NASA’s astronaut corps in 2004. Mr. Marshburn has already traveled on two spacecraft, first on NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2009 and then aboard Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft in 2013.
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