Private SpaceX Dragon ship successfully docked to the ISS

Yesterday at 18:06 MSK transport ship Dragon production company SpaceX осуществил successful docking with the International Space Station. To get closer to the station, the ships had to carry out a number of additional maneuvers, including its engine at short intervals. At 15:14 MSK was activated robotic arm on the ISS running Koichi Wakata Japanese astronaut and US astronaut Rick Mastracchio. Hand pulled the ship to the module "Harmony" on the ISS.

This is the fourth case where the "Dragon" successfully performs a maneuver, so that in the future he may well claim to be the main transport vessel for cargo delivery to the ISS.

"Dragon" delivered to the space station nearly 2300 kg of cargo: it's food for astronauts and equipment for the множества scientific experiments , including seedlings to grow in conditions of weightlessness and a mini-satellite smartphone running.



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Docking with the ISS - not only the success of the "Dragon." Its launch was a test for the reusable rocket Falcon 9 production by the same company SpaceX. After sending module into orbit the first stage rocket successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, and is suitable for further use. This is a great success for the project, which developers withdrawn probability of 30-40%.

On the video shows the test launch of the Falcon 9 to a height of 250 meters, followed by a touchdown, and the real launch to the ISS.





Source: habrahabr.ru/post/220257/