SPACE reports, “SpaceX’s Crew-8 astronaut mission arrived at the International Space Station early Tuesday morning (March 5).” The Dragon capsule docked with the orbiting outpost at 2:28 a.m. EST, as the station soared “above the central North Atlantic just east of New Foundland at the time.”
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SpaceX/NASA – SpaceX Crew 8 – Rendezvous & Docking ISS – March 5, 2024
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Spaceflight Now reports that a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship “loaded with 7,000 pounds of supplies and equipment, including two add-on roll-out solar blankets, caught up with the International Space Station early Tuesday and moved in for a problem-free docking.” The Dragon was launched Monday from the Kennedy Space Center. The space station “is equipped with four primary solar array wings, two on each side of the power truss.” Solar cells “degrade over time and NASA is adding six IROSAs, at a cost of $103 million, to the existing power system.”
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Space News reports that at 1:34 p.m EDT Monday, Northrop Grumman’s MEV-2 satellite servicer docked “with Intelsat’s in-orbit 10-02 spacecraft.” The docking marked “the first time a satellite servicer has docked with an in-service commercial satellite in geosynchronous orbit (GEO).” The two spacecraft “will stay locked together for five years to extend the life of IS-10-02, which was running low on fuel after being in orbit since 2004.”
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SPACE reports, “A new delivery of food, fuel and supplies has arrived at the International Space Station by way of a Russian supply ship. Roscomsos’ Progress MS-30 (or Progress 91, as referred to by NASA) cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the aft port of the space station’s Zvezda service module on Saturday (March 1) as the two vehicles orbited 260 miles (418 kilometers) over the South Atlantic Ocean. The 6:02 p.m. EST (2302 GMT) link up came two days after the Progress launched from the Baikonur Cosmdrome in Kazakhstan.”
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