JAKARTA – SpaceX will again try to launch Crew Resupply Mission 28 or CRS-28 to the International Space Station (ISS), June 5 at 23:47 EDT (10:47 WIB).
This cargo delivery mission will be launched from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States (US) using SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft.
The launch was supposed to take place Sunday June 4th, but due to strong winds in the recovery zone booster then postponed. Dragon is scheduled to arrive at the ISS at 5:50 a.m. Tuesday, June 6, and will dock autonomously to the zenith port of module station Harmony.
CRS-28 will supply more than 7,000 pounds of equipment, supplies needed by astronauts on the ISS, hardware for the coming months, and science experiments being developed by agencies, companies, and organizations from around the world.
In addition, CRS-28 will also carry an IROSA (Space Station International Roll Out Solar Arrays) next, with the first line of arrays rolling out in November 2022 and deploying the following month.
One of the science experiments carried by CRS-28 is Thor belonging to the European Space Agency (ESS). Thor will observe thunderstorms in Earth’s atmosphere from 250 kilometers above the surface. Thor’s goal was to measure the frequency and height of the blue discharges produced by internal phenomena and structures in thunderstorms.
There are also experiments Genes in Space-10, is a student-designed DNA experiment supported by the ISS National Laboratory. With these experiments, students in grades seven through 12 can design DNA experiments that can address the challenges of space exploration and answer questions like “Can we detect new life forms?” and “Can living organisms help us colonize new worlds?”.
The new seeds were also brought in by the CRS-28 mission for NASA’s plant habitat project, an experiment used to investigate plant growth in a microgravity environment.
Habitat aims to verify the adaptation of various plants to extraterrestrial environments and study the specific ways plants learn to thrive in a zero-gravity environment. The experiment will also determine whether humans can pre-adapt plants for prolonged spaceflight.
Another payload that will launch aboard the CRS-28 is the Moonlighter 3U cube, built by The Aerospace Corporation. Moonlighter will be the first hacking testbed in space, serving as a sandbox allowing cybersecurity experts to test and attempt to hack cubesat software in space.
In addition to the Moonlighter, the Canadian Space Agency will deploy five cubes designed by students from the ISS. One of York University’s cubesats, named Essence, will observe Arctic ice for climate research using a lensed camera fisheye.
Finally, IRIS NanoRacks will observe weathering of geological samples under cosmic radiation and exposure to direct solar radiation. This tool can help geologists better understand the forces of the Earth’s surface and the forces experienced by satellites while flying in space.
Dragon is expected to spend about a month attached to the ISS outpost, before he returns to Earth with research and returns cargo, landing off the coast of Florida.
However, weather officials with the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron are currently estimating a 30 percent chance of favorable weather conditions for launch.
The main weather problems are the cumulus cloud rule, flight through participation, and the surface electric field rule. This was quoted from Nasa Space Flight, Monday, June 5.
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2023-06-05 03:30:00
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