The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and SpaceX resupply mission for the International Space Station has been pushed back to November 26. Weather issues caused the CRS-26 mission, which was scheduled for November 22, to be postponed. This mission marks SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company, 26th commercial resupply mission.
The agency now plans to debut on November 26 at 2:20 PM ET. The Kennedy Space Center in Florida’s Launch Complex 39A will serve as the spacecraft’s launch pad. The mission was already delayed from November 18 to November 22 because the Dragon spacecraft had a coolant leak.
7,700 pounds of supplies, machinery, and other scientific experiments will be carried by SpaceX’s Dragon spaceship. The Harmony module of the International Space Station will be reached by the spaceship on its own. The next two Roll Out Solar Arrays for the International Space Station are part of the cargo (iROSAs). The scientific laboratory on board the power is anticipated to greatly increase thanks to the arrays.
Four CubeSats from the NASA Educational Launch of Nanosatellites, or ELaNa, programme are also included. Among these is Measurement of Actuator Response in Orbit (MARIO), which will add telescopes to an existing CubeSat, Research and Education Vehicle for Evaluating Radio Broadcasts (TJREVERB), developed by high school students to test the strength of iridium radio signals, Scintillation Prediction Observation Research Task (SPORT), a joint Brazilian-American scientific investigation into the formation of plasma bubbles, and petiSAT, which will examine the impact of plasma bubbles on communication signals, GPS, and radar signals
After dropping off the payload, the Dragon spacecraft will return to the planet in a controlled fall with the reusable Falcon 9 payload.