Update update : everything looks good for a launch today !
Update : Due to a helium wetting , today ’s launch has been junk . It is tentatively scheduled for 3:25 pm EDT on Friday , assuming they can decide the trouble by then .
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Today at 3.25 EDT , SpaceX is launching a Falcon 9 rocketfrom Cape Canaveral in Florida that will bring provision to the ISS . The Dragon capsule will tail with the ISS on Wednesday . This launching appointment has been pushed back several times due to hardware issue , but so far , everything look good and thelaunch is currently a go .
There are a few awesome things associated with this mission : the payload itself , and what to do with the rocket after the ejection seat detaches .
Astronauts onboard the ISS will soon be able togrow their own vegetablesin space using a specialised system of light-emitting diode light . If successful , this will aid cosmonaut not only at the ISS in addition to future long - term missions to Mars and beyond . send off seeded player rather than prepackaged food will not only scale down the cargo sent up to astronauts ( which reduce cost ) . It will also give astronauts better nutrition as well as the relaxation relate with tend the garden .
Various high-pitched - definition cameras will be sent to the astronauts for the use of take videos of the Earth . It will then be decided which camera(s ) is(are ) superior and will retain to be used .
The most amazing payload being plunge today is theOptical Payload for Lasercomm Science(OPALS ) arrangement . Communication between the ISS and Earth are done using radio frequencies , but this new system will use optical maser . Some advantages ( aside from the fact that communicating through lasers is incredibly cool ) are that more selective information will be able to be sent in a beam , as optical maser have substantially shorter wavelength than radiocommunication waves , and it does n’t expend much power .
After delivering the freight , the rocket itself has a self-aggrandizing test in advance of it : the ability to safely land back on Earth . SpaceX has been work toward a rocket salad that is reclaimable and can land on a Seth of legs as on the dot as it can take off . There have been trials of this system of rules pass water small launch ( going less than a klick into the aviation ) but this is the next step in making the landing gear wheel operative .
For this launching , however , the team is n’t even attempt to reuse the rocket ; they just require to make certain the landing legs will deploy when they are supposed to . The rocket will set ashore in the Atlantic Ocean , so there is virtually no risk if the visitation does n’t bring . Realistically , the odds of this landing place being successful are pretty modest at only 30 - 40 % . No matter what the upshot of the visitation , the scientists will gain info to keep move forward toward a reusable Eruca vesicaria sativa .
