The docking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft with a commercial crew from the International Space Station has been postponed for the second time and will now occur on February 6 at the earliest. SpaceX announced this on social media. X (formerly Twitter).
The weather off the coast of Florida remains unfavorable for the Dragon and Ax-3 crews to return to Earth safely, the company said.
On February 3, SpaceX announced that the Crew Dragon will depart the International Space Station with a commercial crew and return to Earth no later than February 5 due to adverse conditions of entry into the dense layers of the atmosphere. Before this, the docking was scheduled to take place on February 3.
The Ax-3 mission, which included Italian citizen Walter Villaday and Swedish Markus Wandt, as well as military pilot Alper Gezeravci, the first Turkish citizen to fly into space, was launched to the ISS on January 19. The crew is led by experienced NASA astronaut and Axiom employee Michael Lopez-Alegria.
SpaceX on New Year’s Eve sent The US armed forces’ experimental unmanned space plane, X-37B, was launched into space using the Falcon Heavy rocket. Previously, the US Department of Defense published data that the USSF-52 mission was related to the tests of the X-37B. Initially, the launch was planned to be held on December 7, but the date was later postponed several times due to bad weather conditions.
Previously SpaceX loss A reusable Falcon 9 rocket that disintegrated in transit after successfully returning to Earth.