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ROCKET LIFTS OFF TO BRING SUPPLIES TO INT’L SPACE STATION
- By The Financial District
- Jun 4, 2021
- 1 min read
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying supplies and solar arrays lifted off on Thursday, bound for the International Space Station (ISS), Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) reported.
The Dragon spacecraft, operated by commercial space company SpaceX, lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida at 1:29 p.m. (1:29 a.m. on June 4, 2021, in Manila).
It is scheduled to dock on Saturday at the ISS, 400 kilometers above Earth.
Alongside more than 3.3 tons of equipment, experiments and supplies for the international crew, are two of six new solar panels that are to provide power to the ISS.
The solar panels are to be installed by the crew during several spacewalks in the coming months, with the ISS robotic arm deploying them beforehand.
A five-millimeter hole was recently discovered on the arm after it was struck by a piece of space debris. However, the arm seems to be still fully operational, according to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
