{"id":15519,"date":"2018-07-12T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=15519"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:56:24","slug":"hardware-heading-to-space-station-on-15th-spacex-resupply-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/hardware-heading-to-space-station-on-15th-spacex-resupply-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Heading to Space Station on 15th SpaceX Resupply Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Experiments investigating cellular biology, Earth science and artificial intelligence are among the research heading to the\u00a0International Space Station<\/a>\u00a0following Friday\u2019s launch of a NASA-contracted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 5:42 a.m. EDT.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dragon lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with more than 5,900 pounds of\u00a0research<\/a>, equipment, cargo and supplies that will support dozens of investigations aboard the space station.<\/span><\/p>\n

NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel will use the space station\u2019s Canadarm2 robotic arm to capture Dragon when it arrives at the station. Live coverage of the rendezvous and capture will air on NASA Television and the agency\u2019s\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0beginning at 5:30 a.m. Monday, July 2. Installation coverage is set to begin at 9 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Research materials flying inside Dragon’s pressurized cargo area include a cellular biology investigation (Micro-12<\/a>) to understand how microgravity affects the growth, gene expression and ability of a model bacterium to transfer electrons through its cell membrane along the bacterial nanowires it produces. Such bacteria could be used in microbial fuel cells to make electricity from waste organic material.<\/span><\/p>\n

An Earth science instrument called the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS<\/a>) will provide a new space-based measurement of how plants respond to changes in water availability. This data can help society better manage agricultural water use.<\/span><\/p>\n

An observational pilot study with the Crew Interactive MObile companioN (CIMON<\/a>) aims to provide first insights into the effects of crew support from an artificial intelligence (AI) in terms of efficiency and acceptance during long-term missions in space.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the hundreds of pounds of hardware flying to the space station is a spare Canadian-built Latching End Effector (LEE). Each end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm has an identical LEE, and they are used as the \u201chands\u201d that grapple payloads and visiting cargo spaceships. They also enable Canadarm2 to \u201cwalk\u201d to different locations on the orbiting outpost.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is SpaceX\u2019s 15th cargo flight to the space station under NASA\u2019s Commercial Resupply Services contract. Dragon is scheduled to depart the station in August and return to Earth with more than 3,800 pounds of research, hardware and crew supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more than 17 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and demonstrating new technologies, making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth that will enable long-duration human and robotic exploration into deep space. A global endeavor, 230 people from 18 countries have visited the unique microgravity laboratory that has hosted more than 2,400 research investigations from researchers in 103 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Experiments investigating cellular biology, Earth science and artificial intelligence are among the research heading to the\u00a0International Space Station\u00a0following Friday\u2019s launch of a NASA-contracted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 5:42 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",985,554,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa-300x169.png",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa-768x432.png",750,422,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",750,422,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",985,554,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",985,554,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",985,554,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",870,489,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",600,337,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",600,337,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",760,427,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",550,309,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",95,53,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",640,360,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",96,54,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/nasa.png",150,84,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}