The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, which can carry the Turkish, Spanish, Italian and Swedish astronauts to the International Space Station, was postponed to Jan. 18.
Türkiye’s first area traveler Col. Alper Gezeravcı can be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that may carry the Ax-3 crew to the International Space Station (ISS).
The Ax-3 crew, housed within the SpaceX Dragon, can be launched connected to the Falcon-9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 5:11 p.m. EST Wednesday, (GMT2211).
The Falcon 9 rocket is designed by the U.S.-based spacecraft maker SpaceX for the secure transportation of cargo and passengers into Earth’s orbit and deep area.
The reusable rocket permits area journey to be extra economical by eliminating the necessity for the corporate to remanufacture for each journey.
Falcon-9 rockets made a complete of 289 take-offs and 246 landings, whereas the rockets have been used 221 instances in a couple of flight, in response to information from SpaceX.
However, the variety of Falcon-9 rockets in firm stock remains to be unknown.
The rocket is 70 meters lengthy, 3.7 meters large, and weighs 550 kilograms, although, it’s able to carrying cargo as heavy as 22,000 kilograms in Earth’s low orbit, as much as 8,300 kilograms within the geostationary orbit, and 4,000 kilograms to Mars.
It additionally options 9 of the corporate’s in-house engine, named “Merlin,” liquid oxygen consisting of an aluminum-lithium combination and kerosene (RP-1) gasoline tanks used for the rocket.
More on the engine, “Merlin” permits rockets to be reusable, because it permits them to decelerate whereas touchdown on Earth after a journey.
After the Falcon-9 reaches the specified orbit and the rocket separates from the Dragon capsule housing the crew, the engine powers the capsule to achieve its vacation spot.
The engine, which could be restarted a number of instances, could be began as soon as once more instantly after it’s disengaged.
As for the Dragon capsule, it’s 4 meters in diameter, 8.1 meters lengthy and 9.3 cubic meters in quantity.
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