Endurance Dragon Spacecraft was docked for the second time in the International Space Station
, and the last time it was docked by two manned dragon spacecraft at the same time was April this year. At that time, the C210.1 Endurance and C211.1 Freedom were also together for a while. In addition, the cargo Dragon Spacecraft was actually 3 ships, and the scale was very spectacular. In the previous two days, the C206.3 Endeavor, which carried out the Axiom One private astronaut mission, had just left. If it could stay for a few more days, then the International Space Station would see four Dragon spacecraft docking at the same time.
2 manned dragon spacecraft docked at the same time at the International Space Station
Thinking about the time, after the US space shuttle exploded and all retired, in order to ensure that astronauts traveled to and from the International Space Station, NASA had to seek Russia, endured being "snatched away" and spent tens of millions of dollars to buy a seat, squeezing into the narrow Soyuz. Now thanks to Musk and SpaceX company , NASA has not only finally become "rich" again, but also "brings" to Russian astronauts. It is really "thirty years Hedong, thirty years Hexi ".
Get into the Dragon Spaceship to get Russian female astronaut
For SpaceX, it not only once again created the result of multiple manned Dragon spacecraft docking at the International Space Station, but also refreshed a result when launching the C210.2 "Endurance", which completed the launch and recovery of the "Falcon" 9 multiplexed rocket within 8 hours. First, at midnight on October 6, the manned Dragon spacecraft was launched with the Falcon 9 at Kennedy Space Center. More than 7 hours later, another Falcon 9 was launched again with 52 "Starlink" satellites at Vandenberg Air Force Base . This is also the 45th orbital-level launch that SpaceX has carried out this year. All of these 45 launches were created by the Falcon 9 and all were successful.
Dragon Spaceship and Falcon 9 Rocket
With these 45 launches, SpaceX has ranked first in the number of space launches this year, while other units in the United States have only 21 launches in total, including 2 failures. SpaceX's results have also exceeded the 41 times in my country in more than nine months this year. In 2019 and 2021, my country ranked first in the world with 34 and 55 times respectively, but this year, our championship status may not be guaranteed, and it may become increasingly difficult to compete for the world's first in the future. This is really "a company that reaches a country."
is ready to be launched to get the manned Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9
However, it is a pity that the latest commercial launch of the "Falcon" 9 was suddenly suspended on October 7th in the T-30s, and was postponed for 24 hours. It was found that the helium pipeline leaked. For SpaceX, it has been quite rare in recent years to be suspended during the countdown due to a first-stage rocket failure. Previously, delayed launches were generally due to weather reasons.
Today, the launch of Falcon 9 was suspended
In fact, this time the delayed launch was a "Falcon 9 rocket that has been used 13 times, with the first stage number B1060.14. Last month, SpaceX just completed the 14th launch of the B1058 first stage rocket, all of which were successful and moving towards the 15th time. The outside world has been speculating about where the Falcon 9 Rockets’ reuse limit is. Although Musk repeatedly said that it would not matter if he used it 100 times, the leakage of the helium pipeline seems to have made everyone see some clues.
Falcon 9 First-level recycling
Of course, Musk's tone is still very light. He said that the leakage of helium is very slight, "This degree of leakage actually has little impact on the launch, but because today is the customer's load, it will be postponed for one day to protect its interests." The implication is that if you fight your own " Starlink " small satellite today, you will go directly to the sky.In fact, Musk did this. Generally, when launching important payloads of the manned dragon spacecraft and the US military, launching newer rockets, launching customers' business orders, using rockets within 10 times, and launching their own satellite , the oldest rockets are used, and they are too lazy to even apply paint. This time, Musk is a little "floating" when launching a customer's business order with a 13-hand rocket.
Even if the Rockets recovered, they had to queue up for the first stage of the recovery
For SpaceX, where is the launch frequency limit of the Falcon 9 rocket? It is also a question that everyone is quite interested in. Some people say that the highest frequency is once a day, but in fact, in addition to twice within 8 hours this time, it also set a record of successfully completing three launches within 36.5 hours in June this year. Faced with the continuous record of the Falcon 9 reusing the Rockets, we have to admit that we still have a gap and need to catch up.
Our multiple models of reusable rockets are developing
