News Archive / Tagged: CRS-13

• SpaceX’s CRS-13 Dragon capsule departs ISS after 4-week stay

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 13th, 2018

  The first visiting vehicle activity at the International Space Station in 2018 concluded Jan. 13 with the unberthing, departure and splashdown of SpaceX’s CRS-13 Dragon cargo ship after spending nearly a month at the orbiting outpost.

• 2 external instruments installed on ISS over New Year’s holiday

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 3rd, 2018

  While many around the world celebrated the arrival of 2018 with champagne, fireworks and social gatherings, robotics operators at NASA’s Johnson Space Center rang in the New Year by working to remotely install new external instruments recently brought to International Space Station inside the trunk of SpaceX’s CRS-13 Dragon cargo spacecraft.

• Gallery: SpaceX CRS-13

  Mike DeepDecember 18th, 2017

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX resumed launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 with the flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket and CRS-13 Dragon spacecraft. The launch took place at 10:35 a.m. EST on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017.

• CRS-13 Dragon berthed with International Space Station

  Derek RichardsonDecember 17th, 2017

  Just hours after Soyuz MS-07 and its three-person crew launched on a two-day trek toward the International Space Station, SpaceX’s CRS-13 Dragon, having launched days earlier atop a Falcon 9 rocket, rendezvoused with and was attached to the orbiting laboratory.

• Return, return, return: CRS-13 mission marks triple-play in terms of SpaceX reuse

  Paul KnightlyDecember 15th, 2017

  CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla. - The 13th SpaceX Commercial Resupply Service (CRS-13) mission roared into the Florida sky aboard a 'Full Thrust' Falcon 9 launch vehicle Friday morning. The flight-proven spacecraft and Falcon 9 first stage launched at 10:35 a.m. (15:35 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40.

• SFI LIVE: Launch of CRS-13 Dragon on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

  Jason RhianDecember 15th, 2017

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- SpaceX has rescheduled its launch of a "flight proven" Falcon 9 rocket with its payload of the CRS-13 Dragon spacecraft to liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40. This will mark the first flight from the historic launch site since the Sept. 1, 2016 explosion of another Falcon 9 rocket. SFI LIVE will begin at 10 a.m. EST (14:00 GMT).

• Launch of SpaceX CRS-13 mission slips to Friday

  Derek RichardsonDecember 12th, 2017

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After announcing a 24-hour slip to Dec. 12, SpaceX has pushed back the flight of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the CRS-13 Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station again to Friday, Dec. 15.

• Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with CRS-13 Dragon slips 24 hours

  Jason RhianDecember 12th, 2017

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has slipped an additional 24 hours to "allow for additional time for pre-launch ground checks." This information is per a post made on Twitter by SpaceX at 6:50 p.m. EST (10:50 GMT) on Monday, Dec. 11. 

• Launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with CRS-13 slips again

  Jason RhianDecember 6th, 2017

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the CRS-13 Dragon spacecraft has slipped again, with NASA stating that the new launch time is now Dec. 12, with the "instantaneous" launch window opening at 11:46 a.m. EST (16:46 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida.

• SpaceX CRS-13 launch slips to Dec. 8

  Jason RhianNovember 28th, 2017

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the CRS-13 cargo Dragon spacecraft has slipped to no-earlier-than Dec. 8 with the instantaneous (1 second) launch window now slated to open at 1:20 p.m. EST (6:20 p.m. GMT). 

• NASA green lights SpaceX use of pre-flown Falcon 9 first stages on CRS missions

  Jason RhianNovember 19th, 2017

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Nineteen. It only took nineteen successful landings either on one of the company's Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships (ASDS) or at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's "Landing Zone 1" (formerly Space Launch Complex 13) before NASA agreed to allow SpaceX to use its pre-flown boosters for cargo resupply runs to the International Space Station.