News Archive / Tagged: International Docking Adapter

• CRS-18 Dragon arrives at ISS with new docking adapter

  Derek RichardsonJuly 27th, 2019

  Days after threading the needle with weather to launch, SpaceX’s CRS-18 Dragon spacecraft rendezvoused and berthed with the International Space Station.

• NASA previews spacewalk to install IDA-2

  Derek RichardsonAugust 16th, 2016

  Two members of the International Space Station’s (ISS) Expedition 48 crew will be performing a spacewalk this Friday to install an International Docking Adapter (IDA) on the forward end of the station. The docking ring was brought up on SpaceX’s CRS-9 Dragon mission and has been sitting inside the spacecraft's trunk since arriving at the orbiting outpost one month ago.

• SpaceX CRS-9 Dragon arrives at International Space Station

  Derek RichardsonJuly 20th, 2016

  Bringing 5,000 pounds (2,300 kilograms) of supplies and a new International Docking Adapter (IDA), SpaceX’s CRS-9 Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft was captured and berthed to the outpost at 9:03 a.m. CDT (14:03 GMT) July 20.