Following instructions from floor controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, Dragon undocked at 1:10 p.m. EDT from the ahead port of the station’s Concord module. On the time of undocking, the station was flying at an altitude about 260 miles above Earth.
After re-entering Earth’s environment, the spacecraft will make a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at 1:38 a.m. Tuesday, April 30. NASA won’t broadcast the splashdown, however updates shall be posted on the company’s area station weblog.
Dragon arrived on the area station as SpaceX’s thirtieth commercial resupply services mission for NASA, delivering about 6,000 kilos of analysis investigations, crew provides, and station {hardware}. It was launched March 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Area Launch Advanced 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Power Station in Florida.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the area station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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