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  • Watch: UAE astronaut Al Neyadi relocate SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docking port

    Watch: UAE astronaut Al Neyadi relocate SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docking port

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    Watch: UAE astronaut Al Neyadi relocate SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docking port

    Abu Dhabi: United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and three colleagues safely relocate SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Endeavour to another docking port on the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday.

    Endeavour— was the spacecraft Al Neyadi, NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, and Russian cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev arrived at the ISS on March 3.

    NASA instructed astronauts to relocate the spacecraft from the station’s Harmony module to the lab’s forward port to make room for other spacecraft arriving in June.

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    On Saturday, Endeavour, undocked from the Harmony module’s space-facing port at 3:10 pm UAE time and redocked to the module’s forward-facing port at 3:53 pm, according to the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC).

    “The @SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour redocked to its new port and completed its relocation maneuver at 8:01am ET today,” the space station tweeted.

    On Friday, Al Neyadi tweeted, “Exciting times ahead! Here I am with my Crew-6 team, as we tried on our SpaceX suits once again for the upcoming Dragon Endeavour relocation mission. Tomorrow, we will be moving the spacecraft to another location on the ISS. Looking forward to executing the mission successully.”

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  • SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft launch likely by April end: Elon Musk

    SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft launch likely by April end: Elon Musk

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    San Francisco: SpaceX’s Starship is likely to launch on the first orbital flight by April end, CEO Elon Musk said.

    “Starship launch trending towards near the end of third week of April,” Musk wrote in a tweet on Monday.

    A day ago, he had said that the “Starship is ready for launch. Awaiting regulatory approval”.

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    The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is yet to grant licence approval for the orbital test flight.

    The agency on Monday issued a revised notice that said the launch could now happen on April 17.

    Another hurdle is federal environmental compliance review.

    Meanwhile, SpaceX has been long gearing up for the flight. The company has rolled its Ship 24 out to Starbase’s orbital launch pad.

    It has also conducted fuelling tests with Booster 7 on the orbital launch mount, with Ship 24 on the ground nearby.

    Starship is the world’s most powerful rocket and will be used to send humans to the Moon and then eventually to Mars.

    It consists of a giant first-stage booster called Super Heavy and a 50 metres upper-stage spacecraft known as Starship.

    Both stainless-steel vehicles are designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, and both are powered by SpaceX’s next-gen Raptor engine — 33 for Super Heavy and six for Starship.

    Moreover, Musk recently said that there is only a 50 per cent chance that the first-ever orbital mission of SpaceX’s huge Starship vehicle will be a success.

    But he also stressed that SpaceX is building multiple Starship vehicles at the South Texas site.

    These will be launched in relatively quick succession over the coming months, and there’s about an 80 per cent chance one of them will reach orbit this year.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )