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SpaceX CRS-19, also known as SpX-19, was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the
In February 2016, it was announced that NASA had awarded a contract extension to SpaceX for five CRS additional missions ( CRS-16 to CRS-20). In June 2016, a NASA Inspector General report had this mission manifested for December 2018. The mission was later delayed to 15 October 2019, but launched in December 2019.
On 5 December 2019, CRS-19 launched successfully, followed by a successful first stage landing on the barge ''Of Course I Still Love You''.
International Space Station
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. The mission is contracted by NASA
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and was flown by SpaceX
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on a Falcon 9
Falcon 9 is a partially reusable medium lift launch vehicle that can carry cargo and crew into Earth orbit, produced by American aerospace company SpaceX.
The rocket has two stages. The first (booster) stage carries the second stage and pay ...
rocket.
Dragon capsule C106 made its third flight on CRS-19 having previously flown on CRS-4 and CRS-11. Dragon successfully returned to Earth on 7 January 2020 after a month-long stay at the ISS.
Launch schedule history
In February 2016, it was announced that NASA had awarded a contract extension to SpaceX for five CRS additional missions ( CRS-16 to CRS-20). In June 2016, a NASA Inspector General report had this mission manifested for December 2018. The mission was later delayed to 15 October 2019, but launched in December 2019.
On 5 December 2019, CRS-19 launched successfully, followed by a successful first stage landing on the barge ''Of Course I Still Love You''.
Payload
NASA has contracted for the CRS-19 mission from SpaceX and therefore determines the primary payload, date/time of launch, and orbital parameters for the Dragonspace capsule
A space capsule is an often-crewed spacecraft that uses a blunt-body reentry capsule to reenter the Earth's atmosphere without wings. Capsules are distinguished from other satellites primarily by the ability to survive reentry and return a payl ...
. CRS-11 carried a total of of material into orbit. This included of pressurised cargo with packaging bound for the International Space Station, and of unpressurised cargo composed of the Kibō-mounted Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) from Japan, the Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS) platform, and a replacement lithium-ion battery for the station's solar array truss.
The following is a breakdown of cargo bound for the ISS:
* Science investigations:
* Crew supplies:
* Vehicle hardware:
* Spacewalk equipment:
* Computer resources:
* External payloads:
** Hyperspectral Imaging Suite (HISUI): ~
** Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS)
** Lithium-ion battery
Among the science experiments transported to the station are the Anheuser-Busch
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-sponsored Germination of ABI Voyager Barley Seeds in Microgravity, the Confined Combustion experiment, and 40 genetically engineered mice as part of the Rodent Research-19 experiment.
A number of CubeSat
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s were launched on CRS-19. The ELaNa-25B flight included AzTechSat-1, SORTIE, and CryoCube, while the ELaNa-28 flight included CIRiS and EdgeCube. Other small satellite
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s launched on this mission include QARMAN and MakerSat-1.
See also
*Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station
Uncrewed spaceflights to the International Space Station (ISS) are made primarily to deliver cargo, however several Russian modules have also docked to the outpost following uncrewed launches. Resupply missions typically use the Russian Progress s ...
References
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