(Finance) – The cargo has been launched from the Kennedy Space Center Dragon from the SpaceX. After yesterday’s postponement due to strong winds, the unmanned shuttle departed with a Falcon 9 rocket to carry on International Space Station a cargo of over four tons of supplies and materials. Among these, two new modules iRosethe flexible photovoltaic panels that are gradually replacing the ISS solar panels, now at the end of their life.
There mission Crs-28 is the fourth of the shuttle C208, one of four in the SpaceX fleet. A fifth cargo shuttle is under construction. The goal of Elon Musk’s company is to fly each of its cargo shuttles up to 15 times.