Space X is giving its Dragon spacecraft another go towards travel Monday at 4:58 p.m. eastern standard time to help re-supply the International Space station on an evaluation basis despite several encounters with adversity Space.com reported.
"If we can pull this off ... we'll be super-thrilled," Koenigsmann said in a statement Space.com reported.
"The entire recovery of the first stage is entirely experimental," Koenigsmann said in the statement. It has nothing to do with the primary mission here."
According to Space.com, the trip is the third of 12 scheduled trips the organization's Dragon cargo spacecraft will take to the station, the first of which was initiated in 2012. The second came in 2013.
Space X is expected to be the next advancement in the organization's testing of its craft since showing that the Falcon 9 rocket could be re-ignited and decrease its speed while heading back towards earth in another major feat Space.com reported.
"We've been doing improvements to the recovery of the first stage in little steps, being very careful it doesn't affect the performance of Dragon," Koenigsmann said in the statement Space come reported.
Workers are now subsequently correcting the Falcon 9's issues in time, which include examine one of the attached equipment, the Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science for laser optics so information can travel through space Space Flight Now reported.
Space X is also fixing four high-definition earth viewing cameras attached to the main section of the station.
Six cargo pieces are also fastened, two of which to one of its compartments, which is something that has never been secured onto the rocket before Space Flight Now reported.
The mission is part of a $1.6 billion agreement involving 12 flights to put about 44,000 pounds of equipment on the station Space Flight Now reported.
NASA will also correspond with the International Space Station using an Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science also known as a OPALS via a connection out of Wrightwood, Calif that is expected to show and evaluate how it works by way of a tracker when the station hovers an antenna in Wrightwood at 100 second intervals.
