Friday, 1 March 2013

Dragon's thrusters now operational, but rendezvous with ISS delayed

Dragon's thrusters now operational, but rendezvous with ISS delayed:
All four of the SpaceX Dragon's thrusters now appears to be fully operational
At a teleconference today (Mar.1) at 3:00 PM EST (2000 GMT), SpaceX and NASA confirmed that the malfunction of three of the four thruster pods of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has been corrected. Though the cause of the failure remains unknown, a note received during the conference from Dragon mission control stated that all four pods are working nominally with two of the pods preparing to come online this afternoon... Continue Reading Dragon's thrusters now operational, but rendezvous with ISS delayed

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