NEW YORK, October 13. /TASS/. The US company SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday. The launch was streamed on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The spacecraft lifted off from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 06:33 a.m. local time (1:33 p.m. Moscow time/10:33 a.m. GMT) on the 35th resupply mission to the orbital station.
Cargo Dragon will transport more than 2.8 tons of cargo to the orbiting outpost, including equipment for scientific experiments studying the effects of microgravity on heart tissue, as well as a set of solar arrays for the ISS.
The spacecraft is expected to dock automatically with the ISS on October 15. In mid-November, Cargo Dragon is scheduled to return to Earth carrying the results of scientific experiments and equipment for repair.