At 11:00 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 19, flight controllers on the ground issued a command to release the uncrewed SpaceX Dragon from the forward port of the International Space Station (ISS) Harmony module. At the time of the 11:05 a.m. release, ISS was flying approximately 259 miles over the Pacific Ocean.
“The Dragon successfully left the station one month after arriving at the orbiting laboratory, where it had previously carried about 5,800 pounds of cargo and crew supplies – including about 4,000 pounds of scientific investigations.
Today, ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will direct a deorbit burn. After re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, the spacecraft will make a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida. no NASA TV broadcast of the deorbit burn and splashdown will be available, and updates will be posted on the agency’s space station blog.
“Dragon arrived at the space station on July 16, two days after being launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the company’s 25th commercial resupply service mission to the space station for NASA.
