SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft has undocked from the International Space Station. The undocking took place at 18:40 Moscow time on January 23. American Space Dragon will deliver 2.2 tons of cargo to Earth, including results space experiments carried out in weightlessness.
The undocking was postponed twice, the NASA website reports. This was due to adverse weather conditions in the splashdown area off the coast of Florida. The landing of the descent part of the ship is planned in a day in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mission Dragon, launched to the ISS on December 21, 2021, consisted in the delivery of three tons of cargo to the orbital station. These are food, equipment and materials for scientific experiments. Elon Musk launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle into orbit from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. Delivered food to the station will get station crew. Its members now include Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, European Space Agency astronaut Mattias Maurer, and US National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Mark Vande Hai and Tom Marshburn.