Private spacecraft cannot connect to ISS

Dragon's private spacecraft will have its first flight to the International Space Station (ISS), however it will not connect to the gate of this $ 100 billion space station but only fly near, RIA Novosti leads High-ranking Russian officials at the ISS mission control center said on September 16.

Reportedly, Dragon ship is a private rocket manufacturing company based in California (US) SpaceX. Earlier, the company announced it would conduct a test flight to ISS on November 30 and connect to the station nine days later.

The Dragon ship was put into orbit by Falcon 9 boosters on December 8, 2010,
from Cape Canaveral Air Base (Florida, USA), becoming a private space ship
First human in orbit - (Photo: Reuters)

This will be the second space flight of the Dragon, marking the private space transport system that can deliver cargo to ISS, after the historic flight of December last year with the Falcon 9 boosters, Help SpaceX win $ 75 million for this success.

However, according to the affirmation of the head of the Russian agency at the Mission Control Center ISS Vladimir Solovyov, the plan by the end of the year, a Dragon ship's flight to ISS will be implemented, but there will be no work. connect.

The reason given by the Russian side is that the Dragon vessel has not yet secured safety for the ISS station when performing this task."It is not a problem to connect if it ensures reliability and security," said Alexei Krasov, head of space flight management at the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). to speak.

However, "until now, we have not had evidence that this spacecraft fully implements the safety regulations of a space flight , " Krasov added.