Karl Tate, Impassive.com infographics artistHow Orbital Sciences' Antares zoom and Cygnus spacecraft purpose the space station.Antares is about the tallness of a 13-story construction, stand 131.5 feet (40 meters) tall. The two AJ26 engines cast-off in the rocket's first stage are based on the NK-33 engine, which was in the beginning matured to setting up Russia's giant N-1 moon zoom - the Soviet respond to America's famous Saturn V - in the 1960s. Quieten, the Soviet heavy-lifter was never launched gloriously.Orbital Sciences is arranged for eight freight missions through Cygnus and Antares under a 1.9 billion peace through NASA. Wednesday's setting up kicks off a submission flight meant to see if the bureau is main to rise up these arranged hold runs.DRAGON: The Dragon dosage - named for the fictitious "Shout out the Magical Dragon" in the song by the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary - is launched to space by SpaceX's Falcon 9 zoom. In the function of Antares' design is modeled after a Russian zoom, the Falcon 9's Merlin engines are new. The two-stage zoom stands taller than Antares at 224.4 feet (68.4 m), and it can excite 28,991 pounds (13,150 kg) in vogue low-Earth gyrate.
Karl Tate / Impassive.comAlready hardened as a freight mover, the Dragon spacecraft can as well be fitted out to shuttle passengers to low gyrate and to the Universal Impassive Position.The Falcon 9 first stage has nine Merlin engines. The zoom can fail to notice up to two of these engines and yet incise a passing, SpaceX officials pass on invented. SpaceX designers were inspired by the Saturn V, "which had ideal flight credentials in rancor of engine fatalities," officials invented.SpaceX is arranged to fly 12 missions to the space station by Dragon and the Falcon 9under a 1.6 billion acquire through NASA.HOW DO THEY Swell UP?CYGNUS: Orbital Sciences has meant two Cygnus vehicles for discrete purposes. The accepted construct of the spacecraft's freight lessons energy pass on the elegance to take up to 4,409 pounds (2,000 kg) of freight, point the pompous motif energy take up to 5,952 pounds (2,700 kg) of belongings, bureau officials pass on invented.
The passing Wednesday energy use the accepted construct and is anticipated to rescue 1,543 pounds (700 kg) of supplies to the space station. This Cygnus is 17 feet (513.6 cm) tall and energy wipe out up to 2,425 pounds (1,100 kg) of get freight from the station gone it leaves about one month after docking.DRAGON: SpaceX's dosage can take up to 13,228 pounds (6,000 kg) of supplies to the Universal Impassive Position. It became the first individual American spacecraft to rescue supplies to the orbiting outpost and pay back freight rear to Earth concluded its submission passing in May 2012. SpaceX has as well beforehand great two of its 12 arranged hold runs to the Universal Impassive Position. Dragon is expected to be the cause of its third freight leave for NASA in January 2014.HOW DO THEY Improve Display FROM SPACE?CYGNUS: Once the Cygnus spacecraft undocks from the orbiting lab, it energy go fast up in Earth's air. Engineers on the ground energy directory the dosage in vogue a "harmful re-entry" top-quality the South Placatory Deep-sea, according to Orbital Sciences officials.
DRAGON: SpaceX's ship is the chastely spacecraft flying today through the elegance to pay back vast amounts of freight to the Earth from the Universal Impassive Position, bureau officials pass on invented. The dosage can steadily pay back 6,614 pounds (3,000 kg) of supplies, experiments and other belongings to Earth.The last Dragon to marina through the Universal Impassive Position marked down in the Placatory Deep-sea off the west coast of Mexico on Demonstration 25 through aristocratic than 3,000 pounds (1,361 kg) of freight aboard.A setting up webcast is away from home via Impassive.com and NASA. SpaceflightNow is in attendance updates via its Cygnus Post Height Core, which energy as well receive a setting up webcast."Drop Miriam Kramer @mirikramer and Google+. Drop us @Spacedotcom, Facebook andGoogle+. New article on Impassive.com."
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