NASA第35次商业补给任务升空 货运龙飞船载6300多磅物资 15日对接空间站

美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的第35次商业补给任务于美东时间10月13日清晨6时33分发射升空。SpaceX一枚「猎鹰9号」火箭从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角太空军基地40号航天发射场起飞,把一艘货运「龙」飞船送往国际空间站,船上载有6300多磅(约2860公斤)的补给、设备与科学实验物资。
据NASA介绍,这批货物包括国际空间站「展开式太阳能电池翼」(iROSA)的最后一对。装上这对电池翼后,空间站电力系统的升级工程将全部完成,可为科研与运行提供更多电力,并支持空间站日后受控脱轨。航天员计划在今年秋季晚些时候的一系列太空行走中完成安装。
飞船还搭载了多项新的科学实验设备:包括在微重力环境中制造人工视网膜的装置,NASA称相关研究有望帮助地球上的患者恢复视力;可推进未来太空任务大规模药物测试的三维心脏组织模型;研究新型玻璃如何在微重力下形成的材料;以及脑类器官实验,目标是为阿尔茨海默病、帕金森病和多发性硬化症等神经退行性疾病寻找治疗靶点。
按计划,龙飞船将于美东时间10月15日(周四)上午11时(美西时间上午8时)自主对接国际空间站「和谐号」节点舱朝向太空一侧的对接口。NASA将从美东时间当天上午9时15分(美西时间上午6时15分)起,通过其网站与多个平台直播飞船抵达与对接的全过程。
龙飞船预计在空间站停留至11月中旬,其后脱离空间站,携带时效性科研样本与货物返回地球,在加利福尼亚州沿岸外海溅落。(来源:NASA官方新闻稿)
NASA's 35th Commercial Resupply Mission Lifts Off; Cargo Dragon Carrying 6,300 Pounds to Dock With Station on Oct. 15
NASA's 35th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, October 13. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, sending a cargo Dragon spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory with more than 6,300 pounds of supplies, hardware and scientific investigations.
Among the cargo, NASA said, is the final pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (iROSA). Once installed, the arrays will complete the augmentation of the station's power system, boosting the electricity available for research and operations and supporting the station's eventual safe, controlled deorbit. Astronauts plan to install the arrays during a series of spacewalks later this fall.
Dragon is also delivering several new experiments, including hardware to manufacture artificial retinas in microgravity, which NASA says could help restore vision for patients on Earth; 3D heart tissue models to advance large-scale drug testing on future space missions; materials to study how a new type of glass forms in microgravity; and brain organoids that could reveal treatment targets for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis.
Dragon is scheduled to dock autonomously at 11 a.m. EDT (8 a.m. PDT) on Thursday, October 15, at the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module. NASA will stream rendezvous and docking coverage beginning at 9:15 a.m. EDT (6:15 a.m. PDT) across its platforms.
The spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the station until mid-November, when it will depart and return to Earth with time-critical research and cargo, splashing down off the coast of California. (Source: NASA news release)
图片来源:图:一艘货运「龙」飞船打开头锥、露出对接机构,正接近国际空间站(资料图,2026年5月第34次商业补给任务期间拍摄)。摄影:NASA约翰逊航天中心,公有领域,来源:Wikimedia Commons

