{"id":199279,"date":"2024-11-11T13:05:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/spacexs-dragon-shows-off-capability-to-reboost-international-space-station-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2024-11-11T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T19:05:47","slug":"spacexs-dragon-shows-off-capability-to-reboost-international-space-station-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/spacexs-dragon-shows-off-capability-to-reboost-international-space-station-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Dragon Shows Off Capability To Reboost International Space Station For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-dragon-shows-off-capability-to-reboost-international-space-station-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Dragon demonstrated its capability to reboost the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/international-space-station\">International Space Station (ISS)<\/a> for the first time on Friday, with the spacecraft\u2019s Draco thrusters adjusting the station\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened:<\/strong> The spacecraft adjusted the station\u2019s orbit through a reboost of altitude by 7\/100 of a mile at apogee and 7\/10 of a mile at perigee, NASA said. The Dragon spacecraft fired its Draco thrusters for about 12 minutes and 30 seconds in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The Roscosmos Progress spacecraft and the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft also provide reboost for the space station now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX Dragon demonstrated its capability to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time on Friday, with the spacecraft\u2019s Draco thrusters adjusting the station\u2019s orbit. What Happened: The spacecraft adjusted the station\u2019s orbit through a reboost of altitude by 7\/100 of a mile at apogee and 7\/10 of a mile at perigee, NASA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}