WCCF Tech by Ramish Zafar 10/1/2021
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have developed a new safety beacon for their upcoming Crew-3 launch to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), which uses SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule to ferry astronauts to the ISS. This beacon will be part of a brand new Dragon capsule, which will take flight for the first time next month. The safety beacon, which is used to communicate with the Cospas-Sarsat program, is only activated if the crew onboard the spacecraft are in distress, and the new beacon has a higher effective radiated power (ERP) reveal SpaceX's filings with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
SpaceX & NASA's Third Crew Mission To ISS Awaits FCC Approval For Safety BeaconDetails of the upgrade were revealed in SpaceX's filing with the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET), with the company sharing that the power increase was done at the request of NASA's Search and Rescue laboratory (SARLAB) and the United States Search and Rescue Satellite-aided Tracking (US SARSAT) program.
The company's previous missions to the ISS, namely the Crew-2, Crew-1 and the Dragon DM-2 missions, used an emergency transmitter manufactured by the French positioning systems equipment manufacturer Orolia S.A.S. Additionally, while the Crew-1 Dragon was a new vehicle, the Crew-2 mission reused the capsule initially flown on the DM-2 mission, which was the first time astronauts launched to space from an American facility in a decade.
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