SpaceX Crew Dragon Overcomes Gang Problems To Dock With Space Station

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SpaceX's Crew-6 mission successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) earlier today after a day-long journey to the space station. The mission took place on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which had lifted off on the Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday after an initial scrub caused by blocked filters for the rocket's ignition fluid made engineers stand down from liftoff. The Dragon's journey was overall smooth, except for one of the clamps, designed to secure the ship's nose cone and dock it with the space station, causing some problems during flight and delaying its preliminary docking with the ISS.

While before the mission's lift-off, engineers had to replace filters for the Falcon 9's ignition fluid, SpaceX's Benji Reed also outlined during the post-launch press conference that his company and NASA were aware of problems with a faulty sensor on the Crew Dragon's nose cone.

Mr. Reed explained during the conference that each hook on the spaceship has three sensors that provide data for their position and operational status. Out of these, one sensor was sending faulty data, which had caused the hooks to be shifted to the backup motors. As part of pre-launch testing, SpaceX had overridden this sensor and confirmed that the hooks were performing nominally to clear the spaceship for launch.

These problems also surfaced as the Dragon initially made its way to the space station. During its journey, the spacecraft opens its top cover after it has left the Earth's atmosphere so that its forward Draco engines can start to fire to align the ship with