SpaceX Dragon is scheduled to undock from the Harmony module on 16 June and splash down off the coast of California on 17 June.
SpaceX Dragon will undock from the Harmony module on 16 June and splash down off the coast of California on 17 June.
The Dragon spacecraft docked with the station’s Harmony module on 17 May at 10:37 UTC.
Dragon is scheduled to dock autonomously at about 7 a.m. Sunday, May 17, to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module.
ESA plans to launch both Harmony satellites in 2029 aboard a single Vega C Block 2 rocket with the P160C booster upgrade.
The European Space Agency published a Request for Information on Ariane 62 launch services for the Harmony mission in Q4 2029 or Q1 2030.
The Harmony mission will monitor shifts in the shape of Earth’s land surface caused by earthquakes and volcanic activity.
ESA’s Request for Information asked Arianespace for options for both a dedicated launch and a shared Harmony mission with additional payloads.
ESA awarded OHB a €280 million contract in October 2024 to develop and build a pair of satellites for the Harmony mission.
ESA identified Vega C as the Harmony mission’s baseline launch vehicle in June 2025.
Thales Alenia Space manufactured HALO’s primary structure in Italy and has also produced the Columbus laboratory, the Harmony module, and pressurized cargo modules for the Cygnus spacecraft.
Flight controllers will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to remove HTV-X1 from the Harmony module port.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on July 3, 2024.
Crew-12 will guide their Dragon spacecraft to dock at the Harmony module's space-facing port after launch.
Chris Williams is studying the computers that manage the station's orientation and practicing steps to respond to off-nominal conditions during spacecraft approach to Harmony.
The Earth Explorer Harmony mission will comprise two satellites providing new data on various Earth processes, including shifts in land surface caused by earthquakes, volcanic activity, and glacier movement.
Sentinel-1D and Sentinel-1C are ready to support the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer Harmony mission.
Starliner is targeted to dock to the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 12:48 a.m. on Wednesday, 2024-05-08.
The CFT launch was previously planned for 2024-05-01 but was delayed because of International Space Station activities, including revised schedules for the departure of a cargo Dragon vehicle and the relocation of the Crew Dragon to free the forward docking port on the Harmony module.
Thales Alenia Space signed a 7M€ contract with the European Space Agency to develop the Earth Observation C-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument for the two Harmony satellites.