2026年5月15日 / 美国东部时间下午7:34 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
SpaceX于周五发射了一艘无人驾驶龙飞船货运舱，船上装载了6500磅物资与设备，包括近1吨科研装备、样本及其他用于约50项不同科学研究的材料，将送往国际空间站。
受恶劣天气影响，本次发射推迟了三天。搭载龙飞船的猎鹰9号火箭于美国东部时间下午6:05点火升空，从卡纳维拉尔角太空军基地的40号发射台起飞，沿符合空间站轨道的路线向东北方向升空。
猎鹰9号火箭从卡纳维拉尔角太空军基地升空，搭载着装载有送往国际空间站的设备与物资的龙飞船货运舱。
发射后两分半钟，执行第六次飞行任务的火箭第一级分离，并自主飞回发射塔附近的着陆台，精准着陆。第二级继续爬升进入轨道，在发射后9分20秒将货运龙飞船释放，使其独自飞行。
猎鹰9号第一级上的摄像头记录了其朝向卡纳维拉尔角着陆台下降的俯视画面，地面摄像头则捕捉到了着陆器最终着陆的震撼画面。
这是SpaceX自2010年猎鹰9号首飞以来的第638次发射，是该公司今年以来的第56次此类飞行，也是其第611次成功回收助推器。
该火箭第一级完成第六次飞行任务后，在卡纳维拉尔角太空军基地发射台附近的40号着陆区完美着陆。
“这将是首次第六次前往空间站的货运龙飞船，这是一项了不起的里程碑，”约翰逊航天中心国际空间站运营整合经理比尔·斯佩奇说道。“我们将向第74次长期任务机组运送超过6000磅的硬件、物资、科学实验设备及其他物品。”
“本次任务涵盖从净水硬件到帮助我们更好了解空间天气的研究等各类项目，”斯佩奇补充道。
若一切顺利，货运龙飞船将于周日早些时候与空间站完成自动交会对接，于上午7点左右在和谐号舱前端的前端口完成对接。
舱门打开后，第12次乘员组指挥官杰西卡·梅尔与她的三名机组人员——飞行员杰克·哈撒韦、欧洲航天局宇航员索菲·阿德纳以及宇航员安德烈·费季耶夫——将对飞船进行卸货。
同样在空间站的还有7人组成的第74次长期任务机组：联盟MS-28/74S指挥官谢尔盖· Kud-Sverchkov、同事宇航员谢尔盖·米卡耶夫以及美国国家航空航天局宇航员克里斯·威廉姆斯。
货运龙飞船此次运送了超过3吨的设备与物资，其中包括1363磅的机组人员衣物、食品及其他必需品；超过1000磅的航天器硬件、282磅的太空行走组件、186磅的计算机设备以及1834磅的科研设备与样本。
“国际空间站在轨运行的25年间，已开展了超过4000项不同的科学实验与技术演示任务，”空间站项目副首席科学家莉兹·沃伦说道。“这代表着来自全球110个国家的5000多名研究人员的工作成果。”
“国际空间站是一项真正的全球合作项目。它既是科学突破的试验场，也是帮助实现阿尔忒弥斯计划、月球探索以及未来火星任务的关键跳板，”沃伦说道。
空间站项目的下一个重要里程碑将于7月到来。联盟MS-29指挥官彼得·杜布罗夫、同事宇航员安娜·基基娜以及美国国家航空航天局宇航员阿尼尔·梅农定于7月14日从哈萨克斯坦的拜科努尔航天发射场升空。他们将接替Kud-Sverchkov及其两名联盟MS-28机组同事。
俄罗斯进步号货运飞船的发射预计将于9月初进行，随后美国国家航空航天局的第13次乘员组——杰西卡·沃特金斯、卢克·德兰西、加拿大宇航员约书亚·库特里克以及宇航员谢尔盖·捷列亚特尼科夫——将搭乘SpaceX的载人龙飞船于9月12日发射升空。他们将接替第12次乘员组。
今年年底前还将进行三次货运飞行，乘员轮换任务将于2027年初恢复。
SpaceX launches Dragon cargo ship on unpiloted flight to space station
May 15, 2026 / 7:34 PM EDT / CBS News
SpaceX launched an unpiloted Dragon cargo ship Friday loaded with 6,500 pounds of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station, including nearly a ton of research gear, samples and other material for some 50 different science investigations.
Running three days late because of bad weather, the Dragon’s Falcon 9 booster roared to life at 6:05 p.m. ET, blasting off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and arcing away to the northeast in line with the station’s orbit.
A SpaceX Falon 9 rocket climbs away from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying a Dragon cargo ship loaded with equipment and supplies bound for the International Space Station. NASA/SpaceX
Two and a half minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s first stage, making its sixth flight, fell away and flew itself back to an on-target touchdown on a landing pad near the launch gantry. The second stage continued the climb to orbit, releasing the Cargo Dragon to fly on its own nine minutes and 20 seconds after launch.
A camera on the Falcon 9 first stage shows the view looking down as it neared its Cape Canaveral landing pad, while a camera on the ground captured a dramatic view of the lander’s final descent. NASA/SpaceX
It was SpaceX’s 638th Falcon 9 launch since the rocket’s debut in 2010, the company’s 56th such flight so far this year and its 611th successful booster recovery.
The first stage completed its sixth flight with a picture-perfect touchdown at Landing Zone 40 near the rocket’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station launch pad. NASA/SpaceX
“This will be the first Cargo Dragon spacecraft to head to the station for a sixth time, so a great milestone there,” said Bill Spetch, ISS operations integration manager at the Johnson Space Center. “We’re sending over 6,000 pounds of hardware, supplies, science experiments and more to our Expedition 74 crew.
“This mission includes everything from water purification hardware to research that helps us better understand space weather,” Spetch said.
If all goes well, the Cargo Dragon will complete an automated rendezvous with the station early Sunday, moving in for docking at the front end of the forward Harmony module around 7 a.m.
Once hatches are opened, the spacecraft will be unloaded by Crew 12 commander Jessica Meir and her three crewmates, pilot Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Also on board the station as part of the seven-member Expedition 74 crew: Soyuz MS-28/74S commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, fellow cosmonaut Sergey Mikaev and NASA astronaut Chris Williams.
The Cargo Dragon is delivering more than 3 tons of equipment and supplies, including 1,363 pounds of crew clothing, food and other essentials; more than 1,000 pounds of vehicle hardware, 282 pounds of spacewalk components, 186 pounds of computer gear and 1,834 pounds of research equipment and samples.
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“The ISS has enabled more than 4,000 different science experiments and technology demonstrations in its 25 years on orbit,” said Liz Warren, deputy chief scientist for the space station program. “And that represents the work of over 5,000 researchers from 110 countries around the world.
“The International Space Station is a truly global endeavor. It serves both as a proving ground for scientific breakthroughs and as a critical stepping stone to help enable the Artemis program, lunar exploration and future Mars missions,” Warren said.
The next major milestone for the space station program comes in July. Soyuz MS-29 commander Pyotr Dubrov, fellow cosmonaut Anna Kikina and NASA astronaut Anil Menon are scheduled to blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 14. They will replace Kud-Sverchkov and his two Soyuz MS-28 crewmates.
Launch of a Russian Progress cargo ship is expected in early September, followed by the launch of NASA’s Crew 13 — Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk and cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov — aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on Sept. 12. They will replace Crew 12.
Three more cargo flights are expected before the end of the year, with crew rotation flights resuming in early 2027.
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