ISS Resupply mission delayed
Discussion
The Japanese resupply mission to the ISS due to launch 22:32 GMT tomorrow has been delayed by a typhoon at the tracking station on Guam. No new date has yet been announced.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/09/09/jaxa-postpon...
https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/09/09/jaxa-postpon...
There's oxygen and water recycling on the ISS and they'll have supplies stored for such eventualities.
It's not unusual for supply missions to be delayed a few days by weather at the launch site, or technical issues. Some don't make it at all, like SpaceX's CRS-7 mission, which disintegrated a couple of minutes after launch in 2015. The Russian resupply mission prior to this, Progress M-27M, managed to get into orbit, but went into a tailspin and crashed back to Earth. The ISS went from 17th April to 5th July without resupply as a result.
As for the crew, there's currently 6 people onboard. There's a couple of Soyuz attached to the ISS, which can be used to evacuate 3 people each back to Earth if necessary. It's one of these has some drill damage in it, but it's not in the really important part, the re-entry capsule (unless drunken Boris the construction worker had some fun there too).
It's not unusual for supply missions to be delayed a few days by weather at the launch site, or technical issues. Some don't make it at all, like SpaceX's CRS-7 mission, which disintegrated a couple of minutes after launch in 2015. The Russian resupply mission prior to this, Progress M-27M, managed to get into orbit, but went into a tailspin and crashed back to Earth. The ISS went from 17th April to 5th July without resupply as a result.
As for the crew, there's currently 6 people onboard. There's a couple of Soyuz attached to the ISS, which can be used to evacuate 3 people each back to Earth if necessary. It's one of these has some drill damage in it, but it's not in the really important part, the re-entry capsule (unless drunken Boris the construction worker had some fun there too).
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