The solar panels are being sent to the ISS to boost the amount of energy available for research and other operations. Some of the science experiments headed to the ISS include a solar array, a portable ultrasound, tardigrades and baby squid. After it delivers its goods, the spacecraft will hang around the ISS for almost a month and return in July along with 5,300 pounds of cargo. Since SpaceX spacecraft are reusable, this will be the first flight for this particular Dragon. It will be carrying 7,300 pounds of science, research, crew supplies and hardware. This will be SpaceX’s 22nd resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The technology also has potential applications for medical care in remote and isolated settings on Earth,” he adds.Onboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, a Cargo Dragon ship will be launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center today, Thursday, 3 June, at 10:59 pm IST (1:29 pm EDT). “The investigation also examines how effective just-in-time instructions are for autonomous use of the device by the crew. “This type of commercial off-the-shelf technology could provide important medical capabilities for future exploration missions beyond low-Earth orbit, where immediate ground support is not available,” Kadambari Suri, integration manager for the Butterfly iQ Technology Demonstration said in NASA’s release. In order to study the results with the use of such a device in the microgravity, astronauts onboard ISS assess the quality of the ultrasound images, including image acquisition, display, and storage. Scientists are also testing commercial off-the-shelf technology Butterfly IQ Ultrasound that demonstrates use of a portable ultrasound with mobile computing device. This could, in turn, help NASA support development of “protective measures and mitigation to preserve astronaut health on long-duration space missions.” According to NASA, the gravity’s role in shaping their interactions “is not well understood”, and therefore, scientists aim to study beneficial microbes such as the bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, to determine whether spaceflight alters the mutually beneficial relationship with other animal hosts and microbes. NASA’s Microgravity on Animal-Microbe Interactions (UMAMI) examines the effects of spaceflight on the molecular and chemical interactions between beneficial microbes. They can survive thousands of times as much radiation as we can and they can go for days or weeks with little or no oxygen," Thomas Boothby, assistant professor of molecular biology at the University of Wyoming and principal investigator for the experiment, separately told a news briefing. "Some of the things that tardigrades can survive include being dried out, being frozen and being heated up past the boiling point of water. READ | NASA releases 'magnificent' image showing Milky Way's energised 'downtown' However, these life-forms survived the crash as they were stored in dehydrated "tun" state and could be resuscitated later. On 11 April 2019, Israeli spacecraft Beresheet carrying these microbial creatures crashed into the moon. Scientists will study how different environmental conditions affect the tardigrade gene expression both on Earth and in Space. And therefore, these microorganisms will assist NASA in more research related to the biological survival under extreme conditions in the space. Tardigrades are the tiny bear-like creatures that tolerate environments more extreme than most life forms can. “Experiments aboard include studying how water bears tolerate space, whether microgravity affects symbiotic relationships, analyzing the formation of kidney stones, and more,” NASA explained in a release. The microscopic creatures will reach the International Space Station next week for the astronauts to study “stress factors” that affect humans in space. NASA’s resupply mission carrying scientific research and technology will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ET under the SpaceX's 22nd cargo resupply mission to send the micro-animals which includes 5,000 tardigrades dubbed as 'water bears’, 28 glow-in-the-dark baby squids,Tardigrades, Butterfly IQ Ultrasound and new solar panels into the space. NASA on Saturday announced that it’s ready to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on June 3 at 1:29 p.m.
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