SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched the CRS-13 Dragon spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 15 December 2017.
Cargo aboard the Space X Dragon resupply mission includes NASA Glenn Research Center experiments developed by ZIN that will study colloids that are 1/100th the diameter of human hair. The experiments will use the NASA GRC Light Microscopy Module an on-board microscope also developed and operated by ZIN to determine how three-dimensional particles within fluids interact when there is no gravity.
This mission marks the first time SpaceX is flying both a flight-proven Falcon 9 and a flight-proven Dragon spacecraft. Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported the CRS-11 mission in June 2017 and the Dragon spacecraft previously supported the CRS-6 mission in April 2015.
For SpaceX’s thirteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-13), the Dragon spacecraft carries over 2177 kilograms (4800 pounds) of supplies and payloads to the International Space Station. ZIN Technologies was acquired by Voyager Space in March 2023.
