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Photo: NASA At 12:50 PM last Friday a Dragon rocket did its first-ever “reboost”
of the ISS, firing its rockets in order to add altitude to the station and keeping it afloat for a little while longer. The procedure needs to happen regularly, with the work traditionally done by rockets from Northrup Grumman or Russian outfit Roscosmos, but this marked the first time a Dragon has ever reboosted the station. Why suddenly ask SpaceX to do the work? Simple: The company needs data from pushing the ISS around
in order to design a stake to plunge through the station’s heart.
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