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Energy Resilience Supports SpaceX Mission

NASA’s Johnson Space Center is utilizing the benefits of energy resilience, built by ESG, to ensure mission-critical operations like the International Space Station

  • NASA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off - NASA/Cory Huston
    With a view of the Press Site countdown clock in the foreground, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Liftoff occurred at 3:22 p.m. EDT. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch from U.S. soil to the space station since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. - NASA/Cory Huston
  • ESG - NASA Johnson Space Center - Photo Courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center
    PHOTO DATE: 10-25-17 LOCATION: JSC Site SUBJECT: Aerial views of Johnson Space Center, building 21, building 24N and former 222 area. PHOTOGRAPHER: BILL STAFFORD
  • ESG - NASA Johnson Space Center - Side View - Photo Courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center
    Date: 05-25-17 Location: Bldg 24, Power Plant Subject: Aerial Drone Photography of JSC Combined Heat & Power Plant Photographer: James Blair
  • NASA Johnson Space Center - Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
  • NASA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off - NASA/Cory Huston
    With a view of the Press Site countdown clock in the foreground, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission. Liftoff occurred at 3:22 p.m. EDT. Behnken and Hurley are the first astronauts to launch from U.S. soil to the space station since the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. Part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, this will be SpaceX’s final flight test, paving the way for the agency to certify the crew transportation system for regular, crewed flights to the orbiting laboratory. - NASA/Cory Huston
  • ESG - NASA Johnson Space Center - Photo Courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center
    PHOTO DATE: 10-25-17 LOCATION: JSC Site SUBJECT: Aerial views of Johnson Space Center, building 21, building 24N and former 222 area. PHOTOGRAPHER: BILL STAFFORD
  • ESG - NASA Johnson Space Center - Side View - Photo Courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center
    Date: 05-25-17 Location: Bldg 24, Power Plant Subject: Aerial Drone Photography of JSC Combined Heat & Power Plant Photographer: James Blair
  • NASA Johnson Space Center - Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Congratulations to NASA and SpaceX for the successful launch of Crew Dragon! NASA astronauts arrived at the International Space Station aboard the first commercially built and operated American spacecraft to carry humans to orbit, marking a new era in human spaceflight. Energy Systems Group (ESG), a CenterPoint Energy company, takes pride in helping NASA increase energy resilience at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC), home to the International Space Station mission operations, the nation's astronaut corps, and a host of future space developments. ESG partnered with NASA to design and operate a combined heat and power plant which is capable of operating as an islanded microgrid to help ensure the continuity of mission-critical operations. Click here to read the Department of Energy's project profile on ESG's microgrid installation at JSC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Source: The U.S. Department of Energy Southcentral Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership

(Top Photo Source: NASA/Tony Gray and Tim Powers | First Slideshow Photo Source: NASA/Cory Huston)

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