The Bartolomeo platform that will be carried to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 20th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-20) mission for NASA is moved in its shipping container inside the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 30, 2020. Bartolomeo was manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space. The platform will attach to the exterior of the space station’s European Columbus Module. Named for the younger brother of Christopher Columbus, the platform has the capability to host external payloads in low-Earth orbit on the sta
The Bartolomeo platform that will be carried to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 20th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-20) mission for NASA is moved in its shipping container inside the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 30, 2020. Bartolomeo was manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space. The platform will attach to the exterior of the space station’s European Columbus Module. Named for the younger brother of Christopher Columbus, the platform has the capability to host external payloads in low-Earth orbit on the station. CRS-20 is scheduled to launch aboard SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket in March 2020.
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