What Is The Polaris Dawn Mission? (Explained)

Polaris Dawn

• Orbit of 1400km x 700km (within the van allen belt)
• Test out laser-based communication with Starlink
• 48 planned experiments during the mission

Key research:
• Using camera to harness radiation (capturing xray images)
• Understanding space motion sickness
• Testing eyes to understand why vision changes during long-flight missions

Spacecraft Orbit & Information:
• Starting orbit of 190km x 1200km orbit raising apogee to 1400km lower apogee to 700km where the spacewalk will take place lasting a total of 2hrs end to end, that includes depressurizing the cabin, performing spacewalk EVA operations, and repressurizing the cabin.

• Dragon Resilience will be used for the spacewalk, with a forward hatch.

• The new EVA suits feature a HUD or Heads Up Display with 2 of the crew members suits having cameras fixated onto the helmet. Those being the suits of Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis.