--- title: "Emergency Alarm Reportedly Goes Off on SpaceX Dragon Capsule Docked to Space Station" description: "The SpaceX Crew Dragon dubbed Resilience currently docked on orbit to the International Space Station \"annunciated false emergency messages\" yesterday." date: "2021-03-25" modified: "2021-03-25" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/emergency-alarm-spacex-dragon-space-station" categories: - "Space" - "SpaceX" tags: - "crew dragon" - "international space station" - "iss" - "NASA" - "SpaceX" - "the digest" --- # Emergency Alarm Reportedly Goes Off on SpaceX Dragon Capsule Docked to Space Station ![The SpaceX Crew Dragon dubbed Resilience currently docked on orbit to the International Space Station "annunciated false emergency messages" yesterday.]() *\Image: NASA\* ## Fire, Fire The SpaceX Crew Dragon dubbed Resilience, currently docked to the International Space Station after launching in November of last year, just reportedly scared the bejesus out of the station's crew. The capsule "annunciated false emergency messages for Fire and Rapid Depress as well as other erroneous messages yesterday," *NASASpaceFlight* managing editor Chris Bergin reported in a [Thursday afternoon tweet](). "ISS crew ran responses for Fire and Rapid depress but stood down once stable readings were confirmed." "Dragon Resilience keeping the ISS crew on their toes," Bergin added. "Crew Dragon Resilience and the Station are both in good health after these events," *NASASpaceFlight* reporter Tyler Gray clarified in a[ reply on Twitter](). ## False Alarm [According to Bergin](), the ISS reported that the issue was likely a "Single Event Upset" on one of the Crew Dragon's power units, causing a processor to reset "and output data which the ISS interpreted as a collection of emergencies and off-nominal indications." Neither SpaceX and NASA have yet to acknowledge the report. Futurism has reached out both for comment. Resilience made its way into orbit as part of SpaceX's Crew-1 flight back in November, the first operational crew flight from American soil to the ISS since the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. Its flight followed the successful docking of the first Crew Dragon capsule, Endeavor, to the space station in May of 2020 in the vehicle's first crewed test flight. **More on Crew Dragon:** *[Bone Cancer Survivor Will Get Free Trip to Space This Year]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()