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The spacecraft, which consists of a reusable space capsule and an expendable trunk module, has two variants: the 4-person Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon, a replacement for the Dragon 1 cargo capsule. The spacecraft launches atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, and the capsule returns to Earth through splashdown. [5]
SpaceX Dragon. Dragon is a family of spacecraft developed and produced by American private space transportation company SpaceX. The first variant, later named Dragon 1, flew 23 cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS) between 2010 and 2020 before retiring. Design of this version, not designed to carry astronauts, was funded by ...
SpaceX Dragon 1 is a class of fourteen partially reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company. The spacecraft flew 23 missions between 2010 and 2020. Dragon was launched into orbit by the company's Falcon 9 launch vehicle to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).
The launch of the Crew-9 mission mostly went off without a hitch Saturday, save for one issue with the Falcon 9 rocket after it broke away from the capsule. As a result, SpaceX, which revealed the ...
Hague and Gorbunov boarded the SpaceX Dragon capsule for a 1:17 p.m. EDT launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket.. The pair had arrived a week prior at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin preparations for ...
After launching Tuesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, the SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the crew managed to ascend to 870 miles above Earth's surface, the company announced on social media site X ...
C107 →. SpaceX Dragon C106 is a Dragon space capsule built by SpaceX. [ 1] It is the first reused SpaceX Dragon capsule to be reflown into space, having its second launch in 2017. [ 2] C106 was first used on CRS-4, and then used again for the CRS-11 and CRS-19 missions. [ 3] It was the second capsule after C108 to be used a third time ...
SpaceX Dragon. The SpaceX Draco is a hypergolic liquid rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX for use in their space capsules. Two engine types have been built to date: Draco and SuperDraco. The original Draco thruster is a small rocket engine for use on the Dragon spacecraft. [3][4][5] SuperDraco uses the same storable (non-cryogenic ...