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On February 22, 2023, NASA discussed the Dragon XL's development for the first time since its 2020 unveiling, with Mark Wiese, NASA's manager of deep space logistics for the Gateway program, answering during a panel at SpaceCom that NASA has been working with SpaceX to run a series of studies to refine the Dragon XL design and examine cargo ...
Clockwise from top left: Progress, Cargo Dragon 2, Cygnus, Tianzhou. ... Dragon XL USA: SpaceX: Falcon Heavy: 5,000 [23] None Yes [23] Development [24] Argo
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 .
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft returned to Earth from the International Space Station yesterday, safely splashing down at 12:22 p.m. Pacific time about 250 miles off. It's official: SpaceX has gone ...
The maneuver will begin at 6:35 a.m. EDT with undocking the spacecraft from the Harmony module's forward-facing port. The Dragon is expected to be redocked by 7:18 a.m. at the module's space ...
In March 2020, NASA announced SpaceX as the first GLS contractor, [14] [15] [16] with the company simultaneously unveiling the Dragon XL spacecraft to be used in their flights to the Gateway. [15] [17] The spacecraft is capable of carrying 5,000 kilograms (11,000 pounds) of pressurized and unpressurized cargo in total to the Gateway. [15] [16] [18]
The SpaceX Dragon vehicle that will bring home the Starliner astronauts in February launched Saturday from Florida for the Crew-9 mission.
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).