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U.S. Commercial Cargo Ship Sets Sail to the Space Station

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Dec. 15 to send the commercial Dragon cargo craft on its journey to deliver some three tons of ex...

CRS-13 Technical Webcast

This is the technical webcast and will only include shots of the pad and countdown audio. See our hosted webcast for full launch coverage. SpaceX is targeting launch of the Commercial Resupply Servic...

CRS-13 Hosted Webcast

SpaceX is targeting launch of the Commercial Resupply Services 13 (CRS-13) mission from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force station in Florida for 7:35 a.m. PST, or 15:35 UTC, on Friday, Dec...

SpX CRS-13

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Resupply

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1035 - Landing Zone 1

SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft on their 13th operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. The flight was conducted under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Full Thrust

The Full Thrust variants first stage includes all systems necessary for an operational re-use of stages while the second stage is operated as an expendable rocket stage.

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Specifications

Stages
2
Length
71.0 m
Diameter
3.65 m
Fairing Diameter
―
Launch Mass
546.0 T
Thrust
6804.0 kN

Family

Name
Falcon 9
Family
―
Variant
Full Thrust
Alias
―
Full Name
Falcon 9 Full Thrust

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
$50000000
Low Earth Orbit
22800.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
8305.0 kg
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―

Booster Info

B1035

Status: Retired

Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: June 3, 2017
Last Flight: December 15, 2017

Flights: 2
Landings Attempted: 2
Landings Successful: 2

Previous B1035 Flights

Landing Information

The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landed at LZ-1.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 1.

Dragon C108

In-active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 6000 kg

Destination: International Space Station

Serial Number: C108

This capsule flew both CRS-6, CRS-13, and CRS-18 It is the first three time flown dragon capsule. As part of CRS-6 the robotic SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, 21 May 2015. The CRS-13 mission was the first NASA to fly on a flight-proven Falcon 9.

Dragon 1 Details

SpaceX

(SpX)

CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 601 Failures: 15 Pending: 119

Agency Type:

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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