29 April 2016
SpaceX Announces Plans for Mars Mission.
... landing (EDL) on Mars “with margin,” and deliver more than one metric ton of payload to the surface. Dragon's SuperDraco thruster is key to allowing it to land on Marsh. They system would be used to slow the spacecraft's descent through...
17 January 2020
SpaceX's last critical test before crewed flights begin
... which has a four-hour launch window, will demonstrate Crew Dragon’s ability to safely escape the Falcon 9 rocket, therefore protecting ... will follow a trajectory that will mimic a Crew Dragon mission to the ISS matching the physical environments the ...
22 April 2019
Anomaly during SpaceX test could delay its first crewed flight
...Although SpaceX did not disclose at the time what Crew Dragon vehicle was being used for this test, it has now... are assessing the anomaly that occurred today during a part of the Dragon Super Draco Static Fire Test at SpaceX Landing Zone 1 in Florida....
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
...at 7:49 pm EST (0049 GMT on 15 Nov), the Crew Dragon is the first crew spacecraft to be NASA-certified for regular flights...ground systems, on Tuesday, making Elon Musk’s Crew Dragon the first commercial spacecraft in history to receive the designation...
14 August 2017
Falcon 9 to launch super-computer and army satellite
The Dragon unmanned cargo ship is scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket to ...9 will attempt to land on solid ground about 10 minutes after launch. The Dragon will carry 2,900 kilograms of supplies, including The Spaceborne Computer made by Hewlett ...
04 April 2018
A storm hunter and space junk collector on its way to the ISS
... growing food in space, the effects of microgravity on bone marrow and how materials behave in space, the reusable Dragon spacecraft is packed with an observatory that will study severe thunderstorms in our atmosphere and an orbital debris removal...
