Ripley
Earthling - ( SpX)
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Date of Birth: March 2, 2019
Age: 0
Ripley is an Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD), named as a homage to Sigourney Weaver's character in the Alien movies franchise, launched aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon for its inaugural flight to the International Space Station and back.
Falcon 9 Block 5 | SpX-DM1 (Demonstration Mission 1)
SpaceX | USAKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
March 2, 2019, 7:49 a.m.
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 has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Soyuz 2.1A Fregat-M
Meridian-M No.19L
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationMeridian is a series of communications satellite for military and civilian use.
Long March 2D
XJS-C, XJS-D, XJS-E, XJS-F
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaThese are four experimental satellites which will be used mainly to test some Earth observation technologies.
Ariane 5 ECA+
JCSAT-17 & GEO-KOMPSAT-2B
Ariane Launch Area 3 - Kourou, French GuianaJCSAT-17 is a Japanese communication satellite of SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation. Its payloads incorporate S-band, C-band and Ku-band transponders, w...
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 4
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAA batch of 60 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Antares 230+
Cygnus CRS NG-13 (S.S. Robert H. Lawrence.)
Launch Area 0 A - Wallops Island, Virginia, USAThis is the 14th planned flight of the Orbital ATK's uncrewed resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its 13th flight to the International Space Station und...
