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Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA space station cargo – plus booster landing at Cape

A Falcon 9 rocket will launch a SpaceX Dragon spaceship on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is schedule...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches CRS SpX-30 to the ISS

SpaceX CRS-30 is a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station. The mission is contracted by NASA and will be flown by SpaceX using a Cargo Dragon. Instantaneous launch win...

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Dragon CRS-2 SpX-30

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Resupply

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 40 Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA Probability: 90%
B1080 - Landing Zone 1

30th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.

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Updates

hitura-nobad • March 21, 2024, 9:22 p.m.

Launch successful


hitura-nobad • March 21, 2024, 8:55 p.m.

Liftoff


LL2 • March 21, 2024, 8:36 p.m.

Official Webcast by NASA has started




Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1080

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: May 21, 2023
Last Flight: March 4, 2026
Flights: 25
Landings Attempted: 25
Landings Successful: 25
Previous B1080 Flights

Landing Information

B1080 has landed back at the launch site after its 6th flight.

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

Cargo Dragon C209


Active Cargo Unmanned Payload Capacity: 6000 kg
Destination: International Space Station
Serial Number: C209

Second Cargo Dragon 2

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 648 Failures: 15 Pending: 122

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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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