Crew Dragon 2
Active Human Rated Unknown Crew Capacity: 4 Payload Capacity: 6000 kg Diameter: 3.7 m Height: 7.2 mSpaceX (SpX)
March 2, 2019
Crew Flights to ISS
Flight Life
Able to fly for up to one week of free flight or two years docked.
Description
Crew Dragon 2 is capable of lifting four astronauts, or a combination of crew and cargo to and from low Earth orbit. Its heat shield is designed to withstand Earth re-entry velocities from Lunar and Martian spaceflights.
History
Crew Dragon 2 is a spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company based in Hawthorne, California. Dragon is launched into space by the SpaceX Falcon 9 two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle. It is one of two American Spacecraft being develeoped capable of lifting American Astronauts to the International Space Station.
SpaceX
Commercial
CEO: Elon Musk
SpX 2002Space 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.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 2-10
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Chollima 1
Malligyong-1
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Long March 2
Shenzhou 16
Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaFifth crewed flight to the Chinese space station.
GSLV Mk II
IRNSS-1J (NVS-01)
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Falcon 9
BADR-8
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Soyuz 2.1a/Fregat-M
Kondor-FKA No.1
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Electron
TROPICS-3
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandLast two operational (TROPICS-06 & TROPICS-07) satellites for NASA's Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a…
SpaceShipTwo
VSS Unity 25
Spaceport America - Air launch to Suborbital flightVirgin Galactic return to space mission ahead of the first commercial flight.
Nuri
NEXTSat-2 & SNIPE
LC-2 - Naro Space Center, South KoreaThird flight of the KSLV-II "Nuri" launch vehicle, carrying NEXTSat-2 as well as SNIPE A through D.
Soyuz 2.1a
Progress MS-23 (84P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanProgress resupply mission to the International Space Station.
