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 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.
Falcon 9 Block 5
Starlink 7
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.
Long March 2D
Gaofen-9-02
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Falcon 9 Block 5
SpX-DM2 (Demonstration Mission 2)
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Long March 11
XJS-G & XJS-H
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LauncherOne
Launch Demo
Mojave Air and Space Port - Air launch to orbitPayload-free test flight of the LauncherOne vehicle.
Soyuz 2.1B
EKS 4 (Tundra 4) (Kosmos 2546)
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H-IIB
Kounotori 9 (HTV-9)
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Atlas V 501
OTV-6 (X-37B) (USSF-7)
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Kuaizhou
Xingyun-2 01, 02
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Long March 5B
Maiden Flight
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