Cargo Dragon 2
Active Cargo Unknown Payload Capacity: 6000 kg Diameter: 3.7 m Height: 7.2 mSpaceX (SpX)
Dec. 6, 2020
Cargo Earth Orbit Logistics
Flight Life
Able to fly for up to one week of free flight or two years docked.
Description
Cargo Dragon 2 is a autonomous spaceship capable of bringing science to and from the International Space Station with large pressurized and un-pressurized sections to support a variety of missions.
History
Cargo Dragon 2 is an updated version of the original Dragon spaceship designed to service the International Space Station with first flights conducted in 2020.
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 3-3
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 46 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 6
Jilin-1 High Resolution 03D-09, 35 to 43 & Infrared A01 to 06
Launch Complex 16 - Taiyuan, People's Republic of China16 new Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 4-26
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 52 satellites for Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Khayyam & rideshare
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Ceres-1
Taijing-1-01 & 02
Unknown Pad - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaTwo commercial Earth observation satellites built by Minospace.
SSLV
SSLV Demo 1
Satish Dhawan Space Centre First Launch Pad - Sriharikota, Republic of IndiaFirst test flight of Indian SSLV (Small Satellite Launch Vehicle).
Falcon 9
Danuri (KPLO - Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter)
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Long March 2F
Chinese Reusable Space Vehicle
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New Shepard
NS-22
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, USANS-22 is the sixth crewed New Shepard flight, carrying six passengers.
Atlas V 421
SBIRS GEO-6
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USASixth geosynchronous satellite of the Space Based Infrared System program (SBIRS), providing capabilities for early missile warning and missile defen…
