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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.
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.
Serial C209
Launch Crew Count 0
Status Active
Landing Time 2024-04-30T05:38:00+0000
Height 70.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 8300 kg
Liftoff Thrust 7607 kN
Diameter 3.65 Meters
Mass To LEO 22800 kg
Liftoff Mass 549 Tonnes
Launch Success 311
Consecutive Success 14
Maiden Flight 2018-05-11
Launch Failures 1
Serial B1080
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 10
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location LZ-1
hitura-nobad
2024-03-21T21:22:52+0000
Launch successful
hitura-nobad
2024-03-21T20:55:49+0000
Liftoff
LL2
2024-03-21T20:36:18+0000
Official Webcast by NASA has started
Nosu
2024-03-20T13:38:37+0000
Weather 90%
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-16T01:51:17+0000
GO for launch.
Nosu
2024-03-15T08:19:14+0000
Tweaked launch time
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-09T10:35:25+0000
Added new tentative launch date & time.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-03-04T01:50:17+0000
Delayed to March TBD 2024.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-26T04:23:55+0000
Tweaked T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-26T04:21:02+0000
Moved to SLC-40 for launch.
Nosu
2024-02-22T17:05:20+0000
Targeting early March 12 UTC
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-19T17:26:56+0000
NET March 13 UTC.
Cosmic_Penguin
2024-02-13T23:32:04+0000
NET mid-March.
Cosmic_Penguin
2023-10-30T01:30:47+0000
NET March 4, 2024.
Nosu
2023-09-20T07:10:40+0000
Targeting February 2024
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.The first CRS contracts were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve cargo Dragon and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The Falcon 9 and Antares rockets were also developed under the CRS program to deliver cargo spacecraft to the ISS.
The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the sixteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilization, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the International Space Station. It was conceived in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, during the Space Station Freedom project as it was originally called.
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The SpaceX CRS-30 Dragon spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station ahead of its reentry, splashdown and recovery.
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Following its launch atop a Falcon 9, the CRS-30 Dragon will autonomously dock to the ISS, bringing crew supplies as well as experiments.
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Prelaunch media teleconference with the following participants: - Kristi Duplichen, deputy manager, NASA’s International Space Station Transportation Integration Office - Heidi Parris, associate program scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program Research Office - Sarah Walker, director, SpaceX Dragon mission management - Melody Lovin, launch weather officer, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron
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NASA and SpaceX will hold a webinar about scientific payloads that will be launched to the International Space Station onboard the SpaceX CRS-30 mission. The science webinar will include the following participants: - Heidi Parris, scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program - Davide Marotta, science program director for in-space biomedicine, ISS National Laboratory - Marc Elmouttie, research group leader, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization - Paula Grisanti, CEO, National Stem Cell Foundation - Kris Kuehnel, director, Airbus U.S. Space & Defense - Michelle Lucas, CEO, Higher Orbits - Hema Ramkumar, CEO, Oculogenex - Jordan McKaig, graduate student, Georgia Institute of Technology
2024-05-01T01:03:34+0000
Teslarati
2024-04-30T18:16:26+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-03-22T02:05:57+0000
SpaceNews
2024-03-21T18:23:40+0000
NASASpaceflight
2024-03-19T18:03:38+0000
Teslarati
2024-03-18T20:10:32+0000
NASASpaceflight