Falcon 9 v1.0 | Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit (DSQU)

Falcon 9 v1.0 | Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit (DSQU)

Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

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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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Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit (DSQU)

The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit was a boilerplate version of the Dragon spacecraft. After using it for ground tests to rate Dragon's shape and mass in various tests, SpaceX launched it into low Earth orbit on the maiden flight of the Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX used the launch to evaluate the aerodynamic conditions on the spacecraft and performance of the carrier rocket in a real-world launch scenario, ahead of Dragon flights for NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program.

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Falcon 9 v1.0


Height 47.80 Meters

Max Stages 2

Mass To GTO 3400 kg

Liftoff Thrust 3807 kN

Diameter 3.65 Meters

Mass To LEO 9300 kg

Liftoff Mass 318 Tonnes


Launch Success 4

Consecutive Success 1

Maiden Flight 2010-06-04

Launch Failures 1


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Serial B0003

Status expended

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 1


Landing Attempt Yes

Landing Success No

Type PL

Location ATL


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