Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2

Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2

Space Launch Complex 40
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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SpaceX

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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SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2

SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 (COTS 2), was the second test-flight for SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft, launched on the third flight of the company's two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The flight was performed under a funded agreement from NASA as the second Dragon demonstration mission in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The purpose of the COTS program is to develop and demonstrate commercial sources for cargo re-supply of the International Space Station (ISS). The Dragon C2+ spacecraft was the first American vehicle to visit the ISS since the end of the Space Shuttle program. It was also the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with another spacecraft.

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Dragon C102


Serial C102

Launch Crew Count 0

Status Retired

Landing Time 2012-05-31T15:42:00+0000


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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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Core


Serial B0005

Status lost

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 1


Landing Attempt No

Landing Success Unknown

Type EXP

Location ATL


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International Space Station

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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