Falcon 9 v1.1 | SpX CRS-3

Falcon 9 v1.1 | SpX CRS-3

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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SpX CRS-3

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the fifth Dragon spacecraft on the third operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. The flight was conducted under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

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Dragon C105


Serial C105

Launch Crew Count 0

Status Retired

Landing Time 2014-05-18T19:05:00+0000


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Falcon 9 v1.1


Height 68.40 Meters

Max Stages 2

Mass To GTO 4850 kg

Liftoff Thrust 5883 kN

Diameter 3.65 Meters

Mass To LEO 13150 kg

Liftoff Mass 506 Tonnes


Launch Success 14

Consecutive Success 1

Maiden Flight 2013-09-29

Launch Failures 1


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Core


Serial B1006

Status lost

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 1


Landing Attempt No

Landing Success Unknown

Type Ocean

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.

Commercial Resupply Services

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.

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