Falcon 9 v1.1 | SpX CRS-7

Falcon 9 v1.1 | SpX CRS-7

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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SpX CRS-7

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the ninth Dragon spacecraft on the seventh operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station as part of the NASA cargo resupply contract. It was meant to deliver the IDA-1 segment of the new ISS International Docking System. The second stage ruptured due to an overpressurization event and the launch vehicle disintegrated at T+139 seconds. According to SpaceX investigation, "Preliminary analysis suggests the overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank was initiated by a flawed piece of support hardware (a “strut”) inside the second stage."

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Dragon C109


Serial C109

Launch Crew Count 0

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 2015-06-28T14:23:00+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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Serial B1018

Status lost

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 1


Landing Attempt Yes

Landing Success No

Type ASDS

Location OCISLY


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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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