Successful launch and deployment of Cargo Dragon
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Dragon CRS-2 SpX-27
Falcon 9 Block 5
Historical mission record
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
27th 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.
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Mission type
- Resupply
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Spacecraft
- Cargo Dragon C209
- Destination
- International Space Station
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Programs
- International Space Station, Commercial Resupply Services
- Recovery
- Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship, B1073 has successfully landed on ASDS ASOG after its seventh flight. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Falcon 9 Block 5
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
- Height
- 70 m
- Diameter
- 3.65 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 537
- First flight
- 2018-05-11
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Launch site & orbit
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