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February 26, 2024

Dream Chaser

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Dream Chaser is an American reusable lifting-body spaceplane being developed by Sierra Space. Originally intended as a crewed vehicle, the Dream Chaser Space System is set to be produced after the Dream Chaser Cargo System cargo variant is operational. The crewed variant is planned to carry up to seven people and cargo to and from low Earth orbit.

The cargo Dream Chaser is designed to resupply the International Space Station with both pressurized and unpressurized cargo. It is intended to launch vertically on the Vulcan Centaur rocket and autonomously land horizontally on conventional runways. A proposed version to be operated by ESA would launch on an Arianespace vehicle.

Video credit: Sierra Space

 

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November 27, 2023

SpaceX CRS-29 Launch

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SpaceX CRS-29, also known as SpX-29, is a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 10 November 2023. The mission is contracted by NASA and is scheduled to be flown by SpaceX using Cargo Dragon C211. This will the seventh flight for SpaceX under NASA’s CRS Phase 2.

SpaceX plans to reuse the Cargo Dragons up to five times. The Cargo Dragon will launch without SuperDraco abort engines, without seats, cockpit controls and the life support system required to sustain astronauts in space. Dragon 2 improves on Dragon 1 in several ways, including lessened refurbishment time, leading to shorter periods between flights.

The new Cargo Dragon capsules under the NASA CRS Phase 2 contract will land east of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean.

NASA contracted for the CRS-29 mission from SpaceX and therefore determines the primary payload, date of launch, and orbital parameters for the Cargo Dragon.

SpaceX CRS-29 carries over 2,950 kg (6,500 lb) of cargo, where 2,381 kg (5,249 lb) are pressurized cargo with packaging and 569 kg (1,254 lb) are unpressurized cargo.
science investigations: ~1,012 kg (2,231 lb), vehicle hardware: ~491 kg (1,082 lb), crew supplies: ~681 kg (1,501 lb), spacewalk equipment: ~48 kg (106 lb), computer resources: ~46 kg (101 lb)

Video credit: NASA/SpaceX

 

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June 26, 2023

SpaceX CRS-28 Spacecraft Separation

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SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully separates from the second stage of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket during NASA’s SpaceX 28th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff occurred at 11:47 a.m. EDT on June 5, 2023, from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida.

SpaceX plans to reuse the Cargo Dragons up to five times. The Cargo Dragon launches without SuperDraco abort engines, without seats, cockpit controls and the life support system required to sustain astronauts in space.

Video credit: SpaceX

 

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May 23, 2023

Dragon Spacecraft Relocates

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The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission move their Dragon Endeavour spacecraft between docking ports on the International Space Station. Aboard are: NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

The crew will undock from the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module, then dock at the station’s forward Harmony port. Endeavour is relocating to make room for SpaceX’s 28th cargo resupply mission, currently scheduled to arrive in June.

Video credit: NASA

 

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March 20, 2023

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-27

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s uncrewed Dragon spacecraft on top, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Loaded with scientific experiments and supplies, the unpiloted SpaceX CRS-27 cargo ship automatically docked to the International Space Station’s forward port of the Harmony module March 16. The SpaceX resupply craft will remain on orbit for a month-long visit.

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November 28, 2022

SpaceX 26th CRS Launch

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Launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took place from Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39A at 2:20 p.m. EST on Saturday, November 26, 2022.

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