Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
07:49:03
Saturday March 2, 2019
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
Read Article
The maiden orbital flight of Crew Dragon. It flew without crew as it is a test flight. Fastest droneship turnaround to date, at 8 days and 6 hours, nearly halving the previous record of 15 days and 23 hours.
SpaceX Demo-1 was the first orbital test of Crew Dragon. It was an uncrewed demonstration mission as part of NASA's Commercial Crew program. The spacecraft tested the approach and automated docking procedures with the International Space Station (ISS), remained docked for a few days, then conducted the full re-entry, splashdown and recovery steps to provide data required to subsequently qualify for flights transporting humans to the ISS. Life support systems were closely monitored during the test flight. SpaceX Demo-1 docked to the IDA-2 port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station on 03/03/2019 at 10:51 UTC. Its stay was 4 days and was undocked on 08/03/2019 at 07:32 UTC. It splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on 08/03/2019 at 13:45 UTC.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
6,350 kilograms
Agency
SpaceXPrice
$69.75 million
Rocket
Diameter: 3.7m
Height: 70m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 22,800 kg
GTO: 8,300 kg
Liftoff Thrust
7,607 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 5.2m
Height: 13m
Stages
2
70th
Mission
3rd
Mission of 2019
76th
Mission
3rd
Mission of 2019
13th
Orbital launch attempt