SpaceX Demo-1

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

07:49:03

Saturday March 2, 2019

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Launch Notes

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

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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

Rocket

Active
Falcon 9 Block 5

Active Since 2018

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Agency

SpaceX

Price

$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

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Falcon 9


70th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2019

SpaceX


76th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2019

2019


13th

Orbital launch attempt