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Key facts
- Manufacturer
- SpaceX
- Designer
- SpaceX
- Country of origin
- United States
- Operator
- SpaceX
- Applications
- ISS crew and cargo transport; private spaceflight
- Website
- spacex.com/vehicles/dragon
- Spacecraft type
- Capsule
- Launch mass
- 12,500 kg (27,600 lb)
- Dry mass
- 7,700 kg (16,976 lb)
- Payload capacity
- 6,000 kg (13,000 lb) to orbit 3,307 kg (7,291 lb) to ISS 2,507 kg (5,527 lb) return cargo 800 kg (1,800 lb) disposed cargo
- Crew capacity
- 4 (normal operations) 7 (emergency evacuation)
- Volume
- Pressurized: 9.3 m (330 cu ft) Unpressurized: 37 m (1,300 cu ft)
- Power
- 28 V and 120 V DC buses 1.5-2 kW solar array
- Batteries
- 4 × lithium polymer
- Regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Design life
- 10 days (free flight) 210 days (docked to ISS)
- Height
- 4.5 m (15 ft) capsule only 8.1 m (26.7 ft) capsule with trunk
- Diameter
- 4 m (13 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
SpaceX - Dragon
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
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Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 4
- Mass
- 9525
- Official website
- www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon
- Image
- Crew Dragon at the ISS for Demo Mission 1 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 8.1
Show 5 more facts
- Commons category
- SpaceX Dragon 2
- maximum capacity
- 4
- first flight
- 2019-03-02
- volume as quantity
- 37
- payload mass
- 3000
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Article
Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by the American space company SpaceX for flights to the International Space Station (ISS) and private spaceflight missions. The spacecraft, which consists of a reusable space capsule and an expendable trunk module, has two variants: the 4-person Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon, a replacement for the Dragon 1 cargo capsule. The spacecraft launches atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, and the capsule returns to Earth through splashdown.
Crew Dragon's primary role is to transport crews to and from the ISS under NASA's Commercial Crew Program, a task handled by the Space Shuttle until it was retired in 2011. It will be joined by Boeing's Starliner in this role when NASA certifies it. Crew Dragon is also used for commercial flights to ISS and other destinations and is expected to be used to transport people to and from Axiom Space's planned space station.