Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2
SpaceX · Falcon 9 v1.0 · Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
SpaceX's 8th launch · 1st this year · humanity's 5,218th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: May 22, 07:44 – May 22, 07:44 UTC
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SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 (COTS 2), was the second test-flight for SpaceX's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft, launched on the third flight of the company's two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The flight was performed under a funded agreement from NASA as the second Dragon demonstration mission in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The purpose of the COTS program is to develop and demonstrate commercial sources for cargo re-supply of the International Space Station (ISS). The Dragon C2+ spacecraft was the first American vehicle to visit the ISS since the end of the Space Shuttle program. It was also the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous and berth with another spacecraft.
Resupply · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
- B0005 · flight 1 · expendable · zone record 38/42
