SpX CRS-5

Mission

SpX CRS-5

• Type: Resupply
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
• Launch Cost: $61,200,000

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the seventh Dragon spacecraft on the fifth operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. The flight was conducted under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.

Location

Space Launch Complex 40

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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Space Launch Complex 40 has witnessed the launch of 311 rockets, including 311 orbital launch attempts. While Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA, has been the site for 1027 rocket launches.

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.

Rocket

SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1

Falcon 9 v1.1 is a significantly redesigned version of the its predecessor, including a higher payload capacity. This version arranges the engines in a structural form SpaceX calls an Octaweb.

Learn more about the Falcon 9 v1.1

Core B1012

B1012 landing failed due to the grid fins running out of hydraulic fluid. Booster B1012 last launched 01/10/2015 and has seen 0 successful launches and landings. Destroyed on impact with droneship, grid fin hydraulic fluid depleted

Just Read the Instructions (Original) - JRTI

1st (Marmac 300) ASDS barge, Just Read the Instructions (JRTI) was used for 2 Falcon 9 landing attempts in the Altantic Ocean.

Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship - ASDS

An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory.

Agency

SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.