Crew Dragon Demo-1: Difference between revisions

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|dry_mass={{cvt|6350|kg|abbr=on}}<ref name=EA-DF-2014> {{cite web |url= http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/DragonFly_Final_EA_sm.pdf |title= Environmental assessment of Dragonfly vehicle 2014 |publisher= FAA }} </ref>

|launch_date=NoFebruary earlier than February23, 2019<ref name=NewTarget>{{Cite web|url=https://blogsspaceflightnow.nasa.gov/commercialcrewcom/2019/01/1025/spacexfalcon-demo9-1rocket-launchfires-engines-in-key-test-ahead-of-crew-dragon-demo-updateflight/|title=SpaceXFalcon Demo-19 Launchrocket Updatefires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight – Spaceflight Now|websitelast=NASAClark|first=Stephen|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-1225}}</ref>

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{{cite news |last=Foust|first=Jeff |url=http://spacenews.com/spacex-seeks-to-accelerate-falcon-9-production-and-launch-rates-this-year/ |title=SpaceX seeks to accelerate Falcon 9 production and launch rates this year |work=[[SpaceNews (publication)|SpaceNews]] |date=February 4, 2016 |accessdate=March 21, 2016 |quote= Shotwell said the company is planning an in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft before the end of this year, where the vehicle uses its thrusters to separate from a Falcon 9 rocket during ascent. That will be followed in 2017 by two demonstration flights to the International Space Station, the first without a crew and the second with astronauts on board, and then the first operational mission.}}</ref>

It will be launched on a [[SpaceX]] [[Falcon 9 Full Thrust#Block 5|Falcon 9]] rocket contracted by [[NASA]]'s [[CCDev2|commercial crew program]]. Initial plans hoped to see CCDev2 flights as early as 2015,<ref>https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-exploration-technologies/falcon-9-with-crew-dragon-vertical-at-launch-complex-39a/</ref> and eventually DM1 was eventually slated for no earlier than December 2016, and then delayed several times throughout 2017 and into 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spacenews.com/first-spacex-commercial-crew-flight-test-could-slip-to-2019/|title=First SpaceX commercial crew test flight could slip to 2019|date=2018-10-03|website=SpaceNews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spacenews.com/spacex-delays-commercial-crew-test-flights-to-latter-half-of-2018/|title=SpaceX delays commercial crew test flights to latter half of 2018|date=2018-01-11|website=SpaceNews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spacenews.com/report-warns-of-additional-commercial-crew-delays/|title=Report warns of additional commercial crew delays|date=2016-09-06|website=SpaceNews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-08}}</ref> The first exact date was published by NASA in November 2018 to be January 17, 2019,<ref>https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invites-media-to-spacex-demo-1-launch</ref> but this got delayed to "no earlier than February".<ref name=":0">{{cite web | url=https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2019/01/10/spacex-demo-1-launch-update/ | title=SpaceX Demo-1 Launch Update | work=NASA Commercial Crew Program Blog | date=January 10, 2019 | accessdate=11 January 2019 }}</ref> The static fire took place on January 24, January2019 and the launch date was set to February 23, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nasaspaceflightspaceflightnow.com/2019/01/spacex-25/falcon-9-staticrocket-firefires-engines-in-key-test-ahead-of-crew-dragon-debutdemo-flight/|title=SpaceXFalcon conducts9 staticrocket firefires testengines onin Falconkey 9test ahead of Crew Dragon debutdemo flight – NASASpaceFlight.comSpaceflight Now|last=Clark|first=Stephen|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-2425}}</ref>

== See also ==