HTTP:: SpaceX to Launch Dragon Prototype in Space
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SpaceX is one of the largest and most successful private space companies, having already performed a number of launches on vehicles designed by its own experts. The Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Corporation is based in Hawthorne, California, and it plans to conduct the new test flight no later than the end of this year, officials from the company have announced. The Falcon 9 is the larger cousin of the Falcon 1 missile, which successfully flew to space this year. The Dragon spacecraft is designed to be a reusable capsule, for orbital missions, such as docking to the International Space Station (ISS), Space reports. “The initial test flight will carry our Dragon spacecraft qualification unit (...) providing us with valuable aerodynamic and performance data for the Falcon 9 configuration that will fly on the following [Commercial Orbital Transportation Services] and [Commercial Resupply Services] missions for NASA,†the company announced in a media update rece!
ntly. It has been developing the Dragon reusable capsule since 2006, under the American space agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. SpaceX was also contracted by NASA to perform 12 flights to the ISS until the end of 2015, under a $1.6 billion agreement. Back in 2005, the company announced that the fi...
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