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Launched 2016-04-08 20:43:32 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Low Earth Orbit
Landed
B1021 Landed
The first stage landed on Of Course I Still Love You, on its 1st flight.
Worldwide
24th
orbital launch attempt in 2016
SpaceX
3rd
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 40
2nd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
34 d 21 h
since the pad's previous launch
SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft on their eighth operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. Among the cargo was the Bigelow Aerospace’s BEAM module, which was attached to the station and will stay so for 2 years. BEAM is an expandable habitat module that will undergo tests to determine its worthiness during the stay. The flight was conducted under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
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.
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Landings
687
of 715
Upcoming
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scheduled
Height
71m
Diameter
3.6m
To low Earth orbit
22,800kg
Liftoff thrust
6,804kN
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