Crew Dragon Endurance
Endurance | |
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Type | Space capsule |
Class | Dragon 2 |
Eponym | Endurance (1912) |
Serial no. | C210 |
Owner | SpaceX |
Manufacturer | SpaceX |
Specifications | |
Dimensions | 4.4 m × 3.7 m (14 ft × 12 ft) |
Power | Solar panel |
Rocket | Falcon 9 Block 5 |
History | |
Location | Hawthorne, California |
First flight |
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Last flight |
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Flights | 3 |
Flight time | 532 days and 15 hours |
Dragon 2s | |
Crew Dragon Endurance (Dragon C210) is a
History
On 7 October 2021, it was announced that Dragon C210 will be called Endurance.[1] Astronaut Raja Chari said that the name honors the SpaceX and NASA teams that built the spacecraft and trained the astronauts who will fly it. Those workers endured through a pandemic. The name also honors Endurance, the ship used by Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The three-masted vessel sank in 1915 after being bound in ice before reaching Antarctica[2] and was found during the Crew-3 mission.[3]
Endurance was first launched on 11 November 2021 (UTC) on a Falcon 9 Block 5 from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), LC-39A, carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, as well as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.
Flights
Mission | Patch | Launch date (UTC) | Landing date (UTC) | Crew | Duration | Remarks | Outcome |
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Crew-3 | 11 November 2021, 02:03:31 UTC[4] | 6 May 2022, 04:43 UTC | 176 days, 2 hours and 39 minutes | Long duration mission. Ferries four members of the Expedition 66/67 crew to the ISS. | Success | ||
Crew-5 | 5 October 2022, 16:00:57 UTC[5] | 12 March 2023, 02:02 UTC [6] | 157 days, 10 hours and 1 minute | Long duration mission. Ferries four members of the Expedition 68 crew to the ISS. | Success | ||
Crew‑7 | 26 August 2023, 07:27 UTC[8] | 12 March 2024, 09:47 UTC | 199 days, 2 hours and 20 minutes | Long duration mission. Ferries four members of the Expedition 69 crew to the ISS. | Success |
Gallery
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Endurance splashdown to the Atlantic Ocean after the end of the Crew-3 mission
References
- ^ "We have a capsule name!". Twitter. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ "Astronauts choose "Endurance" as name for new SpaceX crew capsule". Spaceflight Now. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ "Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic". BBC News. 9 March 2022. Archived from the original on 9 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ Sempsrott, Danielle (30 October 2021). "NASA, SpaceX Adjust Next Space Station Crew Rotation Launch Date". NASA. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Headline: NASA, SpaceX Provide Crew-5 Hardware Operations Status". NASA. 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ "Coverage Set as NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Prepares to Splashdown - NASA".
- ^ "Распоряжение Правительства Российской Федерации от 10.06.2022 № 1532-р ∙ Официальное опубликование правовых актов ∙ Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации". publication.pravo.gov.ru. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
- ^ "Falcon 9 Block 5 - SpaceX Crew-7". Next Spaceflight. 22 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
External links
- Media related to Crew Dragon Endurance at Wikimedia Commons