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On 20 April 2019, Crew Dragon C204 was destroyed in an explosion during static fire testing at the Landing Zone 1 facility. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] On the day of the explosion, the initial testing of the Crew Dragon's Draco thrusters was successful, with the accident occurring during the test of the SuperDraco abort system. [ 22 ]
Engineer Arihiro Kanaya, 23, was conducting a high pressure endurance test on a pipe used in the first stage rocket engine of the H-2 (H-II) launch vehicle when it exploded. The explosion caused a 14 cm (5.5 in) thick door in the testing room to fall on Kanaya and fracture his skull, killing him.
Excerpts of the NASA-SpaceX joint webcast of the abort test (video) The abort test was a full simulation of a malfunction on a nominal trajectory to the International Space Station. [5] The abort was triggered by a command from ground control. [25] At T+1:25 minutes, the booster engines shut down and the capsule separated itself from the booster.
SpaceX completed the first key flight test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft, a Pad Abort Test, in May 2015, [257] and successfully conducted a full uncrewed test flight in early 2019. The capsule docked to the ISS and then splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. [ 258 ]
After the setback of a launchpad explosion, SpaceX got back to flying on 14 January 2017, with its launch of Iridium satellites. [43] On 19 February 2017, a Falcon 9 carrying CRS-10 conducted the first launch from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39 A. [ 44 ] The first stage of the launch was planned for the end of February 2017, was to be ...
The second crewed spacecraft selected by NASA for its CCDev program was Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, which, like SpaceX's Dragon 2 spacecraft, uses a "pusher" launch escape system, consisting of four launch abort engines mounted on the service module that can propel the spacecraft away from its Atlas V launch vehicle in an emergency on the pad ...
Falcon 9 Full Thrust: F9-027 Cape Canaveral SLC-40: SpaceX: SpaceX CRS-9: NASA: Low Earth ISS logistics: 26 August 15:47: Successful Delivering the IDA-2 segment of the NASA Docking System. Second successful return to launch site and vertical landing of a first stage, demonstrated as part of a controlled descent test. 28 July 12:37:00 Atlas V ...
SpaceX shows a discrepancy in its webcast, between the number of engines seen not working in the live video, and the number of engines shut down in the superimposed graphics. [52] It has been suggested that a small explosion visible around T+0:30 was the failure of a hydraulic power unit, but this has not yet been confirmed. [53]