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The Dragon 2 DragonFly (Dragon C201) was a prototype suborbital rocket-powered test vehicle for a propulsively-landed version of the SpaceX Dragon 2. DragonFly underwent testing in Texas at the McGregor Rocket Test Facility in October 2015.
In 2013 SpaceX was testing reusable technologies both for its first-stage booster launch vehicle designs (with three test vehicles: Grasshopper, F9R Dev1, and F9R Dev2) – and for its new reusable SpaceX Dragon 2 space capsule (with a low-altitude test vehicle called DragonFly).
Dragonfly - Embedded test IP insertion tool for logic, memory and mixed-signal testing; Silicon Insight - Interactive program that works with 3rd party testers for controlling and logging of data on the device for at-speed testing; Yield Insight - Yield analysis program which looks at foundry and performance data to diagnose possible problems
The Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test (also known as Crew Dragon Launch Escape Demonstration [5]) was a successful test of the SpaceX Dragon 2 abort system, conducted on 19 January 2020. It was the final assessment for the Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 launch system before they would be certified to carry humans into space . [ 6 ]
The C201 capsule, dubbed DragonFly was originally planned to be used for the in-flight abort test expected to fly after this mission. However, SpaceX and NASA decided later to use the capsule used for Demo-1 for the in-flight abort test as there were design changes after construction of DragonFly. [7]
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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 ]