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    First firing of all 8 Super Draco engines took place on 6 May 2015 at 9am EST at the SpaceX Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test. SuperDraco engines are capable of...
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    SuperDraco is a hypergolic propellant rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX. It is part of the SpaceX Draco family of rocket engines. A redundant...
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    consisting of eight SuperDraco engines, capable of accelerating the capsule away from the launch vehicle in an emergency. SpaceX originally intended to...
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    descent to be within the abilities of its SuperDraco retro-propulsion thrusters. On 27 March 2020, SpaceX revealed the Dragon XL resupply spacecraft...
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  • Starshield, SpaceX readies for battle". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on 2024-02-23. Retrieved 2023-09-10. "SpaceX - Starshield". www.spacex.com. Archived...
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    original on 15 September 2023. Retrieved 15 September 2023. "SpaceX - Starshield". www.spacex.com. Archived from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved...
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    Starship is a two-stage super heavy-lift launch vehicle under development by SpaceX. It is the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown. Starship's...
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    Since the founding of SpaceX in 2002, the company has developed four families of rocket engines — Merlin, Kestrel, Draco and SuperDraco — and is currently...
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    while its SuperDraco thrusters were undergoing static fire testing on 20 April 2019, ahead of its planned use for the in-flight abort test. SpaceX traced...
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    press". spacex.com. SpaceX. Archived from the original on 23 June 2013. Retrieved 15 Dec 2012. "Elon Musk — Senate Testimony, 5 May 2004". SpaceX. 2004-05-04...
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    SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 (IFT-2) was the second integrated flight test of SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test...
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    aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, Super Heavy, it composes the identically named Starship super heavy-lift space vehicle. The spacecraft...
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    powered by eight SuperDraco engines, arranged in a redundant pattern to support fault-tolerance in the propulsion system design. SuperDracos utilize a storable...
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    first for 3D printing, the SpaceX SuperDraco rocket engine that provides launch escape system for the Dragon V2 crew-carrying space capsule is fully printed...
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    Super Heavy is the first stage of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second-stage...
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    Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider, defense contractor...
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    SpaceX. The engine is a full-flow staged combustion cycle (FFSC) engine powered by cryogenic liquid methane and liquid oxygen ("methalox"). SpaceX's Starship...
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    Tom Mueller (category SpaceX people)
    No.1 of SpaceX and is now the founder and CEO of Impulse Space. Mueller is best known for his engineering work on the Merlin, Draco, Super Draco and TR-106...
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    improved Merlin 1C for its upper stage. SpaceX Draco SpaceX Merlin SpaceX Raptor "Falcon 1 Users Guide" (PDF). SpaceX. 2008-09-28. Archived from the original...
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  • Operations (DRACO), a US DOD program SuperDraco, a liquid rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX. Used for the launch escape system of the SpaceX Dragon...
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    the use of itsSuperDraco retro-propulsion thrusters, as parachutes would have required significant vehicle modifications. In 2011, SpaceX planned on proposing...
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  • SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 3 (IFT-3) was the third integrated flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight...
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    ratio. SpaceX DracoSpaceX RCS thruster for SpaceX Dragon SpaceX Kestrel – SpaceX small upper stage engine for Falcon 1 SpaceX Raptor – SpaceX methane/LOX...
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    org/NORAD/elements/supplemental/table.php?FILE=starlink-g6-1" (Tweet) – via Twitter. SpaceX [@spacex] (26 February 2023). "We call them 'V2 Mini'. They represent a step...
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    2019. The ASDS are a key early component of the SpaceX objective to significantly lower the price of space launch services through "full and rapid reusability"...
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    Falcon 1 (redirect from SpaceX Falcon 1)
    June 2017. "Flight 4 Launch Update". SpaceX. 23 September 2008. Archived from the original on 3 January 2010. "SPACEX And ATSB Announce New Launch Date For...
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    eight SuperDraco hypergolic rocket engines, arranged in a redundant pattern to support fault-tolerance in the propulsion system design. SuperDracos use...
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    fourteen partially reusable cargo spacecraft developed by SpaceX, an American private space transportation company. The spacecraft flew 23 missions between...
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    and build a new hangar nearby. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, stated that he wanted to shift most of SpaceX's NASA launches to LC-39A, including commercial cargo...
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    2023[update], SpaceX operates four launch facilities: Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex...
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