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Falcon 9 v1.0 | Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit (DSQU)
Falcon 9 v1.0
Jun 4, 2010, 6:45 PM UTC
Jun 4, 2010, 6:45 PM UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Booster History
B0003
Flight #1 · NEW
First flight of this booster
About this booster
Stage Expended
- Total Flights
- 1
- Recovery Rate
- 0/1 successful landings
- This Landing
- Landing failed· PCL
- Recovery Site
- Atlantic Ocean (ATL)
Landing Record
0 successful · 1 failed · 1 total
Mission Details
The Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit was a boilerplate version of the Dragon spacecraft. After using it for ground tests to rate Dragon's shape and mass in various tests, SpaceX launched it into low Earth orbit on the maiden flight of the Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX used the launch to evaluate the aerodynamic conditions on the spacecraft and performance of the carrier rocket in a real-world launch scenario, ahead of Dragon flights for NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program.
- Type
- Test Flight
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 40
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- 🇺🇸 USA
Weather at Launch
- Temp
- 28.6°C
- Wind
- 8 km/h @ 145°
- Sky
- Mainly clear
- Source
- open-meteo-archive