COTS Demo Flight 1

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COTS Demo Flight 1 was SpaceX’s inaugural demonstration mission of the Dragon spacecraft under NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, proving its capability for orbital flight and recovery.

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COTS Demo Flight 1 canonical 3
COTS Demo 1 1
Dragon C1 flight 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dragon spacecraft test flight
SpaceX mission
orbital spaceflight
alsoKnownAs C1 mission
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1
apogeeAltitude approximately 301 km
apsis gee
cargo non-critical payloads and test instruments
contractor SpaceX
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crew uncrewed
customer NASA
demonstratedCapability controlled deorbit
on-orbit operations
orbital insertion
reentry and splashdown recovery
followedBy COTS Demo Flight 2
inclination 34.5 degrees
landingDate 2010-12-08
landingRecovery recovered by SpaceX recovery team
landingSite Pacific Ocean
landingType ocean splashdown
launchDate 2010-12-08
launchDateTimeUTC 2010-12-08T15:43:00Z
launchLocation Cape Canaveral
surface form: Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States
launchSite Space Launch Complex 40
surface form: CCAFS SLC-40

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40
launchVehicle Falcon 9 rocket
surface form: Falcon 9
launchVehicleVersion Falcon 9 rocket
surface form: Falcon 9 v1.0
missionDuration about 3 hours 19 minutes
missionType cargo spacecraft test flight
technology demonstration
notableAchievement first flight of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft
first successful orbital flight and recovery of a commercial spacecraft by a private company
second flight of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle
objective demonstrate orbital flight of Dragon spacecraft
demonstrate safe reentry and recovery of Dragon spacecraft
validate SpaceX capabilities under NASA COTS program
operator SpaceX
orbitType low Earth orbit
perigeeAltitude approximately 288 km
precededBy SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1
surface form: Falcon 9 Flight 1
program COTS
NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program
surface form: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services
reentryDate 2010-12-08
spaceAgencyPartner NASA
spacecraft Dragon 1
surface form: Dragon C1
spacecraftType SpaceX Cargo Dragon
surface form: SpaceX Dragon
success true

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Dragon 1 firstFlightMission COTS Demo Flight 1
COTS Demo Flight 2 previousMission COTS Demo Flight 1
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 missionSequence COTS Demo Flight 1
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 alsoKnownAs COTS Demo Flight 1
this entity surface form: COTS Demo 1
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 alsoKnownAs COTS Demo Flight 1
this entity surface form: Dragon C1 flight