Draco thrusters

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Draco thrusters are small hypergolic rocket engines developed by SpaceX to provide attitude control and orbital maneuvering for its spacecraft.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Draco thrusters canonical 5
SuperDraco 1
SuperDraco thrusters 1

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf hypergolic thruster
rocket engine family
application deorbit burns
orbit adjustment
spacecraft reaction control system
belongsToProgram SpaceX Dragon program
controlAxis pitch
roll
yaw
controlMethod on-off pulsed thrust
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
designedFor fine attitude control
precision orbital maneuvers
developer SpaceX
firstUsedOn original Cargo Dragon spacecraft
fuel monomethylhydrazine
ignitionType hypergolic ignition
manufacturer SpaceX
operatedBy SpaceX
surface form: SpaceX mission control
operatingEnvironment vacuum of space
oxidizer dinitrogen tetroxide
propellantFeedSystem pressure-fed
propellantStorage storable propellants
propellantType hypergolic
relatedEngine Draco thrusters self-linksurface differs
surface form: SuperDraco
restartCapability multiple restarts
status operational
thrustVacuum about 400 newtons
about 90 pounds-force
usedBy NASA missions via SpaceX Dragon
commercial Dragon missions
usedFor attitude control
orbital maneuvering
rendezvous and docking maneuvers
spacecraft translation maneuvers
usedOn Dragon spacecraft
surface form: Cargo Dragon

Crew Dragon
Dragon spacecraft
surface form: Dragon 2

Dragon spacecraft
surface form: SpaceX Dragon spacecraft
usedOnMission Crew Dragon Demo-1
Crew Dragon Demo-2
SpaceX CRS-10
surface form: SpaceX CRS missions

Crew-1
surface form: SpaceX Crew-1

subsequent NASA Commercial Crew missions

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dragon spacecraft propulsionType Draco thrusters
Draco thrusters relatedEngine Draco thrusters self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: SuperDraco
Dragon 1 propulsion Draco thrusters
Dragon 1 attitudeControl Draco thrusters
Crew Dragon propulsionType Draco thrusters
Crew Dragon abortSystem Draco thrusters
this entity surface form: SuperDraco thrusters
SpaceX Cargo Dragon propulsionType Draco thrusters