SpaceX Dragon C106 is a
Dragon
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space capsule built by
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and a satellite communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the stated goal of ...
.
It is the first reused SpaceX Dragon capsule to be reflown into space, having its second launch in 2017.
C106 was first used on
CRS-4, and then used again for the
CRS-11 and
CRS-19 missions.
It was the second capsule after
C108 to be used a third time, marking a milestone in SpaceX's drive to reduce space launch costs through reusing hardware.
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History
C106 was built as the sixth production Dragon capsule.International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA ...
(ISS). It splashed down in October 2014, and was successfully retrieved.avionics
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, and Draco thrusters were refurbished.[ After undergoing another refurbishment, C106 was launched again for the CRS-19 mission.
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Flights
See also
* Falcon 9 booster B1029, the second SpaceX Falcon 9 booster to be reused
* Falcon 9 booster B1021
A Falcon 9 first-stage booster is a reusable rocket booster used on the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy orbital launch vehicles manufactured by SpaceX. The manufacture of first-stage booster constitutes about 60% of the launch price of a single expe ...
, the first SpaceX Falcon 9 booster to be reused
* Falcon 9 booster B1019
A Falcon 9 first-stage booster is a reusable rocket booster used on the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy orbital launch vehicles manufactured by SpaceX. The manufacture of first-stage booster constitutes about 60% of the launch price of a single exp ...
, the first SpaceX Falcon 9 booster to be successfully landed
* Gemini spacecraft No. 2, the first space capsule to be reflown
* Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne
SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 3,000 ft/s (900 m/s, 3240 km/h), using a hybrid rocket motor. The design features a unique "feathering" at ...
* McDonnell Douglas DC-X
The DC-X, short for Delta Clipper or Delta Clipper Experimental, was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle built by McDonnell Douglas in conjunction with the United States Department of Defense's Strategic ...
* Blue Origin New Shepard
New Shepard is a fully reusable suborbital launch vehicle developed by Blue Origin for space tourism. The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut in space. The vehicle is capable of vertical takeoff and vertical land ...
* Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program na ...
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Individual space vehicles
SpaceX Dragon