Of course, one can launch small satellites using Orbital’s Taurus launch vehicle , but its ~$50-70 M cost and recent record of unreliability (e.g., the Glory satellite launch failure ) …

between CRS6 and TurkmenÄlem so I though we could have a bit of discussion about Falcon Heavy's demo flight. The static fire was part of the ongoing series of … The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. For SpaceX, the Demo-2 launch represents the final flight test of its Crew Dragon capsule, built to carry as many as seven people to orbit. If Demo-2 fails, it could be a long time before manned spaceflights return to the United States.

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:33 p.m. EDT May 27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida, for an extended stay at the space station for the Demo-2 mission. [May 9] The specific duration of … SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has conducted a static fire test ahead of the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission. Demo-2 is the last big hurdle SpaceX needs to clear before it can start flying those contracted missions. Delayed from June, July 25, Sept. 21, February, April and May 7. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will fly on the Demo-2 mission. By BRIAN BERGER Space News Staff Writer posted: 03 April 2007 11:02 am ET

Falcon 9 has yet to launch an ounce of commercial payload and Falcon 1 is not for sale. Falcon Heavy Demo Flight 1 speculation thread We are in a bit of a post launch lull (yes I know its only a short one, I was here during the "pineapple poop" lull last year!) SpaceX Declares Falcon 1 Operational Despite Problem on Demo Flight. Flying without astronauts aboard for its Demo-1 test flight, Crew Dragon lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 02:49:03 Eastern Time (07:49 UTC) atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Second, the duration will also depend on Demo-2's follow-up mission, called Crew-1, which will be SpaceX's first operational mission to the space station for NASA. The Crew-1 … SpaceX, however, successfully completed the Demo-1 uncrewed round trip to the ISS in early 2019 and a critical in-flight abort test at the beginning of the year, setting the stage for Demo-2.