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Bringing Manufacturing Back to the US: 21st Century Rocket Factory
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NASA COTS Capability A-C
SpaceX started COTS work Sept 1, 2006 Completed COTS Space Act Agreement (SAA)
Milestones:
Sep. ‘06: Project Management Plan Review
Nov. ‘06: Demo 1 System Requirements Review
Feb. ‘07: Demo 1 Preliminary Design Review
Mar. ‘07: Financing Round 1
Mar. ’07: Demo 2 System Requirements Review
Aug. ‘07: Demo 1 Critical Design Review
Oct. ’07: Demo 3 System Requirements Review
Dec. ’07: Demo 2 Preliminary Design Review
Mar. ’08: Draco Initial Hot-Fire
Mar. ’08: Financing Round 2
Jun. ’08: Demo 3 Preliminary Design Review
Aug. ’08: 15 second 9-engine test
Jan. ’09: Critical Design Review
SpaceX DragonLabFast Track to Flight
04/20/23 5
Launch Manifest
Customer Target Date Vehicle Launch Site
Falcon 1 Flight 4 Sept. 28, 2008* Falcon 1 KwajaleinFalcon 9 Maiden Flight 2009 Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral ATSB (Malaysia) 2009 Falcon 1 Kwajalein NASA COTS – Demo 1 2009 F9/Dragon Cape Canaveral Avanti Communications (UK) 2009 Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral NASA COTS – Demo 2 2010 F9/Dragon Cape Canaveral SpaceDev 2010 Falcon 1 Kwajalein NASA COTS – Demo 3 2010 F9/Dragon Cape Canaveral MDA Corp. (Canada) 2010 Falcon 1 Kwajalein Swedish Space Corp. (Sweden) 2010 Falcon 1 Kwajalein DragonLab Mission 1 2010 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralMDA Corp. (Canada) 2010 Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral NASA Resupply to ISS – Flight 1 2010 F9/Dragon Cape Canaveral Bigelow Aerospace 2011 Falcon 9 Cape Canaveral DragonLab Mission 2 2011 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 2 2011 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 3 2012 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 4 2012 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 5 2013 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 6 2013 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 7 2013 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 8 2014 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 9 2014 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 10 2014 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 11 2015 F9/Dragon Cape CanaveralNASA Resupply to ISS – Flt 12 2015 F9/Dragon Cape Canaveral
6* Actual launch date
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Preliminary Design ReviewDemo-C3 Mission
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