Overview

The mission

Dragon CRS-21 is catalogued by GCAT as a human-spaceflight mission in the Dragon 2 Cargo program. This reconstructed record groups 2 GCAT payload or flight elements under launch 2020-093; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.

Launch profile

The launch

Launch: 6 December 2020, 16:17:08 UTC
Launch location: NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Launch vehicle: Falcon 9
Orbit: Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)

Trajectory

Mission timeline

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Mission outcome

Mission ended — Completed or retired

Operations concluded · 14 January 2021

Historical mission record

GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.

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Hardware

Spacecraft

Cargo spacecraft

Dragon CRS-21

GCAT program: Dragon 2 Cargo.

GCAT ID: S47233
Manufacturer: SpaceX
Launch mass: 10,028 kg
Dimensions: 5.3 m long · 3.7 m diameter · 16.5 m span

Spaceflight element

Bishop Airlock

GCAT program: Bishop.

GCAT ID: A09666
Manufacturer: NanoRacks
Launch mass: 1,090 kg
Dimensions: 1.8 m long · 2.1 m diameter · 2.1 m span

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Dragon CRS-21

The mission

The launch

Mission timeline

Mission ended — Completed or retired

Spacecraft

Dragon CRS-21

Bishop Airlock

Gallery

Sources