Posted on April 14, 2010, at 10:11 am .
Artists conception of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft in orbit
Aviation Week reports that Andrews Space has formed a subsidiary to handle payload services for upcoming SpaceX’s DragonLab flights:
A service company focused on providing routine low cost space access for small payloads has been formed by Andrews Space. SpaceFlight Services is kicking off its business venture by signing an agreement with Space Exploration (SpaceX) to manifest payloads using excess capability on upcoming Falcon 9/Dragon missions. SpaceFlight says under this deal customers will have access to multiple scheduled flight opportunities including dedicated scientific free-flyer missions using SpaceX’s DragonLab variant of the Dragon vehicle.
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Posted on October 1, 2009, at 6:05 pm .
Artists conception of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft in orbit
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced a second user conference for its commercial product DragonLab™, a free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from orbit. The event will focus on the needs of European users and take place on October 29th, 2009, in Haarlem, Netherlands.
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Posted on December 2, 2008, at 10:12 pm .
SPACEX PRESS RELEASE
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announces the addition of two DragonLab missions to its manifest, as a result of demand from a successful workshop held at SpaceX headquarters on November 6 to introduce the new DragonLab product. The first two flights are scheduled for 2010 and 2011 respectively from the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch site at Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX is currently working contractual arrangements with multiple prospective customers.
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Posted on November 8, 2008, at 8:35 pm .
SpaceX vice president and general counsel Tim Hughes laid out the company’s ambitious launch schedule for its Falcon 9 vehicle during a presentation to the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) on October 30. The company envisions the first test flight taking place in the second quarter of next year, with three astronauts flying to the International Space Station aboard a Dragon spacecraft sometime in 2011.
The schedule is as follows:
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Posted on November 8, 2008, at 12:14 am .
SpaceX Seeks Customers for DragonLab Spaceship
Space.com
“We’re committed to flying it,” Max Vozoff, SpaceX’s Dragon product manager, said in an Oct. 29 interview here. Vozoff said SpaceX’s message to attendees of the DragonLab user conference would be pretty straightforward: “It’s a commercial mission flying with or without you,” he said. “There are slots available if you want to come along.”
“So far, SpaceX has lined up at least one customer for the first DragonLab flight planned for 2010. Although Vozoff would not tell Space News anything about its anchor customer, SpaceX told other space officials here that it had signed up a classified U.S. government customer for DragonLab’s debut.”
Posted on November 7, 2008, at 10:21 am .
DragonLab To Fly In 2010
Aviation Week & Space Technology
“Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) expects to begin commercial flights of its newly announced reusable DragonLab spacecraft in 2010, and is in negotiations with potential customers for room on the vehicle.
“DragonLab is an unmanned spacecraft that is largely the same as the Dragon resupply craft the company is developing for NASA under the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program. The major difference will be that DragonLab won’t feature the docking adapter for berthing with the International Space Station, but instead will be an orbital free flyer capable of hosting experimental payloads or deploying subsatellites.”
Posted on November 3, 2008, at 8:03 pm .
If you’re in the LA area this week and are interested in flying something into orbit, you might want to check out SpaceX’s invitation-only DragonLab Users Workshop, scheduled for Thursday in Hawthorne.
DragonLab is a “free-flying, reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from space” that is set for launch next year aboard the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. The spacecraft is being designed to launch cargo and crew to the International Space Station.
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