{"id":12837,"date":"2019-11-13T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-crew-dragon-tests-abort-thrusters-at-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:13:20","slug":"video-crew-dragon-tests-abort-thrusters-at-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-crew-dragon-tests-abort-thrusters-at-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Crew Dragon tests abort thrusters at Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/372969648\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX conducted a static fire test of the SuperDraco abort thrusters on the company\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft Wednesday afternoon at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>The test-firing occurred at approximately 3:08 p.m. EST (2008 GMT) Wednesday on a test stand at Landing Zone 1, the site where SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket boosters for reuse. An attempted static fire of the SuperDraco thrusters ended in an explosion at the same test site in April, leading to a redesign inside the capsule\u2019s abort propulsion system.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is developing the Crew Dragon spacecraft under a $2.6 billion contract with NASA. The spaceship is designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The SuperDraco static fire test paves the way for a high-altitude abort demonstration as soon as next month, during which SpaceX will verify the emergency escape thrusters\u2019 ability to propel the Crew Dragon capsule away from a Falcon 9 rocket in flight.<\/p>\n<p>The Crew Dragon\u2019s first test flight with astronauts is scheduled in the first half of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Coverage like this is made possible by the support of Spaceflight Now Members. If you appreciate what we do, please consider becoming a member. Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX conducted a static fire test of the SuperDraco abort thrusters on the company\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft Wednesday afternoon at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The test-firing occurred at approximately 3:08 p.m. EST (2008 GMT) Wednesday on a test stand at Landing Zone 1, the site where SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket boosters for reuse. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[524,291,235,2268,1545,1950,190,316],"class_list":["post-12837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-crew","tag-commercial-space","tag-crew-dragon","tag-crew-dragon-in-flight-abort","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-landing-zone-1","tag-nasa","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}