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test program "would not significantly impact the quality of the human environment." The assessment estimated that the program would take two years for SpaceX to complete and considered a total of 30 annual operations of the
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test vehicle in each year of operation. SpaceX received a renewal permit from the FAA on July 29, 2016, to continue another year of
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Test flights were planned to include a subset of tests that would test both the DragonFly space capsule and the attached
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in October 2015. However, the development eventually ceased as the verification burden imposed by
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In May 2014, SpaceX publicly announced an extensive test program for a propulsively-landed
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The DragonFly test vehicle—formerly the Dragon2 test article that was used in the
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booster stage test flights that SpaceX also flew out of their McGregor facility.
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to less than 68,170 newtons (15,325 lbf) to maintain vehicle stability.
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James, Michael; Salton, Alexandria; Downing, Micah (12 November 2013).
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Final Dragonfly Experimental Permit and Orders EP 15-011A Rev2
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rocket engines, arranged in a redundant pattern to support
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test vehicle for a propulsively-landed version of the
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An outline for thirty of those flights included two
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Index


Space capsule
SpaceX Dragon 2
Eponym
Dragonflies
SpaceX
Pad Abort Test
SpaceX Dragon 2s
C204
suborbital
rocket-powered
SpaceX Dragon 2
McGregor Rocket Test Facility
NASA
SuperDraco
hypergolic
fault-tolerance
storable propellant
monomethylhydrazine
fuel
nitrogen tetroxide
oxidizer
Draco
attitude control
maneuvering
Dragon spacecraft
throttled
space capsule
vertical takeoff, vertical landing
pad

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