Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test
The Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test (officially known as the SpaceX Pad Abort Test) was a spacecraft test conducted by SpaceX on 6 May 2015 from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. As part of the development of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, the test demonstrated the spacecraft's abort system capability, verifying the capsule's eight side-mounted SuperDraco thrusters' capability to quickly power itself away from a failing rocket while it is still on the ground. It was one of the two tests conducted by SpaceX on the abort system of spacecraft, the other one being the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test conducted on 19 January 2020.
DragonFly launches at the start of the flight | |
| Mission type | Technology demonstration |
|---|---|
| Operator | |
| Mission duration | 1 minute, 39 seconds |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Crew Dragon DragonFly |
| Manufacturer | SpaceX |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 6 May 2015, 13:00 UTC |
| Rocket | Eight side-mounted SuperDraco thrusters |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral, SLC-40 |
| Contractor | SpaceX |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 6 May 2015, 13:01:39 UTC |
| Landing site | Atlantic Ocean |
Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test mission patch | |
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