Inspiration4
| Mission dates | |
|---|---|
| Mission: | Inspiration4 |
| NSSDCA ID : | 2021-084A |
| Spacecraft: |
Crew Dragon serial no. C207 |
| Call sign: | "Resilience" |
| Launcher: | Falcon 9 Block 5 |
| Crew: | 4th |
| Begin: | September 16, 2021, 00:02 UTC |
| Starting place: | Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A |
| Landing: | September 18, 2021, approx. 23:00 UTC (planned) |
| Landing place: | Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico (planned) |
| Flight duration: | approx. 3 days (planned) |
| Apogee : | approx. 580 km |
| Perigee : | approx. 570 km |
| Team photo | |
 Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux |
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Inspiration4 is a space tourism orbital flight with a Crew Dragon space capsule from SpaceX . The spaceship was chartered by US entrepreneur and multi-billionaire Jared Isaacman . It started on September 16, 2021 and is expected to orbit the earth for three days with four people. Isaacman uses the media attention for spaceflight to advertise his company Shift4 Payments and the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital .
Spaceship
The Crew Dragon capsule used made its first flight from November 2020; it brought three NASA and one JAXA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission . From the crew 1 crew she was given the nickname "Resilience" (English for resistance ), which she also carries on Inspiration4 as her second mission. The ISS coupling adapter at the top of the capsule has been replaced by a panorama window for Inspiration4 . Based on the lookout of the same name on the ISS , it is also called "cupola" (Italian for dome ).
crew
The Crew Dragon can accommodate four people. Isaacman himself - an experienced pilot and owner of a company that trains fighter pilots - took command of the spaceship. He made the remaining three seats available free of charge. One of them was Hayley Arceneaux , a former patient and current medical assistant of the St. Jew Hospital. She takes on the role of medical officer on the flight. Another place went to aviation engineer Chris Sembroski as the winner of an online donation raffle for the hospital. Isaacman left the fourth to geoscientist Sian Proctor . The space flight training took place at SpaceX. Proctor was trained to pilot the spaceship, Sembrowski is considered a mission specialist .
Mission history
Like all Crew Dragon missions, this one was launched with a Falcon 9 rocket from the historic launch pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The capsule was placed in an elliptical transfer orbit by the rocket and raised its perigee with its own drive, so that it reached an almost circular earth orbit at an altitude of about 570-580 km. After long the Earth has circled there nearly three days, they will back into the atmosphere occur and on parachutes in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida or the Gulf of Mexico waterways.
First performances and records
Inspiration4 is the first privately financed manned orbital flight that does not have professional astronauts on board. This flight made Hayley Arceneaux the youngest American astronaut to date. She is also the first person to go into space with a prosthesis . Sian Proctor is the first black woman to serve as a spaceship pilot.
The dome of the Crew Dragon "Resilience" is the largest window element of a spacecraft to date.
After the launch of Inspiration4 , 14 people were simultaneously in space for a day , including the seven members of ISS Expedition 65 and the three-person crew of the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou 12 . The 1995 record of 13 space travelers was exceeded by one person. In addition, three Dragon spaceships were in orbit at the same time for the first time - together with the crew Dragon “ Endeavor ” and the cargo flight CRS -23 .
Web links
- Inspiration4 Mission website
- SpaceX: Inspiration4 Launch on YouTube , September 15, 2021 (live broadcast of preparations for launch and launch).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stephen Clark: Crew Dragon “Resilience” meets Falcon 9 rocket at Florida spaceport . Spaceflight Now, November 6, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d e f Stephen Clark: Four private citizens ride SpaceX rocket into orbit on historic mission . Spaceflight Now, September 16, 2021.
- ↑ a b Upcoming Launch: Inspiration4 Mission . SpaceX, accessed September 15, 2021.
- ↑ a b c Twitter message from Jonathan McDowell , September 16, 2021, based on the satellite catalog on Space-Track.org, verified on September 17, 2021.
- ↑ Michael Sheetz: SpaceX to fly first mission to space with an all-civilian crew later this year . CNBC, February 1, 2021.
- ↑ Giacomo Tognini: Meet The New Billionaire Who Dropped Out Of High School And Flies Fighter Jets For Fun . Forbes, October 7, 2020.
- ↑ Bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux to join billionaire on SpaceX flight . The Denver Post, February 22, 2021.
- ↑ a b Denise Chow: SpaceX announces first mission to space with all-civilian crew . NBC News, February 1, 2021.
- ↑ Jeff Foust: Inspiration4 announces crew for private SpaceX Crew Dragon mission . Spacenews, March 30, 2021.
- ↑ a b Sian Proctor makes history with SpaceX's Inspiration4 as first-ever Black female spacecraft pilot . Space.com, September 15, 2021.
- ↑ Twitter message from Spaceflight Now, September 16, 2021.
- ↑ Michael Sheetz: SpaceX's historic Inspiration4 launch reaches orbit successfully carrying private crew . CNBC, September 15, 2021.