flown by SpaceX USA

CRS-17

Success
MAY 04201906:48:00 UTC

Dragon carried the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) — a carbon-dioxide spectrometer assembled from OCO-2 flight spares and mounted externally on the Japanese Experiment Module's exposed facility, extending NASA's global CO2 monitoring from a station-based vantage.

launched from SLC-40 Canaveral

aboard Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-070 into LEO

Broadcast

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Vehicle components · 2

  • 01 Booster B1056.1
    Landed on drone ship · OCISLY
  • 02 Dragon 1 C113.2
    Space station resupply

Payload

Red-Eye 1 (Pinot)

Technology demonstration

last updated Oct 25, 2026