flown by SpaceX USA

CRS-23

Success
AUG 29202107:14:49 UTC

The booster recovery on this flight was the maiden landing of A Shortfall of Gravitas, SpaceX's fourth autonomous drone ship — the first time SpaceX had three landing vessels operating simultaneously. External cargo included FBCE, a NASA flow-boiling and condensation facility for studying two-phase heat transfer in microgravity.

launched from LC-39A Kennedy

aboard Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-124 into LEO

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Vehicle components · 2

  • 01 Booster B1061.4
    Landed on drone ship · ASOG
  • 02 Cargo Dragon C208.2
    Space station resupply

Payloads · 7

  • 01

    Binar-1

    Technology demonstration

  • 02

    CAPSat

    Technology demonstration

  • 03

    CUAVA-1

    Technology demonstration

  • 04

    Maya-3

    Technology demonstration

  • 05

    Maya-4

    Technology demonstration

  • 06

    PR-CuNaR2 (NanoRocks-2)

    Education

  • 07

    SPACE HAUC

    Technology demonstration

last updated Oct 25, 2026