flown by SpaceX USA

CRS-30

Success
MAR 21202420:55:09 UTC

First Dragon 2 flight from SLC-40, using a newly built crew access tower and arm that gave SpaceX a second crew-capable launch pad alongside LC-39A. The trunk carried BurstCube, a NASA gamma-ray burst detector built to extend the sky coverage of LIGO-era multi-messenger follow-up; the ELaNa-51 cubesats deployed from Kibo across April 2024.

launched from SLC-40 Canaveral

aboard Falcon 9 Block 5 F9-312 into LEO

Broadcast

Watch how the launch went

Vehicle components · 2

  • 01 Booster B1080.6
    Landed on ground pad · LZ-1
  • 02 Cargo Dragon C209.4
    Space station resupply

Payloads · 10

  • 01

    Big Red Sat-1

    Technology demonstration

  • 02

    BurstCube

    Astronomy

  • 03

    CURTIS

    Technology demonstration

  • 04

    HyTi

    Technology demonstration

  • 05

    KASHIWA

    Technology demonstration

  • 06

    Killick 1

    Earth observation

  • 07

    MicroOrbiter-1

    Technology demonstration

  • 08

    QMSat

    Technology demonstration

  • 09

    SNoOPI

    Technology demonstration

  • 10

    VIOLET

    Heliophysics

last updated Oct 25, 2026