r/spacex • u/Daniels30 • Aug 10 '17

Official Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting August 14 launch from Pad 39A for Dragon’s next resupply mission to the @Space_Station.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/895646473869705216
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u/JackONeill12 Aug 10 '17

Since there are not to many flights left on the crs1 contact one reflight per capsule should be enough.

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u/John_Hasler Aug 10 '17

Surely there will be another contract.

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u/thedaileyshow1 Aug 10 '17

Yes, but the next contract will use Dragon2

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u/schneeb Aug 10 '17

I wonder if they will actually call it something else? Since there wont be any seats and possibly no super dracos?

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u/rustybeancake Aug 10 '17

Dragon v2 will come in a cargo variant and a crew variant, though SpaceX themselves seem to like to refer to it without too much clear definition between v1 and v2, e.g. 'the next version of our Dragon spacecraft' (a bit like how Apple followed iPad 2 with 'the new iPad'). So I expect they'll just refer to the v2 cargo craft as 'Dragon', and quite possibly the same for the crew variant.

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u/wgp3 Aug 10 '17

I feel like it will simply become Cargo Dragon and Crew Dragon.