{"id":101325,"date":"2020-01-24T08:43:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/spacex-releases-preliminary-results-from-crew-dragon-abort-test"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T16:43:28","slug":"spacex-releases-preliminary-results-from-crew-dragon-abort-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/spacex-releases-preliminary-results-from-crew-dragon-abort-test","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX releases preliminary results from Crew Dragon abort test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-releases-preliminary-results-from-crew-dragon-abort-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data from the Jan. 19 in-flight launch escape demonstration of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft indicate the performance of the capsule\u2019s SuperDraco abort engines was \u201cflawless\u201d as the thrusters boosted the ship away from the top of a Falcon 9 rocket with a peak acceleration of about 3.3Gs, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 19 test demonstrated the Crew Dragon\u2019s ability to safely carry astronauts away from a launch emergency, such as a rocket failure, and return the crew to a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>For its final full-scale test before astronauts ride it into space, the Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) on Jan. 19 from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket carried the capsule aloft \u2014 just as it would on a crewed mission \u2014 for the first 85 seconds of the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the Jan. 19 in-flight launch escape demonstration of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft indicate the performance of the capsule\u2019s SuperDraco abort engines was \u201cflawless\u201d as the thrusters boosted the ship away from the top of a Falcon 9 rocket with a peak acceleration of about 3.3Gs, officials said Thursday. The Jan. 19 test demonstrated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}