Dragon crew capsule cost: Sunita Williams, Buch Willmore, Alexander Gorbunov and Nick Hague have returned to the earth. Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore started their mission on ISS on 6 June 2024. At the same time, Alexander Gorbunov and Nick Hague reached the station on 29 September 2024. Sunita Williams, who has been trapped for 9 months, is now back to Earth. All of them have been brought back to the dragon Freedom Capsule of Alan Musk’s company SpaceX. After this capsule has been launched 49 times so far. The Dragon Capsule has traveled to the International Space Station 44 times. But do you know its price.
How many kilos are Dragon Crew Capsule
NASA has chosen the Dragon Crew Capsule of Spacex to bring back the four astronauts. This capsule can sit seven astronauts at a time. For your information, let us know that this is the first such private aircraft in the world, which has been continuously carrying cargo from space station. The weight of this empty capsule is 7700 kg. When this cargo and astronauts are launched, its maximum weight becomes 12,500 kg. Usually, two to four Estrainots can sit in this capsule, but in the event of emergency, it has a seating arrangement of seven people.
How much is the price of Alan Musk’s capsule
SpaceX has taken up the responsibility of bringing back astronauts, so it is obvious that he must have raised the expenses. They have been brought to earth through SpaceX’s crew dragon capsules and Falcon 9 rockets. In such a situation, the launch cost of Falcon 9 is Rs 580 crore ($ 69.75 million) while the crew dragon capsule has been priced at Rs 1170 crore i.e. $ 140 million. According to the reports, the price of SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft is priced about 55 million dollars (about 45 billion rupees).
SpaceX reuses your capsule
Alan Musk’s company SpaceX reuses its rocket and capsules, due to which its cost is reduced. But this time it had become an emergency mission, in which 4 people were at stake, so there has been huge expenditure on security and additional facilities. Therefore, this time the expenditure in this mission has been increased. Crew dragon capsules are used to bring and carry people from special space, so it has backup system, life support system, emergency evidence system, which is why its price increases.
