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| Commercial Resupply Services | |
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| Type of project | Aerospace |
| Owner | NASA |
| Country | United States |
| Established | 2008 |
| Status | Active |
| Website | www |
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Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a series of flights awarded by NASA for the delivery of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) on commercially operated spacecraft.[1]
The first phase of CRS contracts (CRS-1) were signed in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve Dragon 1 and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences[note 1] for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. The first operational resupply missions were flown by SpaceX in 2012 (CRS SpX-1)[2] and Orbital in 2014 (CRS Orb-1).[3] In 2015, NASA extended CRS-1 to twenty flights for SpaceX and twelve flights for Orbital ATK.[note 1][4][5]
A second phase of contracts (CRS-2) was solicited in 2014. CRS-2 contracts were awarded in January 2016 to Orbital ATK’s continued use of Cygnus, Sierra Nevada Corporation’s new Dream Chaser, and SpaceX’s new Dragon 2, for cargo transport flights beginning in 2019 and expected to last through 2024.
- ^ Jason Rhian (September 27, 2014). "NASA continues Commercial "push" with CRS extension". Spaceflight Insider.
- ^ "SpaceX, NASA Target Oct. 7 Launch For Resupply Mission To Space Station". NASA. September 20, 2012. Archived from the original on April 6, 2013. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
- ^ Malik, Tariq (January 20, 2014). "Orbital's Cygnus Delivers Gifts, Ants To Station in First Commercial Run". spacenews.com. Retrieved September 3, 2022.
- ^ Bergin, Chris. "NASA lines up four additional CRS missions for Dragon and Cygnus". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- ^ de Selding, Peter B. (24 February 2016). "SpaceX wins 5 new space station cargo missions in NASA contract estimated at $700 million". SpaceNews. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
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