Fram2

Fram2
Artist's rendering of Crew Dragon Resilience during Fram2
Mission typePrivate spaceflight
OperatorSpaceX
COSPAR ID2025-066A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.63427Edit this on Wikidata
Websitef2.com
Mission duration3 days, 14 hours and 32 minutes
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftCrew Dragon Resilience
Spacecraft typeCrew Dragon
ManufacturerSpaceX
Crew
Crew size4
Members
Start of mission
Launch date1 April 2025, 01:46:50 UTC (31 March, 9:46:50 p.m. EDT)[1]
RocketFalcon 9 Block 5 (B1085‑6), Flight 454
Launch siteKennedy, LC‑39A
End of mission
Recovered byMV Shannon
Landing date4 April 2025, 16:19:28 UTC (9:19:28 a.m. PDT)
Landing sitePacific Ocean near Oceanside
(33°00′N 117°42′W / 33.0°N 117.7°W / 33.0; -117.7)
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit
RegimePolar orbit (retrograde)
Perigee altitude202 km (126 mi)
Apogee altitude413 km (257 mi)
Inclination90.01°
Period93 minutes, 10 seconds

Mission insignia

Fram2 was a private human spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX with a Crew Dragon spacecraft on behalf of entrepreneur Chun Wang. During the mission, Wang and his all-civilian crew—Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips—were launched into a polar orbit, a first for a human spaceflight mission. During the three-day mission, the crew conducted scientific research.[2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Next Spaceflight was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Grønning, Trygve (13 August 2024). "Norske Jannicke Mikkelsen skal til verdensrommet" [Norwegian Jannicke Mikkelsen is going to space]. nrk.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  3. ^ Wall, Mike (12 August 2024). "SpaceX to launch 4 people on historic Fram2 mission over Earth's poles in late 2024". Space.com. Retrieved 13 August 2024.

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