Talk:Commercial Resupply Services

Working on a template
It can be seen here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Commercial_Resupply_Services_missions

--Craigboy (talk) 15:22, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Focus on contracts?
According to , "'Orbital Sciences holds a $1.9 billion NASA contract to make eight robotic supply runs to the space station with Cygnus and Antares. [...] SpaceX signed a $1.6 billion contract to make 12 flights with its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket.'" I came here looking for more information about any other CRS contracts with other providers, and possibly details about the perceived disparity (1.9G$ for 8 Cygnus flights of ~1t upmass/disposal each vs. 1.6G$ for 12 Dragon flights at ~3t up-/downmass each).

IMO instead of having a Missions section, I'd expect this article to focus on the overarching contracts; missions would be more appropriate in the respective space firm/spacecraft articles.


 * NASA has only issued two CRS contracts. Satellite launches use ordinary contract.  As for the price difference Orbital charges more per flight, which explains why NASA awarded more flights to SpaceX.  Andrew Swallow (talk) 19:38, 17 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I think it's useful to have a separate Missions section as it allows one to have a better overall view of what has been accomplished by CRS without having to trawl through SpaceX and Orbital launch histories. Ga2re2t (talk) 15:00, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

A contracts summary would be useful. For each contract could have a small table showing the parameters and cost (to NASA) for each operator. - Rod57 (talk) 12:48, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Mission histories
Going on above discussion, I thought that a CRS mission history table for each operator. Here's a quick start on one for SpaceX (with no references to keep things simple for the moment): Ga2re2t (talk) 15:44, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

I think it would be nice to have Totals so that we can see how much cargo has been transported overall. Ga2re2t (talk) 15:44, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I think that looks pretty snazzy. And I agree about having a totals row. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gopher65 (talk • contribs) 04:04, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Something like this?

I fully agree; the table gives a much better overview of the different missions. Maybe replace 'Date and time' by 'Launch Date and time'? Kcauwert (talk) 00:51, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * However, the published 'Cargo Manifest', 'Manifest Summary' and 'Press Kit' documents usually don't specify the portion of cargo that has flown unpressurised. So the 'unpressurised' columns of the table will always be incomplete? Kcauwert (talk) 01:02, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * So maybe only keep two columns: 'Upmass' and 'Downmass'?Kcauwert (talk) 01:08, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Idealy the 'F9' column should be 'Launch vehicle'. With values: 'Falcon 9 V1.1 + Dragon'.Kcauwert (talk) 10:21, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Something like this maybe: Kcauwert (talk) 10:41, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Added the table below for Orbital Sciences. Kcauwert (talk) 13:12, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * That is a lot of effort. Time to move the tables to the main article? Andrew Swallow (talk) 09:01, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Rename SpaceX CRS-n missions to Dragon CRS-n
CRS editors may wish to comment on this global move discussion. — JFG talk 10:25, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Phase 3
Will there be a third phase? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.248.242.3 (talk) 10:35, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

How much does each operator get for each CRS-2 mission
How much does each operator get for each CRS-2 mission ? Comments above say Orbital get more $ than SpaceX. A small table would be helpful. - Rod57 (talk) 12:44, 18 July 2022 (UTC)