Corvid
Crew and cargo spacecraft
Overview
Corvid launches on Lodestar with up to four people or six tonnes of cargo. It flies itself, docks itself and lands under parachutes in the Pacific. The capsule is reused. The trunk under it, which carries the solar panel, is not.
Corvid has carried eleven private astronauts since its first crewed flight in 2024.1
| Height with trunk | 8.2 m |
|---|---|
| Diameter | 4.0 m |
| Crew | 4 |
| Pressurized volume | 9.3 m³ |
| Cargo to orbit | 6,000 kg |
| Return cargo | 3,000 kg |
The cabin
- Touchscreen flight deck
- Three screens run the whole flight. Crew can take manual control from the commander’s seat.2
- Window
- The largest window on any capsule, in the nose under the hinged cap.3
- Escape system
- Eight thrusters in the side walls can carry the capsule clear of the rocket at any point during ascent.
- Splashdown
- Corvid returns under four parachutes to the Pacific off Paleto Bay, where a recovery ship lifts it from the water.
Corvid Cargo
A cargo version with no seats, no windows and no screens flies experiments, supplies and customer payloads, and brings some of them back. Cargo Corvids can stay in orbit for up to a month.
Flying on Corvid
Private missions are sold whole, for four seats. Crews train for seven days at Veil City before launch.
Human spaceflight- Eleven includes one who flew twice and has asked to be counted twice.
- Manual control is disabled during the livestream.
- Window time is scheduled in 20-minute blocks. Additional blocks can be purchased in flight.