Megan (ship)

Short description: SpaceX Dragon Recovery Vessel

Megan, one of SpaceX’s two recovery ships, is pictured in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast while awaiting the splashdown of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.

History
United States
Name|

* Megan (2022–present)
* GO Searcher (2019–2022)
* CGT Searcher (2017–2019)
* HARVEY Otter (2014–2017)
* CALLAIS Searcher (2013–2014)

Namesake| Megan McArthur
Owner|

* Falcon Landing LLC. (2022–present)
* Guice Offshore (2013–2022)

Operator|

* SpaceX (2016–present)
* Guice Offshore (2013–2016)

Builder| Master Boat Builders, Coden, Alabama
Launched| 2009
Completed| 2010
In service| 2010
Identification|

* Call sign: WDH3015
* IMO number: 9591648
* MMSI number: 366584000

Status| In service
Notes| [1]
General characteristics
Class and type:|

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Platform supply vessel

* 576 DWT

Length:|  51.0 m (167 ft 4 in)
Beam:|  12.0 m (39 ft 4 in)
Draught:|  3 m (9 ft 10 in)
Depth:|  3.6576 m (12 ft 0 in)
Decks:|  1
Installed power:|  1,750 HP
Propulsion:|  2 x CAT 3508B Industrial Diesel Engines
Speed:|  22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Capacity:|  32
Crew:|  6
Notes:|  [1]

Megan, formerly called GO Searcher is a SpaceX Dragon recovery vessel.[2] It is one of the offshore supply ships operated by Guice Offshore.[3] The other identical ship is Shannon.[4]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 List of recovery missions
* 3 Incidents
* 4 Gallery
* 5 References

## History

Megan is the primary recovery vessel for the SpaceX Dragon/SpaceX Dragon 2 after the splashdown. Immediately after splashdown, fast small boats are launched to connect the capsule to the vessel, and the capsule is lifted on board with the large lifting frame installed on the stern. The astronauts can then exit the capsule. NASA has a requirement that this is completed within 60 minutes of splashdown. Facilities onboard include a helipad, a medical treatment unit, and extensive radar communication equipment.[2][5]

Between April and May 2019, GO Searcher was temporarily reassigned with GO Navigator to fairing recovery operations for the ArabSat-6A, and Starlink 0.9 missions.

On August 2, 2020, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley returned to Earth, landing in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. GO Searcher's sister ship, GO Navigator, pulled the capsule onto her aft, in which Behnken and Hurley exited the capsule.[6]

On September 18, 2021, GO Searcher served as the recovery vessel for the Inspiration4 mission, recovering its all-civilian crew from the Atlantic Ocean.[7]

In early 2022, the vessel was renamed Megan after SpaceX Crew-2 astronaut, Megan McArthur along with GO Navigator being renamed Shannon after SpaceX Crew-1 astronaut, Shannon Walker. They are registered to Falcon Landing LLC, a SpaceX-linked company that also owns recovery ships Bob and Doug and Elon Musk's private jet.

## List of recovery missions

Date  | Mission  | Role  | Type

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8 March 2019  | Crew Dragon Demo-1 | Crew Dragon recovery support  | Catching
11 April 2019  | ArabSat-6A  | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
24 May 2019  | Starlink | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
25 June 2019  | STP-2  | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
6 August 2019  | Amos-17 | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
11 November 2019  | Starlink-2 | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
19 January 2020  | Crew Dragon in Flight abort test | Crew Dragon recovery support  | Catching
11 March 2021  | Starlink 20  | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
14 March 2021  | Starlink 21  | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
26 May 2021  | Starlink 28  | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
6 June 2021  | SXM-8  | Fairing recovery  | Non-Catching
18 September 2021  | Inspiration4 | Crew Dragon recovery support  | Catching
1 October 2021  | CRS-23 | Cargo Dragon recovery support  | Catching
24 January 2022  | CRS-24 | Cargo Dragon recovery support  | Catching
25 April 2022  | Axiom Mission 1 | Crew Dragon recovery support  | Catching
20 August 2022  | CRS-25 | Cargo Dragon recovery support  | Catching
14 October 2022  | Crew-4 | Crew Dragon recovery support  | Catching
11 January 2023  | CRS-26 | Cargo Dragon recovery support  | Catching
31 May 2023  | Axiom Mission 2 | Crew Dragon recovery support  | Catching
4 September 2023  | SpaceX Crew-6 | Crew Dragon recovery support  | Catching

## Incidents

* According to United States Coast Guard, on May 9, 2020, while practicing recovering the SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule, GO Searcher's crew pulled a man from the Atlantic Ocean.[8][9]

## Gallery

* GO Searcher Gallery
* GO Searcher, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 200 miles off Florida's east coast, on March 8, 2019

* SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-1 spacecraft aboard the company's recovery vessel, GO Searcher, following splashdown at 8:45 a.m. EST on March 8, 2019.

* On August 13, 2019, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley, left, and Bob Behnken on GO Searcher, rehearsing Crew Dragon crew extraction with teams from NASA and SpaceX.

* SpaceX Dragon recovery vessel, Megan, at West Basin in Port Canaveral, Florida USA on February 25, 2023.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel Go Searcher". VesselTracker. 2020. https://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Go-Searcher-9591648.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "GO Searcher" (in en). https://www.spacexfleet.com/go-searcher.
3. ↑ "GO SEARCHER Offshore Support Vessel". https://intelligence.marinelink.com/vessels/vessel/go-searcher-323841.
4. ↑ "Crew Dragon Recovery" (in en). https://www.spacexfleet.com/dragon-recovery.
5. ↑ "Go Searcher – Commercial Crew Program" (in en-US). https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/tag/go-searcher/.
6. ↑ Chang, Kenneth (2020-08-02). "'Thanks for Flying SpaceX': NASA Astronauts Safely Splash Down After Journey From Orbit" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/science/spacex-astronauts-splashdown.html.
7. ↑ "SpaceX's private Inspiration4 crew returns to Earth with historic splashdown off Florida coast". Space.com. 18 September 2021. https://www.space.com/spacex-inspiration4-returns-to-earth.
8. ↑ Thompson, Amy (2020-05-10). "SpaceX recovery team rescues stranded boater during ocean recovery drills" (in en-US). https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-go-searcher-rescue-stranded-boater/.
9. ↑ Speck, Emilee (2020-05-08). "Practicing retrieving astronaut spacecraft at sea, SpaceX vessel rescues stranded boater" (in en). https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/05/08/practicing-retrieving-astronaut-spacecraft-at-sea-spacex-vessel-rescues-stranded-boater/.

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