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At SpaceX yesterday. Octaweb engine mount assembly in in the blue rig in the distance. And three cheers for their holiday party this evening! And some recent thoughts on colonizing mars. Date: 12 December 2013, 16:14: Source: SpaceX Splash - one of the enormous landing legs for the Falcon 9 with a flown Dragon capsule overhead: Author
Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle [a] designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.The first Falcon 9 launch was on 4 June 2010, and the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 8 October 2012. [14]
The first version of the Falcon 9, Falcon 9 v1.0, was developed in 2005–2010, and flew five orbital missions in 2010–2013. The second version of the launch system—Falcon 9 v1.1—has been retired meanwhile. Falcon 9 v1.1 was developed in 2010–2013, and made its maiden flight in September 2013.
The sixth flight of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched in September 2013, which was the maiden flight of Falcon 9 v1.1. [2] The site was used for a second time in January 2016 for the Jason-3 launch (which was the last flight of Falcon 9 v1.1) and for a third time in January 2017 for the first of the Iridium Next launches.
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Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.32% and have been launched 441 times over 15 years, resulting in 438 full successes, two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9–3), one pre-flight failure (AMOS-6 while being prepared for an on-pad static fire test), and one partial failure (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station ...
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English: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 during its maiden launch, which occurred at 2:45 p.m. EDT on June 4, 2010. It carried the Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit , which was inserted into a near-perfect 250-km (155 mi) orbit.