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The final version of the Falcon 1, the Falcon 1e, [28] was projected to provide approximately 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) for US$11 million. Several years ago, SpaceX was going to open up the smallsat launch market with the Falcon 1, which originally was to launch about 600 kilograms to LEO for $6 million; the payload capacity later declined to about ...
The Falcon 1e was a proposed upgrade of the SpaceX Falcon 1. The Falcon 1e would have featured a larger first stage with a higher thrust engine, an upgraded second stage engine, a larger payload fairing, and was intended to be partially reusable.
Each Falcon 9 booster uses nine Merlin engines, and the second stage uses one Merlin vacuum engine. The second stage is expended, so each launch consumes one Merlin Vacuum engine. SpaceX designed the booster with its engines to be recovered for reuse by propulsive landing, and the first recovered booster was reused in March 2017.
North American F-1E Fury, a U.S. fighter plane; Dassault Mirage F1E, a French fighter plane from Dassault, variant of the Mirage F1; Falcon 1e (F1e), a proposed space launch rocket from SpaceX, a variant of the Falcon 1; F1E, a competition sports class of flying model aircraft; see Free flight (model aircraft)
Kestrel was a LOX/RP-1 pressure-fed rocket engine, and was developed by SpaceX as the Falcon 1 rocket's second stage main engine; it was used in 2006–2009. It was built around the same pintle architecture as SpaceX's Merlin engine but does not have a turbo-pump, and is fed only by tank pressure.
He was employee No.1 of SpaceX and is the founder and now CEO of Impulse Space. [1] Mueller is best known for his engineering work on the Merlin, Draco, Super Draco and TR-106 rocket engines. He is considered one of the world's leading spacecraft propulsion experts and holds several United States patents for propulsion technology. [2] [3]
SpaceX: Falcon 1: Light rocket 2 LEO Retired (2/5) 2006 [144] Falcon 1e: Light rocket 2 LEO Cancelled — [144] Falcon 5: Medium rocket 2 GTO Cancelled — [145] Falcon 9 v1.0: Medium rocket 2 GTO (designed) LEO (achieved) Retired (5/5) 2010 [146] Falcon 9 v1.1: Medium rocket 2 HCO: Retired (14/15) 2013 [146] Falcon 9 Full Thrust Block 1-4 ...
SpaceX originally planned to upgrade the Omelek launch site for use by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, but later cancelled their plans to do so, and have since disassembled the entire installation. In December 2010, the SpaceX launch manifest listed Omelek (Kwajalein) as a potential site for several Falcon 9 launches, the first planned for as ...