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Following the first successful landing and recovery of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage in December 2015, equity analysts at investment bank Jefferies estimated that launch costs to satellite operators using Falcon 9 launch vehicles may decline by about 40% of SpaceX' typical US$61 million per launch, [45] although SpaceX had only forecast an ...
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 ]
United States: Northrop Grumman: 23.9 m N/A N/A N/A Expendable: 1 [95] KLC: 2010 2010 Minotaur IV / Orion 38 United States: Northrop Grumman: 23.9 m N/A N/A N/A Expendable: 1 [96] CCSFS: 2017 2017 Minotaur. IV+ United States: Northrop Grumman: 23.9 m 1,950 [97] N/A 1,430 to Polar [97] Expendable: 1 [97] KLC: 2011 2011 Minotaur V United States ...
Dry mass (kg) Launch mass (kg) Payload (kg) § Payload volume (m 3) Return payload (kg) § Diameter (m) ... USA: SpaceX: Falcon 9: 6.1: 4,200 [4] 10,200 [b]
Falcon 9 Block 5 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle [c] designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX. It is the fifth major version of the Falcon 9 family and the third version of the Falcon 9 Full Thrust .
The third version of the Falcon 9 was developed in 2014–2015 and made its maiden flight in December 2015. The Falcon 9 Full Thrust is a modified reusable variant of the Falcon 9 family with capabilities that exceed the Falcon 9 v1.1, including the ability to "land the first stage for geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) missions on the drone ship" [14] [15] The rocket was designed using ...
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The Falcon 9 v1.0 first stage was used on the first five Falcon 9 launches, and powered by nine SpaceX Merlin 1C rocket engines arranged in a 3x3 pattern. Each of these engines had a sea-level thrust of 556 kN (125,000 pounds-force) for a total thrust on liftoff of about 5,000 kN (1,100,000 pounds-force).