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The last flight of a Block 4 booster was in June 2018. Since then all boosters in the active fleet are Block 5. Booster names are a B followed by a four-digit number. The first Falcon 9 version, v1.0, had boosters B0001 to B0007. All following boosters were numbered sequentially starting at B1001, the number 1 standing for first-stage booster.
A single Falcon 9 booster reused for the 20th time. [146] Booster 1062: 12 September 2024 First commercial spacewalk Polaris Dawn: 13 October 2024 First Super Heavy booster catch Starship flight test 5: 19 November 2024 First in space relight of a full-flow staged combustion cycle engine . [117] Starship flight test 6
The Super Heavy booster is reusable, and is recovered via large arms on the tower capable of catching the descending vehicle. [8] As of January 2025, 0 boosters have been refurbished and subsequently flown at least a second time, though 2 boosters, Booster 12 and Booster 14, has been recovered after flight, with Booster 12 having damage to one ...
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.
Falcon Heavy (FH) is a super heavy lift space launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle comprising three Falcon 9 first stages: a reinforced center core, and two additional side boosters.
Booster 4 was the first vehicle intended to fly on Starship's Flight Test 1. It was the first Super Heavy to be stacked with Starship, [80] and conducted multiple cryogenic tests before being retired in favor of Booster 7 and Ship 24. [81] Booster 7 being tested on the orbital launch pad at Starbase, Boca Chica, Texas in February 2023.
The booster's flight computer was programmed to direct the stage to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico if any problems developed on the rocket or the launch pad capture mechanism.
Falcon 9 booster B1058 was a reusable Falcon 9 Block 5 first-stage booster manufactured by SpaceX. B1058 was the first Falcon 9 booster to fly fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen times and broke a turnaround record on its later flights.