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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.
SpaceX was planning to develop a 560 kN (130,000 lbf) version of Merlin 1C to be used in Falcon 9 Block II and Falcon 1E boosters. [23] This engine and these booster models were dropped in favor of the more advanced Merlin 1D engine and longer Falcon 9 v1.1 booster.
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...