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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]
Payload to LEO; Mass: 9,000 kg (20,000 lb) [4] Payload to GTO; Mass: ... The Falcon 9 v1.0 was the first member of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle family, ...
Falcon 9 was introduced by SpaceX in 2010, ... Mass to LEO (kg) Heaviest launch (kg) Launches First flight ...to LEO or MEO...to GTO or GSO...to HEO and beyond
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 ...
Vehicle Liftoff Mass Payload Mass to LEO Mass ratio Payload fraction Falcon 9 Block 5: 549,054 kg + 22,800 kg 22,800 kg 25.1 3.99% Proton-M: 705,000 kg + 23,000 kg
"And we've selected a modification to Vulcan which gives us significantly more mass to LEO and puts us in a competitive range." ... slightly over the base price of a SpaceX Falcon 9 - and has a ...
Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.32% and have been launched 442 times over 15 years, resulting in 439 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 ...
SpaceX introduced the Falcon 9 in 2010, designed to be a partially reusable launch vehicle. Falcon 9 underwent iterative upgrades and completed the first propulsive landing of an orbital rocket stage in 2015. [5] SpaceX then began regularly reusing first stages. [6] In 2022, Falcon 9 broke the record of 47 launches in one year held by Soyuz-U. [7]