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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.
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 ...
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.
A six-day launch window opens no earlier than mid-January for the company's first launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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)
SpaceX, with its relentless drive to make space launches cheaper and more reliable has made the Artemis return to the moon program possible. Likewise, the Falcon family of rockets is benefiting ...
Falcon 1e: SpaceX: 2011 Haas: ARCAspace: Orbital Space Plane Program: NASA: 2002 2004 Falcon 5: SpaceX: 2003 2005 Galaxy Express: Galaxy Express Corporation: 2009 Ares I: NASA: 2005 2010 Ares V: Rocketplane XP: Rocketplane Kistler: 2011 Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle: NASA: 2009 2010 Liberty: ATK and Astrium: 2011 2012 Falcon 9 Air ...
Falcon 9 B1060 was a Falcon 9 first-stage booster manufactured and operated by SpaceX. It was the senior active booster vehicle for the company [ 1 ] since the demise of B1058 on 25 December 2023 during transit back to shore, until being expended for the Galileo FOC FM25 & FM27 mission on 28 April 2024. [ 2 ]