Flown launch vehicles to scale – from left to right, the, andmanufactures to operate its and to execute its various exploration goals. SpaceX currently manufactures and operates the family of and the family of – both of which powered by SpaceX's engines and employing technologies to the first stage. As of 2019, the company is also developing the fully reusable launch system, which will replace the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.SpaceX's first launch vehicle family, the, was the first liquid fuel launch vehicle to be launched into orbit, and utilized SpaceX's Merlin and engines for its first and second stages, respectively. It was launched five times from between 2006 and 2009 – the and variants were planned but never developed. The series of launch vehicles, utilizing upgraded Merlin engines on both its stages, was developed as part of the 's program and 's program. It was first launched from in 2010 and later replaced by the series in 2013, which was also launched from.
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The and variants followed in 2015 and 2018, and are both launched from, in addition to Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg. The Dragon capsule sits atop the Falcon 9 rocket before the Demo-1 launch.The 'Full Thrust' version of Falcon 9 is an upgraded version of the Falcon 9 v1.1. It was used the first time on 22 December 2015 for the ORBCOMM-2 launch at Cape Canaveral SLC-40 launch pad.The first stage was upgraded with a larger tank, loaded with propellants to allow a greater mass of fuel in the same tank volume.
The second stage was also extended for greater fuel tank capacity. These upgrades brought a 33% increase to the previous rocket performance. 5 sub-variants have been flown, only is still active.Falcon Heavy. Falcon Heavy on pad LC-39AFalcon Heavy (FH) is a designed and manufactured. The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the launch vehicle comprising three Falcon 9 first stages: a reinforced center core, and two additional. All three boosters are designed to be recovered and reused.
The side boosters assigned to Falcon Heavy's first flight were recovered from two prior Falcon 9 missions. SpaceX on February 6, 2018, delivering a payload comprising Musk's (playing ', by ) onto. Retired Falcon 1. The first at.
This vehicle was removed from VAFB due to delays and eventually launched from.The Falcon 1 is a small, partially reusable rocket capable of placing several hundred kilograms into low earth orbit. It also functioned as a testbed for developing concepts and components for the larger Falcon 9.
Initial Falcon 1 flights were launched from the on the island atoll of in the Pacific Ocean, and represented the first attempt to fly a ground-launched rocket to orbit from that site.On 26 March 2006, the Falcon 1's maiden flight failed only seconds after leaving the pad due to a fuel line rupture. After a year, the second flight was launched on 22 March 2007 and it also ended in failure, due to a spin stabilization problem that automatically caused sensors to turn off the Merlin 2nd-stage engine. The third Falcon 1 flight used a new, and the engine development was responsible for the almost 17-month flight delay.
The new cooling system turned out to be the major reason the mission failed; because the first stage rammed into the second-stage engine bell at, due to excess thrust provided by residual propellant left over from the higher-propellant-capacity cooling system. On 28 September 2008, the Falcon 1 succeeded in reaching orbit on its, becoming the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket to do so. The Falcon 1 carried its first and only successful commercial payload into orbit on 13 July 2009, on its. No launch attempts of the Falcon 1 have been made since 2009, and SpaceX is no longer taking launch reservations for the Falcon 1 in order to concentrate company resources on its larger Falcon 9 launch vehicle and other projects.Falcon 9 v1.0 The first version of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, was developed in 2005–2010, and was launched for the first time in 2010. Falcon 9 v1.0 made five flights in 2010–2013, when it was retired.Falcon 9 v1.1. Main article:On 8 September 2005, SpaceX announced the development of the rocket, which has nine engines in its first stage.
The design is an -class vehicle, intended to compete with the and the, along with launchers of other nations as well. Both stages were designed for reuse. A similarly designed rocket was also envisioned to fit between the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9, but development was dropped to concentrate on the Falcon 9.The first version of the Falcon 9, was developed in 2005–2010, and flew five orbital missions in 2010–2013. The second version of the launch system—— has been retired meanwhile.Falcon 9 v1.1 was developed in 2010-2013, and made its maiden flight in September 2013. The Falcon 9 v1.1 is a 60 percent heavier rocket with 60 percent more thrust than the v1.0 version of the Falcon 9.
It includes realigned first-stage engines and 60 percent longer fuel tanks, making it more susceptible to during flight. The engines themselves have been upgraded to the more powerful. These improvements increased the payload capability from 9,000 kilograms (20,000 lb) to 13,150 kilograms (28,990 lb).The stage separation system has been redesigned and reduces the number of attachment points from twelve to three, and the vehicle has upgraded avionics and software as well.The new first stage was also supposed be used as on the launch vehicle.The company purchased the, testing facilities of defunct, where it refitted the largest test stand at the facilities for Falcon 9 testing. On 22 November 2008, the stand tested the nine Merlin 1C engines of the Falcon 9, which deliver 770,000 pounds-force (3,400 kN) of thrust, well under the stand's capacity of 3,300,000 pounds-force (15,000 kN).The first Falcon 9 vehicle was integrated at on 30 December 2008.
NASA was planning for a flight to take place in January 2010; however the maiden flight was postponed several times and took place on 4 June 2010. At 2:50pm EST the Falcon 9 rocket successfully reached orbit.The second flight for the Falcon 9 vehicle was the, the first launch under the NASA (COTS) contract designed to provide 'seed money' for development of new boosters.
The original NASA contract called for the COTS Demo Flight 1 to occur the second quarter of 2008; this flight was delayed several times, occurring at 15:43 GMT on 8 December 2010. The rocket successfully deployed an operational Dragon spacecraft at 15:53 GMT. Dragon orbited the Earth twice, and then made a controlled reentry burn that put it on target for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. With Dragon's safe recovery, SpaceX became the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft; prior to this mission only government agencies had been able to recover orbital spacecraft.
The first flight of the Falcon 9 v1.1 was September 29, 2013 from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying several payloads including Canada's CASSIOPE technology demonstration satellite. The Falcon 9 v1.1 features stretched first and second stages, and a new octagonal arrangement of the 9 Merlin-1D engines on the first stage (replacing the square pattern of engines in v1.0).
SpaceX notes that the Falcon 9 v1.1 is cheaper to manufacture, and longer than v1.0. It also has a larger payload capacity: 13,150 kilograms to low Earth orbit or 4,850 kg to geosynchronous transfer orbit. Grasshopper. Main article:Grasshopper was an experimental technology-demonstrator, (RLV), a (VTVL) rocket. The first flight test vehicle—Grasshopper, built on a first-stage tank—made a total of eight between September 2012 and October 2013. All eight flights were from the.Grasshopper began flight testing in September 2012 with a brief, three-second hop. It was followed by a second hop in November 2012, which consisted of an 8-second flight that took the testbed approximately 5.4 m (18 ft) off the ground.
A third flight occurred in December 2012 of 29 seconds duration, with extended hover under rocket engine power, in which it ascended to an altitude of 40 m (130 ft) before descending under rocket power to come to a successful vertical landing. Grasshopper made its eighth and final test flight on October 7, 2013, flying to an altitude of 744 m (2,441 ft; 0.462 mi) before making its eighth successful vertical landing. The Grasshopper test vehicle is now retired. Canceled Falcon 1e 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. Its first launch was planned for mid-2011, but the Falcon 1 and Falcon 1e were withdrawn from the market, with SpaceX citing 'limited demand,' before its debut.Payloads that would have flown on the Falcon 1 were instead to be flown on the using excess capacity.The Falcon 1e was to be 6.1 m (20 ft) longer than the Falcon 1, with an overall length of 27.4 m (90 ft), but with the same 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) diameter.
Its first stage had a dry mass of 2,580 kg (5,680 lb), and was powered by an upgraded engine burning 39,000 kg (87,000 lb) of. The first stage burn time was around 169 seconds. The second stage had a dry mass of 540 kg (1,200 lb) and its engine burned 4,000 kg (8,900 lb) of propellant. The restartable Kestrel 2 could burn for up to a total of 418 seconds.The Falcon 1e planned to use in the second stage, a change from the used in the Falcon 1 second stages.Falcon 1e launches were intended to occur from, part of in the, and from, however SpaceX had announced that they would consider other locations as long as there is a 'business case for establishing the requested launch site'.
Following a demonstration flight, the Falcon 1e was intended to make a series of launches carrying spacecraft, with a total of eighteen satellites being launched, several per rocket. Had been responsible for marketing the Falcon 1e in Europe.
Falcon 5. Early Falcon 5 designThe Falcon 5 was a proposed partially reusable launch vehicle designed by SpaceX, since canceledin preference of the larger, more powerful.The first stage of Falcon 5 was to be powered by five and the upper stage by one Merlin engine, both burning with a oxidizer. Along with the, it would have been the world's only launch vehicle with its first stage designed for reuse.The Falcon 5 would have been the first American rocket since the to have full engine out capability, meaning that with the loss of one engine, it can still meet mission requirements by burning the other four engines longer to achieve the correct orbit. In comparison, the only had partial engine out capability, meaning it was not able to achieve proper orbit by burning the remaining engines longer.In 2006, SpaceX stated that the Falcon 5 was a Falcon 9 with four engines removed. Since the launchers were being co-developed, work on the Falcon 9 was also applicable to the Falcon 5. Falcon 9 Air Falcon 9 Air would have been an under by SpaceX in 2011-2012.
Falcon 9 Air was to be carried to launch position and launch altitude by a, the world's largest aircraft by wingspan. Payload to was projected to be 6,100 kg (13,400 pounds).Propulsion for the rocket was planned to be provided by four, engines that were also to be used in the beginning in 2013, and also on the in 2014. Main article:The SpaceX Starship is planned to be a long-duration and passenger-carrying spacecraft launched as the of a. The vehicle is under development by, as a self-funded project. While the Starship will be tested on its own initially at suborbital altitudes, it will be used on with an additional stage, the Super Heavy, where Starship will serve as the second stage on a launch vehicle. The combination of spacecraft and booster is called Starship as well by SpaceX. Competitive position SpaceX Falcon rockets are being offered to the industry at highly, allowing SpaceX to build up a large manifest of over 50 launches by late 2013, with two-thirds of them for commercial customers exclusive of flights.In the US launch industry, SpaceX.
Nevertheless, 'somewhat incongruously, its primary US competitor, (ULA), still maintained (in early 2013) that it requires a large annual, which neither SpaceX nor receives, in order to remain financially viable, with the reason cited as a lack of market opportunity, a stance which seems to be in conflict with the itself.' . 8,300 (expendable). 5,300 (reusable)26,700 (expendable)Price history( mil. )2006: 6.72007: 6.92008: 7.92007: 8.52008: 9.12010: 10.92005: 27 (3.6 m fairing to LEO)35 (5.2 m fairing to LEO)2011: 54 to 59.52013: 54 – 56.52014: 61.22011: 80 to 1242012: 83 to 1282013: 77.1 (≤6,400 kg to GTO)135 (6,400 kg to GTO)Current price ( mil.
)−−−—62 (≤5,500 kg to GTO)90 (≤8,000 kg to GTO)Success ratio (successful/total)2/5−5/514/15 ( lost in flight)63/63 (not including loss of )3/3A Post 2008. Was used from 2006 till 2007. See also. P. timeindex 2:25. SpaceX ORBCOMM-2 webcast. February 6, 2018. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
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