Falcon 1
In-activeSpaceX (SpX)
March 24, 2006
Description
The Falcon 1 was the first launch vehicle developed and manufactured by SpaceX in 2006. It is an expendable, two stage rocket where each stage is powered by a single LOX/RP1 engine.
Specifications
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Stages
2 -
Length
22.25 m -
Diameter
1.7 m -
Fairing Diameter
1.5 m -
Launch Mass
33.0 T -
Thrust
454.0 kN
Family
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Name
Falcon 1 -
Family
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Variant
1 -
Alias
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Full Name
Falcon 1
Payload Capacity
-
Launch Cost
$7000000 -
Low Earth Orbit
470.0 kg -
Geostationary Transfer
Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
290.0 kg
SpaceX
Commercial
CEO: Elon Musk
SpX 2002Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Falcon 1 | RazakSAT
SpaceX | United States of AmericaRonald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
July 14, 2009, 3:36 a.m.
Falcon 1 | RatSat
SpaceX | United States of AmericaRonald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Sept. 28, 2008, 11:15 p.m.
Falcon 1 | Flight 3
SpaceX | United States of AmericaRonald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Aug. 3, 2008, 3:34 a.m.
Falcon 1 | DemoSat
SpaceX | United States of AmericaRonald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
March 21, 2007, 1:10 a.m.
Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2
SpaceX | United States of AmericaRonald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
March 24, 2006, 10:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:
FalconSAT-2 was a satellite built by students of the United States Air Force Academy. It was intended to have been placed into low Earth orbit to study the effects of plasma on communications with spacecraft, however it failed to reach orbit due to a malfunction of its carrier rocket.It landed in a storage shed on Omelek Island, just a few feet from its own shipping container
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