
Falcon 9
Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX. The first Falcon 9 launch was on June 4, 2010,... Wikipedia
- Function: Medium-lift launch vehicle
- Manufacturer: SpaceX
- Country of origin: United States
- Cost per launch: US$69.75 million (2024)
- Height: FT: 69.8 m (229 ft), v1.1: 68.4 m (224.41 ft), v1.0: 54.9 m (180.12 ft)
- Diameter: 3.7 m (12.14 ft)
- Mass: FT: 549,000 kg (1,210,337.82 lb), v1.1: 506,000 kg (1,115,539.05 lb), v1.0: 333,000 kg (734,139.33 lb)
- Stages: 2
- Derivatives: Falcon Heavy
- Status: FT Block 5: Active, FT Block 4: Retired, FT: Retired, v1.1: Retired, v1.0: Retired
- Launch sites: Cape Canaveral, SLC-40, Kennedy, LC-39A, Vandenberg, SLC-4E, Vandenberg, SLC-6 (future)
- Total launches: FT, v1.1: 15, v1.0: 5
- Successes: FT, v1.1: 14, v1.0: 4
- Failures: 2 (v1.1: CRS-7, FT Block 5: Starlink Group 9-3)
- Partial failures: 1 (v1.0: CRS-1)
- Other: 1 (FT: AMOS-6 pre-flight destruction)
- Landings: attempts
- First flight: FT Block 5: May 11, 2018 (Bangabandhu-1), FT Block 4: August 14, 2017 (CRS-12), FT: December 22, 2015 (OG2 Flight 2), v1.1: September 29, 2013 (CASSIOPE), v1.0: June 4, 2010 (Dragon Qualification)
- Last flight: FT Block 4: June 29, 2018 (CRS-15), FT: February 22, 2018 (Paz/Tintin), v1.1: January 17, 2016 (Jason-3), v1.0: March 1, 2013 (CRS-2)
- Data source: DuckDuckGo