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Falcon 9 is a partially reusable medium-lift launch vehicle that can carry cargo and crew into Earth orbit, designed, manufactured and launched by American aerospace company SpaceX. It can also be used as an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle. The first Falcon 9 launch was on 4 June 2010.
Falcon 9’s first stage incorporates nine Merlin engines and aluminum-lithium alloy tanks containing liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) propellant. Falcon 9 generates more than 1.7 million pounds of thrust at sea level. The nine Merlin engines on the first stage are gradually throttled near the end of first-stage flight to limit ...
Mar 19, 2022 · A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on March 19, 2022, from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with 53 Starlink internet satellites aboard. It was the record-setting 12th launch for this ...
SpaceX tests its engines, vehicle structures, and systems at a 4,000-acre state-of-the-art rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas. Outfitted with 16 specialized test stands, the facility validates for flight every Merlin engine that powers the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets, and every Draco thruster that controls the Dragon spacecraft.
Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 23 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space...
May 18, 2024 · A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida on May 17, 2024. It was the record 21st liftoff for the Falcon 9's first stage.. (Image credit: SpaceX via X) It was the 21st ...
Falcon Heavy is composed of three reusable Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft. As one of the world’s most powerful operational rockets, Falcon Heavy can lift nearly 64 ...
May 30, 2020 · NASA. May 30, 2020. RELEASE 20-057. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched from Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Apr 17, 2024 · A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the pad at Launch Complex 39A as captured in this streak shot on April 17, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX completed its latest Falcon 9 ...
Jul 10, 2023 · SpaceX. 199. The late-night liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with another batch of Starlink Internet satellites on Sunday set a new record for the most flights by a SpaceX launch vehicle, with a first ...
