Falcon 9 - SpaceX
Falcon 9 is a reusable, two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond. Falcon 9 is the world’s first orbital class reusable rocket.
Falcon 9 - Wikipedia
Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle [a] designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX. The first Falcon 9 launch was on 4 June 2010, and the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 8 October 2012. [14]
Falcon Heavy - SpaceX
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 metric tons (141,000 lbs) to orbit.
Mission - SpaceX
SpaceX’s family of Falcon launch vehicles are the first and only orbital class rockets capable of reflight. Depending on the performance required for the mission, Falcon lands on one of our autonomous spaceport droneships out on the ocean or …
SpaceX pulls off unprecedented feat, grabs descending rocket …
Oct 14, 2024 · SpaceX perfected first-stage landings with its workhorse Falcon 9 rockets, successfully recovering 352 such boosters to date with powered touchdowns on landing pads or off-shore droneships. The...
Scrub! SpaceX halts Falcon 9 launch countdown at Cape …
3 days ago · SpaceX is targeting 4:57 p.m. EST to send up a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9 will deploy a batch of 23 internet satellites. No Central Florida sonic booms are expected. After soaring skyward along a southeasterly trajectory, the rocket's first-stage booster will target landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship out at sea about eight minutes …
SpaceX is stretching the lifetime of its reusable Falcon 9 boosters
Jul 10, 2023 · 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-stage...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches record 12th mission, lands on …
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...
Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket return to Earth in amazing tracking …
Aug 7, 2024 · A SpaceX video shows a Falcon 9 first stage's post-launch return to Earth in great detail, even capturing the sonic boom generated during the descent.
Watch SpaceX's historic 200th rocket landing in this super-sharp …
Jun 13, 2023 · The video shows an airborne Falcon 9 just above LZ-4, as the rocket makes its final descent burn to slow its trajectory before landing. In the high-def footage, the four landing legs at the...