Falcon 1
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Key facts
- Function
- Small-lift launch vehicle
- Manufacturer
- SpaceX
- Country of origin
- United States
- Project cost
- US$90 million
- Cost per launch
- US$7 million
- Height
- 21 m (68 ft 11 in)
- Diameter
- 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Mass
- 28,000 kg (62,000 lb)
- Orbital inclination
- 9.0 - 9.35°
- Derivative work
- Falcon 9 v1.0
- Status
- Retired
- Launch sites
- Omelek Island
- First flight
- March 24, 2006, 22:30 UTC
- Last flight
- July 14, 2009, 03:35 UTC
- Powered by
- 1 × Merlin 1A (first 2 flights), 1 × Merlin 1C (final 3 flights)
- Maximum thrust
- 450 kN (100,000 lb f )
- Specific impulse
- 255 s (2.50 km/s) at sea level
- Burn time
- 169 s
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- small-lift launch vehicle
- Country
- United States
- Country of origin
- United States
- Manufacturer
- SpaceX
- Image
- Falcon 1 Flight 4 liftoff.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Falcon 1 was a two-stage small-lift launch vehicle that was operated from 2006 to 2009 by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer. On September 28, 2008, Falcon 1 became the first privately developed fully liquid-fueled launch vehicle to successfully reach orbit.
The Falcon 1 used LOX/RP-1 for both stages, the first stage powered by a single pump-fed Merlin engine, and the second stage powered by SpaceX's pressure-fed Kestrel vacuum engine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Falcon 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.