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Title: The Falcon 1 Launch


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Tim Hughes Vice President Chief Counsel
SpaceX proprietary data constituting
Confidential Information under applicable
agreements.
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SpaceX Vehicles
Falcon 1
Falcon 9
Dragon
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Falcon 1 Overview
  • 2-stage small launch vehicle
  • Vehicle dia. 5.5 Fairing dia. 5 Length 68
  • 1st Stage LOX/RP1 Merlin M1 engine, 78k lbf
  • 2nd Stage LOX/RP1 Kestrel engine, 7k lbf vac.
  • Firm fixed price
  • 8.1 M all inclusive commercial service (Jan.
    2008)
  • Launch from Kwajalein (Reagan Test Site)
  • 1st Stage Parachute/Water Recovery
  • Enhanced Falcon 1 (F1e) block upgrade planned
  • Available early 2010
  • Payload capability ? LEO
  • F1 gt1030 lbm (470 kg)
  • F1e gt1580 lbm (720 kg)

All structures, engines, most avionics and all
ground systems designed (and mostly built) by
SpaceX
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Kwajalein Launch Site (Omelek)
Integration Hanger Clean-room
Offices
Falcon 1
Dock
Sharks
5
SpaceX Overview
  • Singular goal of providing high reliability, low
    cost space transportation
  • Transition to human transportation once
    technology is proven
  • Over 570 employees grow minimum 50 per year
  • 550,000 sq ft of offices, manufacturing and
    production in Hawthorne, CA
  • 300 acre state-of-the-art propulsion and
    structural test facility in central Texas
  • Launch complexes in Kwajalein and Cape Canaveral

Kwajalein
SLC-40, Cape Canaveral
Central Texas
Hawthorne Headquarters
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Falcon 9 Overview
  • 2-stage EELV-class launch vehicle
  • Vehicle dia. 12 Fairing dia. 17 (5.2 m)
    Length 180
  • 1st Stage LOX/RP1
  • 9 x Merlin M9 engines
  • 2nd Stage LOX/RP1
  • 1 x Merlin M9-vac engine
  • Payload capability (Block 1)
  • 10 MT ? LEO (KSC ? 28.5 200 km circular)
  • 3.5 MT ? GTO
  • 2.1 MT ? TLI
  • 1.01.4 MT ? Mars (depending on launch date)
  • Launch from the Cape (LC-40)
  • Vehicle at Cape Dec. 2008
  • 36.75M all inclusive commercial cost (Jan. 2008
    )
  • Block upgrade planned in 2010 timeframe
  • F9-Heavy also planned
  • 3-stick configuration
  • 29 MT ? LEO

NASA human-rating Factor-of-Safety of 1.4 (vs.
1.25 for EELV)
Engine-out capability from release/lift-off
Fault tolerant avionics
All structures, engines, most avionics and all
ground systems designed (and mostly built) by
SpaceX
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Multi-engine Testing
  • Completed all multi-engine test milestones
  • Working up to full-duration 9-engine test

1-engine Nov 20, 2007
2-engineJan 18, 2008
3-engine Mar 8, 2008
Run-tank liftAug 18, 2007
5-engine May 29, 2008
9-engine Aug 1, 2008
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
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Oct. 2, 2008
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COTS Cargo Demo Flights
  • Demo C1, Q2 2009 Core Functionality Only
  • Very basic, up back functionality
  • Tests fundamentals and puts an early success on
    the books
  • Demo C2, Q4 2009 ISS Fly-By
  • Approaches to within 10 km of ISS
  • Establishes command telemetry cross-link
  • Demonstrates commanding by ISS crew
  • Demo C3, Q1 2010 ISS Berthing
  • ISS Proximity Operations, capture and berthing
    demo
  • Return cargo safely to Earth
  • Establishes system as operational
  • If funding for Crew Capability option is turned
    on in 2010
  • Demo D1, 2011 Unmanned high altitude abort
  • Demo D2, 2011 Crew transport to ISS (three
    crew)
  • Cargo mission will have proven ISS rendezvous and
    berthing operations
  • A light flight crew (3) and minimal cargo to
    provide max delta-V and life support margins
  • Demo D3, 2012 Crew transport to ISS (seven
    crew)
  • Verifies ability to transport full complement of
    crew

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Non-ISS Missions
We have customers interested in flying payloads
on Dragon without going to ISS ?
Multi-manifesting opportunities
  • Ground swell of interest in Dragon amongst the
    following communities
  • Biotech/biomedical research
  • Flying on C2 Demo mission
  • Instrument sensor developers
  • Materials space environments researchers
  • Life sciences
  • Microgravity research
  • Radiation effects research
  • Shuttle/ISS experimenters (without other flight
    opportunities)
  • Earth sciences (short-duration LEO missions)
  • Sounding rocket community
  • Space physics relativity

Image credit NASA
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Thank you for your interest in SpaceX!
Preliminary Design ReviewDemo-C3 Mission
Image credit NASA
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