Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Payload User's Guide - SpaceX

Table of Contents
Falcon 9 User’s Guide
Table of Contents 2
1. Introduction 4
1.1. Revision History 4
1.2. Purpose 4
1.3. Company Description 4
1.4. Falcon Program Overview 5
1.5. Mission Management 5
1.6. Key Customer Advantages 5
1.6.1. Reliability 5
1.6.2. Pricing 7
2. Vehicle Overview 8
2.1. Falcon 9 Launch Vehicles 8
2.1.1. Structure and Propulsion 8
2.1.2. Avionics, Guidance/Navigation/Control, Flight Termination
Systems 8
2.2. Vehicle Axes/Attitude Definitions 11
3. Facilities Overview 12
3.1. Headquarters – Hawthorne, CA 12
3.2. Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida 12
3.3. Space Launch Complex ‐ 4 East, Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB),
California 15
3.4. U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands 16
3.5. Test Facility ‐ Central Texas 17
3.6. Government Outreach and Legal Affairs‐‐Washington, DC 17
4. General Performance Capability 18
4.1. Performance Capability 18
4.1.1. Low Earth Orbit 19
4.1.2. Polar 20
4.1.3. Sun Synchronous 21
4.1.4. C3 – Escape Velocity 22
4.1.5. Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (Cape Canaveral) 23
4.1.6. Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (Kwajalein) 24
4.1.7. Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (Delta‐Velocity To Go) [Cape] 25
4.1.8. Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (Delta‐Velocity To Go)
[Kwajalein] 26
4.2. Sample Mission Profiles 27
4.3. Mass Properties 29
4.4. Separation Accuracy 29
4.5. Mission Accuracy Data 29
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