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Falcon 1 Data Sheet – SCM 2008‐006

Falcon 1Falcon 1 Data Sheet – SCM 2008‐006SpaceX recognizes that nothing is more important than getting our customer’s spacecraft safely to its intendeddestination. Falcon 1 launch vehicles are designed to provide breakthrough advances in reliability, cost, andtime to launch. The primary design driver is and will remain reliability.The Falcon 1 launch vehicle offers the lowest price launch on the market, and it has been the pathfinder for allsubsequent SpaceX launch vehicles. The Falcon 1 User’s Guide outlines the environments and structuralcharacteristics of the launch vehicle in detail. The standard Falcon 1 will be available for launches untilmid 2010, upon which time the upgraded Falcon 1e will become the vehicle for transporting smallpayloads. Falcon 1e is the next generation of the Falcon 1 launch vehicle and offers additionalcapability enabled by an upgraded Merlin engine,elongated first stage tank, and an expanded fairing.Falcon 1Falcon 1eLength 21.3 m (70 ft) 27.4 m (90 ft)Width 1.7 m (5.5 ft) 1.7 m (5.5 ft)Mass 27,670 kg (61,000 lbs) 46,760 kg (103,000 lbs)Thrust at liftoff 347 kN (78,000 lbf) 556 kN (125,000 lbf)Mass to LEO 420 kg (926 lb) 1010 kg (2220 lb)Price* $7.9 M $9.1 M*US dollars paid‐in‐full at Authority‐to‐Proceed, January 1, 2008.Direct & Two‐burn Performance, 9.1° InclinationTwo‐burn Performance to LEOPayload Mass (kg)1100240010002200900200080018007001600600140012005001000400800300600200400100200000 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500Payload Mass (lbm)Payload Mass (kg)1100100090080070060050040030020010000 20 40 60 80 100240022002000180016001400120010008006004002000Payload Mass (lbm)Orbit Altitude (km)Inclination (deg)Falcon 1e ‐ Two Burn InsertionFalcon 1e ‐ Direct InsertionFalcon 1 ‐ Two Burn InsertionFalcon 1 ‐ Direct InsertionFalcon 1e ‐ 185 kmFalcon 1e ‐ 300 kmFalcon 1e ‐ 500 kmFalcon 1e ‐ 700 kmFalcon 1 ‐ 185 kmFalcon 1 ‐ 300 kmFalcon 1 ‐ 500 kmFalcon 1 ‐ 700 km