Falcon

Operated by SpaceX, a US private venture. The launch vehicle family is designed to provide low cost and high reliability launches. SpaceX has launch complexes at Cape Canaveral, Vandenberg and the Marshall Islands (Kwajalein Atoll).

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Pricing and Performance

	Falcon 1	Falcon 5	Falcon 9	Falcon 9	Falcon 9 S5	Falcon 9 S9
LEO (kg)	570	4100	9300	8700	16500	24750
GTO (kg)		1050	3400	3100	6400	9650
Fairing diameter (m)	1.5	3.6	3.6	5.2	5.2	5.2
Price (million USD)	6.7	18	27	35	51	78

Designed from the ground up by SpaceX, Falcon 1 is a two stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene.

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Falcon launches

#	Launch id	Payload	Launch Date	Site	Type	Status/Comment (orbit in perigee x apogee x inclination x period)
1	n/a	Falconsat 2	24 Mar 2006 at 22:30 UT	K		Failure: fuel leak at 25s into the flight. Crashed at 75m from the launch pad. Faulty nut caused tghe leak.
2	n/a	Demosat	21 Mar 2007 at 01:10 UT	K		Failure: second stage failed after excessive roll caused by a bump from the first stage, at separation. The satellite could nevertheless we separated, but at an insufficient velocity.
3	n/a	Trailblazer PreSat NanoSail D Celestis 7	3 Jul 2008 at 03:34 UT	K		Failure: failed separation between first and second stage
4	08048	Ratsat (165 kg dummy mass, remained attached to the rocket)	28 Sep 2008 at 23:15 UT	K		328 x 646 km x 9.2°
5	09037	Macsat	14 Jul 2009 at 03:35 UT	K
6	10026	Dummy Dragon Cargo	4 Jun 2010 at 18:45 UT	C	9	243 x 271 km x 34.5°
7	10066	A: Dragon C1 B: QBX 2 C: SMDC-ONE 1 D: Perseus 3 E: Perseus 1 F: QBX 1 G: Perseus 2 H: Perseus 0 J: Mayflower-Caerus	8 Dec 2010 at 15:53 UT	C	9	Dragon C1 was recovered after splash in the Pacific. An engine anomaly occured (oxidiser-rich shutdown)
8	12027A	A: Dragon C2/C3 Celestis 11	22 May 2012 at 07:44 UT	C	9
9	12054A	A: Dragon CRS 1 B: Orbcomm OG2-1	8 Oct 2012 at 00:35 UT	C	9	partial failure: One of the 9 motors failed 1 min 19 sec into the launch: it shutdown and the other 8 motors were dynamically reprogrammed to try to compensate. Despite, the second payload was delivered in the wrong orbit, because the upper stage was not restarted (due to safety regulations).
10	13010A	Dragon CRS 2	1 Mar 2013 at 15:10 UT	C	9	199 x 323 km x 51.7°

Notes: in the launch site column C stands for Cape Canaveral, K stands for Kwajalein Missile Range (Omelek island, Marshall Islands), V stands for Vandenberg.

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