The Falcon 1 Launch

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Tim Hughes Vice President Chief Counsel
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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
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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

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Preliminary Design ReviewDemo-C3 Mission
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