The Falcon 1 was designed to put relatively small satellites into low earth orbit. With such payload capacity, it is also capable of sending 100-200 kg microsats beyond LEO, into cislunar space.

In 2005 Falcon 1 was advertised as costing $5.9 million ($7.3 million when adjusted for inflation in 2015). In 2006 until 2007 the quoted price of the rocket when operational was $6.7 million. In late ...

Falcon 1 reached an altitude of approximately 200 miles into space, but failed to achieve its goal of orbiting the Earth. That marks the second time within the past 12 months that SpaceX fell ...

What Happened: “It has been 18 years since the first Falcon flight of Falcon 1 failed,” Musk wrote on the social media platform X.The post was accompanied by a photo collage of two images side ...

The Falcon 1’s advertised price of $5.9 million per launch plus range fees already has attracted a six customer backlog. Comparable U.S. rockets in service today cost $25 million or more to launch.

The Falcon 1 made history on September 28, 2008 by becoming the "first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit," according to SpaceX. Hear from the team that made it happen.

SpaceX has launched four Falcon 1 rockets, finally succeeding in putting a satellite into orbit July 13. The Falcon 1e is scheduled to make its inaugural launch in 2010 and launch a satellite for ...

SpaceX completed development of their Merlin 1C liquid cooled engine, an improved version of the Merlin 1A ablatively cooled engine that was used on SpaceX’s first two launches of its Falcon 1 ...

The Falcon 1 rocket roaredits first stage engine during the dramatic five-second firing to demonstratecountdown procedures and ring out equipment bugs at the rebuilt Space LaunchComplex-3 West pad.

SpaceXplans to launch the second Falcon 1 rocket, the first to fly since thebooster's unsuccessfuldebut last year, from Omelek Island in the west Pacific Ocean [image].The launch site is sits in ...

SpaceX attempted its first launch of the Falcon 1 in 2006 which failed. It failed again in March 2007 and then again in August 2008. After three consecutive failures to launch, the team was low on ...