2024-03-01 08:04:08
Written by Muhammad Ayman Friday, March 1, 2024 10:00 AM appeared SpaceX company In 2002, when its founder, billionaire Elon Musk, took the first steps in his grand ambition to send a mission to Mars, and today, the company has moved beyond the space startup stage, according to the space website.
The Falcon 1 was the first rocket built by SpaceX, and had a proposed capacity to carry 670 kilograms (1,480 lb) to low Earth orbit, flying between 2006 and 2009.
After three launch failures, Falcon 1 sent a dummy payload into space on September 29, 2008, and its fifth and final launch, on July 14, 2009, sent the Malaysian Earth observation satellite RazakSAT into orbit.
Launched from Omelek Island, part of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the Falcon 1 rocket was powered by a single engine (hence the “1” in its name) and powered by liquid oxygen and kerosene. Rockets.
In case you were wondering, Musk named the Falcon rockets after the Millennium Falcon ship from the Star Wars series.
SpaceX soon received interest from several companies looking for a heavier rocket, and the company considered developing an intermediate rocket called the Falcon 5, but instead skipped the matter and began working on the Falcon 9 (because its first stage used a set of nine engines).
This rocket can send a payload into low Earth orbit weighing up to 28,991 pounds. (13,150 kg). It is a two-stage rocket measuring 230 feet (70 m) high and 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. SpaceX first announced its Falcon 9 plans in 2005 and sent the Falcon 9 rocket aloft on June 7, 2010, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Since the beginning of the Falcon 9’s history, SpaceX has been interested in reusing the rocket’s first stage to save on launch costs.
But early landing tests were unsuccessful. SpaceX made the first, second, and sixth launch attempts of the Falcon 9 rocket to control the booster descent, but in each case, the platform fell into the ocean.
SpaceX finally achieved a controlled ocean landing on the ninth Falcon 9 launch (the fourth controlled landing attempt), on April 18, 2014, and this was an important stepping stone on the path to eventual reusability.
The first successful landing of a Falcon 9 rocket occurred on December 21, 2015 at Landing Zone 1, a SpaceX pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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