The Falcon 9 v1.0 first stage was used on the first five Falcon 9 launches, and powered by nine SpaceX Merlin 1C rocket engines arranged in a 3x3 pattern.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 3,807 kN
- Height
- 47.8 m
- Diameter
- 3.65 m
- Launch mass
- 318 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- $59M
- LEO capacity
- 9,300 kg
- GTO capacity
- 3,400 kg
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
5
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
80%
4 of 5
Current success streak
1
Landings
0
2 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Boosters that flew this rocket
Boosters by flights
- B00031 flights0/1 landings
- B00041 flights0/1 landings
- B00051 flights
- B00061 flights
- B00071 flights
Serial-tracked stages only — predominantly SpaceX.
Launches
- Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpX CRS-2 — Success
- Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpX CRS-1 — Partial Failure
- Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 — Success
- Falcon 9 v1.0 | SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 — Success
- Falcon 9 v1.0 | Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit (DSQU) — Success