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SpaceX plans to provide the first of its six Falcon

Dec. 28, 2017 by Devin Jones

SpaceX plans to provide the first of its six Falcon 9 launch vehicles to SpaceX, and have scheduled a second launch for 2016. SpaceX's Falcon 9 Falcon 9 will first land on Earth, and launch off the pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 will launch to a rate of 3.48 million pounds per second, or 11.15 seconds, before deceleration, and will carry 8.5 to 12 seconds over a period of 2,000 to 2,500 minutes, according to NASA. SpaceX will also use launch-ready boosters designed for low-earth orbit.

SpaceX has developed a reusable rocket called Falcon 9 for use on its next Falcon rocket for launch services.

SpaceX will use a combination of cryogenic (cold) liquid hydrogen boosters and liquid oxygen (liquid oxygen) boosters for the second stage, a company spokesperson told Ars. SpaceX will use a 3.4-ton rocket that has been under development for more than a decade.

"We're not using this for anything other than to get our launch vehicles ready to go," Mike Williams, SpaceX's vice president of human exploration, told Ars. "We have the ability to send Earth-orbiting spacecraft to the Moon and back. We've had a lot of great customers, and we have the ability to use those systems for the very first time in space."

Williams said SpaceX plans to bring the Falcon 9 to a launch date of 2018. A launch date of 2018 is unknown.

Williams said SpaceX will launch Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and then return to the pad in the fall of 2018. SpaceX has never attempted to launch a launch vehicle to orbit. The company has also never launched a mission to orbit on a rocket, Williams said.

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