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Falcon 9 is a partially reusable two-stage medium-lift rocket created by SpaceX, and powered by Merlin engines. Its first launch was in 2010 with the Dragon 1 spacecraft. Since then, Falcon 9 has launched 438 times (as of the 17th of January 2025) with only 3 failures. Additionally, 368 out of these 438 launches have been with re-used boosters, with the current record, at 25 launches of a single booster!

History[]

Falcon 9 was planned almost ever since SpaceX started. It is the successor to the Falcon 1 rocket that flew from 2005 to 2009. The Falcon 9 replaced the Falcon 1 because SpaceX wanted to be in the commercial resupply program by the NASA for the ISS, but not much later, it became a medium launch vehicle, carrying a huge variety of payloads.

v1.0[]

The original version, Falcon 9 v1.0, flew 5 times between 2010 and 2013, each time carrying a Dragon 1 resupply spacecraft. SpaceX attempted to recover the first stage via parachute on the first two flights.

The table below shows some flights of Falcon 9, having many more that the site doesn't have:

SpX CRS-2 launch

Falcon 9 v1.0 launching Dragon CRS-2 to the International Space Station.

Flights of Falcon 9 v1.0
Number Mission Date/Time Booster Outcome Landing Outcome
1 Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit 4 June 2010

18:45 UTC

B0003 Success Failure (parachute)
2 Dragon Demo Flight 1 8 December 2010

15:43 UTC

B0004 Success Failure (parachute)
3 Dragon Demo Flight 2 22 May 2012

07:44 UTC

B0005 Success No attempt
4 Dragon CRS-1 8 October 2012

00:35 UTC

B0006 Success No attempt
5 Dragon CRS-2 1 March 2013

15:10 UTC

B0007 Success No attempt

Falcon 9 Prototypes[]

Starting in 2012, SpaceX tested VTVL (Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing) prototypes to prepare for landing attempts of the orbital Falcon 9 first stages. Both prototypes flew from SpaceX's McGregor Test Site in Texas.

Grasshopper[]

Spx Grasshopper 03

Grasshopper in 2012

Grasshopper was a prototype Falcon 9 v1.0 tank that had fixed landing legs. It had a single Merlin 1D engine. Elon Musk said that it could land with the accuracy of a helicopter. It flew 8 times in 2012 and 2013, all successes.

Grasshopper Flights
Number Date Duration Height
1 21 September 2012 3s 1.8m
2 1 November 2012 8s 5.4m
3 17 December 2012 29s 40 m
4 7 March 2013 34s 80 m
5 17 April 2013 58s 250 m
6 14 June 2013 68s 325 m
7 13 August 2013 60s 250 m
8 7 October 2013 79s 744 m

F9R Dev1[]

F9R Dev 1 was a prototype Falcon 9 v1.1 tank. It was the first Falcon 9 prototype with retractable landing legs and had 3 Merlin 1D engines. It flew 5 times, and the last one had an anomaly due to a faulty sensor that resulted in an explosion.

F9R Dev1
Number Date Duration Height
1 17 April 2014 Unknown 250 m
2 1 May 2014 1000 m
3 17 June 2014
4 1 August 2014 Unknown
5 22 August 2014

v1.1[]

Falcon rocket family6.svg

A render of most of the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy versions.

Launch of Falcon 9 carrying CRS-6 Dragon (17170624642)

v1.1 with Dragon CRS-6

The next orbital Falcon 9 version was v1.1. It was a significant change from v1.0 with 60% more thrust and mass. It also was the first Falcon 9 variant with landing legs and the first to be capable of having a payload fairing. Its first flight, with CASSIOPE, was SpaceX's first launch of a spacecraft other than Dragon 1. Although all landing attempts were failures, v1.1 pioneered development of a reusable Falcon 9. v1.1 flew 15 times with 1 failure.

Flights of Falcon 9 v1.1
Number Mission Date/Time Booster Outcome Landing Outcome
1 CASSIOPE 29 September 2013

16:00 UTC

B1003 Success Failure (ocean attempt)
2 SES-8 3 December 2013

22:41 UTC

B1004 Success No attempt
3 Thaicom 6 6 January 2014

22:06 UTC

Unknown Success No attempt
4 Dragon CRS-3 18 April 2014

19:25

Success Succesfully Controlled (Ocean)
5 Orbcomm-OG2-1 14 July 2014

15:15

Success Succesfully Controlled (Ocean)
6 AsiaSat-8 5 August 2014

08:00

Success No attempt
7 AsiaSat-6 7 September 2014
05:00
B1011 Success No attempt
8 Dragon CRS-4 21 September 2014

05:52

B1010 Success Failure (ocean)
9 Dragon CRS-5 10 January 2015

09:47

B1012 Success Failure (ASDS,

Autonomous Spaceport

Drone Ship)

10 DSCOVR 11 February 2015

23:03

B1013 Success Successfully Controlled (Ocean)
11 ABS-3A

Eutelsat 115 West B

2 March 2015

03:50

B1014 Success No attempt
12 Dragon CRS-6 14 April 2015

20:10

B1015 Success Failure (ASDS)
13 MonacoSAT 27 April 2015

23:03

B1016 Success No attempt
14 Dragon CRS-7 28 June 2015

14:21

B1018 Failure Precluded (ASDS)
15 Jason-3 17 January 2016

18:42

B1017 Success Failure (ASDS)
ORBCOMM-2

First Launch of Falcon 9 Full Thrust with Orbcomm satellites

v1.2 "Full Thrust"[]

SpaceX debuted another version of Falcon 9, named v1.2 "Full Thrust” at the end of 2015. Falcon 9 v1.2 became the first orbital-class rocket to be recovered on its first flight. Full Thrust was a huge improvement from v1.1 with improved engine thrust, improved landing legs and grid fins, and more.

Flights of Falcon 9 Full Thrust
Number Mission Date/Time Booster Outcome Landing Outcome
1 Orbcomm-OG2-2 22 December 2015

01:29

B1019 Success Success (LZ-1)
2 SES-9 4 March 2016

23:35

B1020 Success Failure (ASDS)
3 Dragon CRS-8 8 April 2016

20:43

B1021 Success Success (ASDS)
4 JCSAT-14 6 May 2016

05:21

B1022 Success Success (ASDS)
5 Thaicom 8 27 May 2016

21:39

B1023 Success Success (ASDS)
6 ABS-2A and

Eutelsat 117 West B

15 June 2016

14:29

B1024 Success Failure (ASDS)
7 Dragon CRS-9 18 July 2016

4:45

B1025 Success Success (LZ-1)
8 JCSAT-16 14 August 2016

5:26

B1026 Success Success (ASDS)
N/A Amos-6 3 September 2016

7:00 (planned)

B1028 Failure

(pre-flight)

Precluded (ASDS)
Falcon 9 exploded on the launch pad just before a planned static fire. The payload was lost.
9 Iridium NEXT-1 14 February 2017

17:54

B1029 Success Success (ASDS)
10 Dragon CRS-10 19 February 2017

14:39

B1031 Success Success (LZ-1)
11 EchoStar 23 16 March 2017

6:00

B1030 Success No attempt
12 SES-10 30 March 2017

22:27

B1021 Success Success (ASDS)
First re-flight of an orbital-class rocket booster.
13 NROL-76 1 May 2017

11:15

B1032 Success Success (LZ-1)
14 Immarsat-5 F4 15 May 2017

15:21

B1034 Success No attempt
15 Dragon CRS-11 3 June 2017

21:07

B1035 Success Success (LZ-1)
16 BulgariaSat-1 23 June 2017

19:10

B1029 Success Success (ASDS)
17 Iridium NEXT-2 25 June 2017

20:25

B1036 Success Success (ASDS)
18 Intelsat 35e 5 July 2017

23:38

B1037 Success No attempt
19 Formosat-5 24 August 2017

12:37

B1038 Success Success (ASDS)
20 SES-11 and EchoStar 105 11 October 2017

22:53

B1031 Success Success (ASDS)
21 Dragon CRS-13 15 December 2017

15:36

B1035 Success Success (LZ-1)
22 Iridium NEXT-4 23 December 2017

1:27

B1036 Success Succesfully Controlled (Ocean)
23 GovSat-1 31 January 2017

21:25

B1032 Success Succesfully Controlled (Ocean)
24 Paz and Tintin A/B (prototype Starlink satellites) 22 February 2018

14:17

B1038 Success No attempt

Block 4[]

CRS-12 Mission (36571921725)

Launch of Dragon CRS-12 on Falcon 9 Block 4

Block 4 was a set of incremental improvements to Falcon 9 in 2017 and 2018, particularly structural, culminating in Block 5.

Flights of Falcon 9 Block 4
Number Mission Date/Time Booster Outcome Landing Outcome
1 Dragon CRS-12 14 August 2017

16:31

B1039 Success Success (LZ-1)
2 OTV-5 7 September 2017

14:00

B1040 Success Success (LZ-1)
3 Iridium NEXT-3 9 October 2017

12:37

B1041 Success Success (ASDS)
4 Koreasat 5A 30 October 2017

19:34

B1042 Success Success (ASDS)
5 Zuma 8 January 2018

1:00

B1043 Success Success (LZ-1)
6 Hispasat 30W-6

and PODSat

6 March 2018

5:33

B1044 Success No attempt
7 Iridium NEXT-5 30 March 2018

14:14

B1041 Success No attempt
8 Dragon CRS-14 2 April 2018

20:30

B1039 Success No attempt
9 TESS 18 April 2018

22:51

B1045 Success Success (ASDS)
10 Iridium NEXT-6 22 May 2018

19:47

B1043 Success No attempt
11 SES-12 4 June 2018

4:45

B1040 Success No attempt
12 Dragon CRS-15 29 June 2018

9:42

B1045 Success No attempt

Block 5[]

Launch of SpaceX Demo-2

Launch of NASA's SpaceX Crewed Demo-2 mission on Falcon 9 Block 5

Block 5 is the final version of Falcon 9 that had its first launch in 2018. Changes from Block 4 included landing leg improvements and increase of engine thrust. According to Elon Musk, it can be reused 23 times (which was achieved in 2025) and even 100 times with refurbishment. It was human rated and is now used for crewed launches of Dragon.

Flights of Falcon 9 Block 5 (incomplete : 107/489 : 21.9%)
Number Mission Date/Time Booster Outcome Landing Outcome
1 Bangabandhu-1 11 May 2018

20:14

B1046 Success Success (ASDS)
2 Telstar 19V 22 July 2018

5:50

B1047 Success Success (ASDS)
3 Iridium NEXT-7 25 July 2018

11:39

B1048 Success Success (ASDS)
4 Merah Putih 7 August 2018

5:18

B1046 Success Success (ASDS)
5 Telstar 18V

and Apstar-5C

10 September 2018

4:45

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
6 SAOCOM 1A 8 October 2018

2:22

B1048 Success Success (LZ-4)
7 Es'hail 2 15 November 2018

20:46

B1047 Success Success (ASDS)
8 SSO-A 3 December 2018

18:34

B1046 Success Success (ASDS)
For this mission, the SHERPA Space Tug was added to Falcon 9 as a third stage, making Falcon 9 a three-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle.
9 Dragon CRS-16 5 December 2018

18:16

B1050 Success Aborted (Splashdown) (LZ-1)
The first stage booster B1050.1 experienced a grid fin hydraulic pump stall on re-entry. This caused the first stage to go into a roll after the re-entry burn. It failed to reach Landing Zone 1, but recovered enough to achieve a water landing off Cape Canaveral. [2]
10 GPS III-01 23 December 2018

13:51

B1054 Success No attempt
11 Iridium NEXT-8 11 January 2019

15:31

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
12 PSN-6,

Beresheet,

and S5

22 February 2019

1:45

B1048 Success Success (ASDS)
Launched Israeli Beresheet lunar lander. Beresheet attempted to land on the moon in April 2019, but failed.
13 Crew Dragon DM-1 2 March 2019

7:49

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
14 Dragon CRS-17 4 May 2019

6:48

B1056 Success Success (ASDS)
15 Starlink v0.9 24 May 2019

2:30

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
17 RADARSAT Constellation 12 June 2019

14:17

B1051 Success Success (LZ-4)
18 Dragon CRS-18 25 July 2019

22:01

B1056 Success Success (LZ-1)
19 Amos-17 6 August 2019

23:23

B1047 Success No attempt
20 Starlink V1.0 L1 11 November 2019

14:56

B1048 Success Success (ASDS)
21 Dragon CRS-19 5 December 2019

17:29

B1059 Success Success (ASDS)
22 JCSat-18 and Kacific 1 17 December 2019

0:10

B1056 Success Success (ASDS)
23 Starlink V1 L2 7 January 2020

2:19

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
24 Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test 19 January 2020

15:30

B1046 Success No attempt
25 Starlink V1 L3 29 January 2020

14:07

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
26 Starlink V1 L4 17 February 2020

15:05

B1056 Success Failure (ASDS)
27 Dragon CRS-20 7 March 2020

4:50

B1059 Success Success (ASDS)
28 Starlink V1 L5 18 March 2020

12:16

B1048 Success Failure (ASDS)
29 Starlink V1 L6 22 April 2020

19:30

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
30 Crew Dragon DM-2 30 May 2020

19:22

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
First SpaceX crewed launch and the first US crewed orbital launch since 2011. Crew Dragon Endeavor carried NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station.
31 Starlink V1 L7 4 June 2020

1:25

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
32 Starlink V1 L8

and SkySats 16-18

13 June 2020

9:21

B1059 Success Success (ASDS)
33 GPS III-03 30 June 2020

20:10

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
34 ANASIS-II 20 July 2020

21:30

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
35 Starlink V1 L9

and BlackSky 7/8

7 August 2020

5:12

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
36 Starlink V1 L10

and SkySats 19-21

18 August 2020

14:31

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
37 SAOCOM 1,

GNOMES 1,

and Tyvak-0172

30 August 2020

23:18

B1059 Success Success (ASDS)
38 Starlink V1 L11 3 September 2020

12:46

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
39 Starlink V1 L12 6 October 2020

11:29

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
40 Starlink V1 L13 18 October 2020

12:25

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
41 Starlink V1 L14 24 October 2020

15:31

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
42 GPS III-04 5 November 2020

23:24

B1062 Success Success (ASDS)
43 Crew Dragon Crew-1 16 November 2020

00:27

B1061 Success Success (ASDS)
First operation crewed flight of Dragon. Launched Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi for a six-month stay on the ISS.
44 Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich 21 November 2020

17:17

B1063 Success Success (ASDS)
45 Starlink V1 L15 25 November 2020

2:13

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
46 Dragon CRS-21 6 December 2020

16:17

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
47 SXM-7 13 December 2020

17:30

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
48 NROL-108 19 December 2020

14:00

B1059 Success Success (LZ-1)
49 Turksat 5A 8 January 2021

2:15

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
50 Starlink V1 L16 20 January 2021

13:02

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
51 Transporter-1

(143 payloads)

24 January 2021

15:00

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
52 Starlink V1 L18 4 February 2021

6:19

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
53 Starlink V1 L19 16 February 2021

3:59

B1059 Success Failure (ASDS)
Landing failure was caused by a hole in an engine heat-shielding allowing hot exhaust gases to damage one of the engines.
54 Starlink V1 L17 4 March 2021

8:24

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
55 Starlink V1 L20 11 March 2021

8:13

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
56 Starlink V1 L21 14 March 2021

10:01

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
57 Starlink V1 L22 24 March 2021

8:28

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
58 Starlink V1 L23 7 April 2021

16:34

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
59 Crew Dragon Crew-2 23 April 2021

9:49

B1061 Success Success (ASDS)
Second crewed operational flight of Dragon. Launched Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Akihiko Hoshide, and Thomas Pesquet to the International Space Station.
60 Starlink V1 L24 19 April 2021

3:44

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
61 Starlink V1 L25 4 May 2021

19:01

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
62 Starlink V1 L27 9 May 2021

6:42

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
63 Starlink V1 L26, Capella-6,

and Tyvak-0130

15 May 2021

22:56

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
64 Starlink V1 L28 26 May 2021

18:59

B1063 Success Success (ASDS)
65 Dragon CRS-22 3 June 2021

17:29

B1067 Success Success (ASDS)
66 SXM-8 6 June 2021

4:26

B1061 Success Success (ASDS)
67 GPS III-05 17 June 2021

16:09

B1062 Success Success (ASDS)
68 Transporter-2 (88 payloads) 30 June 2021

19:31

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
69 Dragon CRS-23 29 August 2021

7:14

B1061 Success Success (ASDS)
70 Starlink 2-1 14 September 2021

3:55

B1049 Success Success (ASDS)
71 Inspiration4 16 September 2021

2:56

B1062 Success Success (ASDS)
Inspiration4 was a private free-flying crewed Dragon flight. It was the first all-civillian mission to orbit with Jared Issacman, Sian Proctor, Chris Sembroski, and Hayley Arcenaux.
72 Crew Dragon Crew-3 11 November 2021

2:03

B1067 Success Success (ASDS)
Third operational crewed flight of Dragon. Launched Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Matthias Maurer to the International Space Station.
73 Starlink 4-1 13 November 2021

12:19

B1058 Success Success (ASDS)
74 DART 24 November 2021

6:21

B1063 Success Success (ASDS)
75 Starlink Group 4-3

and 2 BlackSky satellites

2 December 2021

23:12

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
76 IXPE 9 December 2021

6:00

B1061 Success Success (ASDS)
77 Starlink 4-4 18 December 2021

12:41

B1051 Success Success (ASDS)
78 Turksat 5B 19 December 2021

3:58

B1067 Success Success (ASDS)
79 Dragon CRS-24 21 December 2021

10:06

B1069 Success Success (ASDS)
80 Starlink Group 4-5 6 January 2022

21:49

B1062 Success Success (ASDS)
81 Transporter-3 (105 payloads) 13 January 2022

15:25

B1058 Success Success (LZ-1)
82 Starlink 4-6 19 January 2022

2:02

B1060 Success Success (ASDS)
83 CSG-2 31 January 2022

23:11

B1052 Success Success (LZ-1)
84 NROL-87 2 February 2022

20:27

B1071 Success Success (LZ-4)
85 Starlink Group 4-7 3 February 2022

18:13

B1061 Success Success (ASOG)
86 Starlink Group 4-8 21 February 2022

14:44

B1058 Success Success (ASOG)
87 Starlink Group 4-11 25 February 2022

17:12

B1063 Success Success (OCISLY)
88 Starlink Group 4-9 3 March 2022

14:25

B1060 Success Success (JRTI)
89 Starlink Group 4-10 9 March 2022

13:45

B1052 Success Success (ASOG)
90 Starlink Group 4-12 19 March 2022

4:42

B1051 Success Success (JRTI)
91 Transporter 4 1 April 2022

16:24

B1061 Success Success (JRTI)
92 Axiom 1 (Ax-1) 8 April 2022

15:17

B1062 Success Success (ASOG)
93 NOSS-3 9 (USA-327) (NROL-85) 17 April 2022

13:13

B1071 Success Success (LZ-4)
94 Starlink Group 4-14 21 April 2022

17:51

B1060 Success Success (JRTI)
95 SpaceX Crew-4 27 April 2022

7:52

B1067 Success Success (ASOG)
96 Starlink Group 4-16 29 April 2022

21:27

B1062 Success Success (JRTI)
97 Starlink Group 4-17 6 May 2022

9:42

B1058 Success Success (ASOG)
98 Starlink Group 4-13 13 May 2022

22:07

B1063 Success Success (OCISLY)
99 Starlink Group 4-15 14 May 2022

20:40

B1073 Success Success (JRTI)
100 Starlink Group 4-16 18 May 2022

10:59

B1052 Success Success (ASOG)
101 Transporter 5 25 May 2022

18:35

B1061 Success Success (LZ-1)
102 Nilesat-301 8 June 2022

21:04

B1062 Success Success (JRTI)
103 Starlink Group 4-19 17 June 2022

16:09

B1060 Success Success (ASOG)
104 SARah 1 18 June 2022

14:19

B1071 Success Success (LZ-4)
105 Globastar FM15 and USA 328 to 331 19 June 2022

4:27

B1061 Success Success (JRTI)
106 SES-22 29 June 2022

21:04

B1073 Success Success (ASOG)
107 Starlink Group 4-21 7 July 2022

13:11

B1058 Success Success (JRTI)
108 Starlink Group 3-1 11 July 2022

01:39

B1063 Success Success (OCISLY)

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