A Falcon 9 first-stage booster is a reusable rocket booster used on the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy orbital launch vehicles manufactured by SpaceX. The...

Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests were a series of controlled-descent flight tests conducted by SpaceX between 2013 and 2016. Since 2017, the first stage...

boosters. The central core is reinforced, while the side boosters feature aerodynamic nosecone instead of the usual interstage. Falcon 9 first-stage boosters...

Falcon Heavy launches List of Falcon 9 Block 5 first-stage boosters Second stage engine disintegration including use as side booster without propellant with...

2020, to the end of 2022, Falcon 9 was launched 117 times, all successful, and landed boosters successfully on 111 of those flights. Falcon Heavy was launched...

of operating more flights with reused boosters (ten) than new boosters (seven). On 4 June 2010, the first Falcon 9 launch successfully placed a test payload...

program. Further expansion of the flight test envelope for the reusable rocket was moved to descending Falcon 9 boosters that had been used on orbital...

SpaceX has successfully landed Falcon 9 boosters 335 times. Individual boosters have flown as many as 23 flights. Both stages are powered by SpaceX Merlin...

pioneered on the Falcon 9 v1.1 version, but that version never landed intact. Starting in 2017, previously flown first-stage boosters were reused to launch...

thrust to 90 MN (20,000,000 lbf) at sea level. Boosters lack an engine skirt, and without engines, boosters are about 3 meters shorter. The 33 individual...