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SpaceX’s New Version Of Falcon 9 Will Be Ready For Fall

Monday, April 1st, 2013

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SpaceX) new version of its Falcon 9 medium class launch vehicle, called Falcon 9 v1.1, will be ready for the company’s third trip to the International Space Station (ISS) this fall, SpaceX officials said recently. SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk recently described the new Falcon 9’s advances as “fairly significant” upgrades on the vehicle side with improved performance and reliability. Musk said the new Falcon 9 design is capable of maximizing the payload of…

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