Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) today announced its newly revised mission manifest listing twelve flights of its Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles.
SpaceX is developing low-cost launch vehicles meant to make space travel much more accessible to government, business, researchers and others.
The first SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle remains on schedule for delivery to Cape Canaveral in the fourth quarter of 2008..
“We are on track to deliver our first Falcon 9 vehicle to Cape Canaveral by the end of 2008,” said Gwynne Shotwell, Vice President of Business Development for SpaceX, in a release. “In addition, we’re very pleased to have signed a significant new US government customer for our next Falcon 1 flight, and will be releasing details shortly.”
The full SpaceX mission manifest extends into 2011 and lists nine customers on twelve flights, including three demonstration flights of SpaceX’s new Dragon spacecraft for NASA as part of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) competition.
Here's the manifest with
Customer
Target date
Vehicle
Launch site
- US Government & ATSB
Q2 2008
Falcon 1
Kwajalein
- ATSB (Malaysia)
Q3 2008
Falcon 1
Kwajalein
- US Government
Q4 2008
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral
- MDA Corp. (Canada)
2009
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral
- Avanti Communications (UK)
2009
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral
- NASA COTS - Demo 1
2009
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral
- NASA COTS - Demo 2
2009
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral
- SpaceDev
2009
Falcon 1
Kwajalein
- NASA COTS - Demo 3
2010
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral
- MDA Corp. (Canada)
2010
Falcon 1
Kwajalein
- Swedish Space Corp. (Sweden)
2010
Falcon 1
Kwajalein
- Bigelow Aerospace
2011
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral
Target date refers to delivery of the flight vehicle to the launch site. The actual launch date is dependent on a variety of factors, which may include regulatory approvals, launch range scheduling, weather, customer payload readiness and vehicle to launch pad integration.
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