13 Facts About Falcon 1e

SpaceX's first launch vehicle, the Falcon 1e 1, was the first privately developed liquid fuel launch vehicle to be launched into orbit, and utilized SpaceX's Merlin and Kestrel engines for its first and second stages, respectively.

Falcon 1e Heavy is a super heavy lift space launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.

Falcon 1e 1 is a small, partially reusable rocket capable of placing several hundred kilograms into low earth orbit.

On 28 September 2008, the Falcon 1e 1 succeeded in reaching orbit on its fourth attempt, becoming the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket to do so.

The Falcon 1e 1 carried its first and only successful commercial payload into orbit on 13 July 2009, on its fifth launch.

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Falcon 1e was a proposed upgrade of the SpaceX Falcon 1.

The Falcon 1e would have featured a larger first stage with a higher thrust engine, an upgraded second stage engine, a larger payload fairing, and was intended to be partially reusable.

Payloads that would have flown on the Falcon 1e 1 were instead to be flown on the Falcon 1e 9 using excess capacity.

Falcon 1e planned to use Aluminum Lithium alloy 2195 in the second stage, a change from the 2014 Aluminum used in the Falcon 1 second stages.

Falcon 1e launches were intended to occur from Omelek Island, part of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, and from Cape Canaveral, however SpaceX had announced that they would consider other locations as long as there is a "business case for establishing the requested launch site".

Falcon 1e 5 was a proposed two-stage-to-orbit partially reusable launch vehicle designed by SpaceX.

In 2006, SpaceX stated that the Falcon 1e 5 was a Falcon 1e 9 with four engines removed.

SpaceX Falcon 1e rockets are being offered to the launch industry at highly competitive prices, allowing SpaceX to build up a large manifest of over 50 launches by late 2013, with two-thirds of them for commercial customers exclusive of US government flights.