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Spacecraft: Falcon 9 – Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.

Block 5 is the last version of Falcon 9. It might not seem like it, but the Falcon 9 family has been around for a while – June will mark eight years since the vehicle first flew in 2010.

The Falcon 9 Block 5 has improved thermal coating, more thrust, titanium grid fins, new fairings, and plenty more upgrades. By Robin Seemangal Published: May 04, 2018 2:38 PM EDT.

The Block 5 features a number of upgrades that should increase the rocket's reliability and reusability, SpaceX officials have said. The first stage of the Block 4 Falcon 9 is limited to two ...

Shotwell said a Block 5 booster could relaunch “ a dozen or so times.” The Block 3, by comparison, has an estimated life of two or three missions. Shotwell said the Block 5 version of the Falcon 9 won ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket carrying a Bangabandhu Satellite-1 geostationary communication satellite for the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission blast offed off Friday.

Update 6:10 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has postponed the first flight of the Falcon 9 Block 5 after the rocket triggered an abort with 58 seconds left on the countdown clock, just after the vehicle entered ...

SpaceX will launch the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The satellite will be carried on the newest version of the Falcon 9 – Falcon 9 Block 5 – which is ...

Bangabandhu Satellite-1, the first satellite for Bangladesh, is deployed in orbit after its successful launch aboard SpaceX's first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket on May 11, 2018.