)I don’t have live access to current news in this moment. Based on what I know, Falcon 9 v1.1 was a mid-2010s evolution of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 designed to increase reliability and payload capacity, featuring an upgraded first stage with the Merlin 1D engines arranged in the Octaweb configuration and changes intended to support reusability testing. If you’d like, I can summarize its key technical advances and historical milestones, or look up the latest coverage if you confirm you want me to search the web.
The private spaceflight company SpaceX launched the first of its next-generation Falcon 9 rockets Sunday (Sept. 29) in a major test flight full of space firsts. The launch also carried Canada's CASSIOPE space weather satellite into orbit.
www.space.comFalcon 9 is a partially reusable two-stage medium-lift rocket designed by SpaceX, and powered by 9 Merlin engines. Its first launch was in 2010 with the Dragon 1 spacecraft. Since then, Falcon 9 has launched 588 times (as of the 20th of January 2026) with only 3 failures. Additionally, 508 out of these 588 launches have been with re-used boosters, with the current record, at 32 launches of a single booster, being currently held by Booster B1067. Falcon 9 was planned almost ever since SpaceX...
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forum.nasaspaceflight.comThe Falcon 9 v1.1 is now slated to lift off on Sept. 29 or 30, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said.
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