# Presentation: 828890

**1 Rocket Road**
**Hawthorne (Los Angeles) CA  90250   **
**USA**

**1212 New York Ave, Suite 1025**
**Washington DC  20005**
**USA**

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**Commercial Orbital Transportation Services**

## SpaceX Overview

- Founded in mid-2002 with the goal of providing high reliability, low cost space transportation.
- Over 450 employees — growing at minimum 50% per year.
- HQ has 550,000 sq ft of manufacturing production and offices.State of the art propulsion and structural test facility in Texas.
- Launch complexes at Kwajalein, the Cape and Vandenberg AFB.
- SpaceX recently has become an approved NASA Launch Services provider

- Central Texas

- Cape Canaveral

- Southern California Headquarters

- Kwajalein

## Falcon 1 Rocket

- Omelek Island Pacific Launch Site

- Liftoff!

- • 2003 – Began detailed design & development
- • 25 March 2006 - Maiden demonstration launch – 29 seconds
- • 21 March 2007 - Second launch reached 297 km altitude & 5.1 km / sec
- • End of June 2008 - Next flight with DoD ORS Office as primary payload

- Falcon 1 - View from 297 km altitude

## Falcon Launch Vehicle Evolution

- •	Improved vehicle robustness
- •	Better procedures & added personnel
- •	Improved software health monitoring & launch automation

- Falcon 1
- Demo Flight 1
- 3/2006

- Falcon 1
- Demo Flight 2
- 3/2007

- Falcon 1
- Flight 3
- 2Q 2008

- Falcon 9
- 5m Fairing
- (2009)

- Falcon 9
- Dragon
- (2009)

- Common first and second stages (including engines, interstage, etc.) Dragon used for Space Station servicing missions, up and down crew and cargo transport, orbital experiments, etc.

- •	Improved vehicle robustness
- •	Added slosh baffles
- •	Upgraded engine from Merlin 1A to Merlin 1C
- •	Lighter weight 2014 Al upper stage

- •	F1 and F9 share similar architecture
- •	F9 uses nearly the same Merlin 1C engine
- •	Similar software and avionics
- •	Similar launch and ground operations
- •	Lessons learned from Falcon 1 applied to F9

- •	Higher thrust engine
- •	Lengthened first stage
- •	Larger payload fairing
- •	Al-Li upper stage
- •	Available starting 2010

- Falcon 1e
- (2010)

- •	Initial vehicle

## NASA COTS Program

- Commercial Cargo and Crew Program (C3P0) or “COTS”
- Demonstrate ISS servicing with possible follow-on business of ISS servicing after Shuttle retirement
- Encourage the growth of the commercial space industry, resulting in lower costs to all buyers
- Fixed Price, Commercial Milestone-based “Space Act Agreement”
- COTS Capabilities (A-C = cargo; D = manned)
- A: External Cargo supply
- B: Internal Cargo supply
- C: Internal Cargo return
- D: Crew Supply/Return
- COTS Capability-D (crew option) exists under the SpaceX SAA
- COTS Phase II RFP process:  proposals due in June 2008; awards expected in November 2008

## November 2002

##  May 2008

-  May 2008

## Cape Canaveral Launch Facility

**Cape Canaveral Launch Facility**

- SpaceX SLC-40

- Demolition of legacy Umbilical Tower (8 January 2008)

- Demolition of legacy Mobile Service Tower (27 April 2008)

- Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now

## Falcon 9 Rocket

- Thrust frame & plumbing for nine engines

- First stage mated with thrust frame

- Raising first stage tank on to test stand

- Falcon 9 first stage tank in production -
- Same diameter and length as a Boeing 737

- Designed to NASA man-rating safety margins
- Engine out reliability similar to Saturn I & Saturn V
- Lift off mass is 325 tons standard, 885 tons for heavy
- 10 tons to LEO, 5 tons to GTO
- Pricing starts at $37M all inclusive

**Falcon 9 Rocket**

## Falcon 9 Progress

- Welded Injector

- 1st stage test firing with multiple engines

- Merlin development complete

- Texas Test Stand Complete

## Falcon 9 First Stage
Three Engine Test
VTS3-010
Mar 8, 2008

- Falcon 9 First Stage
- Three Engine Test
- VTS3-010
- Mar 8, 2008

**Falcon 9 – Preparing for First Flight**

## Dragon Spacecraft

- Nose Cone

- Berthing Mechanism

- Pressurized Section

- Draco
- Thrusters

- Trunk
- (Unpressurized)

- Service Section

| Maximum Diameter | 3.7 m |
| --- | --- |
| Capsule Length w/ Nose Cone | 4.5 m |
| Capsule Length (w/o Nose Cone) | 3.1 m |
| Trunk Length | 3.0 m |
| Total Cargo Mass | 2590 kg |

- Isogrid Pressure Vessel Panel

- Trunk Structure Composite Sample

- Dragon Heat Shield Prototype

- 1:3 scale Model Splash Test

- Dragon Engineering Model

## SpaceX COTS Overall Progress

- Met all contractual COTS deadlines (10) to date – a mix of techinical and financial milestones;
- Five engine test fire coming up; Nine engines in September
- Successful Draco thruster hotfire in March; Demo 3 PDR set for June;
- Launch dates for cargo missions adjusted as follows:June 2009: _Dragon Demo C1: Core Functionality_ - Five-hour “up-and-back” mission tests fundamentalsNovember 2009:  _Dragon Demo C2: ISS Flyby_ - Five-day mission in which Dragon flies within 10 km of ISS and closes space-to-space communications linkMarch 2010:   _Dragon Demo C3: ISS Berthing_ - Execute a demonstration of delivery of sim-cargo to ISS and return safely to Earth
- Passed NASA ISS Safety Review Panel (SRP) in record time.
- Pursuing FAA Commercial Licenses for COTS Launches and Reentries.
- Per FAA regs, will pursue TPL insurance for COTS flights.
- Cash-flow positive (14 contracted launches, including a mix of domestic and international customers.

## Current Launch Manifest

| Customer | Launch | Vehicle | Departure Point |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DARPA Demo Flight 1 - Launched | March 24, 2006 | Falcon 1 | Kwajalein |
| DARPA Demo Flight 2 - Launched  | March 20, 2007 | Falcon 1 | Kwajalein |
| DoD ORS Office & ATSB (Malaysia) | Q2 2008* | Falcon 1 | Kwajalein |
| ATSB (Malaysia) | Q3 2008* | Falcon 1 | Kwajalein |
| US Government | Q4 2008* | Falcon 9 | Cape |
| MDA Corporation (Canada) | 2009 | Falcon 9 | Cape |
| Avanti Communications (UK) | 2009 | Falcon 9 | Cape |
| NASA COTS – Demo 1 | 2009 | Falcon 9 | Cape |
| NASA COTS – Demo 2 | 2009 | Falcon 9 | Cape |
| SpaceDev | 2009 | Falcon 1 | Cape or Kwajalein |
| NASA COTS – Demo 3 | 2010 | Falcon 9 | Cape |
| MDA Corporation (Canada) | 2010 | Falcon 1 | Kwajalein |
| Swedish Space Corporation | 2010 | Falcon 1 | Kwajalein |
| Bigelow Aerospace | 2011 | Falcon 9 | Cape |

- * Hardware at launch site.

**Current Launch Manifest**

## Summary

- •	SpaceX is committed to being a reliable launch service provider for the long term
- -	Significant expansion of capability with investment in new headquarters, manufacturing systems and launch sites
- -	Proven state-of-the-art facility that provides test-like-you-fly capabilities
- - 	Growing workforce of skilled engineers and technicians with flight hardware experience
- •	Current contracts with government and commercial customers demonstrate a confidence in the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Dragon and SpaceX
- •	SpaceX is now an approved NASA Launch Services provider offering reliable, low cost access to Earth orbit and beyond
- •	SpaceX stands poised to help close the imminent gap in domestic cargo and crew transportation to the International Space Station

## 1 Rocket Road

- Hawthorne CA  90250
- USA

- 1212 New York Ave, Suite 1025
- Washington DC  20005
- USA