Upgraded SpaceX Rocket's Launch Test Slips to End of September
The Falcon 9 v1.1 is now slated to lift off on Sept. 29 or 30, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said.
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- Falcon 9 v1.1 is an older variant of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 that flew in 2013–2014, featuring a stretched second stage, an “Octaweb” engine arrangement, and upgraded avionics to increase payload capacity and enable future reusability testing. It is not in active service today, having been superseded by later iterations like v1.2 and beyond. For historical details, SpaceX and aerospace reference pages from that era describe its design and initial flights.[3][4]
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