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First SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Remains on Schedule for Delivery to Cape Canaveral
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post Aug 20 2008, 09:40 PM
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Hawthorne, CA – March 3, 2008 – Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) today announced its newly revised mission manifest listing twelve flights of its Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles.

“We are on track to deliver our first Falcon 9 vehicle to Cape Canaveral by the end of 2008,” said Gwynne Shotwell, Vice President of Business Development for SpaceX. “In addition, we’re very pleased to have signed a significant new US government customer for our next Falcon 1 flight, and will be releasing details shortly.”

The full SpaceX mission manifest extends into 2011 and lists nine customers on twelve flights, including three demonstration flights of SpaceX’s new Dragon spacecraft for NASA as part of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) competition.

CUSTOMER
TARGET DATE
VEHICLE
LAUNCH SITE

US Government & ATSB
Q2 2008
Falcon 1
Kwajalein

ATSB (Malaysia)
Q3 2008
Falcon 1
Kwajalein

US Government
Q4 2008
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral

MDA Corp. (Canada)
2009
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral

Avanti Communications (UK)
2009
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral

NASA COTS - Demo 1
2009
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral

NASA COTS - Demo 2
2009
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral

SpaceDev
2009
Falcon 1
Kwajalein

NASA COTS - Demo 3
2010
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral

MDA Corp. (Canada)
2010
Falcon 1
Kwajalein

Swedish Space Corp. (Sweden)
2010
Falcon 1
Kwajalein

Bigelow Aerospace
2011
Falcon 9
Cape Canaveral


Target date refers to delivery of the flight vehicle to the launch site. The actual launch date is dependent on a variety of factors, which may include regulatory approvals, launch range scheduling, weather, customer payload readiness and vehicle to launch pad integration.
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