Falcon 9 Full Thrust

Falcon 9 Full Thrust, also known as Falcon 9 v1.2, is a partially reusable two-stage medium-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX. It is the third major version of the Falcon 9 family, was designed starting in 2014 and began launch operations in December 2015, and was later refined into the Block 4 and Block 5 versions. Compared with the Falcon 9 v1.1 it has uprated first and second stage engines, a larger second stage propellant tank and densified propellants, which let it carry large communications satellites to geostationary orbit and also land its first stage. On December 22, 2015, a Full Thrust vehicle became the first launch vehicle on an orbital trajectory to land a first stage vertically, and from 2017 previously flown boosters were reused to launch new payloads, which soon became routine.