Falcon 9 v1.0

The Falcon 9 v1.0 was the first version of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle family, designed and manufactured by SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. Development of the medium-lift launcher began in 2005 and the rocket first flew on June 4, 2010. The two-stage vehicle was powered by SpaceX Merlin engines burning liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene, with nine Merlin 1C engines on the first stage arranged in a three by three pattern. Its five launches between 2010 and 2013 all delivered their primary payload, four of them carrying Dragon cargo spacecraft on an orbital test flight, a demonstration mission and two operational resupply missions to the International Space Station under a NASA contract. An anomaly on one flight led to the loss of a secondary payload. The vehicle was retired in 2013 and replaced by the upgraded Falcon 9 v1.1.