ABSTRACT

FALCON 9 believes a fully and rapidly reusable rocket is the pivotal

breakthrough needed to substantially reduce the cost of space access. The majority of the
launch cost comes from building the rocket, which flies only once. Compare that to a
commercial airliner each new plane costs about the same as Falcon 9, but can fly
multiple times per day, and conduct tens of thousands of flights over its lifetime.
Following the commercial model, a rapidly reusable space launch vehicle could reduce
the cost of traveling to space by a hundredfold. While most rockets are designed to burn
up on reentry, Falcon 9 rockets are designed not only to withstand reentry, but also to
return to the launch pad or ocean landing site for a vertical landing.
The main idea was trying to understand why rockets were so expensive.
Obviously the lowest cost you can make anything for is the spot value of the material
constituents. Musk formed Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, with two
staggeringly ambitious goals: To make spaceflight routine and affordable, and to make
humans a multi-planet species.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The beautiful fragrance that accompanies successful completion of our task would
be incomplete without expressing our appreciation to the people, who made it possible,
though words are not enough to express the sense of gratitude towards everyone who
helped directly or indirectly.

I take this opportunity to express my deep sense of gratefulness to my guide

Prof. D. D. Billur Dept. Of Electronics and Communication Engineering, for his valuable
advice, expert guidance and unceasing support at all the stages during the course of study.
He was an endless source of help, guidance and encouragement.

And I also express my grateful to our Seminar Co-ordinator Prof. Prakash B. B.

With deep Sense of Gratitude. I acknowledge the help of encouragement of our
Chairperson of Department Prof. J. M. Rudagi for her continued support and her
planned coordination towards us has inspired me.

I express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Sidramappa. V. Itti Principal, K.L.E

College of Engineering and technology, Chikodi for his support and encouragement. I
would like to extend my thanks to the teaching and non-teaching staff of our department
for their help.

Finally, I am obliged to thank my parents for their patience and support.

Place: Chikodi Suhan Kulkarni

(2KD13EC050)

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE NO. TITLE NAME PAGE NO.

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 01
1.1 Company Description 01
1.2 Space flight 02
1.3 Launch vehicle 02
1.3.1 Types of Launch vehicle 02
1.4 Facts about Launch Vehicle 03
1.4.1 ISRO 03

CHAPTER 2 FALCON FAMILY 04

2.1 Falcon Program Overview 04
2.2 Falcon 9 Family 05

CHAPTER 3 FALCON 9 REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE DESCRIPTION 06

3.1 Falcon 9R Vehicle Overview 06
3.2 Falcon 9 Reusable Launch vehicle Specifications 06
3.3 Falcon 9R First stage 07
3.3.1 First stage Re-Use 09
3.1 Falcon 9R Second stage 11
3.5 Payload Fairing and Dragon V2 Spacecraft 12

CHAPTER 4 FALCON 9 RE-USABLE LAUNCH VERTICAL LANDING 14

IMAGES.

CHAPTER 5 FALCON 9 OVERVIER 16

5.1 Falcon launch vehicle safety 16
5.2 Retention, Release and Separation Systems 16
5.3 Programming in F9R 16

CHAPTER 6 APPLICATIONS AND ADVANTAGES 19

6.1 Applications 19
6,2 Advantages 20
6.3 Disadvantages 20

CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION 21

REFERENCE 22

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LIST OF FIGURES
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2.1 SpaceX vehicles are designed for high cross-platform

commonality
2.2 Falcon Launch vehicle Family

3.1 Falcon 9R Interior Design

3.2 Falcon 9 landing legs and grid fins
3.3 Drone landing pad in Pacific Ocean
3.4 Stage 2 separating from stage 1
3.5 Payload fairing and Dragon spacecraft
3.6 Launching and Vertical Landing of F9R

4.1 Vertical landed first stage

4.2 Vertical landing of first stage

LIST OF TABLES

TABLE TABLE NAME PAGE

NO. NO.

3.1 Falcon 9R Technical Details 07

5.1 Vehicle safety 17

5.2 Stages parameters 18

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