Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket, designed and constructed in SpaceX. Since the foundation was designed for maximum reliability and safe transport of satellites and spacecraft into orbit. With its nine engines can ensure the safe arrival even in the event of failure of one of the engines.

Height: 70 m

Width: 3.7 m

Weight: 549 kg

First stage: This section includes nine Merlin engines and aluminum-lithium tank. In our atmosphere, it can produce a thrust of 1.7 pounds but in the vacuum of space and 1.8 pounds, while the thrust increases with increasing altitude.

Before the end of the first phase of the flight engines are gradually strangling and weight of the rocket decreases with decreasing fuel.

Number of engines: 9

Ignition Time: 162 sec

tension in the atmosphere: 7607 Kn

thrust in vacuum: 8227 Kn

Second stage: This part drives an engine Merlin which supplies thrust to a desired pathway. This stage is ignited for a few seconds after the release of the first phase. The advantage is that it can be ignited even several times. Even this degree is developed from high quality aluminum and lithium.

FalconHeavy should take off for the first time in 2016. This will be the most powerful rocket yet. Will be able to raise the orbit to 54 metric tons.

Height: 70 m

Width: 12.2 m

Weight: 1,420,788 kg

First stage: This part consists of amplifiers, which are interconnected at the top oxygen tank. These amplifiers will have a combined 27 Merlin engines and will generate up to 22,819 kN. Shortly after the exhaustion of fuel to the amplifier off and the central core switches to full power.

Number of engines: 27

Number of cores: 3

tension in the atmosphere: 22,819 Kn

thrust in vacuum: 24,681 Kn