Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle Payload User's Guide, Rev 2
| Author | SpaceX |
|---|---|
| Published | October 21, 2015 |
| Format | Spec |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — SpaceX’s 2015 guide for satellite customers: Falcon 9’s vehicle, performance to orbit, payload environments, interfaces, pricing and launch operations.
Dated 21 October 2015 and marked approved for public release. It is the planning document SpaceX gave prospective payload customers.
Sections cover the company and the Falcon programme, vehicle structure and propulsion, separation systems and avionics, injection orbits and mass-to-orbit capability, launch windows, the environments a payload experiences, mechanical and electrical interfaces, the fairing, facilities at the launch sites, and the mission integration timeline. It also lists the standard launch price of the time.
What it is: an official company technical document, since superseded by newer Falcon user’s guides on spacex.com.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- SpaceX’s own copy, via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160103224230/http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/falcon_9_users_guide_rev_2.0.pdf
69 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.