Falcon 9 Block 1 and Falcon 9 v1.1 Comparison On May 14, 2012, NASA announced that it had modified its Launch Services (NLS) II contract with Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) by adding a new "Falcon 9 v1.1" variant to the program. Overall, the Falcon 9 is 229.6 feet (70 m) tall with a stage diameter of 12 feet (3.7 m). This Photo Shows How Ridiculously Huge SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rockets Are. The primary purpose is to mitigate the effects of natural disasters. Reddit. Every time Elon Musk and SpaceX manage to land a used Falcon 9 … SAOCOM 1B will be equipped with a L-band (about 1.275 GHz) full polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Space Launch Report: SpaceX Falcon 9 Data Sheet Home On the Pad Space Logs Library Links SpaceX Falcon 9 Updated May 01, 2017 Vehicle Configurations Vehicle Components Falcon 9 (v1.0) Flight History Falcon 9 v1.1 Data Sheet (New April 29, 2013) Dot-com multimillionaire Elon Musk established SpaceX Corporation in June 2002 in an El Segundo, California warehouse, intent on …