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Launched 2006-03-24 22:30 UTCOmelek Island, Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Engine failure at T+33 seconds
From Launch Library 2 · updated
Launch failure
Target: Low Earth Orbit
Falcon 1 lifted off with FalconSAT-2, but the launch failed.
Booster
Landing failed at Pacific Ocean
F1 B0001, 1st flight
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No cause has been given yet. What SpaceX finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
FalconSAT-2 was a satellite built by students of the United States Air Force Academy. It was intended to have been placed into low Earth orbit to study the effects of plasma on communications with spacecraft, however it failed to reach orbit due to a malfunction of its carrier rocket.It landed in a storage shed on Omelek Island, just a few feet from its own shipping container
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Launches
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Landings
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of 715
Upcoming
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scheduled
Height
22.3m
Diameter
1.7m
To low Earth orbit
470kg
Liftoff thrust
454kN
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