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New entry in orbital launch business ready for first flight
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| 11/26/05
Posted on 11/26/2005 12:48:50 PM PST by KevinDavis
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. A newly developed rocket designed to break into the orbital launch business with low-cost service is waiting on a Pacific atoll to make its maiden flight.
The Falcon 1 had been scheduled for launch yesterday from a pad in the Marshall Islands but the launch was bumped back to 1 p-m today because of preparations for a missile defense test launch.
The rocket's payload is a satellite for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Academy. FalconSat-2 will measure space plasma phenomena, which can impair space-based communications.
The Falcon 1 rocket is the first in what is intended to be a family of launch vehicles from El Segundo-based SpaceX. The company is the latest enterprise of Elon Musk, whose previous endeavors include PayPal, the online payment service now owned by eBay.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allyerbaserbelong2us; falcon; itsaverynicerocket; lookatourrocket; space; spacex; spacexfalcon1
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To: KevinDavis
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posted on
11/26/2005 12:49:59 PM PST
by
neodad
(My ex-wife is stuck on stupid.)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
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posted on
11/26/2005 12:52:06 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: neodad; All
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posted on
11/26/2005 12:53:59 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
What's that sound? Yes, it is. It's the sound of NASA dying.
To: KevinDavis
Spacex said they would provide updates on their website, though it won't be immediate.
Spacex
Just click on the launch info button on their home page.
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:09:54 PM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: KevinDavis
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11/26/2005 1:10:51 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
To: manwiththehands
What's that sound? Yes, it is. It's the sound of NASA dying. Hear that sound? It's the sound of someone who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:11:28 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
To: KevinDavis
It's 1:20 PM PST and do you know where your rocket is? ;o)
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:14:42 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
To: KevinDavis
From SpaceX.com:
Falcon 1 Launch Now Scheduled for 2 p.m. CA time.
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:18:15 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.)
To: Prime Choice; All
Due to possible wind issues...
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:43:17 PM PST
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KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
I said Lunch not Launch !!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:46:40 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( Bill Clinton's License Plate..... "Herpes 1")
To: KevinDavis
Space.com appears to have nothing on its homepage about this upcoming launch. A Google news search turned up a source (RedBolivia) which claimed that the launch had gone off without a hitch, but there's nothing at the link, so I'm guessing that story was bogus and was pulled.
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:47:33 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
To: SunkenCiv; All
Now the launch may happen at 5:10 est.
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11/26/2005 1:49:25 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: SunkenCiv
To: All
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:53:51 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: All
Correction 3 minutes and counting...
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:56:58 PM PST
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KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: All
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posted on
11/26/2005 1:59:30 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
From spaceflightnow:
Flying through thick clouds or electrically-charged clouds can cause a space booster to generate "rocket-triggered lightning" that would damage the vehicle's vital avionics. Exactly what the weather concern is today in Kwajalein has not been announced.
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posted on
11/26/2005 2:00:33 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
Space.com says 5:10 EST.
I don't suppose there's any kind of camera feed or anything, right?
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posted on
11/26/2005 2:01:23 PM PST
by
Termite_Commander
(Warning: Cynical Right-winger Ahead)
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