Posted on 11/27/2005 5:12:58 PM PST by jmcenanly
An upstart rocket company postponed its first-ever satellite launch on Saturday after a series of last-minute snags.
A spokeswoman for Space Exploration Technologies Corp. told MSNBC.com that it will be a minimum of one or two weeks before the company, also known as SpaceX, can try again. Dianne Molina said the delay was due to the need to ship liquid oxygen and helium to the launch complex on an island in the Pacific Ocean's Kwajalein Atoll.
SpaceX developed its partially reusable Falcon 1 rocket as a low-cost alternative in a space launch industry dominated by aerospace giants Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. This first-ever launch is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, with a payload sponsored by the Air Force.
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"...on an island in the Pacific Ocean's Kwajalein Atoll."
Are they saying it's "L" "O" "S" "T"...
I would say they are having some problems with their onboard
storage system if they can't keep it fueled long enough
to launch.
Ran out of gas...
Well, something's up for sure. Sounds like a strange excuse.
NO, they know precisely where it is.It isn't going anywhere.
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