SpaceX Falcon 1 FalconSAT-2

Name: SpaceX Falcon 1 FalconSAT-2
Start: 2006-03-24T22:30:00.000Z
Location: Omelek Island

Falcon 1

Status

Failure

Date

24 MAR 2006

22:30

Launch Provider

SpaceX

Launch Pad

Omelek Island

Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands

Mission Overview

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

Rocket

Falcon 1

Mission Type

Technology

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Stages

Livestream

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Rocket Details

The Falcon 1 was the first launch vehicle developed and manufactured by SpaceX in 2006. It is an expendable, two stage rocket where each stage is powered by a single LOX/RP1 engine.

Height

22.25 m

Diameter

1.7 m

Launch Mass

33 T

Thrust

454 kN