SpaceX Falcon 1 FalconSAT-2
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
2
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