Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit |
Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit |
Nov 19 2005, 06:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3652 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but here goes:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18353 http://www.spacex.com/ Looking forward to launch videos... -------------------- |
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Mar 24 2006, 10:49 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: 10-September 05 Member No.: 492 |
Gwynne Shotwell seems to indicate (on spaceflightnow.com) that they got a minute or two of flight.
Not exactly to orbit, but a significant step in the right direction... |
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Mar 24 2006, 10:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 201 |
Gwynne Shotwell seems to indicate (on spaceflightnow.com) that they got a minute or two of flight. Not exactly to orbit, but a significant step in the right direction... I'm the same..the more time in the air the better.. Be nice to hear it got over a minute of flight in.. my fingers crossed it wasn't a engine failure but a software failure |
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Mar 24 2006, 11:45 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 370 Joined: 12-September 05 From: France Member No.: 495 |
Be nice to hear it got over a minute of flight in.. my fingers crossed it wasn't a engine failure but a software failure From spaceflightnow : A further look at the imagery seen from the onboard camera mounted to the Falcon 1 shows a noticeable change in the color and shape of the flame coming from the Merlin first stage main engine as the vehicle seemed to roll. BTW, they have now a significant amount of in-flight telemetry data to work with. It could have exploded on the launch pad like many others before. -- Rakhir |
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