Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit |
Falcon 1, The World's Lowest Cost Rocket to Orbit |
Feb 6 2006, 02:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (crabbsaline @ Feb 6 2006, 02:22 AM) This is from the February 1 edition of Brian Webb's Launch Alert: APR-JUN 10:00-13:00? Falcon I SLC-3W Payload is the Naval Research Laboratory's TacSat-1 satellite. The vehicle will carry the ashes of U.S. astronaut Gordon Cooper, Star Trek actor James "Scotty" Doohan and several other people into space. The launch window is fixed and does not change if the launch date changes. http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=39790 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 7 2006, 08:05 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Clay County, Indiana, USA Member No.: 199 |
New update from Feb 6:
QUOTE As an additional reliability measure, SpaceX will conduct a full test of vehicle systems, including initiating the flight countdown autosequence and briefly firing the main engine on the launch stand. This test will take place Thursday, February 9 (California time). If no flight critical anomalies are detected, launch will take place on Friday, February 10.
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Feb 8 2006, 08:08 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
* SpaceX Delays Inaugural Falcon 1 Launch at Least One Day
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/06020...con1_delay.html Space Exploration (SpaceX) Technologies' third attempt to launch the Falcon 1 rocket on its maiden flight has been pushed back roughly 24 hours to Friday, Feb. 10 to allow for more tests. * ASTRONOTES: Private Spaceflight Firm Partners With Japanese Researchers http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html Rocketplane Limited Inc. has entered into an agreement with a Japanese research group to take experiment specimens into space. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 9 2006, 08:44 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 163 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 201 |
Anyone know how the test fire went....or if the test fire has happened yet?
looking forward to the launch..hope it is broadcast somewhere tomorrow... |
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Feb 10 2006, 12:19 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Clay County, Indiana, USA Member No.: 199 |
QUOTE (jabe @ Feb 9 2006, 03:44 PM) Anyone know how the test fire went....or if the test fire has happened yet? looking forward to the launch..hope it is broadcast somewhere tomorrow... Comga, in Post #8, made reference to: kwajrockets.blogspot.com Looks like some updates happening there. |
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Feb 10 2006, 03:23 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Clay County, Indiana, USA Member No.: 199 |
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Feb 10 2006, 04:36 AM
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QUOTE (crabbsaline @ Feb 9 2006, 09:23 PM) There is more step-by-step information at http://kwajrockets.blogspot.com/ but not much more on their plans. Note that this is not an official SpaceX website and comes with a disclaimer that it could all be fiction from a stateside basement, but if it is, he has great graphics generating capability. |
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Feb 11 2006, 02:48 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 16-March 05 From: Clay County, Indiana, USA Member No.: 199 |
Static Fire Video up on SpaceX Update Page
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Feb 22 2006, 07:42 PM
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Companies Prepare to Launch Remains into Space
http://www.space.com/news/ap_060221_space_ashes.html Scotty will be blasted into space – not beamed up – and Gordo is returning for his third flight. The craft also will hold the ashes of 185 others, including a telephone technician, a nurse and a college student. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 22 2006, 11:01 PM
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Companies Prepare to Launch Remains into Space http://www.space.com/news/ap_060221_space_ashes.html Scotty will be blasted into space – not beamed up – and Gordo is returning for his third flight. The craft also will hold the ashes of 185 others, including a telephone technician, a nurse and a college student. Hmmm. Any marketing consultants, hairdressers or telephone sanitisers aboard, too? Is this the 'A' payload or the 'B' payload, anyway? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Feb 23 2006, 01:43 AM
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Hmmm. Any marketing consultants, hairdressers or telephone sanitisers aboard, too? Is this the 'A' payload or the 'B' payload, anyway? LOL - you just made me do a spit take with my jynnan tonnyx.... This is prolly old news to most of you, but I just stumbled across a Sci Fri panel discussion featuring Elon himself. MP3 File of show Still no updates on the SpaceX updates page. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Feb 26 2006, 02:38 AM
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Mar 6 2006, 01:35 PM
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Article on the Space-X 'Dragon' manned/cargo vehicle:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1095 Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Mar 6 2006, 03:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Mar 7 2006, 09:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
-------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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