Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2

Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2

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

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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FalconSAT-2

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

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Falcon 1


Height 22.25 Meters

Max Stages 2

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 454 kN

Diameter 1.70 Meters

Mass To LEO 470 kg

Liftoff Mass 33 Tonnes


Launch Success 2

Consecutive Success 2

Maiden Flight 2006-03-24

Launch Failures 3


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Serial F1 B0001

Status lost

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 1


Landing Attempt Yes

Landing Success No

Type PL

Location PAC


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