{"id":42114,"date":"2006-03-22T22:52:49","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T14:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launch-moved-to-friday\/"},"modified":"2006-03-22T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T14:52:49","slug":"spacex-launch-moved-to-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launch-moved-to-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch moved to Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX anticipates a maiden launch attempt of their Falcon 1 rocket will now take place on Friday, March 24th, at 1pm California time (21:00 GMT), with an extra day being required to review data gained from two static fire tests. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo major issues were discovered following the static fire,\u201d said SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, \u201cbut, as a cautionary measure, we are going to take one more day to review data and verify system functionality.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

<\/font><\/u>\"\"A flawless flight readiness test with a three second engine firing was completed on the pad late Tuesday.<\/p>\n

An earlier flight readiness test was also performed on Saturday, with a momentary engine firing, but with a couple of minor problems.<\/p>\n

The issues were reported by NASAWatch.com<\/em> as a premature disconnect of the ground helium supply upon engine firing, and a video camera glitch.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u2018We had a great static fire today,\u2019 wrote Musk in an online update. \u2018Falcon was held down for almost three seconds of thrust (T+0.5s), part of which was under autonomous thrust vector control.  All systems were green and no aborts were triggered.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"**Click here for the video of the static fire test**<\/p>\n

SpaceX is attempting to launch from their own facilities in the small pacific Kwajalein Atoll, part of the US Army\u2019s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site. <\/p>\n

The scheduled launch window extends through Saturday, March 25th.\"\"<\/p>\n

Since the last launch attempt in early February, the company had to ship additional LOX supplies to the island, and resolve a small second stage tank leak with a replacement tank from California. <\/p>\n

It was unclear whether the discovered leak would have caused a significant problem if the rocket had launched.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 1 will be launching a small DARPA and Air Force satellite into a target 450 km orbit, higher than the ISS, at a 39 degree inclination.  <\/p>\n

The FalconSat-2 payload will measure space plasma phenomena as part of the Air Force Academy\u2019s satellite program.
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\"\"If successful, this launch will prove not just the new Falcon 1 vehicle, but the Merlin 1 and Kestrel engines which are both of an entirely new design.  <\/p>\n

The Merlin 1 is considered to be the first all new orbital American hydrocarbon engine to fly in 40 years.  <\/p>\n

Between ten and 28 revised Merlin 1B engines will power the future Falcon 9 series of vehicles, with a first US Government launch scheduled for the second quarter of 2007.
 
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SpaceX anticipates a maiden launch attempt of their Falcon 1 rocket will now take place on Friday, March 24th, at 1pm California time (21:00 GMT), with an extra day being required to review data gained from two static fire tests. \u201cNo major issues were discovered following the static fire,\u201d said SpaceX founder and CEO Elon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}