This page records Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2 and its reported outcome: Launch Failure. The date above is a historical record.
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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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The Falcon 1 was the first launch vehicle developed and manufactured by SpaceX in 2006. It is an expendable, two stage rocket where each stage is powered by a single LOX/RP1 engine.
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Engine failure at T+33 seconds
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
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