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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Falcon 1 Successfully Delivers RazakSAT Satellite to Orbit - Photo Update






Spacex CEO / CTO since college believed in the importance spearding humanity to the stars.





Falcon 1, carrying the RazakSAT satellite, lifted off on July 13, 2009 at 8:35 p.m. (PDT) / (July 14 2009, at 03:35 UTC). Liftoff occurred from the SpaceX launch site on Omelek Island at the U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll (USAKA) in the Central Pacific, about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii. After the second burn of the second stage engine, Falcon 1 released the RazakSAT Earth Observation satellite into the intended near-equatorial orbit of 685 km, 9 degrees inclination.






SUCCESS! - Youtube Clip of Spacex's Falcon 1 flight






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http://www.spacex.com/launch_updates.php

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