Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2
Engine failure at T+33 seconds
- Omelek Island, Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall IslandsMapa ↗Grokipedia ↗
- Niska orbita okołoziemska (LEO)
- Technologia
- F1 B0001 · lot #1UtraconyPierwszy: 2006-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
- PCL - Pacific Ocean (Nie)Booster zniszczony w trakcie lotu.
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oryginał LL2
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