Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2

Launch information

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Mission description

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

Launch status

Launch status information for space mission ‘Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2’.

Launch image Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2

Failure

Status: Launch Failure

Class: normal

Fail Reason: Engine failure at T+33 seconds

Launch T0: March 24, 2006, 10:30 p.m.

Timezone: Pacific/Tarawa

Launch authority

Details about the the rocket, its target orbit and the launch pad location.

Mission

FalconSAT-2 (LEO)

Launcher

SpaceX

Rocket

Falcon 1

Location

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

Pad

Omelek Island

Type

Technology

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Satellites on-board

It seems no satellite can be associated to launch ‘Falcon 1 | FalconSAT-2’, for now. Check back soon, we keep tracking more and more satellites every single day.

Launch statistics

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Orbital Launch

#4749

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Location Launch

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Pad Launch

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Agency Launch

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Orbital Launch

#9

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Location Launch

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Pad Launch

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Agency Launch

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