The Falcon 9 launch was successful!!!
Video below.
Damn cool stage separation!
The Falcon 9 - heavy expendable launch vehicle developed privately by SpaceX launched successfully from Cape Canaveral today!
This is BIG news.
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The latest news in the private space flight game is, well, let's call it mixed:
The second test flight of the privately-built Falcon 1 rocket failed to reach its intended orbit late Tuesday, nearly one year to the day of the booster's ill-fated spaceflight debut.
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In case you missed it, the Ares 1-X launch this morning was successful.
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Third Falcon launch failed also.
Three satellites lost.
From NASAwatch - with launch video - first stage engine performed, but stage separation failed.
SpaceX homepage has comments - they have raised capital, have booked customers and plan multiple future launches including the Falcon 9 heavy…
Congratulations to SpaceX
Falcon 1 from SpaceX launched successfully on July 13th.
Launch placed Razaksat (Malaysian reconsat in near equatorial orbit) in orbit.
If the Falcon 9 maiden flight is successful later this year, or soon thereafter, well then we are really talking.
Well, I have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed in the bland, NASA-style soundtrack. From a commercial space venture, I was expecting Arena Rock and a pro-wrestling announcer.
"Are you ready for some SpaceFLIIIIIIIIIIIIITE!?"
* chungachungachungachungachungachungachung *
I suspect that the long-term implications of SpaceX's successful launch is that, in ten years' time, Libertarians will deny that government agencies ever played a successful role in space exploration.
On the plus side, Robert Heinlein's body has stopped spinning in its grave, which should be some consolation to the mouldering corpses on either side of him.