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FalconSAT-2

Falcon 1

FAILURE
Failure

Friday, March 24, 2006 · 22:30 UTC

Mission

/01

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

Mission Type

Technology

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Failure

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Falcon 1

Variant: 1

Launch Pad

Omelek Island

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

9.048° N, 167.743° E

1

Pad Launches

1

Location Launches

1

Agency Launches

9

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