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RE: Falcon 1 Flight 003

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A timing error that caused two segments of a privately built Falcon 1 rocket to collide after liftoff doomed the booster's third flight test by the California-based firm SpaceX, the company's chief said Wednesday.

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A Falcon 1 rocket failed to reach orbit late Saturday, marking the third unsuccessful attempt for private spaceflight-firm SpaceX.
Two rocket stages failed to separate about two minutes and 20 seconds into launch from the U.S. Army's Reagan Test Site on Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii in the central Pacific Ocean.

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At T plus 2 minutes there was an anomaly with the launch vehicle.

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All systems nominal

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The Falcon 1 Flight 3 mission has successfully launched from from Omelek Island at Kwajalein Atoll.

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T minus 5 minutes

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Support tower retracted

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Countdown resumed

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Launch aborted at T minus 1 second