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RE: Falcon 9 Rocket

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LIVE VIDEO: SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch

This morning the launch window opens for a commercial rocket launch by SpaceX. The Falcon 9 and it's module called Dragon is designed to take cargo to the international space station first eventually astronauts.
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Ed ~ the launch window extends from 15:00-19:00 GMT

-- Edited by Blobrana on Friday 4th of June 2010 02:40:38 PM

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Private Rocket Poised For Friday Launch

The test flight of a new rocket on the Space Coast could happen by the end of the week.
Private company SpaceX has been working for weeks on its new Falcon 9 rocket.
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When the Falcon 9 rocket makes its inaugural test flight, expected later this month, it will carry with it NASA's hopes for a new generation of low-cost rockets to ferry cargo and people into space.
The rocket - touted as a possible saviour of human spaceflight - could also solve a serious problem facing the next generation of space probes. Satellites that observe Earth and nearby planets, as well as space telescopes able to look deep into the cosmos, are about to be hit by the retirement of the Delta II rocket, a workhorse that has launched 60% of NASA's science missions during the past decade.
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Falcon 9 inaugural flight pushed back

The first flight of the Falcon 9 rocket is slipping back to May 23, but SpaceX is holding open an option to move the launch back up if the vehicle is ready and an opportunity opens.
SpaceX had a "placeholder" launch date of May 11 on the schedule at the Air Force Eastern Range, which provides tracking and range safety services for all launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station or NASA's Kennedy Space Centre.
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The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket has been rescheduled to the 11th May, 2010.

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SpaceX is now targeting early May for an inaugural Falcon 9 launch, as it works to complete testing and Air Force analysis of the system that would destroy the rocket if it veered off course.
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Spacex Rocket Test Flubs

It was supposed to be the start of a new era in space travel, but a rocket test Tuesday was anything but impressive.
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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces that all flight hardware for the debut launch of the Falcon 9 vehicle has arrived at the SpaceX launch site, Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Final delivery included the Falcon 9 second stage, which recently completed testing at SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas. SpaceX has now initiated full vehicle integration of the 47 metre tall, 3.6 metre diameter rocket, which will include a Dragon spacecraft qualification unit.

"We expect to launch in one to three months after completing full vehicle integration. Our primary objective is a successful first launch and we are taking whatever time necessary to work through the data to our satisfaction before moving forward" - Brian Mosdell, Director of Florida Launch Operations for SpaceX.

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Falcon 9 one step closer to launch

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