Next SpaceX launch?

The website is showing Q3 for the next Falcon I launch. Since we're
now in Q3 anyone have any idea when the launch may occur?

Thanks

Kelly McDonald

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The website is showing Q3 for the next Falcon I launch. Since we're
now in Q3 anyone have any idea when the launch may occur?

September 31st?-) Seems that launches of "new" rockets slip even more
redily than computer hardware or software launches.

Alas after a bunch of web searches I don't find anything any more
specific. I did find a picture of Omelek in a presentation SpaceX
made to NASA in '06 - I never realized just how tiny that island is.
Interestingly enough, that presentation said Q2 2007.

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The website is showing Q3 for the next Falcon I launch. Since we're
now in Q3 anyone have any idea when the launch may occur?

Scuttlebutt on Nasaspaceflight says launch has slipped to 1Q08.
Modifications to the Merlin 1C engine and the upper stage
especially, plus work on the Falcon 9 are cited as reasons
for the slip.

--Damon

In sci.space.policy message , Thu, 9
Aug 2007 00:55:32, Rick Jones posted:
wrote:
The website is showing Q3 for the next Falcon I launch. Since we're
now in Q3 anyone have any idea when the launch may occur?

September 31st?-) Seems that launches of "new" rockets slip even more
redily than computer hardware or software launches.

http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ gives

Nov ?? - TacSat 1/ Celestis 5 Falcon 1 Launch

That, I imagine, will be based on the most recent authoritative
announcements, corrections to which are usually delays. Strangely, it
does not link to SpaceX themselves.

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Dr J R Stockton wrote:
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ gives

Nov ?? - TacSat 1/ Celestis 5 Falcon 1 Launch

TacSat-1? Wasn't TacSat-1 the payload on the very first Falcon1
launch, the one with the fire? Is this then TacSat-1reborn or
something?

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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:05:45 +0000 (UTC), Rick Jones
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Dr J R Stockton wrote:
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ gives

Nov ?? - TacSat 1/ Celestis 5 Falcon 1 Launch

TacSat-1? Wasn't TacSat-1 the payload on the very first Falcon1
launch, the one with the fire? Is this then TacSat-1reborn or
something?

No; the satellite that went down with the first Falcon 1 was
FalconSat 2, a student-built satellite from the United States
Air Force Academy.


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In sci.space.policy message , Fri, 10
Aug 2007 19:05:45, Rick Jones posted:
Dr J R Stockton wrote:
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ gives

Nov ?? - TacSat 1/ Celestis 5 Falcon 1 Launch

TacSat-1? Wasn't TacSat-1 the payload on the very first Falcon1
launch, the one with the fire?

No.

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