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Successful Engine Test Enables SpaceX Falcon 9 Soar to Space Station in Jan. 2015
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to soar to ISS after completing successful static fire test on Dec. 19 ahead of planned CRS-5 mission for NASA in early January 2015. Credit: Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – To ensure the highest possibility of success for the launch of a critical resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX has announced the successful completion of a second static fire test of the first stage propulsion system of the firms commercial Falcon 9 rocket on Dec. 19.
The launch of the Falcon 9 had been slated for Dec. 19, but NASA and SpaceX decided just 1 day before liftoff on Dec. 18 to postpone the launch of the CRS-5 resupply mission into the new year, when the first static fire test failed to run for its full duration of approximately three seconds.(…)
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Post tags: antares launch failure, cape canaveral, commercial resupply services (CRS), Commercial Space, CRS, CRS-5, Falcon 9, Falcon 9 v.1.1, ISS, KSC, SLC-40, SpaceX
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