March 24, 2006 at 10:30 PM UTC
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
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March 24, 2006 at 10:30 PM UTC
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Omelek Island
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands · 9.0479, 167.7430
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
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 media
Falcon 1 Flight 1
Full video recordFalcon · 1
Height
22.25 m
Diameter
1.7 m
LEO capacity
470 kg
Successful launches
2
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
Omelek Island
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