{"id":189025,"date":"2010-06-06T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/06\/spacex-falcon-nine-makes-successful-launch\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T10:18:00","slug":"spacex-falcon-nine-makes-successful-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/06\/spacex-falcon-nine-makes-successful-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon Nine Makes Successful Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img266.imageshack.us\/img266\/3959\/falcon97536910.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img266.imageshack.us\/img266\/3959\/falcon97536910.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"390\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Falcon 9 on Pad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img39.imageshack.us\/img39\/8451\/dragoncrew7543351.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img39.imageshack.us\/img39\/8451\/dragoncrew7543351.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"390\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Dragon Manned Variant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img717.imageshack.us\/img717\/3421\/dragonweb3a8115380.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img717.imageshack.us\/img717\/3421\/dragonweb3a8115380.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"390\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Unmanned Variant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img337.imageshack.us\/img337\/2026\/dragonweb78166114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img337.imageshack.us\/img337\/2026\/dragonweb78166114.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"390\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>In Orbit with Solar Arrays Deployed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img692.imageshack.us\/img692\/1903\/dragonengineeringmodel8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img692.imageshack.us\/img692\/1903\/dragonengineeringmodel8.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" width=\"390\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Engineering Model<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It is actually rather rare for a rocket to have a successful launch on the first flight, but <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/06\/04\/spacex_falcon_9_in_orbit\/\">everything appears to be nominal<\/a>, with, &#8220;Nominal shutdown and orbit was almost exactly 250km. Telemetry showed  essentially a bullseye: ~0.2% on perigee and ~1% on apogee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So it appears that the NASA\/SpaceX public-private partnership is bearing fruit.<\/p>\n<p>This is a verification of the launcher, not a verification of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/dragon.php\">Dragon reusable spacecraft<\/a>, which is supposed to function as both a cargo and a crew transport and return module.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, this is all around good news, so I am waiting for NASA to find a way to screw this up.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, here is some picture pr0n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Falcon 9 on Pad Dragon Manned Variant Unmanned Variant In Orbit with Solar Arrays Deployed Engineering Model It is actually rather rare for a rocket to have a successful launch on the first flight, but everything appears to be nominal, with, &#8220;Nominal shutdown and orbit was almost exactly 250km. Telemetry showed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1036,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nasa","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}