SpaceX Launch Fails

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on August 3, 2008 5:19 PM | | Comments (0) |


(AP) SpaceX, the Hawthorne-based developer of low-cost experimental rockets, is investigating the cause of Saturday's failed flight of the Falcon 1.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal, said in a news release that a problem occurred causing the rocket's two stages to remain together instead of separating after the launch from a Central Pacific atoll. However, he described the launch, powered by the company's new Merlin engine, as "picture perfect."

SpaceX is developing the single-engine Falcon 1, the nine-engine Falcon 9, the 27-engine Heavy Falcon and the Dragon cargo-crew capsule to fly to the international space station when the current space shuttle fleet retires in 2010.

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