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Falcon 1 Ready to Launch

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the third-time's-a-charm dept.

DarkNemesis618 writes "SpaceX's new rocket, the Falcon 1 is set to launch February 8. Twice now it has been delayed for technological problems and then for structural. It's payload is set to be the FalconSat-2 satellite. What's interesting is that this satellite was built by the cadets at the USAF Academy. The satellite is going to be studying the effects of space plasma. It appears NASA & the shuttle are not the only ways for the government to launch satellites anymore."

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  1. Could Have been called by captjc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess if it launched 4 years ago, it could have been called the New-Millenium Falcon

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    1. Re:Could Have been called by SquadBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

      5, it was 5 years ago.

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  2. Huh? by Locke2005 · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's interesting is that this satellite was built by the cadets at the USAF Academy. That must be where the term "space cadet" comes from...

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  3. Space plasma? by Caspian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Christ, they even have those new TVs on the ISS? I still have an old CRT model...

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  4. How exciting ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I hope nothing goes wrong and its apostrophe doesn't fall off !!

  5. Re:Other Alternatives by Gunfighter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dang! Good points... and here I was thinking that they had disguised them as chairs and given them all to Ballmer to throw into orbit.

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  6. Re:What? by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 2, Funny

    you : making sense ::
    eggplant : carnival

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