SpaceX reaches orbit with Falcon 1 – Flight 4 (full video including Elon Musk statement)
Posted on: September 29, 2008
Posted in: SpaceX
SpaceX is the only private company to ever reach earth orbit with their Falcon 1 rocket. This is the FULL 40 minute webcast from about T-10 minutes until well after SECO. We didn’t want to cut out the chorus of cheering after the SpaceX crew realized that they had just made history!
While Scaled Composites did reach space twice and thus winning the Ansari X PRIZE, they did not actually reach orbit. The Falcon 1 with its simulated payload is the first private vehicle to reach orbit on Sunday September 28th, 2008 at 23:31 UTC.
Space flight forever changed today.
Note that there was a problem with our recording from T+5:15 to T+6:15, and there is just a simple dissolve there.
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SpaceX reaches orbit with Falcon 1 – Flight 4 | Spacevidcast…
SpaceX is the only private company to ever reach earth orbit with their Falcon 1 rocket. This is the FULL 40 minute webcast from about T-10 minutes until well after SECO. We didn’t want to cut out the chorus of cheering after the SpaceX crew realize…
I watched the podcast from T-15secs and while the flight was smooth, I was puzzled at the minimal pitch rate to begin with, then with the slowness and regularity of the deltaV accumulation in both the 1st and second stages. They claim a 500km x 800km orbit @ T=08mins+ @ 5200m/s insertion velocity, but at 9m:29s the ‘cast gave 4600m/s velocity while the engine was still burning and supposedly had 30 seconds of burn still to complete when comm’s were lost(apparently expected). According to my calculations they needed 5200m/s @ 800km and 7500+m/s @ 500km for orbital insertion. Looked like a ballistic trajectory to me, not orbital insertion….or maybe it was a drop-down insertion…I’d like confirmation or orbit by somebody else frankly!
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