NEXT SPACEFLIGHT
NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Ratsat

Launch Time
Sun Sep 28, 2008 23:15 UTC

First successful flight of Falcon 1. SpaceX's first ever successful launch.

Rocket

Falcon 1
Image Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX
Status: Retired
Price: $7.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 343 kN
Payload to LEO: 470 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 22.25 m
Fairing Diameter: 1.5 m
Fairing Height: 3.5 m
Details

Mission Details

Ratsat

Ratsat, or DemoSat, was a 165-kilogram non-functional boilerplate spacecraft used as a mass simulator on the fourth flight of the Falcon 1 rocket. The Falcon 1 launch that carried Ratsat to orbit was the first successful orbital launch of any privately funded and developed, liquid-propellant carrier rocket, the SpaceX Falcon 1, something only six nations had successfully accomplished previously. Ratsat remained bolted to the second stage of the carrier rocket after reaching low Earth orbit. It has a hexagonal prism shape, 1.5 m long.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 165.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
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Location

Omelek Island, Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Marshall Islands

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Stats

2008

50th orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

4th mission
2nd mission of 2008
1st successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission

Falcon 1

4th mission
2nd mission of 2008
1st successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission