Flight 4

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Flight 4 was the first successful Falcon 1 mission, marking SpaceX’s historic achievement of reaching orbit with a privately developed liquid-fueled rocket.


Statements (47)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Falcon 1 mission
SpaceX mission
orbital spaceflight
achievementFor commercial spaceflight
private space industry
configuration Falcon 1 Block 2
countryOfOperator United States
firstStageEngine Merlin 1C
followedBy Flight 5
launchAzimuth near-equatorial
launchDate 2008-09-28
launchDateTimeUTC 2008-09-28T23:15:00Z
launchMethod ground launch
launchOutcome success
launchPad Falcon 1 launch pad, Omelek Island
launchServiceProvider SpaceX
launchSite Omelek Island
Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
launchVehicleType liquid-fueled orbital launch vehicle
locationOfLaunchSite Kwajalein Atoll
Republic of the Marshall Islands
manufacturerOfLaunchVehicle SpaceX
missionOutcome success
missionType test flight
notableFor demonstrating orbital capability of Falcon 1
validating SpaceX’s two-stage liquid-fueled design
operator SpaceX
orbitReached yes
orbitType low Earth orbit
partOf early SpaceX development flights
payload mass simulator
payloadMassClass small satellite mass simulator
payloadType dummy payload
precededBy Flight 3
program Falcon 1 program
propellantTypeFirstStage RP-1/LOX
propellantTypeSecondStage RP-1/LOX
relatedBody Pacific Ocean
relatedOrganization Marshall Islands
rocket Falcon 1
secondStageEngine Kestrel
significance first orbital success for SpaceX
first successful Falcon 1 mission
first time a privately developed liquid-fueled rocket reached orbit
stageCount 2
status completed
yearOfEvent 2008

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Falcon 1
orbitFirstReachedFlightNumber
Flight 3
precedes

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