Launch terminated at the last moment.
Video viewing terminated with the comment that they would reset for 24
hours and try tomorrow.
Abort happened because of the breakdown during countdown of the
communication link for telemetry.
Such is the life of a rocketeer.
- LRK -
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Some info on Kwajalein where they are to launch.
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/575/1
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*Bjelde:* If you take the distance from El Segundo, California to Hawaii
and you double it, you are about 9 degrees off the equator, 8,500
kilometers. From here to California, you have all these atolls in the
South Pacific, such as Micronesia and Marshall Islands. Kwajalein is the
atoll of interest to us. Kwajalein Island is the main island in the
Kwajalein atoll. We�ll land there, set up shop there, have our office
there, and our command center. Everything is on Kwaj. Kwaj has a little
network, a little ring. We took advantage of existing facilities on
Kwajalein and built our own facilities on Omelek, which is a
40-kilometer offshoot from Kwajalein. This is a little island that
barely peaks out above the water, barely a third of a meter at low tide.
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http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/kwa/
Kwajalein Atoll is located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 2,100
miles southwest of Hawai'i and 1,400 miles east of Guam. The island is
home to USAKA(United States Army Kwajalein Atoll), the Ronald Reagan
Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, and about 2,000 support personnel
and family members on Kwajalein and Roi-Namur islands.
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http://kwajrockets.blogspot.com/
Kwajalein Atoll and Rockets
[A number of pictures of the Falcon 1 during countdown. - LRK-]
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Well almost launched.
Now trying to determine why a terminal abort.
Update said to be coming in 10 minutes.
Thought I had something for you.
Now wait and see.
Larry Kellogg
-- SpaceX Falcon 1 Demoflight 2 Update 16 March 2007
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.nl.html?pid=23640
*18 March Update: The flight readiness review conducted tonight shows
all systems are go for a launch attempt at 4pm California time (11pm
GMT) tomorrow (Monday). The webcast can be seen at
spacex.com/webcast.php <http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php> and will
start at T-60 minutes. Please check back for updates, as the launch will
be postponed if we have even the tiniest concern.*
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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