An artist's conception of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from Florida.
Requested Falcon 9 Range Date Has Conflict
Space News
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has requested a Feb. 2 range date for the maiden flight of its Falcon 9 medium-lift rocket, according to a 90-day launch range forecast issued Oct. 28 by the U.S. Air Force’s 45th Space Wing.
But SpaceX’s proposed 11 a.m. EST liftoff would conflict with an already approved United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 launch of NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory, the range forecast shows.
Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX said in early October that it expects to deliver Falcon 9 flight hardware to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., launch facility in November and then launch one to three months later. Falcon 9’s debut originally was planned for 2007 but development of the rocket — along with that of its smaller sibling, the Falcon 1 — has taken longer than SpaceX expected.
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