Titan IV delay moves first Falcon I launch to Kwajalein

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: June 24, 2005 (Dated 'June 24' on the SpaceX updates page, as quoted by HobbySpace on June 24, 2005.)
To:: SpaceX update mailing list

June 24: We were just informed that the Titan IV flight will launch no earlier than September and may very well be delayed until October or November, depending upon what issues arise (due to overflight concerns, Falcon I is required to launch after Titan IV). As a result, you can expect that our first launch will now be from our island launch complex in the Kwajalein Atoll. Nominal launch date is late September.

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A short note on the SpaceX updates page: because the last Titan IV at Vandenberg has slipped to September or later and Falcon I must fly after it, the maiden launch moves to the company's island pad at Kwajalein Atoll, nominally in late September.

Notes

Unsigned note posted on spacex.com/updates.php; HobbySpace introduces it as 'the following note posted at SpaceX' and quotes it whole. SpaceRef ran it as 'Inaugural SpaceX Falcon 1 Flight Moved to Kwajalein', but that page now returns HTTP 410. Authorship by Musk is assumed from the updates page, not stated. Text was retrieved through a page reader, so punctuation and paragraph breaks may differ slightly from the original page.

Where it came from

Published by Musk; attribution widely reported.

SpaceX, newsletter. Tags: spacex-update, falcon-1, kwajalein, vandenberg, launch-delay

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