Falcon 1 maiden launch bumped a day by Army range

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: November 24, 2005 (Update line is stamped '24 Nov 2005 9:10 pm EST'; SpaceRef posted it November 24, 2005.)
To:: SpaceX update mailing list
Subject:: SpaceX Falcon Launch Delayed by 24 Hours

Update 24 Nov 2005 9:10 pm EST: All prelaunch preparation is complete. The final task of test firing the torch igniters worked on the first attempt, making us green for launch. Since our launch was bumped by a day to Saturday (California time), we will make tomorrow a shorter day and do some of the optional checkouts of systems that might cause a halt in the countdown. SpaceX was just informed that "in order to facilitate preparations for a missile defense launch", the Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) has bumped the SpaceX Falcon 1 maiden flight from its officially scheduled launch date of Friday, November 25 at 1 p.m. PST (9 p.m. GMT). The new launch time is Saturday, November 26 1 p.m. PST (9 p.m. GMT).

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On the eve of the first Falcon 1 countdown, SpaceX reports all prelaunch work is done and the torch igniters fired on the first try, but the Army's missile defense command has bumped the launch from Friday November 25 to Saturday November 26.

Notes

Unsigned; SpaceRef filed it under press releases. The first paragraph is a first-person launch-site update, the rest is SpaceX's statement about the range bump, which Spaceflight Now also quoted. Attribution to Musk personally is not stated by the source. Text was retrieved through a page reader, so punctuation and paragraph breaks may differ slightly from the original page.

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Published by Musk; attribution widely reported.

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