SpaceX Orbits Its First Operational Satellite

Controllers are checking out RazakSAT, a Malaysian Earth-observation spacecraft, after a SpaceX Falcon 1 launch vehicle sent it into orbit late July 13 from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was the second successful launch in five tries for the privately financed Falcon 1, and the first...

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