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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches But Anomaly Detected Which Delayed Solar Array Deployment

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches But Anomaly Detected Which Delayed Solar Array Deployment

Released Friday, 1st March 2013
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches But Anomaly Detected Which Delayed Solar Array Deployment

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches But Anomaly Detected Which Delayed Solar Array Deployment

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches But Anomaly Detected Which Delayed Solar Array Deployment

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches But Anomaly Detected Which Delayed Solar Array Deployment

Friday, 1st March 2013
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This morning at 10:10 a.m. EST, a SpaceX Falcon 9 with Dragon spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on its second of 12 NASA contracted resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS).

Less than 24 hours after launching, the SpaceX Dragon was supposed to arrive at the ISS where the station crew would grapple and berth the spacecraft to the ISS for an expected three week visit.

However, after the Dragon spacecraft had separated from the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, and just before the Dragon solar arrays were to deploy, an anomaly occurred with the thrusters where only one of four was enabled. The spacecraft appeared to be in the correct orbit. Full story online at http://spaceref.biz

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