SpaceX trying again
Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies has set a new launch window for the maiden flight of the Falcon 1 rocket: sometime between March 20th and 25th they hope to launch the Falconsat 2 from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific. This will be the fourth attempted launch of the Falcon.
SpaceX faces several bottlenecks on the road to regular launches of the Falcon series. The most serious bottlenecks are the lack of a reliable LOX plant on Kwajalein that is capable of producing the amounts of liquid oxygen needed for launches, and the fact that they must share launch facilities with the US military. If they ever hope to have high flight rates they must have that new LOX plant and their own launch facilities (or at least launch facilities that are available to them without waiting a month at a time for the military to get its launches out of the way).
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