DemoSat

SpaceX's second Falcon 1 test flight carrying a DARPA/NASA DemoSat mass simulator; a first-stage rotation during staging struck the second-stage nozzle, inducing propellant slosh that caused premature engine shutdown and loss of orbit.

Outcome

Failure

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

Did not reach orbit

Flight

2nd

of 5 Falcon 1 flights

Date and time

21 March 2007, 01:10 UTC

Rocket

Falcon 1

Builder

SpaceX

Launch site

Omelek Island, Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands

Payload

Test Flight

Launches in 2007

9th of 68