28 September 2008, 23:15 UTC
RatSat
Falcon 1 Flight 4 carried the non-functional RatSat mass simulator to become the first privately developed, liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit, launching from Omelek Island at Kwajalein Atoll after three earlier failed attempts.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 165 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 5 Falcon 1 flights
- Date and time
- 28 September 2008, 23:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 1
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Omelek Island, Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2008-048
- Launches in 2008
- 50th of 69
See it in orbit
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