Successful Engine Test Firing for SpaceX Inaugural Falcon 9

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Successful Engine Test Firing for SpaceX Inaugural Falcon 9

id="attachment_59590" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 590px">href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/20100309_staticfire2.jpg">src="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/20100309_staticfire2-580x435.jpg" alt="" width="580" height="435" class="size-medium wp-image-59590" />class="wp-caption-text">All 9 Merlin 1C engines fired successfully today, March 13. This photo shows the fire generated from the flushing of fuel and LOX, but no engines actually started during this aborted test on March 11. Credit: SpaceX

SpaceX announced that today?s (Mar 13) test firing of all 9 Merlin first stage engines was successful at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral. This is a major milestone towards the planned inaugural first flight of the Falcon 9 rocket which SpaceX is building. This success follows an aborted test firing attempt on Thursday (Mar 11) and several other delays due to poor weather at the Cape this week.

The Falcon 9 will play a crucial role in href="http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03/10/nasa-manager-says-shuttle-extension-possible-key-issue-is-money-not-safety/">resupplying cargo for the International Space Station after the scheduled retirement of href="http://www.universetoday.com/2010/02/28/sts-130-cool-night-landing-video-from-the-shuttle-strip/">NASA?s Space Shuttle program set for late this year or early 2011.(...)
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