(Space Fellowship) Inaugural Falcon 9 / Dragon Flight Hardware Update

By , Posted 03/10/10

Link: http://spacefellowship.com/news/art18998/inaugural-falcon-9-dragon-flight-har...

Today SpaceX performed our first Static Fire for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. We counted down to an T-2 seconds and aborted on Spin Start. Given that this was our first abort event on this pad, we decided to scrub for the day to get a good look at the rocket before trying again. Everything looks great at first glance. As part of the abort, we close the pre-valves to isolate the engines from the propellant tank and purge the residual propellants. The brief flames seen on the video are normal [...]