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SpaceX Testing - Falcon 9, Flight 3

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Uploaded by on Jun 30, 2011

Visit: http://www.spacex.com/ for more information on SpaceX, Dragon, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, reusable rockets, grasshopper, Mars, upcoming rocket launch, or Elon Musk.

A 60-second long test firing of the Falcon 9 Flight 3 second stage, conducted at the SpaceX Test Facility in McGregor. Texas. The Merlin Vacuum second stage engine generates 92,500 lb of force in vacuum, and operates with a vacuum specific impulse of 342 seconds -- the highest efficiency ever for an American hydrocarbon rocket engine. In flight the engine ignites about 3 minutes after launch, delivering the Dragon spacecraft to orbit about 6 minutes later.

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  • Space X - The reason I became interested in space :)

  • I can't wait for the next flight, hopefully to the ISS. Go SpaceX!

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  • @matthewakian2 government regulation!

  • @matthewakian2 well if they said Matt we have 2 rockets A we tested 50 times and B we tested 350 times you get to pick which one were strapping you into!

  • @BattyFred 39 days isn't that farfetched..

  • that thing is so badass

  • @ti994apc Things should get really interesting in the next ten years. Rock on.

  • @matthewakian2 Skylon spaceplanes would be awesome. I would have a see a real work and survive re-entry. What would have been great is the Delta Clipper Experimental Advanced (DCXA).

  • @ti994apc How about the Skylon spaceplane?

  • I know they got to go through a lot of checks, I just don't understand why everything takes so long?

  • SpaceX is the real future. 

  • Rock on!!!

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