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October 09, 2012

Airborne 10.09.12: SpaceX In Business, SC 787 Delivered, AOPA Fallout Continues

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On-time and on-spec, SpaceX' Dragon is now its way to the ISS. Following a Sunday night, 2035 ET launch, the Dragon capsule reached its planned orbit of 212 miles above Earth, despite a single engine failure a little over a minute into the mission. The vehicle is on course to catch up to the station during the next couple of days. The Falcon9’s redundant engine configuration didn’t miss a beat... Boeing, on Friday, marked a historic milestone with delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner built at its North Charlesto

“Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines and shut it down. As designed, the flight computer then recomputed a new ascent profile in realtime to reach the target orbit, which is why the burn times were a bit longer." Source: Statement from SpaceX Founder Elon Musk following the failure of one of nine engines on the Falcon 9 rocket during launch Sunday.

The NRS is a system of waypoints developed for use within the United States for flight planning and navigation without reference to ground based navigational aids.

The Airport Privatization Pilot Program

The airport privatization pilot program is designed to allow airports to generate access to sources of private capital for airport improvement and development.