Failure reason: Engine failure at T+33 seconds

FalconSAT-2 was a satellite built by students of the United States Air Force Academy. It was intended to have been placed into low Earth orbit to study the effects of plasma on communications with spacecraft, however it failed to reach orbit due to a malfunction of its carrier rocket.It landed in a storage shed on Omelek Island, just a few feet from its own shipping container

Mission type: Technology · Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Rocket: Falcon 1 · Provider: SpaceX