Originally scheduled launch of Galaxy X1 Development Flight on 24 November 2011, Thursday was delayed to 13 December 2011, Tuesday due to Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) fuel lacking. Later, after the second News Conference, Galaxy X1 was again postponed to January 2012. After another conversation with Dragon X Launch Pad Engineer, Sean Quek and General Manager,Chester Cheng on last week, Galaxy was confirmed postponed to a new launch date set on 17 February 2012, Friday.
Which the postponed X1 mission will enable Dragon X Team to make some other test onto the 7 in 1 Designation (Galaxy Project). Otherwise, the team can also working on to search for Potassium Nitrate fuel. And the launch pad 21 will also go for some other engineering test.
Aquarius M-41e final and close up mission for Dragon X's entire Water Rockets Programme was also been postponed to 22 February 2012, Wednesday. The Water Rockets Programme that was launched since October 2007 by the first International Malaysia Space System (IMSS) prototype was build, is still operating now and the final programmed close up will be made on 22 February next year.
Dragon X also added Galaxy Project's launch schedule, which involved Galaxy X2 mission onto the Payload Separation and Descending Test that was scheduled in March or April 2012, Galaxy Double X3 mission on first double boosters operational, Galaxy X4 onto environment test payload launch in September 2012, and the last for 2012 is the Galaxy Star X5, the first powerful single booster heavy liftoff vehicle test in December 2012 or February 2013.
Recovery Chutes make up
Galaxy mock up complete
Launch Pad 21 first ground test
Galaxy body aluminium covered
Fuel Tank installation
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