Perseus 000

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• SpaceX launched its second Falcon 9 rocket at 1543 UTC on Dec 8, successfully putting the first Dragon spacecraft into orbitfor a test flight.
• The Dragon C1's Trunk Module remained attached to the Falcon 9 second stage after orbit insertion; the capsule separated from the trunk module. About 45 min after launch six small satellites were also ejected from the trunk.
• Not much information is available about four 1U-size Los Alamos National Laboratory `Perseus' cubesats; they may be monitoring the ionosphere.