its initial parking orbit. Thirty-eight minutes later, the rocket's second-stage engine fired again to circularize the orbit. The payload was then successfully deployed. After the launch Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, told a reporter the launch had been a success. "We nailed the orbit to well within target parameters...pretty much a bullseye" Musk said. The Falcon 1 upper stage is still in low Earth orbit as of 2021. End of Program Following the fifth flight, future launches of Falcon-1 were postponed, and eventually cancelled, and the vehicle decommissioned from service, with SpaceX stating “We could not make Falcon 1 work as a business.” Launches which had been booked onto Falcon-1 were moved to other vehicles or rebooked as Falcon-9 rideshare payloads. See also Comparison of orbital launch systems Comparison of orbital launchers families Falcon 1e Falcon 9 Vega List of Vega launches References Videos Further reading External links SpaceX Falcon 1 Overview SpaceX launch vehicles Vehicles introduced in 2006