Ares I-X test flight
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The Ares I-X test flight was a 2009 NASA suborbital demonstration mission that served as the first and only test of the Ares I crew launch vehicle concept under the Constellation program.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ares I-X test flight canonical | 4 |
| Ares I-X | 3 |
| Ares I-X test rocket | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1565585 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ares I-X test flight Context triple: [Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B, notableLaunch, Ares I-X test flight]
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Boe-OFT (Orbital Flight Test)
Boe-OFT (Orbital Flight Test) was Boeing’s initial uncrewed orbital demonstration mission of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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Falcon 1 rocket
Falcon 1 rocket is a small, privately developed orbital launch vehicle created by SpaceX that became the first privately built liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit.
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Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test)
Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test) is Boeing’s planned inaugural crewed demonstration mission of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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Orbital Test Vehicle
The Orbital Test Vehicle is an unmanned, reusable spaceplane developed for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force to conduct long-duration, classified orbital missions and technology demonstrations.
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E.
Artemis I
Artemis I was NASA’s uncrewed test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, designed to orbit the Moon and validate systems for future crewed Artemis missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ares I-X test flight Target entity description: The Ares I-X test flight was a 2009 NASA suborbital demonstration mission that served as the first and only test of the Ares I crew launch vehicle concept under the Constellation program.
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A.
Boe-OFT (Orbital Flight Test)
Boe-OFT (Orbital Flight Test) was Boeing’s initial uncrewed orbital demonstration mission of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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B.
Falcon 1 rocket
Falcon 1 rocket is a small, privately developed orbital launch vehicle created by SpaceX that became the first privately built liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit.
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C.
Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test)
Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test) is Boeing’s planned inaugural crewed demonstration mission of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
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D.
Orbital Test Vehicle
The Orbital Test Vehicle is an unmanned, reusable spaceplane developed for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force to conduct long-duration, classified orbital missions and technology demonstrations.
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E.
Artemis I
Artemis I was NASA’s uncrewed test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, designed to orbit the Moon and validate systems for future crewed Artemis missions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ares I test vehicle
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NASA spaceflight ⓘ suborbital test flight ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Ares I-X test flight ⓘ |
| apogee |
about 93 miles
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approximately 150 kilometers ⓘ |
| countryOfOperator |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewModule | Orion crew module mass simulator ⓘ |
| dataCollected | aerodynamic, structural, and vibration data ⓘ |
| flightProfile | suborbital ballistic trajectory ⓘ |
| followedBy | cancellation of Ares I program ⓘ |
| guidanceSystem | inertial guidance and control system ⓘ |
| height |
about 100 meters
ⓘ
approximately 327 feet ⓘ |
| landing | Atlantic Ocean splashdown of first stage ⓘ |
| launchAbortSystem | simulated launch abort system mass simulator ⓘ |
| launchCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| launchDate | 2009-10-28 ⓘ |
| launchLocation | Florida ⓘ |
| launchPadModifications | modified Shuttle-era Pad 39B for Ares I-X ⓘ |
| launchSite |
Kennedy Space Center
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ |
| launchVehicleConceptTested | Ares I ⓘ |
| launchYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| mass | approximately 1.8 million pounds at liftoff ⓘ |
| missionDuration | about 6 minutes ⓘ |
| missionType | suborbital test flight ⓘ |
| notable | only flight test of an Ares I configuration ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf |
Constellation program test campaign
ⓘ
linked to:
Constellation program
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| precededBy | ground tests of Ares I components ⓘ |
| primaryObjective |
characterize aerodynamic performance
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demonstrate Ares I first-stage performance ⓘ test ground and launch operations for Ares I ⓘ test vehicle control and guidance ⓘ validate computer models and analysis tools ⓘ |
| program | Constellation program ⓘ |
| recovery | first stage recovered from Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Ares I
ⓘ
Orion spacecraft ⓘ Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster ⓘ
linked to:
Solid Rocket Booster
|
| result |
flight objectives largely met
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provided data for Ares I design and Constellation program ⓘ |
| status | mission completed ⓘ |
| upperStage | simulated upper stage mass simulator ⓘ |
| usedFirstStage | four-segment Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster with fifth dummy segment ⓘ |
| wasFirstTestOf | Ares I crew launch vehicle concept ⓘ |
| wasOnlyTestOf | Ares I crew launch vehicle concept ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ares I-X test flight Description of subject: The Ares I-X test flight was a 2009 NASA suborbital demonstration mission that served as the first and only test of the Ares I crew launch vehicle concept under the Constellation program.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ares I-X test flight
subject linked to:
Ares I-X test flight
linked to: Ares I-X test flight
subject linked to:
Ares launch vehicles
linked to: Ares I-X test flight
subject linked to:
Ares launch vehicles
linked to: Ares I-X test flight