The US company SpaceX on Saturday launched to the ISS cargo ship Dragon, a live broadcast on their website is the US space agency NASA . The main highlight of the launch, which took place at 12:47 MSK., Was to be the return of the first stage rocket Falcon 9 on a special sea platform. Due to the complexity of the unique process start repeatedly postponed : it due to bad weather conditions, due to technical problems.
SpaceX has already experimented with controlled splashdown launcher, but this time she will organize sighting landing on oceanic platform the size of a football field. As the RBC , the company assesses the probability of a successful operation is low – less than 50%, but promises to continue whatever the outcome of experiments. For successful first descent step should stabilize at the target platform, and then slow down to the landing speed of 2 m / s.
Cargo ship launched to the ISS successfully, but returns the first stage of land on the platform at too high a speed, the head of SpaceX Elon Musk. According to him, the platform is not damaged, but some of the equipment on the deck require replacement.
Dragon arrives at the ISS for docking on Monday, January 12 at about 06:00 (14:00 GMT), noted in NASA. The unit will bring the station more than 2.5 tons of useful goods, including food, equipment and materials for scientific experiments.
About a month later Dragon, is the world’s cargo shuttles, go way back. On Earth, he will deliver the results of scientific experiments and various equipment.
Earlier it was expected that the Dragon will be launched on Friday, January 9. Prior to this, NASA and SpaceX tried to send a ship to the ISS on Tuesday, 6 of January. Scheduled for this time of the vehicle start, however, was canceled at the last minute due to technical problems.
According to the contract with NASA in the amount of $ 1.6 billion already committed Dragon four regular flights to the ISS, and must fly back eight times.
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