The reasons for this decision are not yet known. NASA says the technical problems, but did not specify what exactly went wrong, according to Bloomberg.
Starting awaited with great interest, because after the initial problem booster had to land on a huge platform installed in the sea off the coast of Florida. If successful, the experiment could be talking about creating reusable rocket.
For the historic landing of the Falcon 9 Company mask built at a shipyard in Louisiana floating platform, which is officially called “autonomous unmanned ship-spaceport.” Ship Photos billionaire first published in his Twitter in late November. It is vaguely reminiscent of a military aircraft carrier: a large part of the upper deck occupies the landing area measuring about 50 by 90 meters.
SpaceX was founded in summer 2002 entrepreneur Elon Musk, co-founder of the payment system PayPal. The sale of this service eBay that autumn has allowed him to gain about $ 165 million. Part of these funds went to the establishment of the company Tesla Motors, producing electric vehicles, the other part – business development SpaceX.
In December 2008, NASA announced the beginning of cooperation with firms Orbital Sciences and SpaceX, who will have to carry out a series of flights to the ISS cargo ships. In particular, SpaceX has pledged to hold 12 such operations under contract with NASA worth $ 1.6 billion.
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