Photo: REUTERS 2015
The cargo ship Dragon company SpaceX Elon Musk went to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral. A live webcast of the launch carried out on the site NASA.
The truck will be launched into orbit by carrier rocket Falcon 9. SpaceX launch During tried to organize the first stage of the rocket landing on ocean platforms. It was built at a shipyard in Louisiana and was called “autonomous unmanned vessel-Baikonur».
In his twitter Elon Musk said that the stage was able to get on the platform, but the landing to get too “hard”. “The ship is okay, but some of the equipment on board need to be replaced,” – said the businessman. He said that does not yet have a good video recording of what happened.
It is worth noting, SpaceX before launching assesses the probability of a successful landing stage is not very high – about 50%. In this case, the company promised to continue similar experiments.
It is planned that the Dragon docked with the ISS will occur on January 12. The ship will deliver to the station 2.5 tons of supplies, including food and clothing for astronauts, as well as equipment for scientific experiments.
Running Dragon is the fifth of 12 planned contract NASA and SpaceX. Start transferred several times. It was assumed that the launch of the Falcon 9 will still December 19, but it was moved to January 2015 because of the position of the ISS relative to the sun. The fears aroused by the fact that the wrong angle lighting can prevent docking station and.
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