Because of the accident Falcon spacewalk by US program may transfer – Kommersant

                             
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scheduled for August spacewalk from the ISS on the American program may suffer because of the accident launch vehicle Falcon 9 He told Tass source in the space industry. “Access to space for the US program was planned for August 17. However, because of the accident of his Falcon may suffer as a cargo ship Dragon was supposed to deliver to the ISS necessary for this spacewalk equipment, “- said the agency.

Roscosmos after crash NASA proposed to send part of the US cargo to the ISS on the Russian “Progress” on July 3. “If the Americans will have something to deliver, we will certainly help,” – said the representative of the Russian Space Agency.

American rocket Falcon 9 with a cargo ship company Space X Dragon suffered Yesterday an accident at the start. The launch vehicle was successfully launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) at 10:21 Eastern Standard Time (17:21 Moscow time). At 139 seconds of rocket collided with a certain anomaly, and then it exploded in the air, said at a press conference the president of the company Space X Gwenn Shotwell, stressing that the problem was not in the first stage of the rocket. According to her, now there is the analysis of the telemetry coming from the truck, and other data.

For more information on the incident, see the article “Kommersant» «Falcon” faced with an anomaly “” .