Elon Musk has suffered the first major failure – the rocket Falcon 9, which was to bring the truck to the ISS Dragon, exploded three minutes after the start. Despite the second consecutive failure in the delivery of food to the ISS flight plan to the station will not be revised.
On June 28 from Cape Canaveral was scheduled to launch cargo spacecraft Dragon SpaceX program for NASA. It was assumed that the truck will deliver to the International Space Station for about two tons of payload – food, equipment and materials necessary for scientific experimentation. On the return journey the ship had to return to Earth the results of several scientific experiments and other cargo.
Nevertheless, “something went wrong”: the rocket exploded after two minutes and nineteen seconds after the start.
As usual , NASA showed the launch live on its own channel, so that the incident can watch millions of people around the world.
«With the aircraft during take-off there was an anomaly. The team is investigating. Soon there will be the details, “- said in a Twitter company SpaceX. Later it became known that the problem arose after reaching missile supersonic speed.
Soon the incident and reacted private astronautics pioneer Elon Musk.
«On the” Falcon 9 “soon after the separation of the first stage there was a problem. We will provide more information as soon as we study all the data, “- wrote a billionaire.
Ironically Dragon carrying and docking station for docking with the ISS crews for future commercial launches.
The mission was to be the seventh in the history of truck Dragon, which currently are the only ships, capable not only of delivering cargo to the ISS, and send them back to Earth. According to the contract between NASA and SpaceX Dragon provides 12 flights to the ISS until 2017.
In addition Elon Musk has tried several times to return to Earth the first stage of its Falcon 9 for repeated use. The last attempt ended in failure, but not made billionaire to abandon the idea.
It is worth noting that now his rocket Falcon 9 allows you to run loads less than the “Proton-M”, but when you see Falcon Heavy, then start at the announced price, it will be the main competitor of “Proton”.
Now the astronauts working on the ISS, will rely on cargo spacecraft “Progress M 28M “, the launch of which will be made on July 3. At the same time, NASA claim that the ISS reserves will last until October 2015.
«Progress” will depart on time, no changes in the schedule just does not happen. We will deliver to the ISS everything you need “- told” Gazeta.ru “a source in the space industry on Sunday, half an hour after the accident.
As previously told” Gazeta.ru “ Deputy Director of Central Research Institute of Machine Building for manned programs Sergei Krikalev, who himself flew six times into space, where he spent a total of 803 days, the flight program will be revised only in the event of the failure of the launch of Falcon 9. «If he falls, then there will be decides to continue the flight or not, when and where to sit, “- said Krikalev.
In October 2014 suffered a setback and other private spacecraft, en route to the ISS, – Cygnus.
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