The SpaceX again canceled the launch of the Falcon 9 – to Pravda.Ru

February 28 SES-9 next launch into orbit a communication satellite using the Falcon 9 launch vehicle was canceled during the countdown.

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Both the company said, the reason was technical problems.

Let’s remind, the first run was to take place six months ago, but fell because of the rocket crash . Experts are going to put the first stage of the carrier rocket on a floating platform in the ocean. Earlier, three such attempts have failed, says Star.

SpaceX fulfills technology save the first carrier rocket stage for subsequent runs to reduce the cost of space flight.

True. Roux previously informed that the head of SpaceH Elon Musk said in his Twitter that the SES-9 will be displayed to a higher orbit. To do this you will need a high speed and, accordingly, greater fuel capacity. Remaining after the satellite’s launch into orbit is not enough fuel for the return of the first rocket of the foot to the ground. “It’s just physically impossible to return to the launch pad,” – wrote Musk

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It should be noted that recently in the mass consciousness persistently hammered thought The project mask – completely independent. With this brave man he found himself investors and invested in the project that’s the only way you need to fly into space and that is how to build a rocket. In the commercial and independent basis, writes Politonlayn.

And you can not even go into the documentation, and to remember that space exploration has always been in the United States in varying degrees of private and commercial. They have since built an economic model. But the fact that it is private, does not negate the public funding. “If we talk specifically about Elon Musk, its detailed space accounting is not available, but according to open sources, he personally invested in their offspring about $ 100 million, and about the same number received from venture investors

But it’s. – drop in the bucket compared to about 5-6 billion dollars, which Musk has received as a direct funding from NASA’s, as well as in the form of payments (mainly advance) for the delivery of cargo into orbit by the US government and private customers in the US and abroad . It is interesting that the cost of the launch of the Falcon 9 with a payload sostavlyaetprimerno as much for Russian rockets, -. The order of 40-60 million dollars »

Well, that is, is such a” private space travel ” which is funded by the state. And here again the question arises not from a series of space exploration, but rather from the sphere of drawing money. Look: the same “Falcon”, according to experts – is a kind of “back to the 60 th.” By all accounts, he is either equal or inferior to, or slightly superior to the Soviet “Proton M”, developed in 1965, the notorious reusable engines with the expectation of a tenfold use began to develop in the USSR in 1976 and ended in 1980. Well, that is, advertising around the “Falcon” mass, but it is “innovation” and “breakthrough” to put it mildly, not entirely untrue.

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