NEW YORK, 5 March. / Corr. Kirill Volkov TASS /. The American company SpaceX carried out on Friday the launch of the carrier rocket Falcon 9, which should be put into orbit a communications satellite based in Luxembourg company SES. The start was made with the US Air Force base at Cape Canaveral (Florida). Previously, he was delayed four times due to adverse weather conditions and technical problems.
According to company representatives, the satellite was successfully launched into orbit at an altitude of about 40 thousand. Km.
However, SpaceX was unable to successfully implement controlled descent on an offshore platform in the Atlantic Ocean bottom rung of its rocket Falcon 9, to save it for reuse.
Geostationary communications satellite named SES-9 created by Boeing and is designed to provision of telecommunications services for Asia. Its mass is about 5.3 tons
SES -. Global satellite operator, whose headquarters is located in betzdorf (Luxembourg). The company has a group of 50 geostationary satellites, which can cater for up to 99% of the population.
This is the third successful launch of the Falcon 9, after the disaster, which occurred on June 28 last year. Then the support of a cargo ship Dragon exploded about two and a half minutes after launch. Space truck was supposed to deliver to the ISS for about 2 tons of cargo, including food, equipment and materials for scientific experiments. After the incident, SpaceX has suspended the use of Falcon 9 flight.
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