NEW YORK, 27 May. / Corr. TASS Aleksey Kachalin /. Another attempt to carry out a controlled descent of severe lower-stage rocket Falcon 9 on an offshore platform in the Atlantic Ocean postponed for a day. This was reported on Thursday a US company SpaceX, which has designed and built the spacecraft Dragon for the delivery of goods and people to the International Space Station (ISS).
SpaceX planned to conduct a pilot descent after the launch Thaicom satellite communications. “As a precaution launch delayed until tomorrow we will use this time to re-examine the parameters of onboard equipment Falcon 9 is in good health..”, – Explained in the company
As explained her head Elon Musk, “occurred. the upper-stage motor drive failure (rockets). ” “Probably for the flight, he is not a threat, but the extra time to make sure this does not hurt,” – in Thailand is designed to provide the broadcast signal he concluded
Communication satellite Thaicom eponymous company in the regions of South and Southeast. East Asia. Its launch is now scheduled for Friday at 17:40 at the time of East coast USA (00:40 MSK, 28 May). SpaceX is taken to deliver on Thaicom orbit at an altitude 35,800 km in 32 minutes.
SpaceX has twice been able to carry out controlled lower stage rocket descent. The last time this occurred on 6 May. Then SpaceX launched into orbit communication satellite JCSAT-14 Japanese companies-operator SKY Perfect JSAT Group. JCSAT-14, weighing about 5 tons, built by the American company the SSL, designed to transmit television and Internet signal into the territory of a number of Asian countries, as well as part of Australia and Russia.
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