The next launch of the US launch vehicle Falcon 9 came crashing down. Rocket managed to get into space truck Dragon, but certainly return to Cape Canaveral reusable first stage could not. Falcon 9 has made an unsuccessful landing on the platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
According to Twitter Head Space Corporation Space X Elon Musk, landing stage on the offshore platform has been successful, but then it capsized due to excessive lateral velocity . “Rise successful, Dragon on the way to the ISS, the rocket landed on the platform, but too rough to survive,” – wrote Musk.
The US company SpaceX has published the first video of the first attempts at landing stage rocket Falcon 9 on the platform in the ocean. On the record shows, like a rocket flies up to the platform at a significant angle, however, equalized just before planting. What happened after touching the surface of the platform, not shown in the video . While accurate data on the device received injuries were reported.
During the flight, the Falcon 9 tested technology that allows automatically save the first stage of the carrier. To do this, after its separation on stage including the engine, which should have been corrected landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. However, there was a problem Houston and something went wrong.
A previous attempt to fit the Falcon 9 first stage also ended in failure . In February of this year when the satellite launch DSCOVR first stage of the rocket landed softly, but the ocean ten meters from the goal. The guide Space X then stated that because of the adverse weather conditions floating platform was not directed to the site of impact.
Falcon 9 – the only one of its kind booster technology reusable developed a private US company SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) at the expense of NASA. In case of success in the future, the company will be able to use multiple booster that will completely change the economics of space flight. However, until the experiment fails. The next launch of the Falcon 9 is scheduled for April 20.
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