MOSCOW, 3 Feb — RIA Novosti. the Upgraded model of the Falcon 9 rocket, which SpaceX plans to launch into space before the end of this year, will be deprived of the identified potential defects.
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Previously, the newspaper the Wall Street Journal reported that the experts of the accounting chamber of the United States (audit authority in the us Congress) has revealed cracks in the turbopumps of the spacecraft.
“Engines, the company is durable enough to withstand the cracks. However, we upgrade the scheme to avoid their occurrence at all,” — said the Agency Reuters a company spokesman, John Taylor.
the Company had previously adjusted the timing of the launches, saying that the first unmanned test of the new spacecraft Crew Dragon is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2017 and manned test flight will take place in the second quarter of 2018.
SpaceX in 2014 along with the Boeing company has been awarded a contract by NASA for the construction of manned spacecraft. SpaceX is developing a manned spacecraft based on the cargo Dragon capsule, Boeing is building the spacecraft CST-100 Cockpit. Earlier it was planned that both companies will start tests in the manned mode until the end of 2017.
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