NEW YORK, 9 February. / Corr. TASS Aleksey Kachalin /. The American company SpaceX plans to launch another heavy launch vehicle Falcon 9 on February 24th. It will orbit communications satellite weighing 5.3 tons, reported today news agency Reuters
It refers to the partner SpaceX -. SES company with headquarters in Luxembourg. “At the moment, SpaceX completes a long series of tests and preflight checks” – leads the agency information of the Luxembourg company, according to whom, it is a communication satellite built by Boeing American corporation
Reuters asked for confirmation at headquarters. apartment SpaceX entrepreneur Elon Musk, California. However, the company declined to comment.
January 17 Mask Company successfully launched into the target orbit, NASA satellite Jason-3 is designed for observing the global ocean surface for scientific purposes the US and EU. Start vehicle Falcon 9 with base US Air Force Vandenberg in California has passed safely. However, after delivery of the satellite attempt to pull the lower stage of the rocket on the giant offshore platform in the Pacific ended in failure.
According to the latest mask level dropped due to failure of one of the jaws of the landing support. “The reason could be the formation of ice due to condensation caused by dense fog at the start”, – said the head of the company
It was the third failure while running SpaceX Falcon 9 on an offshore platform.. Once the landing was too tight and caused the explosion of the fuel residues, another time a storm prevented the display platform exactly at the scheduled place, and spent carrier element fell into the water.
In December last year, the company still managed to successfully implement Remote launching of the first stage of the carrier. For this purpose has been prepared specially equipped boarding complex based on the US Air Force at Cape Canaveral (Florida). Musk did not leave hopes to achieve a “sea of descent”.
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