SpaceX company again failed to make a controlled descent the lower stage of the Falcon 9 – TASS

NEW YORK, 5 March. / Corr. Kirill Volkov TASS /. The American company SpaceX successfully launched a carrier rocket Falcon 9 with a satellite communications company based in Luxembourg SES. As representatives of the company, the device was launched about 40 thousand kilometers in height

The start was made with the US Air Force base at Cape Canaveral (Florida) on Friday at 18:35 local time (02..: 35 MSK Saturday). Previously, he was delayed four times due to adverse weather conditions and technical problems.

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 International Space Station (ISS), about 2 tons of cargo, including food, equipment and materials for scientific experiments.

After the incident SpaceX temporarily stopped using Falcon 9 flight, spending considerable time to determine the causes of accidents and improvement of missiles.

However, during the Friday launch of the company again failed to successfully carry out a guided descent on an offshore platform in the Atlantic Ocean Falcon 9 the bottom step to save it for reuse. As the head of SpaceX Elon Musk, the stage made a “hard landing on the platform” and more unsuitable for further use. In this Musk praised as a good chance to make a successful landing at the next start.

Earlier, SpaceX has twice tried to lower the level of the Falcon 9 on an offshore platform, but both attempts proved unsuccessful. Once planting was also too tight and caused the explosion of the fuel residues. On another occasion, 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 the removal of the first stage of the descent of the Falcon 9, but then it was planted in land on a specially equipped landing complex on the US Air Force base at Cape Canaveral. The SpaceX believe that the company will still afford to make and “sea” descent.

put into orbit geostationary communications satellite named SES-9 created by Boeing and is intended to provide telecommunication 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.