US Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) 28th launch a Falcon 9 rocket International Space Station cargo resupply missions, rocket 2 and a half minutes after the sudden disintegration of the explosion, carrying about 1,800 kilograms of cargo supply was destroyed. This is the eight-month space station resupply 3rd failed. Rockets recovered landing tests also failed to carry out the original plan.
US Eastern Time at 10:21 on the 28th, the freight task execution "Dragon spacecraft" from recyclable rocket Falcon 9 (Falcon9) equipped, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida Air Force Base. The video shows the rocket flew exception occurred about 149 seconds after the explosion suddenly disintegrated in the air, debris falling into the Atlantic Ocean. "Seems to be the problem of liquid oxygen tank rocket stage took place." SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said.
This time the spacecraft carrying the astronauts needed supplies including water, food supplies and scientific experiments. One of the important equipment is new interfaces to prepare for future business tasks.
This is the eighth company SpaceX space station resupply mission since 2012 delivery, but also the first failure. For ISS, the material had already been a spate of two failed delivery. In April, a Russian supply spacecraft after liftoff lost control and crashed on the way back. In October last year, Orbital Sciences Corporation's explosion occurred in a cargo ship launch in Virginia.
NASA Administrator Bolden (Charles Bolden) 28, issued a statement the day of the launch failure for regrets, but he said the three astronauts on the International Space Station are safe, "they have enough supply in the coming months, We will work closely with the SpaceX company, to solve the problem as soon as possible and return to flight. "
28th is the SpaceX CEO Musk 44 birthday, he had planned to try again by a rocket landing tests set route autonomous return, but also specifically in the recovery platform to brush up on, "I still love you," the words. In January this year, SpaceX company made rocket for the first time in human history, recovery test, since the landing of perspective, the rocket exploded in the recovery platform. February is the second trial, because a huge storm and abandoned rocket crashed into the sea directly. Launch in April, the pusher pneumatic valves temporary malfunction, causing the rocket to slow the deceleration pound offshore platforms, causing an explosion.
Musk said he would not abandon the rocket recovery attempt, "like an airplane if the rocket can be reused, the cost can be reduced into space a hundred times," he believes recyclable rocket for human space will be revolutionary cause.
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