The next launch of an American rocket, the Falcon 9 has resulted in failure. The rocket managed to get into space truck Dragon, but fails to return to Cape Canaveral reusable 1st stage failed. Falcon 9 has made a bad landing on a platform in the Atlantic ocean.
As explained on Twitter by the head space company SpaceX Elon musk, the landing stage on the marine platform was effective, however it has overturned the result of excessive lateral velocity. "Takeoff is successful, the Dragon on the way to the ISS, the rocket landed on the platform, but excessively rude to survive," wrote Musk.
The American company SpaceX has released the first video of the landing 1st stage of the rocket Falcon 9 on a platform in the ocean. It shows how the rocket flies up to the platform under an important angle, but it was leveled before planting. What happened after you touch the plane of the platform, not shown in the video, acquired by the apparatus of the defects is not told.
During the flight, the Falcon 9 was tested design, which allows in automatic mode to save the first step of the carrier. After its branch in stage kerf engines, which promised to correct landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic ocean, but something went wrong.
Previous landing attempt 1 stage of the Falcon 9 among other things failed. In early February of this year at the launch of the DSCOVR satellite is the 1st stage of the rocket landed softly, but in the ocean within 10 meters from the goal. In the guide Space X is said that in consequence of negative weather conditions, a floating platform was not oriented to the place where the missile.
Falcon 9 is the only in its own kind booster technology with multiple applications developed by private us firm SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) on NASA funds. In case of success in the future, the company will be able to apply the boost stage repeatedly that will completely change the Economics of space flight. But while the experience fails. The upcoming launch of the Falcon 9 is scheduled for April 20.
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