Saturday, January 10, 2015

US: Dragon boat started to supply the ISS – Onet.pl

Start rocket Falcon 9, of unmanned Dragon, took place as planned in the chair. 4.47 (10.47 Polish time). The first term of the rocket was then settle on a platform with an area of ​​91 meters to 170 meters, floating on the Atlantic approx. 320 km northeast of Cape Canaveral.

“Rocket returned to the sea platform, but sat down hard”, resulting in the damage occurred – said on Twitter Elon Musk, SpaceX chief of a private company which, under a contract with NASA realizes from 2012 supply flights to the ISS. “Close, but not quite,” – he said.

He also mentioned some damage made on the platform.

As mentioned, it was the first attempt to land the rocket on the offshore platform. Musk estimated at 50 percent. the probability that the rocket sit on the platform vertically. He explained that this has contributed to lower costs and speed up the operation.

Originally a private rocket start with the ship Dragon was to take place December 19, 2014 year. Then it was postponed due to the irregularities detected during the test rocket engines are turned on at the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. Start postponed by about three weeks also due to the upcoming Christmas and New Year.

New dates for the start – 6 and 9 January – they were not met due to technical problems.

Both ships Dragon, as well as their launchers Falcon 9 SpaceX company produces. The use by the Americans for this purpose unmanned craft became necessary after the withdrawal in 2011 of all the shuttle service. Dragon has directed four supply missions to the ISS, and by 2016 has yet to visit her eight times.

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