SpaceX Rocket ran out of fluid, then forced to hit platform, An unmanned SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Chloride on Tuesday did a hard landing on the sea platforms. This is part of an effort to develop a rocket that can be updated. This development aims to slash the cost of launch. Broadly speaking, after sending the capsule on its way to orbit, the rocket turned toward the earth, start the engine to guide the direction, as well as issuing fin rudder and landing legs for landing on a barge which was provided in offshore Jacksonville, Florida. In the first experiment, the rocket ran out of fluid in the steering fins, so it was forced to hit platform. In the second attempt, the rocket successfully hovering low over the sea before it was destroyed. The third trial on Tuesday aiming to transport cargo needed to support life on the International Space Station.
“This might change completely how we approach transportation to space,” SpaceX Vice President Hans Koenigsman told reporters during a prelaunch press conference.
The 208-foot (63-meter) tall Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Dragon capsule, thundered off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:10 p.m.
A launch attempt on Monday was delayed by poor weather.
After sending the capsule on its way to orbit, the rocket’s first stage flipped around, fired engines to guide its descent, deployed steering fins and landing legs and touched down on a customized barge stationed about 200 miles off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.
“Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival,” SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk posted on Twitter. During a previous landing attempt in January, the rocket ran out of hydraulic fluid for its steering fins, causing it to crash into the platform.
A second attempt in February was called off because of high seas, but the rocket successfully ran through its pre-programmed landing sequence and hovered vertically above the waves before splashing down and breaking apart.
The primary purpose of Tuesday’s launch was to deliver more than 4,300 pounds of food, clothing, equipment – including an Italian-made espresso machine – and science experiments to the station, a $100 billion research laboratory about 260 miles (418 km) above Earth.
SpaceX is one of two companies hired by NASA to fly cargo to the station following the retirement of the space shuttles. In addition to a recently extended 15-flight NASA cargo delivery contract, worth more than $2 billion, SpaceX is working on a passenger version of the Dragon capsule and has dozens of contracts to deliver commercial communications satellites into orbit.
It hopes to be certified to fly U.S. military payloads by June.
“This might change completely how we approach transportation to space,” SpaceX Vice President Hans Koenigsman told reporters during a prelaunch press conference.
The 208-foot (63-meter) tall Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Dragon capsule, thundered off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:10 p.m.
A launch attempt on Monday was delayed by poor weather.
After sending the capsule on its way to orbit, the rocket’s first stage flipped around, fired engines to guide its descent, deployed steering fins and landing legs and touched down on a customized barge stationed about 200 miles off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.
“Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival,” SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk posted on Twitter. During a previous landing attempt in January, the rocket ran out of hydraulic fluid for its steering fins, causing it to crash into the platform.
A second attempt in February was called off because of high seas, but the rocket successfully ran through its pre-programmed landing sequence and hovered vertically above the waves before splashing down and breaking apart.
The primary purpose of Tuesday’s launch was to deliver more than 4,300 pounds of food, clothing, equipment – including an Italian-made espresso machine – and science experiments to the station, a $100 billion research laboratory about 260 miles (418 km) above Earth.
SpaceX is one of two companies hired by NASA to fly cargo to the station following the retirement of the space shuttles. In addition to a recently extended 15-flight NASA cargo delivery contract, worth more than $2 billion, SpaceX is working on a passenger version of the Dragon capsule and has dozens of contracts to deliver commercial communications satellites into orbit.
It hopes to be certified to fly U.S. military payloads by June.
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