On Saturday, May 5, the
American company Dragon's SpaceX, the cargo space shuttle had successfully
disconnected from the International Space Station, and then safely disappeared
in the specified area of the Pacific Ocean. The cargo shuttle delivered about
two tons of cargo to the Earth with the ISS.
"The successful
casting of Dragon is confirmed, the third mission of SpaceX was completed to
deliver cargo to the space station and return back, using a proven
spacecraft," - said in SpaceX.
The company took
advantage of the information provided by NASA - in the agency in advance
calculated that the Dragon is wrecked in the Pacific Ocean, west of the
California peninsula. Further it should be transported to the port of Long
Beach, California.
Dragon delivered to the
Earth materials of research concerning the influence of weightlessness on
plants, as well as on the components of a number of medications. To bring the
Dragon into orbit, SpaceX used the first stage of the Falcon 9 booster, which
had already been used for another launch.
Recall, on April 3, the
company SpaceX launched a carrier rocket Falcon 9 with cargo spacecraft Dragon.
The mission was to deliver 2.6 tons of cargo, in particular, food and basic
necessities, as well as equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).
In early February, it
became known that the US Air Force destroyed part of the Falcon 9 missile,
which fell into the Atlantic Ocean after the launch of the SES-16 / GovSat-1
communications satellite into orbit. SpaceX was not going to keep the first
stage after launch, according to calculations, the rocket had to collapse, but
survived.
The media reported that
the Falcon 9 booster rocket could not deliver the secret government satellite
Zuma into orbit. According to preliminary information from the interlocutors of
journalists, due to a malfunction, the satellite could not separate from the
second stage of the launch vehicle and fell with it into the ocean.
No comments:
Post a Comment