The private space truck Cygnus exploded at the time of launch

The Cygnus space truck, which was supposed to deliver more than 2 tons of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), exploded at the time of launch at the Vallops cosmodrome on the US Atlantic coast.

The launch was broadcast live on the NASA website.


* In the video, the rocket launch starts from 49 seconds.

The launch was scheduled to take place at 02.22 am Wednesday, October 29, from the Vallops cosmodrome in Virginia on the Atlantic coast using the Antares launch vehicle. The explosion occurred approximately six seconds after launch. According to reports, during the incident no one was hurt.
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The launch of Cygnus was supposed to take place on Monday, but it was postponed due to an unknown vessel that was fixed in the ocean zone over which the spacecraft was to pass.

Cygnus was developed by a private company Orbital Sciences, which received a contract from NASA to cost 1.9 billion to carry out eight cargo launches to the ISS by the end of 2016. Cygnus is sent to the ISS for the fourth time. Each of the devices gets a personal name, the latter is named in honor of the American astronaut Donald Slayton.

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