Launch SpaceX CRS-5 and attempt to land a rocket on an offshore platform: live broadcast
A few minutes after the publication of this post, the launch of the CRS-5 mission rocket should occur. The live broadcast of this historical event can be seen in the official SpaceX account on Livestream .
Four days ago, 1 minute 21 seconds before launch, the launch of the rocket was canceled due to a malfunction of thrust vector control.
The event is far from launching the fifth SpaceX mission to the ISS, but landing. After Falcon 9 launches a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, he will attempt to board a barge in the open sea about 300 kilometers from Jacksonville, Florida.
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The chance of a successful landing is very small, Ilon Mask himself estimates it at 50%. The rocket has a height of 14-storey house and a width of 21 meters. "Autonomous unmanned spaceport-ship", as Musk the barge calls it, 30 meters wide and 90 long. The SpaceX chapter compares complexity with balancing a rubber stick the length of a mop on a hand during a storm.
In the long term, a successful landing of one of the rocket steps on a barge into the sea means for SpaceX to reduce the cost of launching spacecraft technology by several million dollars. Nobody managed to land the rocket in this way. Ilon Musk attaches great importance to the possibility of reusing parts of the missiles.
If today's launch is canceled, then the next launch window is only on Tuesday.
Posted on 13:18 MSK: The launch is successful. A more detailed post with an overview of the event .
Four days ago, 1 minute 21 seconds before launch, the launch of the rocket was canceled due to a malfunction of thrust vector control.
The event is far from launching the fifth SpaceX mission to the ISS, but landing. After Falcon 9 launches a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, he will attempt to board a barge in the open sea about 300 kilometers from Jacksonville, Florida.
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The chance of a successful landing is very small, Ilon Mask himself estimates it at 50%. The rocket has a height of 14-storey house and a width of 21 meters. "Autonomous unmanned spaceport-ship", as Musk the barge calls it, 30 meters wide and 90 long. The SpaceX chapter compares complexity with balancing a rubber stick the length of a mop on a hand during a storm.
In the long term, a successful landing of one of the rocket steps on a barge into the sea means for SpaceX to reduce the cost of launching spacecraft technology by several million dollars. Nobody managed to land the rocket in this way. Ilon Musk attaches great importance to the possibility of reusing parts of the missiles.
If today's launch is canceled, then the next launch window is only on Tuesday.
Posted on 13:18 MSK: The launch is successful. A more detailed post with an overview of the event .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/364941/
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