[The launch took place on April 14, 23:10] Today SpaceX will again try to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket
Today, from the Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station will go the ship Dragon without people on board. The new launch will take place on April 14 at 23:10 Moscow time.
This is the sixth launch of the Dragon truck to the ISS (there will be 12 of them altogether) and the eighth flight of this spacecraft. On board are food, equipment, experiments, just almost two tons of cargo - a new record for Dragon. Two days after launch, the ship will be caught by a manipulator and attached to the station, and in another five weeks the capsule will land near the California coast.
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This is one of those space launches that you can follow with crossed fingers. Today SpaceX will again try to land the first stage of its rocket on an unmanned barge in the open sea. Today's launch is an important milestone in the history of re-use of missile units to significantly reduce launch costs. Both past attempts by SpaceX to gently land the first stage ended in failure: in the first case, there was not enough liquid in the open hydraulic drive of the trellis steering wheels, the second was prevented by the weather.
Three minutes after launch, the first stage will be separated and will be deployed by automatics, then braking, opening of the trellis steering wheels, flying and boarding the Just Read the Instructions 90 × 50 meters will occur. Now the floating platform is already in the right place.
Updated 23:35: 3 minutes before the start, the launch was canceled due to adverse weather conditions. The next attempt is on April 14 at 23:10 Moscow time . The link for viewing is the same - http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
This is the sixth launch of the Dragon truck to the ISS (there will be 12 of them altogether) and the eighth flight of this spacecraft. On board are food, equipment, experiments, just almost two tons of cargo - a new record for Dragon. Two days after launch, the ship will be caught by a manipulator and attached to the station, and in another five weeks the capsule will land near the California coast.
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This is one of those space launches that you can follow with crossed fingers. Today SpaceX will again try to land the first stage of its rocket on an unmanned barge in the open sea. Today's launch is an important milestone in the history of re-use of missile units to significantly reduce launch costs. Both past attempts by SpaceX to gently land the first stage ended in failure: in the first case, there was not enough liquid in the open hydraulic drive of the trellis steering wheels, the second was prevented by the weather.
Three minutes after launch, the first stage will be separated and will be deployed by automatics, then braking, opening of the trellis steering wheels, flying and boarding the Just Read the Instructions 90 × 50 meters will occur. Now the floating platform is already in the right place.
Updated 23:35: 3 minutes before the start, the launch was canceled due to adverse weather conditions. The next attempt is on April 14 at 23:10 Moscow time . The link for viewing is the same - http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/374905/
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