In the early hours of Monday, an enterprise rocket SpaceX took off from Air Force from Cape Canaveral Base (Florida, USA), left within one cargo ship to the International Space Station and then turned around and landed near the site where had left just before
At the top of the nose of the Falcon-9 rocket. – built and operated by the company California Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors – was the ship Dragon unmanned.
the first floor of the Falcon-9 rocket separated from the rest of the machine after about 2.5 minutes of flight and returned alone to the ground. He landed a few kilometers from the place of departure. “Good off, good landing, the Dragon is on the way,” said the commentator NASA on the mission, George Diller.
Since the Dragon separated after ten minutes the second floor of the flight of rocket, to follow a two-day trip to the space station, which will arrive on Wednesday. It takes 2268 kilograms of food, supplies and equipment, including a miniature DNA sequencing machine, the first to fly into space. Aboard the Dragon is also one of the two docking pier (2.4 meters in diameter), which will be connected to the International Space Station in Earth orbit at about 400 km altitude, allowing the transport of astronauts in spacecraft private, currently under development by SpaceX and Boeing.
the SpaceX had tried to take one of the docking pier for the season, but the equipment was destroyed in an accident with one of the company’s rocket last year. The second pier should now be delivered to the station in 2017, according to the US space agency NASA.
Built by Boeing, the two piers allow future “taxis” private space berth on the space station. Since NASA retired its shuttle fleet five years ago, the United States were dependent on Russia to take astronauts and bring the space station, at a cost of over 70 million dollars (63.2 million euros) per person. The manned flight of the ship Dragon are scheduled for next year.
The SpaceX is developing rockets that can be recovered and reused, which should will reduce launch costs. With the landing on Monday, SpaceX has managed to bring back to Earth successfully rockets Falcon – Two landed on the ground and three (four attempts) on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean. Already this fall, SpaceX intends to launch in the space of these rockets that recovered advanced Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of the company for security missions.
As for the ongoing mission, the Dragon will leave the space station on 29 August, bringing to Earth 580 kilograms of samples of scientific experiments performed in microgravity, as well as waste and other materials used. This is the ninth mission SpaceX for NASA, between 20 provided under a contract of 1600 million (about EUR 1440 million) with the space agency of the United States.
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