November 29 News, according to foreign media reports, the private aerospace technology company SpaceX's first commercial satellite launch in Thursday afternoon suffered two consecutive failures, the launch plan continues to be postponed.
SpaceX was created in 2002 by the Silicon Valley "Iron Man" Elon (Elon Musk), which aims to eliminate the cumbersome procedures of the official space agency and reduce the cost of rocket launches to One-tenth. At present, SpaceX has received a 1.6 billion dollar order from NASA and will complete 12 space station supplies.
"Falcon 9th" had successfully launched a NASA meteorological satellite into space, the upgrade version of "Falcon 9th" mission is to launch a model SES-8 satellite, the ownership of the satellite operator headquartered in Luxembourg, SES. This is SpaceX's first commercial satellite launch, which is an important milestone for the company, but also an important step towards the commercialization of civil space agencies. "We are very grateful to SES for being able to bet on Sapcex," Musk said. ”
The launch was scheduled for Monday, but due to "technical failure", missed the launch window time. "We found pressure fluctuations in the ' Falcon ' step-up liquid oxygen tank," Musk wrote on Twitter. We were very careful with the launch, so we postponed it to Thursday. ”
The launch site for Thursday was chosen at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida State, starting from 5:39 P.M. and with a window time of 65 minutes. But when the first engine starts and the launch countdown is zero, the rocket suddenly stops taking off and shuts down the engine, and SpaceX's engineers say the rockets are in good condition and start preparing for a second launch.
The second launch was suspended in 4 seconds, Sapcex said the rocket would not be launched today, it would be placed back in its original position and the launch plan was postponed to a few days later. Then Musk on Twitter: "Today we ' aborted ' the launch to better correct deviations and errors." ”
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