June 29, 2015
Categories: Falcon, ISS, Russia, Soyuz, Space, USA

American booster Falcon 9 produced by SpaceX Company failed to reacth the International Space Station exploding 2 minutes 19 seconds after the lift-off and that was a serious blow for NASA, – Breitbart news website reports.

“It is still unclear how long will SpaceX rocket accident cause investigation take but until it is finished no space device of this company can be used in the framework of ISS maintenance”.

The media also points out that after SpaceX failure Russian Soyuz TMA-17M manned spacecraft practically remains the major means of cargo delivery to the ISS despite all political sanctions imposed against Russia by the West.

The website also reminds of April Progress cargo vehicle accident when the vehicle was not inserted into the target orbit with all communication with it lost. It happened in the result off-nominal 3rd stage separation because of fuel tanks depressurization.

Due to this accident Roscosmos shifted next Progress launch from August 6 to July 3 planning to use previous version of most reliable Soyuz-U booster.

Now NASA will have to buy a seat onboard Russian vehicles, – Cnadian The Globe and Mail writes.

The next Falcon-Dragon cluster can be launched not earlier that December 2017.

Falcon 9 was one-use American booster of Falcon series developed by Space X private company. It was supposed that the booster can be used to deliver to the space both cargoes and people. According to the contract with NASA Space X committed to accomplish 12 launches to the ISS. In September 2014 along with Boeing the company won the contract for manned flights to the ISS valued at about 6,8 billion dollars.

Falcon 9 booster can be used for Dragon commercial manned spacecraft launch as well as its cargo analogue to deliver cargoes to the ISS. These vehicles were also developed by SpaceX.

 

More from this category:
July 8, 2024

Testing of RD-191M finalisation engines has been successfully completed at NPO Energomash’s research and test facility. The single-chamber liquid-propellant engine is designed for the Angara-A5M…

full story
January 16, 2014

Earlie MCC representative reported that medium altitude of the ISS was to be increased by about 2 km on January 16 . ISS reboost maneuver…

full story
April 23, 2013

Soyuz-2.1b booster with Glonass-M spacecraft delivered to the launch pad of Plesetsk cosmodrome According to RIA Novosti, specialists of Plesetsk cosmodrome rolled Soyuz-2.1b booster with…

full story
January 28, 2022

The Guiana Space Center (French Guiana) continues preparing the Soyuz-ST-B rocket with a Fregat-M upper stage to launch OneWeb spacecraft as part of mission number…

full story
December 13, 2013

ISS -37/37 crew performed more than 160 experiments on Russian and American ISS segments during its half a year mission and moreover coped with off-nominal…

full story
March 14, 2020

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on March 12, 2020, completed the complex examination of the main and backup crews of the ISS-63. The main…

full story
September 30, 2015

The first launch of new cargo vehicle Progress-MS is scheduled for November 21, 2015, – spokesman for space industry reported. “According to preliminary data the…

full story
July 28, 2020

In order to form ballistic conditions before the launch of the Soyuz MS-17 manned transport vehicle, the orbit of the International Space Station is scheduled…

full story