Tonight, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Back in the air after several months to be pinned down following the explosion the previous mission. The company will take advantage to try again to recover the first floor of his rocket.
In June, the CRS-7 refueling rocket SpaceX exploded in flight due to a defective spacer. Pitchers of American society were grounded while waiting for better days. The operations were to resume this fall, but it was finally shifted a few months.
Anyway, a Falcon 9 rocket is back on the Cape Canaveral launch pad in Florida ORBCOMM OG2 perform its mission. This is put into low orbit 11 satellites for the ORBCOMM company, which is deploying a communications network Machine to Machine (M2M). This operation should take place 20 minutes after take-off if all goes well.
While the take-off was scheduled for Sunday evening, it was finally shifted to 24 hours and the countdown shows now 2:33 in the night of Monday to Tuesday. Obviously, SpaceX will try again to recover the first stage rocket, making land on the mainland this time. This is a “ secondary objective ” said Elon Musk’s society, but it is significant nonetheless, especially after the Blue Orbit success and although the conditions were not really the same.
Sébastien Gavois
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