Today, the company SpaceX launched from Cape Canaveral, the Falcon 9 rocket with space cargo ship Dragon, which will deliver cargo to the International space station crew. For this mission, SpaceX used a missile almost entirely composed of components used for flight earlier. Cargo spaceship Dragon, who took part in the mission, too, has been in space.
It is noteworthy that the start was without any prior test run took place on the site where in September last year, there was the explosion of the Falcon 9. The us space Agency makes big bets on the use of previously flown rockets, so for today’s SpaceX launch is of great importance — the company has demonstrated that its missiles are reusable, and the technology on which they are made and repaired, reliable and has a right to exist.
The truck carries to the International space station more than two tons of cargo, most of whom are food and necessities. In addition, among the cargo there and new hardware — sensors measure sunlight reaching the Earth, as well as devices that track space debris around the ISS.
SpaceX reports that the first stage of the rocket successfully coped with the task and made a controlled landing on the water platform in the Atlantic ocean.
SpaceX successfully launched previously flown the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon truck
Vyacheslav Larionov