Explosions with subsequent fires in the home of the Space X in Cape Canaveral in Florida. The first reports an incident occurred during a firing test of the engines of a rocket Falcon 9 of Elon Musk company September 3 should have resulted in orbit an Israeli satellite (Amos 6) that had not yet been installed on the rocket. Among the main users of Facebook there is also envisaged for the satellite.
Local media reported numerous explosions shortly after 9 am (local time) with fragments thrown to a great distance buildings. The test is defined by the NASA routine, which is not involved in the operations, even if it is always of a very delicate phase in the management of tons of fuel. However, no injuries and, according to NASA, there are no hazards to personnel of the base and the visiting public.
The private company of South African tycoon he has focused strongly on the recovery strategy of the first of the two stages, the most powerful, the Falcon pitchers who riatterrano once the fuel exhausted. Today’s tests, from what has been learned waiting for confirmations, concerns precisely the first reuse of a stadium has been used in a previous launch. It is a stage composed of nine Merlin engines in liquid oxygen. Six-time Space X has managed to land successfully the first stage, but there have also been some failures, especially when the landing base has been set up, for reasons of safety at sea. The most serious incident was the explosion that formed in June last year destroyed a Falcon that was supposed to bring a shuttle in orbit Dragon with supplies for the International Space Station.
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