Hard landing Falcon-9R (more precisely in the trash)

Video attempt a soft landing of the first stage of the rocket Falcon-9 private space company SpaceX. As in general, and I previously предсказывал, The first attempt ended in a large fireworks display.

Planting failed due to failure of the aerodynamic stabilizer. They are controlled by a hydraulic drive with an open circuit. This means that once the fluid passed through the working path and extruded into the atmosphere. According to the founder of SpaceX Elon Musk, such a scheme has been chosen to provide the minimum mass stage to the final stage of descent. According to him was not enough only 10%. As a result, it was not possible to focus precisely on the level landing area, and stabilize. As can be seen from the video, descent and touch the surface occurred at an angle of 45 degrees, because of this fold-foot rocket gave way, and engine compartment hit the deck. Shot from an explosion of the fuel components and, by inertia, rocket stages were thrown overboard.

The same thing, only on the staff, previously published:











The company hopes to retry the landing of the first stage in late January or early February 2015. Oddly enough, barge, after such a blow and no explosion severely damaged:



Read more about the purpose of such experiments, why not parachute why the ocean, at whose expense fireworks, etc. written here .

This is how the start and held rocket flight:


(At 8:15, 11:44, 12:29 curious seen footage from the fuel tank of the second stage)

The main purpose of the launch - orbit insertion cargo ship Dragon - carried out successfully. Dragon has now docked to the ISS, so hungry American astronauts are not threatened, though about it today, and трубили almost all Russian media.





Source: geektimes.ru/post/244392/