The company determined the cause of the explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket.
The head of the company SpaceX Elon Musk said that the company’s engineers have determined the cause of the explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket and is ready to resume launches.
The corresponding statement Musk made in an interview with CNBC, reports The New York Times. “I think we finally found the root of the problem. And it can rightly be called unprecedented in the history of rocketry,” said Musk. According to the head of SpaceX, an emergency situation has occurred around the tanks of carbon composite materials with liquid helium in the tank with the liquid oxygen in the upper stage of the rocket.
As noted by Musk, as a result of chemical reactions formed solid oxygen, in turn, sreagirovatj with carbon composite materials tanks. As stated by Musk, diagnosing makes it possible to resume launching missiles. Presumably, SpaceX again will launch the Falcon 9 is approximately in the middle of December.
Earlier it was reported that a missile test of SpaceX in Florida during the test run, an explosion occurred, followed by several more. SpaceX tried to land the first stage of Falcon 9 on a floating platform in the ocean twice and the stage landed on the spaceport.
The company was founded in 2002, the former owner of PayPal Elon Musk. It is a private developer of a series of rockets and the commercial operator of space systems.
