The ISS will be delivered over two tons of cargo.
Booster Falcon 9 with SpaceX spacecraft Dragon, which is supposed to deliver cargo to the International space station (ISS), was launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral, U.S. Florida. The first return stage of the rocket successfully sat on a ground pad at the spaceport. Broadcast of the launch led NASA.
The launch took place at 07:45 GMT, to Dragon ship needs to dock on July 20. The ISS will be delivered over two tons of cargo, including the first standardized international adaptors IDA, as well as materials for 280 scientific experiments, which leads the crew of the station.
The return of Dragon to earth with the materials the station is scheduled for August 29.
A previous attempt to launch the Falcon 9 took place on 15 June, while the first step made a hard landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic ocean. SpaceX reported that the rocket was not maintained, however, the Falcon 9 launched the calculated orbit two communications satellite Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS 2A.
Later, the founder of SpaceX Elon Musk said that the reason for the failure could be that one of the three engines involved in landing, was low traction.
To date, to deliver cargo to the ISS and four Russian Progress spacecraft, Japanese HTV and American Dragon and Cygnus. Dragon is the only vehicle that can return cargo from orbit to Earth. To deliver people to the ISS only Russian “Soyuz”.
