American rocket fell to the ground after a failed flight into space: what is known (video)

To spread: The American company Firefly Aerospace launched its rocket for Alpha for the sixth April, but everything went wrong as planned. The mission was never completed, and the rocket fell into the ocean near Antarctica. Space writes about it. The two-stage Alpha rocket, almost 30 meters high, Firefly Aerospace went into space from the Vandenberg spaceport in California on Tuesday, April 29. She had to deliver satellite technologies to Lokheed Martin to a low Earth orbit. In focus.

Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! But the sixth launch of the Alpha rocket was officially declared unsuccessful, since it was not possible to place prototypes of satellites in orbit. The rockets had an unknown anomaly after the separation of two degrees, which led to the loss of the upper stage of the rocket engine.

This significantly reduced the craving of the engine, and thus the mission was doomed to failure. The initial data showed that the upper degree of the Alpha rocket reached a height of 320 km. But then it turned out that the upper stage of the rocket was at lower height, and this stage, along with the satellites, later fell into the Pacific Ocean north of Antarctica.

Firefly Aerospace has launched an investigation into the incident to find out the cause of the accident and promised to provide results after its completion. This mission was the first of the 25, which Firefly Aerospace should be carried out for Lockheed Martin for the next 5 years. The Alpha rocket can deliver up to 1000 kg of reference to low Earth orbit and its first flight took place in September 2021. Only two of the six missions of the missile were completely successful.

It is worth noting that at first the sixth launch of the Alpha rocket was scheduled for March 15, and then it was moved to April 28, but it took place only on April 29 due to technical problems. Firefly Aerospace has become known all over the world this year, when its Blue Ghost landing module on March 2 has made a soft landing on the moon, as focus has already written. It was the second in history planting a private module on a moon surface.

The Blue Ghost module, which was on the board of 10 NASA scientific devices, worked until mid -March, until the night was coming on the moon and he could no longer charge his batteries with solar energy. As the focus has already written, from May 8 to May 11, as scientists predict, the old Soviet landing module will fall to the ground, which never flew to Venus. For 53 years he rotates around the Earth and now has to burn in the atmosphere.