Falcon 9 Ilona Mask's rocket faced with an anomaly in orbit: what is known (video)

The carrier rocket denied the engine while output Starlink satellites into space. SpaceX Falcon 9 main rocket launcher was affected by a rare anomaly in the evening on Thursday 11 July. The causes of the incident are still found, Space writes. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The Falcon 9 rocket launcher has successfully started with Vandenberg's spaceport in California with 20 Starlink satellites on board. Two stages of rockets were successfully split and the first degree dropped to the landing area in the ocean. But, according to Ilona Mask, the founder of SpaceX, the upper stage of the rocket faced the problem in orbit. He wrote about it on the social network H.

According to the message mask, the restart of the upper degree to raise the perigay led to the engine failure for unknown reasons. Although the satellites were successfully unfolded in orbit. The perigeus is a point in the orbit of an object when it is closest to the ground. A little later, after the incident, Musk reported that the Falcon 9 missile engine did not complete his second launch. As a result, the Starlink satellites were bred to orbit.

SpaceX managed to make contact with 5 satellites, and they were given a command with ionic engines to climb higher orbit. Musk wrote in X, then this attempt may not be successful, but it was worth doing. At the same time, judging by a video from the Falcon 9 rocket camera, something was really wrong with it. It can be seen that the rocket engine flows out of the white ice flow when the engine tried to make another launch.

This is not a very common phenomenon may indicate that the fuel leak has occurred. But this is just an assumption that neither Musk nor SpaceX confirmed. According to Mask, SpaceX experts are now working to find out the causes of the anomaly that happened to Falcon 9. This rocket launcher in 2024 has already made 69 launches into space. Starlink satellites were deduced during 49 launches into orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket is very reliable, because only once in 2015 it failed during the flight.

The Falcon 9 rocket sends freight and manned ships of SpaceX to the ISS. Already 13 times the rocket sent to the NASA astronauts. It is unclear as a rocket incident to affect its further use as an incident. SpaceX first need to find out what happened and how to solve this problem. As the focus has already written, the summer season begins. In the near future, it will be possible to see the most powerful meteor flow of Perseida, as well as many weaker streams.