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SpaceXLaunch FailureResupplyFalcon 9 v1.1
Launched 2015-06-28 14:21:11 UTCSpace Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly at T+ 2min19sec after a support strut failure in the second stage.
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Launch failure
Target: Low Earth Orbit
Falcon 9 v1.1 lifted off with SpX CRS-7, but the launch failed.
Booster
Landing failed on Of Course I Still Love You
B1018, 1st flight
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No cause has been given yet. What SpaceX finds will be added here, and to the updates below.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the ninth Dragon spacecraft on the seventh operational cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station as part of the NASA cargo resupply contract. It was meant to deliver the IDA-1 segment of the new ISS International Docking System. The second stage ruptured due to an overpressurization event and the launch vehicle disintegrated at T+139 seconds. According to SpaceX investigation, "Preliminary analysis suggests the overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank was initiated by a flawed piece of support hardware (a “strutâ€) inside the second stage."
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
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Height
68.4m
Diameter
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To low Earth orbit
13,150kg
Liftoff thrust
5,883kN
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