With barely two minutes of liftoff, the Falcon 9 rocket blasted in mid-air, luckily though, the launch was an unmanned mission containing no living being inside. Everything seemed perfect when the Falcon took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday. But its explosion shocked everyone who witnessed the rocket getting disintegrated piece by piece after its launch.
The Falcon took off at 10:21 am and exploded within the two minutes of its takeoff. Engineers stated that they have the capacity to figure out all the bugs before putting astronauts onboard SpaceX’s dragon capsule. According to Gwynne Shotwell, president of SpaceX, had live astronauts been aboard yesterday’s flight, the abort system would have easily evicted them to safety. The actual reason of the craft’s catastrophe is still unknown.
Michael Suffredini, manager of the ISS program stated that the incident grades the third loss of an ISS resupply vehicle in the past eight months. SpaceX teams are studying the data in order to pinpoint the root cause and assured to deliver detailed information following a thorough fault tree analysis. He added that they will soon recover their loss in work and ready their next flight.
NASA specified on its website that another resupply craft is all set for a launch on July 3. Officials stated that they will support SpaceX to measure what happened and aid them understand the specifics of the failure and correct it to move forward.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) labelled the crash as a “mishap”. SpaceX is currently trying its best to put the pieces together. Due to this incident authorities has been forced to alter future launches. It has been reported that three men were waiting at the global Space Station for the precious cargo, which included American Scott Kelly as he watched the explosion on TV.
The current launch failure has raised concerns amongst authorities regarding the delivery of equipment and food to the astronauts living in space stations.
