HARROW: SpaceX said in a statement that the next scheduled launch of it Falcon 9 rocket will be delayed longer than expected after the June 28th blast that destroyed its unmanned ship carrying cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).
The chief executive of SpaceX, Elon Musk, previously said that the rocket launch will not be before September, after a failed strut was blamed for the rocket’s demise just minutes after takeoff on June 28 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
SpaceX chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said, “It’s taking more time than we originally envisioned to get back to flight. We’re a couple of months away from the next flight”.
The blast caused NASA at least $110 million (roughly Rs. 728 crores) in lost equipment. Musk, the billionaire cofounder of PayPal who is also the head of Tesla Motors, said that SpaceX have had a seven-year record of safety in flight until the accident happened.
Shotwell said that the problem was relatively easy to fix, and the engineers were just being extra cautious for other potential issues. Furthermore at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Space conference she said they wanted to learn lesson from the failure and wanted to ensure that they are not seeing something like that anywhere throughout the vehicle.
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