SpaceX lost its most valuable rocket due to strong winds: it overturned after landing

SpaceX says goodbye to one of its most important and famous fleets in its entire history as a space company. One of B1058’s propellers failed due to strong Atlantic windsAfter landing from its 19th voyage.

In the early hours of 23 December, ‘Falcon 9’, as the spacecraft was also called, managed to complete its launch and landing at Port Canaveral, however, while it remained on the surface, This caused problems with one of its structures

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One of the propellers could not withstand the strong winds of the Atlantic Ocean, Due to which the large structure lost stability and fell to the ground. Of the barge scheduled to land.

“During transportation back to port, the drone’s propeller overturned due to strong winds and waves,” the unit said on its Twitter account.

Main rocket identified To launch two astronauts and more than 860 satellites into orbit, With an average of over 260 metric tons in 3.5 years.

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From May 2020, B1058 begins its flight carrying astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, Members of the first crew of the Crew Dragon ship on the International Space Station.

Two years later, it became the first promoter of Elon Musk’s company. For successfully completing 14 flights during the Starlink mission. From there, the ship would have other successful flights and missions, until reaching an unfortunate descent for the nineteenth time, which exceeded the expectations of its creators, as it was originally intended for only 10 missions.

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This showed that the ship could be partially reusable, leading to confidence that it would reach its 20th launch, But the recent incident has completely destroyed this possibility.

However, it seems that the engineering team was already on the radar that this accident could happen, so “The new Falcon booster has improved landing legs with self-leveling capability and reduces this type of problem”As the company announced B1058 in the same farewell tweet.

Nathalia Gomez Parra

Digital Scope Editorial

Time

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