Falcon 9 rocket that exploded Sunday (29/6) local time (REUTERS / Mike Brown)
Unmanned Dragon spacecraft SPX-7 booster Falcon 9 with a surprising burst in the sky on the air shortly after take-off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA on Sunday (28/6).
SpaceX plane is assigned to bring the supply of inventory for the astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), such as food, medical backup, hardware, scientific materials, and supplies spacewalk. Nahas, the property of the company owned by Elon Musk is experiencing a technical fault and eventually explode.
"We had to take off," chirping NASA's official Twitter account complete with the launch of the SpaceX flight around 10:22 pm local time.
And we have liftoff of @SpaceX #ISScargo resupply mission to the @Space_Station. Watch: http://t.co/KX5g7yYnYG pic.twitter.com/g94Yb7pYgt
— NASA (@NASA) 28 Juni 2015
Shortly thereafter, still via Twitter, the US space agency was back singing, "There's nothing wrong from the launch.SpaceX Is evaluating the status of the mission."
After the booms, NASA also confirmed that the spacecraft Dragon SPX-7 were damaged.
The video uploaded to Instagram by user nameairlineflyer which shows the SpaceX plane exploded. Debris was reported falling in the Atlantic Ocean.
SPX-7 Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket exploded after two minutes 19 seconds glide in the air.
"We are disappointed with the loss of SpaceX that bring cargo to supply mission to the International Space Station," said Charles Bolden NASA officials said in a statement issued two hours after the launch failure.
Bolden then assured that the astronauts on the ISS remains safe with inventory that is still adequate for the next few months.
While the senior staff of NASA, William Gerstenmaier said, "This shows that we have the technical challenges of its own in space and overall cost."
Shortly Falcon 9 takeoff (REUTERS/Scott Audette)
In a press conference, adding Gerstenmaier, NASA and SpaceX will schedule the next flight on July 3, 2015 tomorrow.
For the world space flight, a failure of the rocket launch to the ISS the third since last year and the second during the row.
Then in October 2014, the company's Antares rocket exploded on the Orbital Sciences launch facility. Two months ago, the Russian space agency Roscosmos also failed to deliver cargo to the ISS due to a rocket spinning uncontrollably and eventually burn in the Earth's atmosphere.
Falcon 9 times this helped bring the two devices HoloLens hologram glasses made by Microsoft. The technology will be used NASA's plans to support the communication lines astronauts on the ISS and a team of technicians on Earth in replacing verbal instructions with illustrations holographic in the neighborhood astronaut. (CNN Indonesia)
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