SpaceX CRS-7, an unmanned reusable space exploration technology, launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:21 a.m. EDT exploded. After two minute of liftoff, an anomaly occurred and SpaceX spacecraft Falcon 9 exploded.
SpaceX is evaluating the issue. “There was an over pressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counter intuitive cause. That’s all we can say with confidence right now.” Elon Musk, SpaceX entrepreneur said on twitter after launch.
(SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft exploded over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida after two minute of lift off.)
After seven successful missions to the International Space Station (ISS), including six official resupply missions for NASA, this one was seventh official Commercial Resupply mission. In December 2008, NASA announced that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft had been selected to resupply the space station after the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. Under the CRS contract, SpaceX has restored an American capability to deliver and return significant amounts of cargo, including live plants and animals, to and from the orbiting laboratory.
SpaceX Falcon 9 containing Dragon spacecraft carrying food and clothes for crew members at ISS; equipment for science experiments in the space. This time NASA and Microsoft was planned to provide Hololens technology to ISS Astronauts but all lost in the explosion. “HoloLens and other virtual and mixed reality devices are cutting edge technologies that could help drive future exploration and provide new capabilities to the men and women conducting critical science on the International Space Station,” Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS program at NASA. The Dragon spacecraft was filled with more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and payloads, including critical materials to support more than 30 student research investigations and more than 35 of approximately 250 science and research investigations.
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