American launch facilities are not prepared for a wave. Rocket Firm managers warned this week that the country's primary launch facilities will soon not be able to tackle the projected increase in rocket launches, which may prevent the competitiveness of America to be hindered in the fast -growing commercial space sector, Space News reports. “I don't think people will realize how many missiles will launch in five or eight years,” said Dave Limp, CEO of Blue Origin, at the Warfare conference of the Air & Space Forces Association in Aurora, Colorado.
Support required for multiple daily launches … The concerns of Limp were reflected by managers of SpaceX and United Launch Alliance during a panel discussion, in which all three agreed that industry must collectively prepare for a future in which several daily launches become the norm. Jon Edwards, vice -president of SpaceX of Falcon Launch vehicles, emphasized that even in Cape Canaveral, the busiest American space travel, current protocols do not allow simultaneous launches of different providers.
Falcon 9 first phase countries not safe. After some on Sunday a routine Starlink mission seemed to be, a Falcon 9 -first phase landed on the Just read the instructions Drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Shortly after landing, however, a fire broke out in the rear end of the rocket. This damaged a landing leg and made sure that the rocket was overthrowed. Florida today has video of the heavily damaged rocket that returns to Port Canaveral.
The space remains difficult … the Starlink -Satellites reached a job safely, so this had no influence on the primary mission. Falcon 9 landings have become so apparently routine, such a failure is now striking. This booster was relatively new, after he had launched three Starlink missions, Goe-U, and Maxar 3. It was only the fifth flight of the first phase. To date, SpaceX has successfully flown a single booster 26 times.
India is starting to build a new launch location. The Indian Space Agency, Isro, currently has two operational launch cushions in the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. The space agency launches Indian and foreign satellites on board rockets such as PSLV and GSLV from here. While it wants to expand its launch activities, Isro officially started building a new launch location in Kulasekaranpattinam, in Tamil Nadu, this week, the National reports.
