SpaceX Falcon 9th modifications more powerful

　　Beijing, February 5, gewen·xiaoteweier, President of SpaceX (Gwynne Shotwell) in United States commercial space transportation Conference in Washington organized by the time February 3, talks about the company, said SpaceX had previously will return to Earth after the Falcon 9th rocket engine firing again, and learns of the situation based on Falcon 9th, make some modifications. Xiaoteweier did not say these "modified" refers to what, but she said those changes would make the rocket "more power".

　　Last December, the SpaceX company Falcon 9th launch rocket, successfully returned to Earth, attracted worldwide attention. The company's CEO Yilong·masike (Elon Musk) say they will not launch the rocket again, but to do some testing to see if it can perform a task. In January this year, the company once again ignite the engines of the Falcon 9th, observe it after the launch and return to Earth, and hardware equipment can operate normally. Mr MASKEY said the test data from the whole is good, but there is an engine to a "thrust fluctuation" phenomenon can be caused due to inhalation of debris.

　　SpaceX company make the rocket returned to Earth, and its reuse, the fundamental purpose of this is to reduce manufacturing costs. But if Falcon, 9th in each land and between subsequent launch requires a lot of checks and repair work, may also result in additional expenditure, waste by reusing saved costs. By understanding from the landing for the first time information, and on this basis to make corrections, SpaceX may reduce maintenance costs between the two missions. Xiaoteweier said the company hopes to make by the end of this year after renovations of Falcon 9th blasted off again.

　　SpaceX in 2016, there are several other important goals. For example, the company would be "commercial crew plan" (Commercial Crew Program) flight abort tests were carried out. The plan proposed by NASA, plans to let private enterprise build spacecraft to transport astronauts to the space station. Aborted in flight tests in order to note, if the rocket failed in flight, SpaceX's Dragon "ship crew capsule if there are opportunities to save. "Dragon" 8 SuperDraco engines embedded in the ship's hull, in case of dissolution of the rockets, they immediately ignite and rocket with a crew capsule to fly away from the fragmented. Paul Frank iPad Mini Case

　　In addition, the SpaceX Falcon rocket, held this year, the company also plans (Falcon Heavy) first test flight. The rocket is Falcon 9th variants on the side with two extra propeller. As with Falcon 9th, the company also hopes the Falcon rocket research and development to a degree and can be recycled. However, since it requires land 3 propellers, its recovery will be much more complex than Falcon 9th (the latter only 1). Xiaoteweier said that in the next few weeks, Space companies will be the latest Falcon rocket performance parameters made public.

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