As reported Digital appearanceOn Monday (23), a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launched the shared transportation mission-14, which delivered 70 useful loads to Earth Orbit, including satellites and modular capsules. One of them, containing burnt remains and DNA samples, suffered an anomaly and ended up falling into the sea.
Whenever a spacecraft returns to the Earth’s atmosphere, there is a time when communication with the ground is interrupted. This is due to the fact that the strong friction with the air generates an extremely hot plasma layer around the structure of the boat. When the most critical phase of the re -entry is over, the communication signs often return to normal on the final route to landing. But this did not happen to the European company Nyx Capsule the Exploration Company (TEC).
In a statement, the company reported that the mission was “partially” success. “The capsule was successfully launched, increased nominal orbit nominal burdens, stabilized after separation with the pitcher, re -entry and re -established communication after the off. But it found a problem later, based on our best current knowledge and lost communication a few minutes before landing.”
The causes of failure are being investigated
According to the note, the technical team investigates the causes and will publish more information. “We apologize to all our customers who have trusted us with their useful positions. We thank our teams for the hard work and dedication to success. We have expanded the limits on time and registration. This partial success reflects both the ambition and the risks inherent in innovation.”
Called by the TEC of “Mission“(Possible mission), this was the largest use of the conveyor-14, which carries ashes given by family members through space flights of the Houston Memorial project, Texas, USA.
Celestis provides different modalities of space honors, even shipping is kept in the deep space. One of the services, called “The land goes up“(Ascension of the Earth), it is to throw DNA samples of dead dear people (including pets, if they want) in space, with the forecast to return to Earth.
However, in the case of this was the 25th mission of this type of service, called PerseveranceThe return did not occur as expected and lost the material. According to the website Space.comCelestis also commented, explaining that NYX parachutes were not opened, “leading to the impact of capsule in the Pacific Ocean and the dispersion of its contents in the sea.”
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The company apologizes to the clients who delivered the remains
The North -American Company apologized to the customers. “We hope that the families will find a little peace to know that their loved ones were part of a historical journey, being thrown into space, orbiting the earth and now resting in the immensity of the Pacific, similar to a traditional and honorable dispersion by the sea.”
Ax (former Twitter), Celestis had revealed that among the ashes were those of the dog Franz, a rescue labrador.
It seems that the other burdens of the conveyor-14 mission have not suffered any problems so far. Among them is a space spacecraft Space (the fourth in the seriesWinnebago“Of the company, designed to test the first pharmaceutical production in orbit), which is still underway.
