Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen grass Luo Yuzi for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com January 12 news, following the Virgin orbit LauncherOne rocket launch failure, the United States ABL Aerospace Systems RS1 rocket also appeared abnormal.

07:27 on January 11, Beijing time, ABL Aerospace Systems' RS1 rocket was launched from the US Pacific Spaceport operated by Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation. Later, nine first-stage engines were shut down abnormally ahead of schedule, resulting in launch failure.

ABL said 20 minutes after RS1 took off that the two-stage rocket did not perform well in its first flight and failed to send a pair of cube satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO) as planned. At present, the RS1 rocket returned to the launch pad and was destroyed.

According to the launch plan, the RS1 rocket will stand up three hours before launch, start filling liquid oxygen and kerosene propellant two hours before launch, and complete propellant filling in the first 15 minutes; enter the launch self-test procedure in the first 10 minutes; switch to use the power supply on the arrow in the first 1 minute and 30 seconds; ignite the primary engine in the first 2 seconds and fly south from Kodiak Island to a non-geosynchronous orbit with an inclination of 87.3 degrees, 250km at perigee and 360km at apogee.

According to the plan, the RS1 rocket should release one OmniTequila cube at 12 minutes and 31 seconds after takeoff and another at 14 minutes and 10 seconds.

CTOnews.com query found that the RS two-stage liquid rocket 1.8m in diameter, the length of the arrow 17 meters, the first stage uses nine E2 engines to provide total sea level thrust 529kN, the second stage uses an E2 engine to provide vacuum thrust 58kN, engine fuel can use RP-1 refined space kerosene, can also use 1000 US dollars / ton Jet-An aviation kerosene.

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