According to reported for the Digital Lookon Monday (23), a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket, launched the Transporter-14 shared mission, which delivered to the orbit of the orbit Earth 70 useful charges, between satellites and modular capsules. One of them, containing cremated remains and DNA samples, suffered an anomaly and ended up falling into the sea.
Whenever a spaceship returns to atmosphere From the earth, there is a time when communication with the ground is interrupted. This is because the strong friction with the air generates an extremely hot layer of plasma around the ship’s structure. When the most critical phase of reentry ends, communication signs usually return to normal on the final route to landing. But that’s not what happened to the European company NYX capsule The Exploration Company (TEC).
In one communicationthe company reported that the mission was “partially” successful. “The capsule was successfully launched, boosted the nominal charges nominally in orbit, stabilized after the separation with the launcher, reentry and re-established communication after the blackout. But found a problem later, based on our best current knowledge, and lost communication a few minutes before landing.”
Causes of failure are under investigation
According to the note, the technical team is investigating the causes, and more information will be released soon. “We apologize to all our customers who have entrusted us with their useful charges. We thank our teams for hard work and dedication to success. We have expanded limits in time and record cost. This partial success reflects both ambition and the risks inherent in innovation.”
Called by the tec of “Mission Possible”(Possible Mission), this was the largest payload of Transporter-14, which carries ashes donated by family members through the project Memorial Space Flights of the Houston, Texas, USA.
Celestis offers different modalities of space honors, even sending remains to the deep. One of the services, called “Earth Rise”(Ascension of the Earth), consists of launching DNA samples of deceased loved ones (including pets, if desired) to space, with the forecast of bringing them back to Earth.
However, in the case of this was the 25th mission of this type of service, called Perseverancethe return did not happen as expected, and the material was lost. According to the website Space.comCelestis also commented, explaining that NYX Parachutes did not open, “resulting in the impact of the capsule on the Pacific Ocean and the dispersal of its content at sea.”
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Company apologizes to customers who delivered the remains
The American company apologized to customers. “We hope that families will find a little peace to know that their loved ones were part of a historic journey, they were thrown into space, orbited the earth and are now resting in the vastness of the Pacific, similar to a traditional and honorable dispersion by the sea.”
No X (former Twitter)Celestis had revealed that among the ashes were those of the dog Franz, a rescue labrador.
The other cargoes of the Transporter-14 mission, it seems, have not suffered any problem so far. Among them is a spacecraft from Varda Space (the fourth in the series “Winnebago”From the company, designed to test the first pharmaceutical production in orbit), which is still underway.
