SpaceX Tweaks Falcon 9 Fuel Load To Avoid Oxygen-rich Shutdown

摘要

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) plans to carry more fuel on the next launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to avoid a repeat of the oxygen-rich engine shutdown that marred an otherwise successful demonstration flight last December.The Falcon 9 safely delivered its unmanned Dragon cargo capsule to orbit Dec. 8, but the rocket experienced what SpaceX and NASA officials consider a minor anomaly during the stage separation phase of the flight.