SpaceX has asked Ukraine for help

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SpaceX обратилась к Украине за помощьюA Ukrainian company will carry oversized rocket components.

Us company SpaceX has appealed to the Ukrainian state enterprise “Antonov” to provide a cargo aircraft an-124-100 “Ruslan” for transporting the head part of the Falcon 9 rocket from Los Angeles to Florida. The application published on the us news site airline Daily Airlines Filings.

A Ukrainian company will carry oversized rocket components (in 1788 564 417 centimeters with a total weight of approximately 28.1 per ton) to Titusville or directly to Cape Canaveral. The flight is scheduled to take place from 10 to 13 January 2018.

In the application noted the importance of timely delivery for SpaceX: “the failure to deliver the goods before the date of about January 11, 2018 will result in additional consequences, which will negatively affect the planned launch of the SpaceX mission. Such a result would be too expensive for SpaceX and customers.”

In December last year in the program “Hard with vlashchenko” on the Ukrainian TV channel ZIK the public Prosecutor of the country Yury Lutsenko offered to give Dnipro plant “Pivdenmash” SpaceX founder Elon musk.

Included in the “Antonov” unit “Antonov Airlines” specializiruetsya international freight transportation. The company, established in 1989, performs about 35 percent of the global volume of shipments by air oversize and heavy cargo. The company’s fleet consists of one aircraft An-225 Mriya, seven An-124-100 “Ruslan”, one An-22 “Antey”, two An-12, one An-26 and one An-74T.

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