Currently scheduled for a Tuesday, November 11. 1, the launch from the Kennedy Space Center is the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch in three years. The launch was originally scheduled for the morning of Monday, October 1. 31, but was rescheduled. The rocket was lifted upright on pad 39A overnight on Wednesday. After a static-fire test, the world’s most powerful rocket will be removed from the pad so that two classified US Space Force satellites can be loaded. Essentially, the Falcon Heavy is three Falcon 9 rockets linked together. And in an amazing scene of simultaneous landings, two of the boosters will return to earth. The third booster will put the satellites into a distant orbit. In total, 28 Merlin engines will be fired. It will be the first Falcon Heavy launch since 2019. “The main reason Falcon Heavy has basically sat on the sidelines for three years is that the payloads that were supposed to fly on it just weren’t ready,” Eric Berger from Ars Technica. said. Those big payloads are from NASA and the Department of Defense. Berger also wrote a book about Elon Musk and SpaceX. “I think symbolically it’s a really important rocket for SpaceX,” he said. “Because, first of all, it shows that a private company could build the biggest and most powerful rocket. I mean, think about it. Before that, they were fully government-funded projects.” The Falcon Heavy is the only rocket that can reach all the orbits the Department of Defense wants to reach.
Currently scheduled for a Tuesday, November 11. 1, the launch from the Kennedy Space Center is the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch in three years.
The launch was originally scheduled for the morning of Monday, October 1. 31, but was rescheduled.
The rocket was lifted upright on pad 39A overnight on Wednesday.
After a static-fire test, the world’s most powerful rocket will be removed from the pad so that two classified US Space Force satellites can be loaded.
Essentially, the Falcon Heavy is three Falcon 9 rockets linked together. And in an amazing scene of simultaneous landings, two of the boosters will return to earth.
The third booster will put the satellites into a distant orbit. In total, 28 Merlin engines will be fired. It will be the first Falcon Heavy launch since 2019.
“The main reason the Falcon Heavy has basically sat on the sidelines for three years is that the payloads that were supposed to fly on it just weren’t ready,” said Eric Berger of Ars Technica.
Those big payloads are from NASA and the Department of Defense.
Berger also wrote a book about Elon Musk and SpaceX.
“I think symbolically it’s a really important rocket for SpaceX,” he said. “Because, first of all, it shows that a private company could build the biggest and most powerful rocket. I mean, think about it. Before that, they were fully government-funded projects.”
The Falcon Heavy is the only rocket that can reach all the orbits the Department of Defense wants to reach.
