SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket
The US space flight company Space X on February 6, 2018 launch the world's most powerful operational rocket 'Falcon Heavy' into the space. The Falcon Heavy blasted off the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, United States.
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The Falcon Heavy was carried a red Tesla Roadster car belonging to Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk into space. The car outfitted with a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit, a high data storage unit containing Isaac Asimov's science fiction book series, the Foundation Trilogy, and a plaque bearing the names of 6000 Space X employees.
Only rocket that delivered more payload into the space was Saturn or moon rocket, which was last flown in 1973.
About rocket (Falcon Heavy)
• The Falcon Heavy was launched from the same NASA launch pad that was the base for the Apollo Moon missions of the 1960s and 1970s.
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• The rocket can lift a total weight of 64 tons into the orbit, which is just the double of the lift capacity of the operational vehicle 'Delta IV Heavy', that too at a far lower cost about USD 90 million per launch, in comparison to USD 350 million for Delta 4 Heavy.
• The rocket, on the whole, equals the strength of three Falcon rockets of Space-X.
• Three cores or boosters make up the first stage of Falcon Heavy. The side boosters are connected to the centre of the core at its base and at the vehicle’s interstage.
• The two side boosters are both flight-tested. One of the boosters launch the Thaicom 8 satellite in May 2016 and the other support the CRS-9 mission in July .
• Falcon Heavy’s second stage will attempt to place the Roadster car into a precessing Earth-Mars elliptical orbit around the sun.
Why should designed.
It was initially designed with an aim to restore the possibility of sending humans to the Moon or Mars, but now Falcon Heavy is being considered mainly as a potential equipment carrier for deep space destinations.
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