Giant Spacex Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches For First Time In Three Years

Less than 10 minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s side boosters returned for a successful, near-simultaneous landing not far from the launch pad. The core booster was jettisoned into the ocean after sending a classified payload en route to orbit for the US space force. The Falcon Heavy mission named USSF 44 lifted off from pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:43 am. ET (6:43 a.m. PT) carrying a military prototype microsatellite called TETRA-1 and a larger, unconfirmed satellite. The mission was originally planned for 2020, but unknown payload issues delayed it several times. Not long after SpaceX’s big triple rocket took off for the first time in 2018, it appeared to be forgotten in the hype surrounding Elon Musk’s even bigger Starship rocket and its accompanying Super Heavy booster, which NASA hopes will return astronauts to moon and which Musk dreams of using to build a society on Mars. But the biggest muscle in SpaceX’s garage to reach space is still the Falcon Heavy. His first flight sent a Tesla to the red planet in 2018. He flew twice more, both in 2019. The Falcon Heavy is essentially three Falcon 9 boosters linked together for triple the thrust. While the configuration is less powerful than NASA’s late Artemis I Space Launch System or Starship and Super Heavy, it is currently the most powerful operational rocket in the world. Now playing: Watch this: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket takes off
9:03 You can rewatch the release above. Due to their classified status, the deployment of satellites is not streamed. SpaceX said the grounded side boosters may be used again in a future national security mission. That could happen as early as January, although another Falcon Heavy commercial satellite launch is due as early as December.

title: “Giant Spacex Falcon Heavy Rocket Launches For First Time In Three Years " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-08” author: “Richard Armstrong”

Less than 10 minutes after liftoff, the rocket’s side boosters returned for a successful, near-simultaneous landing not far from the launch pad. The core booster was jettisoned into the ocean after sending a classified payload en route to orbit for the US space force. The Falcon Heavy mission named USSF 44 lifted off from pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:43 am. ET (6:43 a.m. PT) carrying a military prototype microsatellite called TETRA-1 and a larger, unconfirmed satellite. The mission was originally planned for 2020, but unknown payload issues delayed it several times. Not long after SpaceX’s big triple rocket took off for the first time in 2018, it appeared to be forgotten in the hype surrounding Elon Musk’s even bigger Starship rocket and its accompanying Super Heavy booster, which NASA hopes will return astronauts to moon and which Musk dreams of using to build a society on Mars. But the biggest muscle in SpaceX’s garage to reach space is still the Falcon Heavy. His first flight sent a Tesla to the red planet in 2018. He flew twice more, both in 2019. The Falcon Heavy is essentially three Falcon 9 boosters linked together for triple the thrust. While the configuration is less powerful than NASA’s late Artemis I Space Launch System or Starship and Super Heavy, it is currently the most powerful operational rocket in the world. Now playing: Watch this: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket takes off
9:03 You can rewatch the release above. Due to their classified status, the deployment of satellites is not streamed. SpaceX said the grounded side boosters may be used again in a future national security mission. That could happen as early as January, although another Falcon Heavy commercial satellite launch is due as early as December.