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Dave Mosher/Business Insider SpaceX launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time on Tuesday. The test payload was Musk’s own Tesla Roadster, fitted with cameras and a dummy wearing a SpaceX space suit. But SpaceX reportedly offered NASA and the Air Force a chance to put a payload on the rocket at no […]
SpaceX hasn’t been shy about wanting to land Falcon Heavy’s three booster rockets (it formally proposed its plans a year ago), but will it try now that the launch has finally been nailed down? Yes. Elon Musk’s outfit has confirmed that it will attempt to land all three boosters on Falcon Heavy’s launch, which is […]
Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. (credit: Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Elon Musk appeared almost boyish back in April 2011 as he unveiled the Falcon Heavy rocket to a handful of reporters at the National Press Club. […]
Today, SpaceX performed a static fire test on its Falcon Heavy rocket. Also called the hold-down test, it involved loading the rocket with propellant and firing all of its 27 engines at once while the rocket was secured to the launch pad. The test appears to have been successful, though we are waiting on confirmation […]
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has been in the works for so long that it almost feels like the stuff of legend at this point (Elon Musk first unveiled it in 2011), but there are signs that it might make that promised November launch. The private spaceflight outfit has just finished testing Heavy’s three first stage […]
