Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX is one of the first companies that come to mind when it comes to commercial space companies. Starlink satellites and Starship rocket have been on the agenda a lot. Now, the triple booster Falcon Heavy rocket will carry the experimental aircraft of the US Space Force into space. SpaceX announced a new target launch date for this mission. Here are the details…
SpaceX marked the date on the calendar for the Falcon Heavy mission!
SpaceX’s Starship Rocket recently made its 2nd test flight. However, things didn’t go quite as he expected. The private space flight company had postponed this Falcon Heavy mission a little further. Now it has announced that it aims to launch the launch no earlier than Thursday, December 28.
Last week, SpaceX postponed the launch date of its Falcon Heavy Rocket four consecutive times. He put forward the bad weather conditions at the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as the reason for this situation. He also added that there is an undefined side issue of what happens on the ground.
With this latest mission, the Falcon Heavy Rocket will be launched for only the eighth time in its five-year history. There is no obstacle to the flight of the rocket, which has undergone final checks. Additionally, Falcon Heavy will generate 5.5 million pounds of thrust during launch. This takeoff will be a real spectacle for everyone who watches it in person and follows the live broadcast.
The Falcon Heavy will deploy the Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane on its seventh mission since its first mission in 2010. The X-37B space plane resembles a space shuttle without a crew. This spacecraft will perform various tests while in orbit. According to the Space Force, it will test future space domain awareness technologies. It will also investigate radiation effects on materials provided by NASA.
The company’s new generation Starship vehicle has two stages. Starship consists of the first stage, the Super Heavy Rocket, and the second stage, the Starship spacecraft. The Starship Rocket failed to reach orbit in its first two test flights last month. Fortunately, the Falcon Heavy is three times more powerful than SpaceX’s most powerful Falcon 9 rocket.
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