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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Success
SpaceX has successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket.
The Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 20:45 GMT.
With a 50% success rate it was not clear whether or not the rocket would make it into orbit.
Flight profile #FalconHeavy#SpaceXpic.twitter.com/LlfWXqUaLP
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2018
What is Falcon Heavy?
Falcon Heavy is the largest rocket designed by Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX. It will one of the most powerful rockets ever built and is the next step in SpaceX’s journey towards building a rocket large enough to take humans to Mars.
It is comprised of three smaller Falcon 9 rockets effectively strapped together.
While it can’t compete with NASA’s iconic Saturn V Moon rocket which generated 7.5 million pounds of thrust, Falcon Heavy will take the current top spot as being the rocket able to lift the most amount of cargo into space.
Once fully operational it will have the thrust of 18 Boeing 747 passenger jets and be able to lift the equivalent of a Boeing 737 airliner filled with fuel, luggage and passengers into space.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch_uk_5a7a0b5fe4b06505b4e8cb7e
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