(CNN Money)-- SpaceX's Falcon Heavy took flight Tuesday, and everything appeared to go seamlessly. Around 1:45 pm MT, the world's most powerful rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. About two and a half minutes after launch, the two side boosters on the rocket detached ...
SpaceX confirms the final payload on tonight's Falcon Heavy launch -- Astranis's first MicroGEO communications satellite named Arcturus -- has separated from the rocket.Arcturus will provide internet coverage to Alaska for Pacific Dataport.https://t.co/x0h2tQImUK pic.twitter.com/vu2NEredGR—...
The Falcon Heavy boosted Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into an orbit around the sun with a high point in the astroid belt near the dwarf planet Ceres and a low point near the orbit of Earth. After a final rocket firing by the Heavy's upper stage, the Tesla had a velocity of nearly 27...
Success was never a certainty for Falcon Heavy's maiden flight, as Musk noted previously that a "lot can go wrong" during a first attempt. The first few minutes of the launch were the most critical, as Musk said that once the rocket was beyond the Earth's atmosphere and the upper stage...
SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Rocket Test Launch Set for Feb. 6 SpaceX Launches Next-Generation Private Falcon 9 Rocket on Big Test Flight SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket takes off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Feb. 6, 2018. (Image credit: SpaceX) The ro...
SpaceX launched its huge new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in January 2018. See photos of the powerful booster and its unusual payload here.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launched from its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 6, 2018. (Image credit: SpaceX) "This is a test flight," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said yesterday (Feb. 5). "If the test flight works, I think we'd be ready to put satellites on the next...
SpaceX’s triple-barreled Falcon Heavy rocket rose into space today for the first time on a pillar of flame and clouds of exhaust, blending the serious and silly sides of spaceflight. And to top it all off, two of those three rocket barrels landed back on Earth intact after the launch....
SpaceX had success last week with their most difficult ever Falcon Heavy launch, and in this video you can see it happen in unique slow motion. The video was recorded by cinematographer Ryan Chylinski, who spoke with Digital Trends about his project documenting rocket launches for his studio Co...
Ready and waiting to launch. The Falcon Heavy in all its glory.Credit: Spacex SpaceX is about to have a very big moment. The Elon Musk-founded company is all set to stage the first true test of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the huge new launcher expected to loft SpaceX's dreams of a ...