SpaceX sent the Falcon Heavy in the third flight now with complete success
Source:Until you woke up, sent the third (and first night) space flight rocket, the Falcon Heavy, the SpaceX production. Everything went according to plan. The launch took place at 9:30 Moscow time (2:30 am local time, EDT) at launch complex 39A at the Space center. Kennedy in Florida. During his first ever start the mission, STP-2, the Falcon Heavy will carry a valuable cargo from a number of commercial clients, as well as from the Ministry of defense, the National oceanic and atmospheric administration and NASA.
First launch of Falcon Heavy is successful
The Mission includes an output 24 of various spacecraft into orbit, on three separate orbital paths. Among them, the experimental research satellite laboratory of the air force. NASA takes into space four different experimental apparatus.
Also, the Falcon Heavy will fly LightSail 2, a spacecraft, sponsored by the Planetary Society bill Nye through crowdfunding. LightSail-2 will be deployed in space as a massive solar sail. SpaceX is also the first time to reuse the Falcon Heavy boosters, flying in April in the mission Arabsat-6A, and then try to put all three first stage of the rocket to Cape Canaveral on an unmanned landing barge.
At the moment the mission is successful, the rocket landed. View a full run, it is short, but very beautiful.
In April, SpaceX successfully put the waste Central the first stage of super-heavy carrier rocket Falcon Heavy on a robotic barge in the Atlantic ocean. However, to save the step still failed. It was because of a troubled water. However, during the same mission managed to keep the integrity of not only the three exhaust accelerator super-heavy carrier rocket Falcon Heavy, but its nose cone. Now these missiles successfully repeated his flight.
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