SpaceX pushes back Falcon Heavy launch - WESH 2 Orlando

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. —

Currently scheduled for a Tuesday, Nov. 1, motorboat from the Kennedy Space Center is the archetypal SpaceX Falcon Heavy motorboat successful 3 years.

The motorboat was primitively scheduled for the greeting of Monday, Oct. 31, but it was rescheduled.

The rocket was lifted upright connected pad 39A overnight Wednesday.

After a static trial fire, the world’s astir almighty rocket volition past beryllium taken disconnected the pad truthful that 2 classified U.S. Space Force satellites tin beryllium loaded.

Essentially, the Falcon Heavy is 3 Falcon 9 rockets strapped together. And successful an astonishing country of simultaneous landings, 2 of the boosters volition instrumentality to earth.

The 3rd booster volition spot the satellites successful a distant orbit. In all, 28 Merlin engines volition fire. It’ll beryllium the archetypal Falcon Heavy motorboat since 2019.

“The superior crushed the Falcon Heavy has fundamentally sat connected the sidelines for 3 years is that the payloads that were expected to alert connected it conscionable were not ready,” Eric Berger of Ars Technica said.

Those large payloads are from NASA and the Department of Defense.

Berger besides wrote a publication connected Elon Musk and SpaceX.

“I deliberation symbolically it’s a truly important rocket for SpaceX,” helium said. “Because archetypal of all, it shows that a backstage institution could physique the largest, astir almighty rocket. I mean, deliberation astir that. Before that, it was wholly government-funded projects.”

The Falcon Heavy is the lone rocket that tin deed each the orbits that the DOD wants to get to.