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SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket - Falcon Heavy

Frederik Herholdt
Feb 9, 2018
2 min read

One for the books. Elon Musk pulled of yet another impossible achievement on Tuesday 6 February when SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon Heavy successfully launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster into space as planned. To top it off - the two side boosters, which helped propel the liftoff, flew back to the Florida coast for a glorious, simultaneous recovery on land.

The two outer boosters broke away from the centre core mid-flight and returned to Cape Canaveral, landing 305 meters from one another on SpaceX’s concrete landing pads: Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2. This means SpaceX landed a total of 23 rockets successfully upright. The centre core broke away from the vehicle's upper stage, but it unfortunately did not land as intended.

The centre core was supposed to land on one of SpaceX’s autonomous drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission was to launch Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, which was in upper stage vehicle of the centre core of the Falcon Heavy, on path around the sun that would launch the vehicle out to the distance of Mars’ orbit.

Unfortunately the upper stage rocket carrying the car has overshot that trajectory and has put the Tesla in an orbit that extends beyond the Mars's path.

The Tesla roadster cruised through space for about 6 hours. There was a "coast" phase which was supposed to show off a special orbital maneuver for the US Air Force before the rocket completed one final engine burn in space and put the car on its final orbit. It seems like that engine burn worked too well. "Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt." Tweet from Elon Musk on 5:46 AM - Feb 7, 2018

Before the launch Musk did say that there is an extremely tiny chance of the Roadster actually hitting mars.

The launch of the Falcon Heavy test flight was live streamed via the SpaceX youtube channel and was the second-most-watched in YouTube’s history. It reached more than 2.3 million concurrent views.