Falcon Heavy -- SpaceX's Powerful New Rocket
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a 27-engine booster will be ready for launch in one year. The rocket will be company's first entry into "heavy lift" launch, representing a major milestone in the burgeoning commercial space-flight industry.
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/elonmusk2.jpg?ve=1&tl=1Elon Musk with Falcon Heavy
SpaceX founder Elon Musk today unveiled the Falcon Heavy, a modified version of the Falcon 9 (pictured) with three times the power.SpaceXhttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/elonmusk2.jpg?ve=1&tl=1- https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/1a4a27fa-Falcon_Heavy.3k.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
SpaceX Falcon Heavy
SpaceX's new Falcon Heavy will compete with the largest commercial launchers available while maintaining cost effectiveness. It consists of a standard Falcon 9 with two additional Falcon 9 first stages acting as liquid strap-on boosters.SpaceXhttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/1a4a27fa-Falcon_Heavy.3k.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 - https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/engine_new2.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
Engine Blast
SpaceX engineers fire off a rocket engine during testing.SpaceXhttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/engine_new2.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 - https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/falcon_9_demo.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
F9 Demo
Engineers prepare the Falcon 9 for a demonstration.SpaceXhttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/falcon_9_demo.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 - https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/f9_lights.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
F9 Launchpad
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket sits idly on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.SpaceXhttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/f9_lights.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 - https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/BP9F3966.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
F9 Launch
Falcon 9 blasts off on December 8 during SpaceX's historic test flight. It became the first company in history to re-enter a spacecraft from Earth orbit. This was the second flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.SpaceX / Chris Thompsonhttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/BP9F3966.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 - https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/dragonspace.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
Dragon
Dragon is a free-flying, reusable spacecraft developed to sit on top of the Falcon launch vehicles. On December 8th, SpaceX successfully launched Dragon into orbit before successfully recovering it, a first for private space-flight.SpaceXhttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/dragonspace.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 - https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/comparison.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
Falcon Comparison
A side-by-side comparison of SpaceX's Falcons.SpaceXhttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/comparison.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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