
SpaceX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n The next big thing from Musk’s commercial rocket company SpaceX has been unveiled at Cape Canaveral ahead of its planned inaugural launch in January 2018.<\/p>\n December 21, 2017: Elon Musk has offered a first glimpse at the rocket that will launch SpaceX into the heavyweight class of spaceflight in 2018.<\/p>\n The CEO of the commercial rocket company and founder of electric car maker Tesla tweeted photos on Wednesday of SpaceX’s\u00a0Falcon Heavy rocket in a hangar in Florida where it’s being prepped for its maiden launch in January.<\/p>\n “Falcon Heavy launching from same @NASA\u00a0pad as the Saturn V Apollo 11 moon rocket,” Elon Musk\u00a0wrote.<\/p>\n After years of delays, the powerful new rocket — which is essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together with a second stage added to the top of the center rocket — is ready for primetime. It will carry a rather unusual payload for its demonstration launch.<\/p>\n No specific date in January has been set for the first launch, but SpaceX is already planning to launch three commercial satellites and one US Air Force payload using Falcon Heavy, according to its launch manifest.<\/p>\n That’s unless the first launch and his Tesla Roadster “blow up on ascent,” as Musk himself puts it, likely leading to more delays.<\/p>\n But if Falcon Heavy gets off the ground, it’s an important step toward greater SpaceX ambitions. The successor rocket to Heavy will be the so-called “B.F.R.” that Musk hopes will send humans to Mars in coming decades.<\/p>\n CNET<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the bottom of the Falcon Heavy rocket and its 27 Merlin engines in a hangar at SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral site. 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<\/span>Elon Musk\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span>@elonmusk<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/span>Elon Musk<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2714<\/b><\/span><\/span>@elonmusk \u00a0”\u00a0<\/span><\/a>Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn\u2019t blow up on ascent.”\u00a07:22 PM – Dec 1, 2017\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
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