SpaceX's Falcon Heavy successfully carried out its first commercial launch by launching Arabsat-6A, a Saudi Arabian communications satellite operated by Arabsat. The development happened, a year after sending founder Elon Musk's red Tesla roadster into orbit as a test.
About:
What is it? Falcon Heavy is a partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle. It is a part of the Falcon rocket family which are multi-use rocket launch vehicles.
Agencies involved: It has been designed and manufactured by SpaceX (a private company founded by Elon Musk, based in California).
Features:
It is derived from the Falcon 9 vehicle and consists of a strengthened Falcon 9 first stage as a central core with two additional first stages as strap-on boosters.
Falcon Heavy has the highest payload capacity of any currently operational launch vehicle and has the third-highest capacity of any rocket ever to reach orbit.
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