The powerful rocket, packed with a classified military payload, is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday evening.
from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket will attempt to deliver a communications satellite for the U.S. Space Force, along with a batch of unspecified payloads hitching a ride to geosynchronous Earth orbit . Weather is currentlyShould all go as planned, this will mark the fourth launch for SpaceX in 2023, the fifth of its Falcon Heavy overall, and its second national security mission for the U.S. Space Force.
—SpaceX’s first national security launch—occurred on November 1, 2022, in which a Falcon Heavy performed a similar mission.The 230-foot-tall Falcon Heavy is built from three Falcon 9 engine cores. Combined, its 27 Merlin engines produce over 5 million pounds of thrust, making it the most powerful commercial rocket currently in use. It can lift nearly 64 metric tons to low Earth orbit and 26.7 metric tons directly to geosynchronous orbit. The rocket lies horizontally to arrive
the launch pad and is then raised to a vertical position using a transporter-erector known as the strongback.. The situation appears to be changing, however, as the rocket is expected to flyin 2023, including the third and fourth Space Force missions and the launch of
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