SpaceX: launching Falcon Heavy and landing three accelerators, two of them simultaneously [01: 35МСК, 12 Apr 2019]

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UPD The launch was supposed to take place at 00:32 Moscow time, but was postponed for 2.5 hours.
The launch was postponed to the Cosmonautics Day , April 12 at 01:35 MSK due to strong winds in the upper troposphere, which were recorded during the previous launch window on April 11 in Moscow.
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UPD2 It is reported that for today's launch, everything is going well:



UPD3 The launch was successful ! SpaceX made the world's first successful triple landing of first-stage boosters during the first commercial launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket today (on the night of April 11-12), and you were able to see everything online.



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The huge Falcon Heavy carrier rocket, the most powerful one currently in use, launched the Arabsat-6A communications satellite into orbit from NASA’s Florida space center today at about two nights in Moscow . SpaceX planned to launch at an earlier time on April 11, but it was postponed for a day in anticipation of more favorable weather conditions due to wind.

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Three Falcon 9 accelerators, connected together, will take to the air from the historic launch pad 39A of the Kennedy NASA space center.

The upcoming mission, called the Arabsat 6A, will bring into space a large communications satellite for the Arabsat Corporation from Saudi Arabia. The satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, is an advanced commercial communications satellite designed to provide Internet and communication services to people in the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe.


Image of Arabsat 6A and SaudiGeoSat-1 satellites spacenews.com

If everything goes according to plan, the two side accelerators synchronously land on the designated landing site at the Air Force station at Cape Canaveral, and the central amplifier will land at sea on one of the two unmanned ships of the company.

Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket flying today, but so far it has only one space flight “behind the injectors”. The reusable rocket was launched for the first time on February 6, 2018, sending the cherry-red Tesla roadster Elon Musk into the endless dark expanses of outer space.

With a launch price of 90 to 150 million dollars, the Falcon Heavy rocket is already certified by the US Air Force to perform security tasks.

A list of all SpaceX rocket launches.

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