SpaceX successfully launched the unique Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. VIDEO

6 February in 15: Florida-based 45, SpaceX conducted a successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SpaceX broadcast the launch live.

Rocket Falcon Heavy started with a load in the form of a capsule, which contains the founder's personal car Space X and Tesla Ilona Mask - Tesla Roadster red, says “Medusa". Behind the wheel of a car sits a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit SpaceX. In her stereo will play the song "S»David Bowie.

So start should look ideally, according to the illustrators of the company.

Falcon Heavy took off from the launch site of the LC-39A, the one from which Apollo 11 went to the moon with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. Shortly after launch, two of the three upper stages separated from the rocket; both were planted and can be used again. The third upper stage brought Tesla to the path to the heliocentric orbit around the Sun (used for traveling to Mars). This acceleration unit was also planted on Earth, and the car would travel in space by itself - and even with an open top.

A window to launch this trajectory opens every two years. Its peculiarity is that it is this orbit that allows the most efficient use of fuel for flights to Mars. If everything goes well, the machine, like other cosmic bodies, will rotate around the Sun, from time to time approaching either to the Earth or to Mars. However, the Tesla will not be able to get to Mars itself: the car does not have the engines necessary to adjust the position in outer space and go to the Martian orbit. But there are three cameras installed on the machine that will broadcast views from it while traveling an electric vehicle in space.

Broadcast from cameras installed on the car:

Falcon Heavy, new launch vehicle of a private space company SpaceX, theoretically able to put into low Earth orbit up to 63 tons of cargo. To Mars, the main destination for SpaceX, Falcon Heavy Able to ship over 16 tons of cargo. The cost of one launch is estimated at 80-120 million dollars, depending on the rocket load.

None of the modern launch vehicles are able to bring such loads into orbit. For example, americana Delta IV Heavy, the largest of the existing ones, is capable of delivering about 29 tons to low orbit and only 14 tons to the geostationary. The cost of launching such a rocket is estimated at 400 million dollars; she, unlike the development SpaceX, There is no possibility to return the accelerating unit to Earth.

At the first stage Falcon Heavy a total of 27 engines. Only the Soviet H-1 rocket, which had never been successfully launched, had more; The H-1 project was classified during the Soviet era, it was closed in the middle of 1970's.

Technical design Falcon Heavy is simple - these are three accelerating blocks from the rocket Fcombined into one booster. All three units can technically be returned to Earth after launch and re-used, as this has been happening for several years now. F. Still Falcon Heavy passed tests only on the stands, 24 January 2018, all 27 rocket engines were successfully tested on the launch pad.

Falcon Heavy - intermediate stage in the plans SpaceX. To Mars, the colonization of which Ilon Musk calls its main task, this rocket most likely will not fly.

In September 2017, Mask introduced an updated concept for development. SpaceX, and the role of the main launch vehicle in it is assigned to a completely new development called BFR (Big Fucking Rocket). This rocket should oust Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy and used not only for satellite launches, but also as a ballistic vehicle for flying on Earth, as well as for traveling to the Moon and Mars. Bye SpaceX only the fuel tank for this rocket is ready, there is no question of its testing in the near future - although Ilon Musk promised to deliver a man to Mars in 2024 year.

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