It happened! SpaceX is to launch the “Sleeping Monster” after 3 years of missing
Wow, Wow, this is definitely one of the most beautiful spectacles of the space rocket industry!
Those are the two Falcon Heavy booster cores landing back on Earth after launching from orbit. They landed smoothly, almost like a video game, after falling thousands of miles from outer space. Can you even comprehend how much engineering this took?
It’s insane! Falcon Heavy is an immutable engineering masterpiece of SpaceX!
Unfortunately, as SpaceX will tell you, what is not so great is having the most powerful rocket in operation has been chilling for years at a time now!
However, the story is about to change at the end of this year, as the beastly launch rocket is about to roar to life again!
What changed for this launch to take place?
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Rocket science is hard, especially when you’re starting from scratch. But SpaceX is nothing if not audacious.
The first three rockets SpaceX launched failed spectacularly, as rockets often do. But failure is the best teacher, and each successive launch made it a bit further downrange. Rocket science is also expensive, and having burned through almost $200M in the capital, Musk notes that if the fourth launch had failed he would have thrown in the towel. Fortunately, the fourth Falcon 1 reached orbit – the first privately built ground-launched vehicle to do so. Since then all SpaceX mission patches have included the four-leaf clover that someone had, perhaps in a bit of desperation, added before that launch.
With SpaceX, every experiment and attempt, even if it were a failure, provided valuable knowledge that moved them closer to their goal. Eight years later, despite occasional setbacks, SpaceX is regularly launching, landing, and reusing first stages on commercial and government flights, with a success rate that is almost boring.
Even while they were perfecting the Falcon 9, SpaceX was working on their next rocket: Falcon Heavy.
The easy way to describe the Falcon Heavy is to say that it’s three Falcon 9s strapped together, but that belies the sheer complexity of this vehicle.
Elon Musk even admitted: “It actually ended up being way harder to do Falcon Heavy than we thought. Really way, way more difficult than we originally thought. We were pretty naive about that.”
It happened! SpaceX is to launch the “Sleeping Monster” after 3 years of missing
It happened! SpaceX is to launch the “Sleeping Monster” after 3 years of missing
