Stepping on India’s footsteps, SpaceX set to launch heaviest rocket this New Year

NewsBharati    29-Dec-2017
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Cape Canaveral, December 29: This year India’s Space Organization ISRO launched heaviest rocket by launching GSLV Mk3. Following the footsteps of the sme concept SpaceX Agency set to launch ‘Megarocket’ - Falcon Heavy, in the New Year which will pave way for humans to explore the solar system from Cape Canaveral launchpad for the first time. 

The Falcon Heavy is expected to blast off early next year on an unmanned mission with a unique payload - Elon Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster car. This time SpaceX has raised the rocket for the first time on the same pad as the Saturn V Apollo 11 moon rocket.

It will blast off on its first unmanned mission next month; Musk has boasted it will have double the thrust of the next largest rocket in use. It is now expected to undergo a static fire test will be the first time that all of Heavy's 27 Merlin engines will be fired at once.

'Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks,' Musk said. If all goes according to plane, the Falcon Heavy will lifting off and enter orbit before two of its booster rockets separate off and return to Earth at Cape Canaveral in controlled landings. The centre core of the rocket will separate from the main module, containing Musk's car, and then begin its own controlled descent back to Earth, landing on a drone ship.