Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket is reserved for heavy payloads destined for locations extremely far away from Earth. The mission is classified.
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SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket took off Tuesday morning from Florida for a classified national security mission for the Space Force known as USSF-44.
Despite thick fog around pad 39A, the three-core rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center at 9:41 a.m. EDT, then landed its two side boosters at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket in the world, was built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX as a stepping stone to establishing a colony on Mars. The 230-feet-tall rocket is partially reusable and has three boosters that can produce 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff.
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