Falcon Heavy may fly again as soon as this week.
Another view of the fifth Falcon Heavy rocket in a hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ahead of a planned January 2023 launch. SpaceX posted this photo on Jan. 7.rocket. It consists of three strapped-together Falcon 9 first stages, with the central booster topped by an upper stage and the payload.
The Falcon Heavy is capable of delivering nearly 141,000 pounds of payload to low Earth orbit, compared to 50,265 pounds for the Falcon 9, according to the vehicles' specification pages. The SpaceX heavy lifter generates more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, which made it, until recently, the most powerful rocket in operation. NASA's
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