SpaceX Prepares For Its Most Difficult Launch With First-Ever Falcon Heavy Night Flight

SpaceX is about to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the 3rd time, the company’s 1st-ever night launch of its mammoth rocket and one of the company’s hardest launches ever

SpaceX is about to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the third time, the company’s first-ever night launch of its mammoth rocket and one of the company’s hardest launches ever.

A four-hour launch window for the rocket opens tonight, Monday June 29 at 11.30pm Eastern time. The rocket is set to lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch will be streamed live online, which you can followOn board the rocket is a rideshare mission for the US Air Force called Space Test Program-2 .

In total there are 24 satellites on board the spacecraft, and SpaceX will be tasked with deploying them in three different orbits. This means the rocket will have to restart its engine four times while in space, a process expected to take three and a half hours as the rocket is put through its paces.These satellites have a variety of purposes, heralding from US government agencies and universities.

Also on board is an atomic clock developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory called the Deep Space Atomic Clock , designed to be

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