The powerful rocket blasted off from the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, April 30.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy takes off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, April 30.
The primary goal of this Falcon Heavy mission was to bring its payload of three satellites to a geostationary orbit around Earth at an altitude of around 22,200 miles over our planet. The Falcon Heavy's main cargo was the 14,000-pound broadband satellite, ViaSat-3 Americas.
The other two smaller satellites carried into space by the Falcon Heavy on Sunday are also focused on communications. The small Arcturus communications craft is set to provide data to Alaska and surrounding regions, while the tiny GS-1 CubeSat will provide communications for Internet of Things applications.
Of course, there is more to getting these craft to orbit around Earth than the launch, as spectacular as it is. The payload must also be safely dropped off in orbit via a maneuver that may not be as firey but is equally dramatic. The story of the Falcon Heavy's journey continued in a stunning SpaceX video that showed the separation of the rocket's stages as seen from space. The video also captures the moment that the second stage's engines underwent ignition.
Though the three first-stage boosters of the Falcon Heavy are designed to be reusable none were recovered after this particular launch on Sunday. This is because they lacked the fuel needed to safely get them to perform a vertical touchdown back on Earth's surface after carrying such a heavy payload to orbit.
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