Ilon Musk: Falcon Heavy will be launched this fall

The head of several international companies with a billion-dollar capitalization, entrepreneur Ilon Musk is known for his ability to surprise everyone. Sometimes his statements and promises seem implausible, but he manages to fulfill them (not all, but rather a substantial part). Now, in response to a question from a Twitter user about the timing of the launch of Falcon Heavy, Musk made an unexpected statement, promising to send a heavy rocket into space this fall.

He said that all elements of the rocket design will be delivered to Cape Canaveral within two or three months, and the launch will be made a month after that. It turns out that Falcon Heavy can fly into space in September.


For the first time about the heavy launch vehicle from SpaceX Musk mentioned in September 2005 . Then he said that for the first time a rocket would fly into space in 2013. Compliance with the deadlines can not be called a strength Mask and his companies. In this case, the named period also turned out to be erroneous, so that interested parties still wait for the Falcon Heavy to start. However, the wait seems to be coming to an end and soon the rocket will really go into space.


One of the reasons for the constant postponement of the launch date Musk called the complexity of the design and production of the rocket. But, apart from the launch, the company intends to return to Earth all three starting stages of the Falcon Heavy modules, and it may well be that these plans will come true.

Steps are planned to be put either on additional platforms located near Landing Zone 1, or on barges that are now floating somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. The payload of the new launch vehicle is 54.4 tons. It is planned that Falcon Heavy will deliver the cargo of such a mass to a low reference orbit. With its help, you can send 21.2 tons of payload to a geo-transfer orbit and about 13 tons of cargo to Mars.