SpaceX: launch of Falcon Heavy and landing of three accelerators, two of them at the same time [01: 35MSK, Apr 12, 2019]

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    The live broadcast of the launch with excellent

    UPD music. The launch was supposed to take place at 00:32 Moscow time, but was postponed for 2.5 hours.
    The launch was postponed to Cosmonautics Day , April 12, 01:35 Moscow time due to strong winds in the upper layers of the troposphere, which were recorded during the previous launch window on April 11 in Moscow.

    UPD2 Report that for today's launch, everything is going well:



    UPD3 Launch was successful ! SpaceX made the world's first successful triple landing of first-stage accelerators during the first commercial launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket today (on the night of April 11-12), and you could see everything online.


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    The huge Falcon Heavy booster rocket, the most powerful one currently in use, launched the Arabsat-6A communications satellite into orbit from the NASA Space Center in Florida today at about two in Moscow night . SpaceX planned to launch at an earlier time on April 11, but it was postponed for a day in anticipation of more favorable weather conditions due to wind.

    Broadcast with comments in Russian:


    Three Falcon 9 boosters connected together will take off from NASA’s historic Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A.

    The upcoming mission, dubbed Arabsat 6A, will launch into space a large communications satellite for Arabsat Corporation from Saudi Arabia. Lockheed Martin's satellite is an advanced commercial communications satellite designed to provide Internet and communications services to residents of the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe.

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    Image of satellites Arabsat 6A and SaudiGeoSat-1 spacenews.com


    If everything goes according to plan, two side boosters will land simultaneously on the designated landing site at the Air Force station on Cape Canaveral, and the central amplifier will land at sea on one of the company's two unmanned ships.

    Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket flying today, but so far it has only one space flight “behind the nozzles”. The reusable rocket was first launched on February 6, 2018, sending the Tesla cherry-red Elon Musk roadster to the endless dark distances of outer space.

    With a launch price of between $ 90 and $ 150 million, the Falcon Heavy rocket is already certified by the US Air Force for security tasks.


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