SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the Falcon Heavy , the launch vehicle being placard as themost brawny rocket in the world , will be ready for its first launching on February 6th .
The Falcon Heavy is the Eruca vesicaria sativa Musk says could eventually carry astronauts or other equipment to Mars as part of SpaceX’sdubiously safehuman inhabitation project . Per CNN Money , the only more hefty rocket developed by humans was NASA ’s Saturn V model , which was retired in the 1970s and was capable of purloin roughlytwo and a half times as much massas its raw rival — though the Falcon Heavy ’s three first - level boosters are designed to be reclaimable , which is arguably a much more telling technological accomplishment .
Aiming for first escape of Falcon Heavy on Feb 6 from Apollo launchpad 39A at Cape Kennedy . Easy viewing from the public causeway .
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)January 27 , 2018
The first flight will bear a dummy payload , though Musk has joked about using the Eruca vesicaria sativa tocarry a Tesla Roadsterinto space ( which might actually be the case , judging from pre - release photos of the car sitting in theFalcon Heavy ’s payload chamber ) . harmonise to CNN , the Falcon Heavy is already contract to bear telecommunications satellites for Arabsat , Inmarsat , and Viasat , as well as a payload name STP-2 for the U.S. Air Force and one blank space holidaymaker fly the coop around the moon .
Musk has previously conceded that the launch is not a sure shot , though , and if anything break wrong all of those projection could be delayed . Per the Verge , the Falcon Heavy was originally supposed to be ready by 2013 or 2014 , and SpaceX has along historyof data-based rockets exploding on the launching pad , mid - air , or touch back down — pretty much every microscope stage of the process .
[ CNN Money ]
Update 3:00pm ET : This Charles William Post has been updated to clear up that SpaceX has actually provided photos of a Roadster prepped to plunge on the Falcon Heavy , suggesting that he ’s actually gon na do it .
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