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2022: Rocket launch as part of US Space Force secret mission
On November 1, 2022, the American Falcon Heavy rocket launched into orbit as part of a secret mission of the US Space Force, the SpaceX carrier development company said.
SpaceX has launched Falcon Heavy for the first time in 3 years.
About a dozen launches of this large rocket are planned for the next few years, with most flights destined for the U.S. Department of Defense and NASA science missions.
2018
SpaceX launches rocket into space with Tesla car
The launch took place on February 7, 2018 at 23:45 Moscow time from the Kennedy Space Center cosmodrome in Florida. On board the Falcon Heavy is a capsule with Elon Musk's personal car - a red Tesla Roadster. In his stereo system. according to Musk, David Bowie's song "Space Oddity" is played. It is planned that the car will rotate around the sun, from time to time approaching Earth and Mars.
Falcon Heavy on launch pad
The American company SpaceX, specializing in the production of space technology, published on its Instagram[1]by[2] two.views of the super-heavy launch vehicle Falcon Heavy on the launch pad at Cape Ditch.
The Falcon Heavy is a superheavy launch vehicle developed from the Falcon 9 and has the first three stages of the Falcon 9 Full Thrust. The rocket will be able to launch up to 63.8 tons of cargo into low Earth orbit, and will deliver up to 16.8 tons to Mars. In December, it became known that Falcon Heavy will be launched in January 2018, and the personal car of the founder of the company Elon Musk Tesla Roadster will act as a payload.
2017
BFR (Big Falcon Rocket) Transportation System Project
Elon Musk presented a project for the BFR (Big Falcon Rocket) transport system in September 2017, according to The Washington Post. Speaking at the IAC2017 (International Astronautical Congress) event, the head of SpaceX jokingly called this Big Fucking Rocket carrier[3].
The BFR includes a reusable superheavy rocket and a manned craft that seats about a hundred people. The universal system is designed for near-Earth flights, in particular, to the ISS, launches of satellites and other spacecraft, as well as missions to the moon and Mars.
Ultimately, the BFR must replace all operating and building SpaceX rockets and ships.
The BFR rocket is capable of launching 150 tons into a low reference orbit; 31 Raptor engines are planned to be installed on the first stage of the carrier. Almost simultaneously with Musk's performance on Instagram of the company he heads, a video of the fire tests of this unit appeared.
Musk proposed using BFR to deliver people within the Earth, the carrier's journey between any two points on the planet will take less than an hour, in particular, a flight from New York to Shanghai is possible in 39 minutes, and to London - in 29. The maximum speed of the BFR ship will be 29 thousand kilometers per hour, the ticket price, Musk believes, should be comparable to that for the popular Airbus A380.
With the help of BFR, the head of SpaceX plans to roll out the construction of a lunar base and a Martian city. Musk sees the colonization of Mars as the main goal for the company. According to the plans announced by businessmen, in 2022 SpaceX with the help of BFR will send two trucks to Mars, while in 2024 four missions are expected at once - two cargo and two manned.
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