SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch in two hours time

Here's a heads up.

In the most expensive scrappage scheme of all time Elon Musk's used Tesla Roadster will be launched into a Mars-Earth orbit at 18:30 UTC/GMT on top of a Falcon Heavy.

Falcon Heavy is the biggest launcher since the Saturn V. It comprises three Falcon launchers tied together with mechanical (not pyrotechnic) links. The outer launchers will (hopefully) land at Cape Carnaveral and the inner one on one of their drone ships.

Live video will be streamed by SpaceX at:

www.spacex.com/webcast

Neil

I guess that counts as space junk!

How many charging points on the way to Mars?

Crazy!

http://spacenews.com/segment/news/

Worth a look

Launch now at 20:05 GMT, apparently suffering from high altitude wind (don't we all )

John

My imagination ran riot when I read that the three cores had 27 Merlin Engines generating more than 5 million pounds of thrust!

Always knew those Merlins were good uns! 😉🙃

Supersonic Spitfire, anyone?

Edited By V8Eng on 06/02/2018 18:25:08

That's certainly proven heritage in my textbook!

They have to put a dummy load on it, so why not get the free advertising?

Delayed an hour because of wind shear.

Neil

One has to salute and admire Elon Musk!

Not only making an enormous rocket but putting one of his cars on it!

Edited By V8Eng on 06/02/2018 20:24:29

Launch and recoveries successful. What a sight.

That all seemed to go like clockwork! They make it look too easy. Those two boosters landing simultaneously was just amazing.

John

Really awesome!

Its one of those things where my instinct would be to land them miles apart as it would be 'safer', but then when you think about it, if you can control one booster landing to within a few metres, you just have to do the same thing twice.

Ian P

That was just... awesome.

Agreed the boosters landing almost exactly like the simulation was unbelievable!

Don't Panic!

Neil

I wonder if the driver knew there was no air in his tyres

That car is going to have an awful lot of miles on it for the next owner.

Mike

Ah yes, but look at the provenance!

Not holding out hope for the centre core though - the drone ship landings tend to be risky.

Arty analysis here: **LINK**

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/10/16997124/elon-musk-spacex-tesla-art-starman-advertising

MichaelG.

Big Boy SpaceX Starship takes off... eventually

**LINK**