Tag: Falcon Heavy
SpaceX launches rocket with 24 satellites
SpaceX has launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites. The rocket is also carrying a deep space atomic clock, a solar sail, clean and green fuel, and even human ashes! Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/EZIbdSY5r2 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 25, 2019 The Falcon Heavy rocket blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. It was the…
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket takes off for first commercial flight
SpaceX has launched the world’s most powerful rocket on its first commercial mission. The new and improved Falcon Heavy thundered into the early evening sky on Thursday with a communication satellite called Arabsat, the rocket’s first paying customer. Eight minutes after lift-off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, SpaceX landed two of the first-stage…
2018 Space Exploration highlights – Space X test flight, NASA InSight Mars landing
Mankind’s curiosity to see what lies beyond planet Earth progressed further in 2018, with a number of successful missions and test flights that could see ordinary folk blast off on rockets within a few years. However, the year in which NASA turned 60 and the International Space Station (ISS) celebrated its 20th anniversary didn’t go…
