SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy rocket on its maiden flight

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Now SpaceX is the only commercial company to send a rocket that big into space which boasts 27 engines which together created a thrust of 5 million pounds. That enables Falcon Heavy to put a payload of about 140,000 pounds into lower Earth orbit, which twice as bigger than any other operational rocket. This has opened a new market for SpaceX, putting up massive security satellites into space and even putting a huge number of humans into other planets.

Elon Musk tweeted this after the launch:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960988527159795712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Today’s launch was a solid performance of what has been one of the most anticipated rockets to launch in the last decade. SpaceX first announced plans to develop the Falcon Heavy back in 2011, with the goal of launching it as early as 2013 or 2014. However, the inaugural mission has suffered numerous delays; two failures of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 pushed the launch even further out than planned. Musk also noted that engineering the rocket turned out to be unexpectedly difficult. “It actually ended up being way harder to do Falcon Heavy than we thought,” he said at a press conference in July. “At first it sounds easy: just stick two first stages on as strap-on boosters. How hard can it be? But then all the loads change, the aerodynamics change.”