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SpaceX Static-Fires Falcon Heavy Core for 1st Time

SpaceX just notched a big milestone in the development of the company’s powerful new Falcon Heavy rocket, which is scheduled to fly for the first time a few months from now. “First static-fire test of a Falcon Heavy center core completed at our McGregor, TX rocket-development facility last week,” SpaceX representatives wrote on Twitter today (May 9), as an accompaniment to an 18-second video of the rocket test. When ready to go, the two-stage, 230-foot-tall (70 meters) Falcon Heavy will be able to launch 60 tons (54 metric tons) to low-Earth orbit and 24 tons (22 metric tons) to geostationary transfer orbit. It will therefore be the most powerful booster since NASA’s Saturn V moon rocket, SpaceX representatives have said.”

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