Here’s how to watch the spectacular night launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, which will also involve the landing of two its two side boosters.
SpaceX is getting ready to launch an enormous communications satellite using its most powerful operational rocket, the Falcon Heavy.
The Falcon Heavy is a triple-booster rocket that packs more than 5 million pounds of thrust at launch, about three times more power than the single-booster Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX currently uses for most of its missions. However, the Heavy is less powerful than NASA’s new SLS rocket, which creates around 8.8 million pounds of thrust, and also SpaceX’s own in-development Super Heavy, with its 17 million pounds of thrust making it the most powerful rocket ever to fly (though its maiden mission in April ended in a mid-air fireball).
