Author: Emilee Speck / Source: Florida Today
Falcon Heavy will launch as soon as this Sunday from Kennedy Space Center a little more than a year after the rocket first blasted off from the same pad on a successful test flight.
SpaceX plans to send up a communication satellite for Saudi Arabia’s Arabsat from Pad 39A. The company is targeting Sunday between 6:36 p.m. and 8:35 p.m. for liftoff.
After launching with the help of 27 Merlin engines, the rocket’s three boosters will return for a landing attempt.
The two side boosters will land at Cape Canaveral Landing Zone 1 and the core will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. During the maiden flight, the third booster missed the drone ship but the side boosters successfully separated and returned to Cape Canaveral in…
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