Tuesday’s launch is the fourth flight of the Falcon Heavy, which consists of three Falcon 9 rocket cores that form a compact, soaring booster, powered by 27 Merlin engines with the power of 18 commercial jets.
This 70-meter-high and 12-meter-wide rocket made its first test flight in 2018, when it launched a Tesla car into space, followed by two more launches in April and June 2019, the last of which sent a group of experimental satellites on behalf of the U.S. armed forces and the POT.
At the launch this Tuesday, the central part of this trio will not be recovered and will fall into the Atlantic Ocean.
About six hours after launch, the two “classified” satellites, for which no information has been released, will enter geosynchronous orbit about 20,000 miles (32,000 km) above Earth’s equator.
Source: El heraldo
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