The rollout for SpaceX ’s most powerful rocket , the Falcon Heavy , has been handle with a nearly concerning level of nonchalantness . On July 27th , Elon Musk announcedon Twitterthat its maiden voyage will be sometime this November . Now , the SpaceX father andself - proclaimed Boring Personhas release an animation showing the arugula launch on his Instagram . The humans love social media , and so Elon does , too .
“ Lot that can go wrongly in the November launch … ” Musk enigmatically indite in the caption of the television , which is likely a re - tone ending of an animationthat SpaceX first out in 2015 .
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According to SpaceX , the Falcon Heavy — which it ’s tout as “ the earth ’s most powerful rocket”—will be able-bodied to revoke 119,000 pound ( over 54 metric tons ) into orbit . It hasthree first - stage boostersthat will be entirely reclaimable if all goes according to plan . Musk has previously said that hedoesn’t wait the first Falcon Heavy mission to reach electron orbit , which is not exactly the right to vote of confidence you ’d like to listen for a giant rocket . But seeing as this maiden over launching has already been plague by delay ( itswas initially planned for 2013 ) , it ’s probably unspoilt Musk is keeping our expectations tempered .
OnTwitter , Musk expand on some of the other details , like where the rocket will set ashore after it launches from the latterly - renovate pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center .
“ Side booster rocket return to Cape Canaveral , ” he excuse . “ essence soil on droneship . ”
While there ’s still a wad we do n’t know about the Falcon Heavy , one matter ’s for sure : we ’ll likely know more next time Ol’ Musky ’s on one of hisincoherent Twitter storms .
Correction : An earlier version of this post ’s newspaper headline said that the vitality was ‘ newfangled . ’ As pointed out by a commenter , it seems to be a newfangled edit of an animation that ’s been around for several year . The newspaper headline and text have been updated to reflect this .
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