Until the whole world is curiously watching, will it have Elon musk to launch into space launch vehicle, the Falcon Heavy, the company SpaceX has published on the official YouTube channel animation showing how to pass this mission. And if during startup, everything will happen normally, the rocket will not explode into a million tiny pieces, for the first time in the history of mankind the electric car Tesla Roadster will go on a long journey to Mars. We offer you to look at how it will happen.
Initially, SpaceX Falcon Heavy was designed to send humans into deep space, as well as to facilitate future lunar and Martian missions. Super-heavy launch vehicle consists of three interconnected accelerator, based on the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket. A total of 27 engines provide a maximum thrust of 22 kN 819 (24 681 kN in vacuum). After reaching orbit, all three of the accelerator is able to automatically return to earth and make a soft landing on a landing platform or a floating platform.
After years of development (the first time Musk talked about Falcon Heavy in 2011) and numerous transfers of the first launch, the booster is ready to make their debut. All the systems are repeatedly checked and, according to the Mask, “ready to run”. The first and only passenger of the rocket will be a Tesla Roadster red color, which after reaching orbit will go to the red planet. Driving electric sits a mannequin in a spacesuit SpaceX, which we told you not so long ago.
“Falcon Heavy will go to the Martian orbit tomorrow. And if the rocket explodes at launch, it will take our Starmenu behind the wheel of a Roadster to the target, located 400 million miles away from Earth with a speed of 11 kilometers per second,” wrote Elon Musk in his Instagram.
#video | SpaceX published a 3D animation of the upcoming launch of the Falcon Heavy
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