SpaceX showed an animated video of launching heavy rocket, the Falcon Heavy

The company SpaceX, which is developing a new heavy carrier rocket Falcon Heavy, the launch of which is to be held this year, posted on YouTube an animated video which shows how you want to run.

Information on this rocket is not enough, but we already know that the media will be able to deliver a low orbit to 53 tons of payload, to 21.2 tons to geosynchronous transfer orbit and up to 13.2 tons to Mars.

Also one of the main features of this booster (as, indeed, a whole new generation family of rockets, the Falcon 9 from SpaceX) is its reusability. Each upper stage vehicle will be equipped with a special system of planting, which will be activated when re-entering the atmosphere of our planet.

According to the video's description, the thrust when the rocket is equivalent to simultaneously thrust created by the engines of eighteen Boeing 747. Earlier, SpaceX pointed out that the Falcon Heavy will become the most powerful booster since the "Saturn 5" to deliver American astronauts to the moon.

Accurate information about the date of launch of the carrier rocket Falcon Heavy, unfortunately, no.

Source: hi-news.ru