Elon Musk Shows off SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket
Set to be one of the most powerful rockets ever produced.
Elon Musk has presented the best glimpse yet of SpaceX‘s soon-to-be fully realized Falcon Heavy rocket via Twitter. Located in Cape Canaveral, Florida and set to launch in January 2018, the rocket is nearly complete, with the payload and nose cone appearing to be the only thing incomplete on the surface.
The Falcon Heavy is set to be one of the most powerful rockets ever produced, consisting of three reusable Falcon 9 cores used by previously flown Falcon 9 boosters. It’s said to be so powerful that it’s capable of carrying around 140,000 pounds of cargo into lower Earth orbit. Check out the footage and share your thoughts below. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin recently had a successful rocket launch, setting its sights on Elon Musk and SpaceX.
Falcon Heavy at the Cape pic.twitter.com/hizfDVsU7X
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2017
