Within three minutes, the Falcon Heavy's two side boosters separated from the central rocket in one of the most critical points of the flight. Falcon Heavy is designed to place up to 70 tons into standard low-Earth orbit at a cost of $90 million per launch. The new rocket is essentially constructed from three Falcon 9s bolted together side by side. SpaceX had previously announced plans to eventually use Falcon Heavy to launch two paying space tourists on a trip around the moon. Musk said on Monday he was now inclined to reserve that mission for an even more powerful SpaceX launch system, the Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, whose development he said was proceeding more swiftly than expected.

Source: bd News24 February 07, 2018 05:37 UTC