Falcon Heavy successfully completed its first commercial mission.

Today (April 11), SpaceX's Falcon Heavy has successfully launched on its first commercial mission and completed the mission perfectly with a landing three of the main engines and deployment of Arabsat-A6 into orbit.

 

At 6:35 p.m EDT, the Falcon Heavy —the most powerful rocket in the world— has lifted off at the 39A launchpad of NASA's Kennedy Space Center which was Apollo moon mission has been hosted.

Falcon Heavy has loaded the satellite, Arabsat-A6, to provide internet and services to residents of the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe.

 

When the rocket passes T+ 2:37 from the launch, the side booster engine cutoff and separation from center core confirmed and now the side boosters go-ahead to back to the landing Zones.

 

After T+ 3:28 from the left off, the center core engine shutdown and stage separation confirmed. At this time, the center core engine tries to landing on droneship that they had been failed before at the last test fright.

 

As soon as the time pointing at T+ 4:10, the fairing has deployed and ready to deploy.

 

At T+ 7:50, Falcon Heavy side boosters have landed at SpaceX Landing Zones 1 and 2!

(To see more detailed video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1116553298176118784)

 

And 2 minutes after side boosters have landed, finally Falcon Heavy’s center core booster has landed on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship! As they had been failed to land the center core engine on droneship a year ago, they finally gained perfect first stage engine.

Now Falcon Heavy was ahead to finished its main mission: deploy the payload.

 

A bit time ago, as soon as the rocket rich to the orbit, they successfully deployed of Arabsat-6A to geosynchronous transfer orbit —completing Falcon Heavy’s first commercial mission!

 

SpaceX has been launched the test flight of Falcon Heavy in February 2018 and they shot the Elon Musk's car, Tesla's Roadster, with Starmen as a payload. It seems like almost successful, but they failed to land the center engine on the droneship. However, today's launch proves that Falcon Heavy is now perfect and ready to go.

 

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Finally, the Falcon Heavy Rocket has successfully launched and will be used for carrying REALLY heavy things into space.