SpaceX's SLEEPING MONSTER Falcon Heavy Launch FINALLY AWAKEN for LAUNCHING 2022#STARSHIPFANS Voices on the channel belong to: https://bit.ly/3OeOGg4 -- 1)HUGE THANKS TO:
Delayed and then exploded, SpaceX's superpower Starship really has a long way to go to success. It's definitely time to flip back to another powerful Musk's beast: Falcon Heavy. Anyway, to be fair, Falcon Heavy is still the rocket that has the highest payload capacity of any currently operational launch vehicle and the third-highest capacity of any rocket ever to reach orbit, trailing the Saturn V and Energia. It's only a pity that the beastly launch rocket has a rather bleak fate. Falcon Heavy has been hibernating in storage facilities for three good years. Only a new launch will help this monster rise. And finally, this is happening!
Musk once stated that "Falcon Heavy opens up a new class of payload." "It can launch twice as much payload as any other rocket in the world … It can launch things right to Pluto and beyond, no stop needed." ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sytrrdOPYzA - 7:18’-7:34’) What an extraordinary ability!
According to SpaceX's website, the Falcon Heavy is 70 meters tall and can lift nearly 64 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit — about twice the payload capacity of its closest competitor, United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy. The rocket has two stages. The first stage has three engine cores. The center core is flanked and supported by two boosters. Each core is equivalent to the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket and houses nine engines. The boosters separate after liftoff and land upright back on Earth, possibly to be used again. Meanwhile, the heavier center core aims for a drone ship, carrying its payload in the second stage. SpaceX's SLEEPING MONSTER Falcon Heavy Launch FINALLY AWAKEN for LAUNCHING 2022 ---- Advertisers who want to place ads on our channel, please contact the email manager: [email protected] We use images and content in accordance with the YouTube Fair Use copyright guidelines: https://www.youtube.com/intl/en/about... Any questions about copyright please send us via gmail: [email protected] To be resolved, thank you.
Delayed and then exploded, SpaceX's superpower starship
really has a long way to go to success.
It's definitely time to flip back
to another powerful Musk beast, Falcon Heavy.
Anyway, to be fair, Falcon Heavy is still the rocket
that has the highest payload capacity
of any current operational launch vehicle
and the third highest capacity of any rocket
ever to reach orbit, trailing the Saturn V and Energia.
It's only a pity that the beastly launch rocket
has a rather bleak fate.
Falcon Heavy's been hibernating in storage
for a good three years and only a new launch
will help the monster rise.
And finally, it's happening.
Let's find out everything in today's episode.
Musk once stated that Falcon Heavy
opens up a new class of payload.
So it can launch more than twice as much payload
as any other rocket in the world.
So it's kind of up to customers
what they might wanna launch,
but it can launch things direct to Pluto and beyond.
You know, no stop needed.
What an extraordinary ability.
According to SpaceX's website,
the Falcon Heavy is 70 meters tall
and can lift nearly 64 metric tons of payload
to low Earth orbit, about twice the payload capacity
of its closest competitor, ULA's Delta IV Heavy.
The rocket has two stages.
The first stage has three engine cores.
The center core is flanked and supported by two boosters.
Each core is equivalent to the first stage
of a Falcon 9 rocket and houses nine engines.
The boosters separate after liftoff
and land upright back on Earth, possibly to be used again.
Meanwhile, the heavier center core aims for a drone ship
carrying its payload in the second stage.
The Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off for the first time
February 6th, 2018 from Kennedy Space Center or KSC
in Cape Canaveral, Florida, using Launch Complex 39A,
the pad that used to host moon-bound Apollo astronauts
and space shuttle crews.
The rocket launched a red Tesla Roadster
and a space-suited mannequin called Starman
in orbit around the sun that extended past Mars.
An estimated 100,000 spectators crowded the area beaches
and roadways to watch the launch.
Millions more watched a live stream
showing the launch and events afterward.
As a quick note, Roadster is still alive.
As of July 15th, the Roadster is over 187,435,460 miles
or 301,648,226 kilometers,
16.77 light minutes away from Earth,
moving away from our planet
at the speed of 12,165 miles per hour
or 19,578 kilometers per hour,
according to tracking data by whereisroadster.com.
With this launch, the private US company
once again created a technical feat
on which the Russian space industry
has given up the successful launch of a rocket
with as many as 27 engines working together
and capable of more than 5 million pounds of force,
22,819 kilonewtons of thrust at liftoff.
The same force is about 18 747 aircrafts at full power.
No, you didn't hear me wrong.
Falcon Heavy is as powerful as 18 747 aircrafts
at full power.
Just looking at that number of aircraft makes me crazy.
Not yet when SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket debuted,
China's aerospace community was mostly envious
of their equivalent rocket, the Long March 9 rocket,
speculated to be a copy of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy,
but it wouldn't be ready for another decade.
Global Times said that the Falcon Heavy rocket
had totally crushed all other current rockets in the world.
One story in state media observed that,
to put it more bluntly,
this time the Americans showed Chinese with pure power
why they're still the strongest country in the world.
So why, why doesn't Falcon Heavy fly much
despite possessing such great power?
Well, the first reason belongs to the market factor,
especially the supply and demand issue of satellites.
Falcon Heavy is not only a heavy lift vehicle
capable of carrying satellites up to 23 tons
into low Earth orbit, but also reusable.
That makes it the most economical
heavy lift rocket on the market.
Even designing with an impressive amount
of capacity like that, they still can't take advantage of it
as the weight of most satellites
is typically in the range between two and eight tons,
making smaller rockets like the Falcon 9 far more suitable.
Furthermore, Falcon 9's launch cost
is also cheaper than Falcon Heavy.
Thus, Operational Geostationary Transfer Orbit,
or GTO missions for Intelsat and Emersat,
which were planned for late 2017,
were moved from Falcon Heavy
to the Falcon 9 full-thrust rocket version
as it had become powerful enough
to lift those heavy payloads
with an expendable configuration.
Another factor affecting flight schedules
is the development of Starship,
SpaceX's next-generation spacecraft.
As of 2020, Elon Musk said Starship
is SpaceX's top priority.
SpaceX eventually wants to replace both Falcon 9
and Falcon Heavy with Starship,
which should reduce costs by unifying its production lines
and offering full reusability.
But in the end, SpaceX can't give up
its most powerful ship that has flown successfully ever.
After three years of absence, the monster has awakened
and is about to overwhelm the world with its power.
SpaceX, with Falcon Heavy rockets certified
for even the most risk-adverse
NASA LSP Launch Service Program missions,
defeated both the famous duo ULA's Delta IV Heavy
and Atlas V, as well as Blue Origin's
or other companies' rockets,
to become the only U.S. launch provider with rockets
that are available for future NASA launches
and certified to launch and compete for them.
Sadly, one of the most anticipated missions is NASA's Psyche,
but the agency recently announced
that its mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche
will no longer be able to launch in 2022
after engineers were unable to verify the readiness
of the spacecraft software.
So for this year,
there may be three U.S. Space Force missions,
USSF-52, USSF-67, and USSF-44
that would be launched on Falcon Heavy.
USSF-67, a classified national security mission
to geostationary Earth orbit,
awarded to SpaceX last year
under a $332 million contract,
is on track for mid to late 2022 launch,
a U.S. Space System's command spokesman
confirmed October 30th.
The mission will fly on a Falcon Heavy rocket
with an expendable center core,
although SpaceX will be able to recover
the two side boosters.
The Space Force missions USSF-44 and USSF-52
were both scheduled to fly in 2021,
but have been delayed by payload readiness
and range scheduling issues.
Falcon Heavy rockets lift off
from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
USSF-44 would be Falcon Heavy's
first national security direct-inject mission
to geostationary orbit,
and SpaceX's first mission
to attempt a double-drone ship landing.
The only known payload to fly on USSF-44
is the Tetra One small satellite
made by Millennium Space Systems.
There are no target launch dates
that have been announced yet so far.
But wait a little bit.
Let's kick it aside.
There is a piece of good news
we want to share with you.
SpaceX has been spotted transforming
a Falcon Heavy booster
through NASA's KSC facility March 9th.
Where it's not entirely clear
where the Falcon Heavy center core came from,
it offered a slight glimpse behind the scenes
of an unending series of launches
of the most powerful operational rocket in the world.
The rest of this year will definitely be
a booming year for Falcon Heavy,
and we're still waiting
for its first comeback flight.
And that just about wraps it up
for today's episode.
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