SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Rescheduled for Tuesday

SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket next launch from Florida’s Space Coast has been pushed back to Tuesday, April 9. The megarocket will lift off from historic Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying the Arabsat 6A communications satellite.

Although this is the second launch of the world’s most powerful rocket, it will be its first commercial mission. Its maiden launch was a demonstration flight on February 6, last year, when Elon Musk’s cherry-red  Roadster and a Starman dummy pilot were sent into space.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Successful. Boosters Land

SpaceX finally blasted off the Falcon Heavy from Florida’s Space Coast in a historic launch.

The Falcon Heavy sent a next-generation, heavy-lift rocket toward space from Cape Canaveral Tuesday afternoon.

The three rocket boosters fired up and sent the craft into the sky at 3:45 p.m., about 2 hours and 15 minutes after the company had originally planned.

 

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