Tesla Roadster - Falcon Heavy - Kennedy LC-39A - 06.02.2018, 18:30 UTC

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 3 мин. назад

There's the Falcon Heavy payload (*cough, Elon's car*), encapsulated and heading into the 39A HIF. The entire Falcon Heavy stack - now mating with the TEL - will rollout to 39A for a fit check. Potentially before the end of year. WDR/Static Fire early in Jan.

Emiliano C. Diaz de Leon‏ @ECDiazdeLeon 43 мин. назад

We got a sneak peek at @SpaceX #FalconHeavy rocket while taking the bus tour. #SpaceX

[Oleg]

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Serge V Iz пишет:
Интересно, а можно было бы положить на заднее сиденье фарфоровый чайник? и так, чтобы скрыть это от широкой общественности. )

Зачем? Что это означает?

[BlackMokona]

Зачем? Что это означает?

«Ча́йник Ра́ссела» (англ. Russell's Teapot) — аналогия, впервые приведённая английским математиком и философом Бертраном Расселом (1872—1970) для опровержения идеи, что бремя доказательстварусск. ложности религиозных утверждений лежит на сомневающемся

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Но зачем? Да ещё и скрывать от широкой общестенности. Что это даёт?

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Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 38 мин. назад

Falcon Heavy is going vertical for the first time at pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

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Spaceflight Now‏ @SpaceflightNow 23 мин. назад

The Falcon Heavy is now in place at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin testing before its maiden flight next month. https://spaceflightnow.com/ 

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Yes, вот она новогодняя йолочка

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 4 ч. назад

SpaceX Falcon Heavy debut rollout to 39A "soon". Should be the full stack, per the fit check requirements. If you're in the area and spot her, take photos!

Remember, this is not the Static Fire test flow, this is a fit check. Static Fire will be about a week away.

48 мин. назад

Here we go, boys and girls. The big rocket is going vertical (so rollout was trouble free).

Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow
Falcon Heavy is going vertical for the first time at pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

[Astro Cat]

На 5 января же Зуму запланировали или нет?

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Astro Cat пишет:
На 5 января же Зуму запланировали или нет?

Зума с SLC-40

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Astro Cat пишет:
На 5 января же Зуму запланировали или нет?

Zuma с 40-й, SFT FH на 39A... И "will be about a week away" не обязательно ровно через 7 дней, а примерно через неделю...

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Time-lapse video: Falcon Heavy goes vertical at launch pad 39A

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С другого ракурса

Julia‏ @julia_bergeron 35 мин. назад

It is real! Look at that @SpaceX #FalconHeavy View from Playalinda National Seashore vista. @NASASpaceflight @lorengrush

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И ещё один ракурс

Michael Sheetz‏Подлинная учетная запись @thesheetztweetz 30 мин назад

And now another angle from @ExploreSpaceKSC video of Falcon Heavy

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/28/falcon-heavy-raised-on-pad-39a-for-first-time/

Falcon Heavy raised on pad 39A for first time
December 28, 2017 Stephen Clark


SpaceX's Falcon Heavy stands vertical at pad 39A on Thursday. Credit: Spaceflight Now

SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket, made up of two previously-flown Falcon 9 boosters and a beefed up central core stage, made the trip to launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and was raised vertical Thursday for testing ahead of its first liftoff next month.

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The fully-assembled 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket will be the most powerful in the world when it blasts off, and Thursday's arrival atop pad 39A marks a major step toward readying the Falcon Heavy for flight.

SpaceX engineers are expected to conduct a fit check and complete other tests at pad 39A this week, followed by a hold-down firing of all 27 first stage engines some time after New Year's Day. The company has not set a target date for the Falcon Heavy's first liftoff, but officials say the launch is targeted in January, some time after the hold-down hotfire test.

The Falcon Heavy's inaugural test launch will have a dummy payload on-board, but SpaceX has readied a flashier, more colorful passenger than the boilerplates and water ballast carried on previous test flights of new heavy-lift launchers.

SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk decided to place one of his Tesla Roadsters on-board the Falcon Heavy, a cherry red creation fr om Musk's electric car company.

The Falcon Heavy will attempt to give the automobile enough speed to escape the grasp of Earth's gravity, sending it into a heliocentric solar orbit that will take it to the approximate distance of Mars from the sun.

When it blasts off next month, the heavy-lifter will generate about 4.7 million pounds of thrust at launch. Musk said the first Falcon Heavy's engines will be throttled to 92 percent of full power.

That will make the Falcon Heavy the most powerful rocket flying today, exceeding the European Ariane 5 launcher, the world's leader in liftoff power at 2.9 million pound of thrust from two segmented solid rocket boosters and a core engine. SpaceX's new rocket will produce more thrust than any launch vehicle since the space shuttle.

The Falcon Heavy will also be able to carry more payload into orbit than any other rocket in the world, a more important measure of the rocket's lifting capacity.

The Delta 4-Heavy rocket, operated by SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance, can haul up to 63,471 pounds (28,790 kilograms) to a low-altitude orbit approximately 120 miles (200 kilometers) above Earth when launched to the east from Cape Canaveral, according to a launch vehicle data sheet published by ULA.

When its first stage boosters are not recovered, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy will be capable of delivering up to 140,660 pounds (63,800 kilograms) to low Earth orbit when launched to the east from Florida's Space Coast, wh ere rockets get a velocity boost from Earth's rotation.

But SpaceX intends to land all three first stage boosters on the Falcon Heavy, eating into the rocket's propellant reserves and reducing the weight it can loft into orbit.

For the maiden flight next month, the Falcon Heavy's two side boosters, recovered and modified from Falcon 9 flights in 2016, will cut off and return to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for near-simultaneous landings. The center core, a newly-built booster, will head for landing on SpaceX's floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Для истории - ещё один вид

Derrick.Stamos‏ @Helodriver2004 20 мин. назад

#SpaceX #FalconHeavy as seen from Playalinda Beach today, the first time it has ever been rolled to the pad. Great to finally to see in person after waiting 4 years. More pix on @NASASpaceflight .com  

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Вид со стороны TEL

Michael Seeley‏ @Mike_Seeley 7 ч. назад

It's real, 3 cores and all! Views of the @SpaceX #FalconHeavy rocket upright on Pad 39A for the 1st time, as seen from @Explorationtwr in @PortCanaveral earlier today (12/28 ). (Pics by me / @WeReportSpace )

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http://lk.astronautilus.pl/plan.htm 

15.01.2018 z wyrzutni LC-39A w KSC wystrzelony zostanie pierwszy egzemplarz RN Falcon Heavy, która wyniesie na wiodącą ku Marsowi orbitę heliocentryczną samochód marki Tesla Roadster. W T+9' zostanie podjęta próba lądowania rakiet wspomagających na LZ-1 (Landing Zone-1), a w T+10' pierwszego stopnia RN na barce ASDS OCISLY na Atlantyku.