{"id":13234,"date":"2019-04-15T22:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-spacexs-falcon-heavy-aces-second-mission\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T22:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:23:43","slug":"photos-spacexs-falcon-heavy-aces-second-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-spacexs-falcon-heavy-aces-second-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy aces second mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos captured by remote cameras placed at launch pad 39A show SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket soaring skyward Thursday evening atop more than 5 million pounds of thrust.<\/p>\n

The triple-core rocket, powered by 27 Merlin main engines, fired away from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT) Thursday, heading toward the east over the Atlantic Ocean with the Arabsat 6A communications satellite.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s launch was the second for SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy, and the mammoth launcher\u2019s first flight for a paying customer. Two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, the Falcon Heavy\u2019s two side boosters detached and returned to Cape Canaveral for nearly simultaneous landings at SpaceX\u2019x landing zones around 9 miles (15 kilometers) south of pad 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the core stage successfully landed on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean more than 600 miles (nearly 1,000 kilometers) downrange from Florida\u2019s Space Coast, while the second stage continued into orbit with Arabsat 6A.<\/p>\n

These photos show the Falcon Heavy\u2019s fiery blastoff from pad 39A, and the landings by the rocket\u2019s two side boosters a few minutes later.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

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Photos captured by remote cameras placed at launch pad 39A show SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket soaring skyward Thursday evening atop more than 5 million pounds of thrust. The triple-core rocket, powered by 27 Merlin main engines, fired away from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT) Thursday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2301,1589,2671,291,678,428,1950,765],"class_list":["post-13234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a2100","tag-arabsat","tag-arabsat-6a","tag-commercial-space","tag-falcon-heavy","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-landing-zone-1","tag-landing-zone-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}