{"id":18857,"date":"2017-07-27T19:13:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/6-little-words-elon-musk-targets-november-for-falcon-heavy-rockets-maiden-launch\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T19:13:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T11:13:22","slug":"6-little-words-elon-musk-targets-november-for-falcon-heavy-rockets-maiden-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/6-little-words-elon-musk-targets-november-for-falcon-heavy-rockets-maiden-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"6 little words: Elon Musk targets November for Falcon Heavy rocket\u2019s maiden launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, says he\u2019s aiming to launch the first test flight of his company\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket in November from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>He issued the latest schedule today in a six-word posting to Instagram:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BXEkGKlgJDK<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon Heavy has been in the works for years, and would rank as the world\u2019s most powerful operational rocket. Its 27 Merlin rocket engines are designed to generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, and put 119,000 pounds of payload into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly the Saturn V moon rocket, last flown in 1973, delivered more payload to orbit,\u201d SpaceX says in its specs.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX intends for the rocket\u2019s three core boosters to be capable of flying themselves back to separate landings after the ascent, setting a new standard for rocket reusability. The Falcon Heavy could conceivably send crewed missions around the moon.<\/p>\n<p>However, Musk isn\u2019t promising that the rocket\u2019s first test launch will be completely successful. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot that could go wrong,\u201d he said last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI encourage people to come down to the Cape and see the first Falcon Heavy mission,\u201d Musk said at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference in Washington, D.C. \u201cIt\u2019s guaranteed to be exciting. \u2026 There\u2019s a real good chance that that vehicle does not make it to orbit. I want to make sure to set expectations accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update for 11 p.m. PT July 27:<\/strong> Musk followed up on the Instagram posting with a Twitter Q&amp;A:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Is the intention to (now or eventually) return all three boosters for reuse?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Giles Pritchard (@caradocp) July 28, 2017<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Side booster rockets return to Cape Canaveral. Center lands on droneship.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2017<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">who lands first?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 cardoso (@Cardoso) July 28, 2017<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sides run high thrust, center is lower thrust until sides separate &amp; fly back. Center then throttles up, keeps burning &amp; lands on droneship.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2017<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If we\u2019re lucky<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 28, 2017<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, says he\u2019s aiming to launch the first test flight of his company\u2019s Falcon Heavy rocket in November from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He issued the latest schedule today in a six-word posting to Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BXEkGKlgJDK The Falcon Heavy has been in the works for years, and would rank [&hellip;]<\/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":[1045,678,316],"class_list":["post-18857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-falcon-heavy","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857"}],"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=18857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}