Ilon Mask showed the first photos of the new Falcon Heavy rocket

By: Eugene Sherban | 21.12.2017, 11:13

AT   his Twitter feed Ilon Mask first showed photos of the assembled Falcon Heavy rocket, which will come   change the long-suffering Falcon 9 and   will be the most powerful SpaceX rocket.

Three pictures Mask signed with the phrase " Falcon Heavy on   Cape. The Verge writes that an almost assembled rocket is already on   Cape Canaveral cosmodrome in   Florida. The first 2 stages of the Falcon Heavy are already assembled, it remains to refine the head part.

Each of the   three blocks will be equipped with ten engines. Thanks to this, she   once can bring to   Earth orbit 64 tons of cargo. It's on   12 tons more than the company originally planned. AND   almost in   3 times more than the carrying capacity of the Falcon 9.

Falcon Heavy, like   Falcon 9, will be reusable and   will be able to return to   The Earth is about to take off again. The cost of one launch is 90   million dollars. AND   it's all on   thirty   million more than the launch of Falcon 9. No matter how   cool, and   excellent math is obtained.

Source: Twitter